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The only thing I can think of is that they expect it to be used in small business offices, hooked up to a server (thus no big internal storage demand), but the user might still need fast network speeds and tons of RAM to throw at work being done? Does seem like a truly odd ball machine otherwise. Then again you’d want a more powerful CPU for demanding workloads. It seems designed entirely to push users upmarket.
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I think Apple is just done with hard drives, but the stuff they use is too expensive to shovel large bits into entry models and still maintain margins. What's more weird is that the Fusion Drive still exists as an option in the 21" models.
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Apple isn’t using high end SSDs, unless they are using server grade SLC or MLC flash, which I doubt. The speed is no where close to the high end consumer PCI-E and NVME drives on the market, for much lower prices per/GB. The “it’s too expensive” argument ended two or three years ago.
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The 21" Intel is going to disappear soon, so Apple didn't go crazy future-proofing the logic board or giving it the nano-coating option. Just a guess. |
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Snagged a 27” model today, but have to wait until next month to receive it. Will upgrade the RAM to 32GB once it arrives.
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I think you are right about this. I figure my "escape" plan will be to move my work VM to an ESXi host and just remote into it with MS RDP and work that way. I'm not in a hurry to switch my primary work computer to an actual PC. I mean, Windows 10 has come a long way with WSL 2 and adding Docker makes it much more tolerable. There are just so many things that I don't like that making a PC my daily driver would be less than fun.
I'm sure we will be able to emulate x64 on ARM one way or another but it won't be any more than than running a Windows OS on a USB 2.0 flash drive. I'm imagining that is about the best performance we would see in real world. Louis L'Amour, “To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.” Visit our archived Minecraft world! | Maybe someday I'll proof read, until then deal with it. |
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Cost aside, there's also the cleaning concern. Probably not a very kid-safe display. This also has interesting implications for touch. If the iMac ever does go touch, does Apple permanently make a distinction between "you can get either the touch screen, or the reduced-glare screen"? |
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