toddzrx

sflocal said:

toddzrx said:

baconstang said:

elijahg said:

stuartf said:

elijahg said:

 It also has no Ethernet port at all on the base model, 

The specs say the base model has Ethernet as a configurable option. It's probably as simple as swapping the power supply!

That's a good point, I/we have no idea yet how many pins are in the power supply. Would be cool if it had USB C such that you could plug things in to the hidden power supply brick, would keep things tidy. Otherwise the case would need to be different for each config. I'd prefer a USB socket on the side too for things like memory sticks, and a SD card reader would be good too, dunno why they got rid of that. I use mine regularly.

Get a dock...

Totally defeats the purpose of an AIO.

No it doesn't.  Done right, if anything it enhances the AIO experience.  My 2020 iMac (at home) is connected to a Caldigit TS3+ dock which is bolted underneath my desk table.  So in addition to the power cable on the back of my iMac, I have one neat, slender Thunderbolt 3 cable going under my very clean, cable-managed desk.  That's it.

To that dock, I have plugged into it a second Thunderbolt monitor, two Promise RAID R6 & R8 disk arrays, Gigabit Ethernet, and an Audio Engine Digital-to-Analog sound converter for my kick-butt sound system.  The front has an SD card slot I use constantly, along with USBa, and USBc ports for those occasional times I need to recharge/connect something.  

I use a 2015 iMac at the office connected to two additional thunderbolt displays, and everything else is connected cleanly to another Caldigit TS3+ dock under that standing desk too.  Again, just one nice clean thunderbolt cable coming out of it under the desk to the dock with all cables neatly hidden.  

Doing it your way, I'd have all those cables going to the back of my iMac which would make it a rats-nest of ugliness, might strain some of the connectors, and makes for a very ugly, sloppy appearance.  No thank you.

My setup has all the cables neatly routed and hidden under my desk.  Both my office and home setups are standing desks and every cable is neatly hidden.  Super clean.  I don't want any of those wires going to the back of my iMac.

I've received numerous compliments by my coworkers about the cleanliness of of my desk's cable management ideas.  Now others are doing the exact same thing to theirs.

I prefer the least amount of cables going to the back of my iMac as it can be seen from the back.  If anything, adding the ethernet jack into the power brick I think is/was a brilliant move to continue to de-clutter the back of the iMac.  I think they should have went a step further and also included a USB4 port as well so along with a dock, only one cable would be needed on the back of an iMac.  Perhaps they'll do that for the bigger version of the iMac.

MplsP said:

qwerty52 said:

With all those rumors around Apple Car lately, there is one thing for sure: Apple Car is coming closer and closer to see finally 
a daylight.

I was noticing the same thing, too - suddenly there’s a slew of miscellaneous Apple car rumors coming out. Did someone lose their job and start blabbing? 

cloudguy said:

MisterKit said:

The Apple Silicon Mac is a threshold game changing moment. I hardly doubt it will be introduced with just a press release.

foregoneconclusion said:

Kind of a 'duh' that the first Apple Silicon hardware gets a keynote. It's a genuinely historic product. 

Hyperbole much? When:

A) Apple has switched CPUs in their Macs multiple times in the past?
Linux, ChromeOS and Windows devices running on ARM have existed for years?

I have seen claims here on how ARM-based Macs are going to significantly increase market share. But none of them can give any reasons why anyone who currently uses Windows and owns tons of Windows software and games would be any more inclined to use macOS on ARM than they were macOS on Intel. (By contrast I can think of several reasons why they would be LESS likely.) There are some claims that switching to ARM-based Macs will save hundreds of dollars and allow Macs to compete with Windows laptops based on price, but that ignores that a $1000 MacBook Air and a $1300 MacBook Pro have Intel Core i3 and i5 CPUs that cost Apple no more than $100 per unit (because they cost as little as $70 retail). But even if an ARM-based Macs generally cost the same as Windows PCs there still won't be a compelling reason for Windows users to switch.

It is the same thing with Android all over again. You folks are convinced that Android software and hardware are terrible, Android users are undergoing a bleak, miserable horrible existence and all Apple has to do is throw a life raft their way and they will switch en masse. Actually ... nearly all Android users simply like Android devices and aren't going to switch no matter what Apple does. Ditto with Windows. As fascinating as an ARM-based Mac will be to people who love and are dedicated to the Apple ecosystem, people who like their Dell, HP and Lenovo professional machines and their Acer, Asus and Razer gaming machines are still going to like their professional and gaming machines. Those devices aren't going to become bad and unusable just because ARM-based Macs are available.

Keep in mind: they are bad and unusable TO YOU already. Because you own Intel-based Macs now, right? You own Apple Watches, Apple TVs, AirPods, iPhones and iPads, think that they are the best thing on the planet and to you making your MacBook more like your iPhone is the best thing in the world. But the guy who buys a new Dell XPS or Lenovo Thinkpad or Asus ROG (a gaming laptop line) every 3 years because he likes XPS, Thinkpad and ROG devices ... why should he switch? Especially since much of the software on his XPS won't run on the Mac. (Pretty much NONE of the games on this ROG will.) None of the accessories that he bought for his ThinkPad will be relevant to that Mac. And since his XPS/Thinkpad/ROG will continue to work as well FOR HIM when the ARM-based Macs launch as they did before?

flydog said:

toddzrx said:

Why is AI subjecting the new iPad to “Pro workflows”? That’s not the market it’s designed and priced for, you guys know it, but you tested it to this standard anyway. As someone comparing the new iPad and iPad Air, it would have made more sense to pit the new iPad against its predecessor under typical use case scenarios (i.e.: mostly media consumption) and write about the improvements. 

wth is a "pro workflow"?    Only self-proclaimed "pros" export 4K video?