lkrupp

Somebody please explain to me why a STREAMING box needs 128GB. And don’t say for downloads. 128GB would get you a few 4K movies. Do people really have hundreds of apps on their TVs like they do their phones?

MplsP said:

crowley said:

Ooh that does not sound like a good idea.

That was my thought exactly. Think of all the times we’ve seen catastrophic battery failures caused by bending stress on a Li ion battery... just have 2 separate batteries and a ribbon cable through the hinge.

I’m pretty sure this is another case of Apple filing the patent just to have the patent. The headline “Apple planning to use...” is misleading and not supported in the article.

Guess what? Technology marches on. Some time ago I watched a video by David Pogue about the lithium ion battery. This guy had a new type of Li-ion battery in his lab that used a different electrolyte. You can drive nails through this battery and it doesn’t blow up. Not only that but it continues to output power. I’m sure Apple has access to a lot of the latest research in batteries that are still in the lab. They may even be funding some of that research. A safe, long lasting, powerful battery is the Holy Grail right now and the one who comes up with it will be wealthy beyond avarice. 

sflocal said:

I experienced this precise problem the moment I upgraded to the .4 release and tried copying a 1.5TB file from my Promise R8 to a Promise R6 RAID drive.  It was brutal and created a huge amount of headaches for me.

I'm not sure what's been going on with Apple's MacOS updates lately.  Have they had an exodus of the good MacOS software engineers or are they using low-grade rookies working on crucial OS codes?  

People have been saying things like that since the dawn of Apple time. Get a clue and peruse the Apple Discussion forums, tech blogs, and right here on AI. Every release of of every update is solemnly declared to be the absolute worst pos Apple has ever foisted upon the public. The post below yours sarcastically says to avoid this issue by using Mojave. Well, guess what, people are still ragging on Mojave as being a stinking pile of shit. Nothing unusual has been going on with updates lately. Bugs come and go. One is fixed and another one pops up because of the fix. Happens all the time. Finally, someone please present us with an example the perfect operating system that has no discernible issues or bugs. You can’t because nothing like that exists, or has existed... ever.

And guess what? If you use your setup as your primary source of income then it’s on you to make sure an update doesn’t screw your workflow. So you applied the update without any testing of your RAID? You just assumed all would be well. I’m sorry but it’s hard to feel empathy for that.

I'll bet the first thing you do when 10.15.5 comes out is test it first.

entropys said:

lkrupp said:

seanismorris said:

lkrupp said:

Beats said:

I love iMacs. Would love to see 1TB SSD standard now. And retina on all models. Maybe smaller bezels but not important.

davebarnes said:

We have over $3500 burning a hole in our pocket for a new iMac.
Want:
1. larger size than 27
2. double the resolution
3. SSD only

Larger than 27" and double the resolution? We already have 5k iMacs, doubling the resolution won't make a difference unless you mean very large screens when you mentioned larger than 27”.

Why do you care if an iMac is not SSD only? People are always harping about choice so why force something you want on a user who doesn’t want or need what you do? Of course you can order an SSD only iMac today so what’s the problem? And double the resolution? The iMac is 5K but you want 10K? How does that even work?

Non-SSD’s are only good for external storage.  

Blathering nonsense. Internal spinning hard drives are perfectly fine for most people and it’s why Apple still offers them. You don't need blinding electronic speed to send an email, play some music, and store photos. Yours is the same false argument used by the 5G crowd. Most people don’t need 5G speeds any time soon, especially on a mobile phone.

Trouble is that Apple has decided the plebs are not allowed to replace their internal storage.  HDDS are unreliable in comparison with SSDs and almost always die well before the end of the useful life of the iMac. That is even before you start talking speed. If the internal drives were user replaceable I would not have a problem with your position.

I’d have top disagree from an experience side. I currently use a late 2013 27” iMac 14,2 with a 1.1TB fusion drive that’s now 7 years old. According to DriveDx it’s the 128GB SSD part that’s starting to show its age with a 70% useful life remaining estimate. Meanwhile the 1TB spinning drive is running error free. In either event that Fusion drive now 7 years old and running 24/7/365 is performing like a champ. So could you please provide some credible evidence that spinning drives ‘almost always die well before the the end of the useful life of the iMac’ because, well, I don’t believe you. Before the 2013 iMac I had a 2008 iMac and its spinning drive never failed. In fact I’ve never had a hard drive fail on me to this day, including the four external drives I’ve been using for years and years (WD drives that so-called experts here claim are trash). And I never had a drive fail on my work Windows PC either. 

I strongly suspect I’m the norm and not the exception. 

seanismorris said:

lkrupp said:

Beats said:

I love iMacs. Would love to see 1TB SSD standard now. And retina on all models. Maybe smaller bezels but not important.

davebarnes said:

We have over $3500 burning a hole in our pocket for a new iMac.
Want:
1. larger size than 27
2. double the resolution
3. SSD only

Larger than 27" and double the resolution? We already have 5k iMacs, doubling the resolution won't make a difference unless you mean very large screens when you mentioned larger than 27”.

Why do you care if an iMac is not SSD only? People are always harping about choice so why force something you want on a user who doesn’t want or need what you do? Of course you can order an SSD only iMac today so what’s the problem? And double the resolution? The iMac is 5K but you want 10K? How does that even work?

Non-SSD’s are only good for external storage.  

Blathering nonsense. Internal spinning hard drives are perfectly fine for most people and it’s why Apple still offers them. You don't need blinding electronic speed to send an email, play some music, and store photos. Yours is the same false argument used by the 5G crowd. Most people don’t need 5G speeds any time soon, especially on a mobile phone.