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Today I was looking at conference room systems that offer the choice of a Mac Mini or an Intel NUC.
Unusually, Apple's offering is the one that seems woefully behind the times. |
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Bay Area, CA
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(Seriously, all I want is as fast a CPU & GPU as they can fit & keep cool, an unreasonable amount of RAM, and a high DPI screen, all in a package that weights less than 15-20lbs and is noticeably thinner than a phone book from the early 90s.) When I was a kid, people who did wrong were punished, restricted, and forbidden. Now, when someone does wrong, all of the rest of us are punished, restricted, and forbidden... and the one who did the wrong is counselled and "understood" and fed ice cream. |
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Interesting development coming, as rumored, AMD graphics combined with an Intel 45W chips. These are apparently the same chips that will appear in iMac's in the future. Sounds like they may still have Intel IGP's on chip as well.
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But now we have the iMac Pro, so does that have to get monitor enhancements before the regular line? And a new Mac Pro, which would likely sell in much fewer numbers if iMacs can do 8K video. So does the regular iMac just stay at 5K? |
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This will be for the 15-inch MBP. I don't think Apple was happy to make the Touch Bar MBP all-dGPU, but Intel kind of forced their hand by abandoning Iris Pro. Now, they can once again offer a lower-power draw, lower-price point option. Alas, these are still Kaby Lake parts — four cores, LPDDR3. |
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I can sort of see a 35-inch (or whatever) 8K model, but a yet higher pixel density after only three years? Why? |
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The low end 21' models are already using 45W chips, with IGPs, so I don't get the question. I doubt we'd see it with the 5k versions though.
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My understanding is that the higher levels of the 'regular' iMac are for video production, and and the iMac Pro is aimed as VR, AR and scientific markets. (And Thunderbolt 3 was designed to have 8K support as well.) So the next step in the iMac's evolution would be supporting 8K Final Cut-based video editing. |
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As a follow up to my November post, 8K video will hit mobile phones this year or next.
So does the iMac 5K have to move to 9K or 10K in 2019? (8K + interface elements.) The timing seems to work great for me, as I'm not buying a new machine until the Meltdown and Spectre bugs are fixed in hardware. |
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