gripmediapdx

guscat said:

mario said:

Headphone jack is located on the side on the desktop computer???? Who wants speaker cable dangling from the side all the time going to external powered speakers, instead of neatly tucked behind the screen and out of sight?

Uh, because a standard headphone jack is actually thicker than the M1 iMac.

That's actually a good point.

fastasleep said:

gripmediapdx said:

This is clearly a consumer machine, but if this is the harbinger of things to come for the larger iMac, I am pretty annoyed. I don't want distracting colors, a silver bezel instead of a black one is horrible for trying to do design work. And as I produce professional audio, I can't use bluetooth to connect amp/speakers because bluetooth compresses and colors audio, so to stick the audio out on the side with a cord dangling. Awful. Looks like I will have to go the mac mini route unfortunately. I can't wait months to replace my aging 2013 iMac workhorse only to find out they repeat these awful decisions in the larger iMac. I historically go pretty easy on Apple's design decisions and am not prone to "fanboi" histrionics, but this does not bode well for the larger iMac, and Thor only knows when that will be released.  And Apple, what's your deal with not putting enough ports on anything?

If you produce “professional audio”, why the f are you not using a proper USB audio interface instead of 3.5mm analog? Also, you know you can get a $9 USB-C to 3.5mm adapter from Apple? 

Lol, an internet stranger in a jerky tone trying to tell me my business based on nothing but his own silly arrogance because he's personalizing the criticism of this machine. Ahh the internet. Good luck with that. If you want to have a grown up convo with me and for me to take you seriously, lose the combativeness.

I am hearing people keep saying "Oh this is the consumer model, the larger one will have everything this one is missing". Nope. No it won't. Apple is extremely stubborn and always "know what's best for us". What will happen is, it will be months from now, will be overpriced, not enough ports, overcharge for SSD and RAM by 100%+, and missing key features while giving us these bad design decisions (i.e. white bezel, audio jack on the side).

This is clearly a consumer machine, but if this is the harbinger of things to come for the larger iMac, I am pretty annoyed. I don't want distracting colors, a silver bezel instead of a black one is horrible for trying to do design work. And as I produce professional audio, I can't use bluetooth to connect amp/speakers because bluetooth compresses and colors audio, so to stick the audio out on the side with a cord dangling. Awful. Looks like I will have to go the mac mini route unfortunately. I can't wait months to replace my aging 2013 iMac workhorse only to find out they repeat these awful decisions in the larger iMac. I historically go pretty easy on Apple's design decisions and am not prone to "fanboi" histrionics, but this does not bode well for the larger iMac, and Thor only knows when that will be released.  And Apple, what's your deal with not putting enough ports on anything?