Sickening...

Does it run Excel? I hope it does.

This is thin too. Wow.

Interesting. I really didnā€™t like the black rear of the previous iMacs. It looked like a cheap compromise. Iā€™m glad they donā€™t have to compromise anymore.

The black back is from 2 generations ago. I have the last gen iMac at workā€¦ Aluminum back. Beautiful.

Ray that model is actually like 10-12mm at the edge. The finishing is really nice though.

I currently have the old black back one. I actually prefer it as fits my environment more and looks less like a shiny computer. Maybe just as I have lots of black in my office :slight_smile:

Time to upgrade though and liking the new one in pics.


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Iā€™m actually more excited about trying out the Fusion Drive more than anything on the new iMac.

I really hope Apple doesnā€™t get credit for ā€œinventingā€ something that existed already on that one. Hybrid hard drives/intelligent caching have existed in a lot of forms on PCā€™s for a few years now. The drive automatically caches data to the SSD and when it runs out of space, dumps the least used data to the HDD.

Lots of motherboards now even include a dedicated mini PCI-Express SSD slot directly on the board to eliminate the bandwidth bottlenecks associated with a SATA drive.

I think the problem isnā€™t that Apple gets credited directly from anyone in the know for things that they ā€˜borrowā€™ - itā€™s that the marketing machine that drives our consumerisms does such a great job touting the dumbest stuff and the users grab hold of it and believe itā€™s magicā€¦kind of like the commercial where the guy is slowly swiping his thumb from right to left and from top to bottom of the iPhone 5 screen - we should have already known Apple would figure out the exact perfect screen size while everyone else blew it.

Samsung is starting to do a good job (via their latest ad agency) at breaking through the invented here perceptions and subtley mocking Apple for itā€™s claimed eccentricities.

The flush mounted, contour following, texture matching-power-button-on-the-back = horrible design.

I have trouble finding it - my mother in-law and my mother whom I purchased iMacs for a year or so ago simply leave their machines on as they absolutely struggle to turn them on/off. I cringed when I saw the photo on this thread showing that exact aspect of the design.

Iā€™m a big Apple fan-boy but their ergonomics went out the window many years ago when Iveā€™s influence came into the room.

(tell me you havenā€™t forgotten about the round mouse)

I canā€™t recall the last time I turned off my computer - not that itā€™s difficult or non-intuitive to do so. Thereā€™s just no reason for me anymore, just shut the cover or walk away.

Thereā€™s loads of space in there !

how do they produce the body? cast? stamps? machined?

I would imagine that it is cast and then machined. At least, I thought all these Apple products were being machinedā€¦

BTW, on a side note. I visited a couple of faucet factories in GD recently. Basically the same process. Brass casting the basic form, machining to form flat surfaces for seals, tapping the threads for assembly, polishing the exterior for a smooth finish. Itā€™s not that complicated (at least when you are chroming brass).

thats what i think would be the efficient ways too, but why on Macbook pro theyā€™re cncā€™ing it from a solid aluminum? (thats what i get from their ads though)

I bet thatā€™s just good marketing at workā€¦kinda like how Owen Wilson in the first Fockers movie carved the 9 foot tall, 6 foot diameter alter from a solid piece of wood!

:slight_smile:

They probably want to avoid any possibility of voids/porosity forming in the casting processā€¦although with their supply chain muscle they could probably invent some new way of casting that guarantees no voids. The parts arenā€™t so thick that a lot of the base aluminum chunk would be cut away.

so for the motherboard screw fixture is cast altogether or a different part that is welded to the bodycase? if it is a different part, why dont they just cast it together?