24-inch 4.5K Retina display with P3 wide color gamut and 500 nits of brightness¹
Apple M1 chip delivers powerful performance with 8-core CPU and 8-core GPU
Strikingly thin 11.5 mm design in vibrant colors
1080p FaceTime HD camera with M1 ISP for amazing video quality
Studio-quality three-mic array for crystal clear calls and voice recordings
Six-speaker sound system for a remarkably robust and high-quality audio experience
Up to 512GB of ultrafast SSD storage
Two Thunderbolt / USB 4 ports and two USB 3 ports
Ultrafast Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.0 wireless
Color-matched Magic Mouse with Magic Keyboard or Magic Keyboard with Touch ID²
macOS has a bold, easy-to-use design and works seamlessly with iPhone
Available in silver
Configurable options are available. iMac color availability may vary.
¹Actual diagonal screen measure is 23.5 inches.
²Magic Keyboard with Touch ID is available as a configurable option.
What's Included
Apple 24 Inch iMac with Retina 4.5K display - Apple M1 - 8GB Memory - 512GB SSD
Magic Keyboard with Touch ID
Magic Mouse
143W power adapter
Power cord (2 m)
USB-C to Lightning Cable
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/imac...lsrc=aw.ds
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It's a "no" for me.
You could just not buy it and move on.
You could just not buy it and move on.
Of course I'm not buying it.
I found the thesis for this thread
Not plenty, but works well for heavy tasks too. But no reason for Apple to cheap out.
But regardless a comparable 16GB windows PC would get smoked by an 8gb Mac. The chip is so good it doesn't really matter.
How did apple manage to install this massive 8GB inside that tiny computer?
Lucky for the environment, it is soldered real well so that this gigantic 8GB of RAM won't fall off inside the landfill.
Simply amazing.
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It's weird to defend Apple over this and even weirder to feel attacked by 'haters' when it's called out.
The only other system I can think of with soldered RAM that low is a Rapsberry Pi 5. And that retails for under $80. And Apple is spending way less than a tenth of that $200 to upgrade from 8Gb to 16Gb chips which, again is what the 'other side' sees as a peculiar that you're okay with. And to describe that as a "strategy to keep the base model cheap" do you mean the heavy price just to bump it to a marginally better 16Gb is somehow being subsidized away? Are people who upgrade paying the exorbitant amounts of money just so the starter systems can be unnaturally cheaper?
Why does being cornered into a position to be gouged just to have a system you're comfortable with fill you with so much pride?
The only other system I can think of with soldered RAM that low is a Rapsberry Pi 5. And that retails for under $80. And Apple is spending way less than a tenth of that $200 to upgrade from 8Gb to 16Gb chips which, again is what the 'other side' sees as a peculiar that you're okay with. And to describe that as a "strategy to keep the base model cheap" do you mean the heavy price just to bump it to a marginally better 16Gb is somehow being subsidized away? Are people who upgrade paying the exorbitant amounts of money just so the starter systems can be unnaturally cheaper?
Why does being cornered into a position to be gouged just to have a system you're comfortable with fill you with so much pride?
The only other system I can think of with soldered RAM that low is a Rapsberry Pi 5. And that retails for under $80. And Apple is spending way less than a tenth of that $200 to upgrade from 8Gb to 16Gb chips which, again is what the 'other side' sees as a peculiar that you're okay with. And to describe that as a "strategy to keep the base model cheap" do you mean the heavy price just to bump it to a marginally better 16Gb is somehow being subsidized away? Are people who upgrade paying the exorbitant amounts of money just so the starter systems can be unnaturally cheaper?
Why does being cornered into a position to be gouged just to have a system you're comfortable with fill you with so much pride?
It's interesting that the non-upgradability of these systems has actually resulted in lower and lower entry real prices. $500 desktop and $700 laptops in 2024 dollars. Macs are dirt cheap now, at the base.
Without fear of cannibalization they offer basic models so cheap, way cheaper than they used to, but charge a billion for some ram and storage since their pro pricing is way higher.
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Without fear of cannibalization they offer basic models so cheap, way cheaper than they used to, but charge a billion for some ram and storage since their pro pricing is way higher.
I bought a mac mini in 2012 for $499 and my wife's 2020 m1 air was $1199. Her previous 13" 2012 macbook pro was $1199 as well.
The value of being able to pull the HDD and replace it with an SSD like I did in my 2012 MBP and mini are long gone, and yes it's a bummer, even i'd admit that. But the new chips + architecture are stupid good and responsive, better than anything they had with Intel.