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I have a 2007 model intel duo core iMac and have been looking at upgrading. I am soooooo disappointed with the new mac lineup, and particularly with the new iMac this year that I have decided to keep my 2007 model and upgrade the OS to Snow Leopard with extra RAM and wireless keyboard and trackpad.
Having taken out the optical drive on a desktop machine with no options (like on the new macbook pros) to retain the drive or not in my opinion is market suicide. I know so many mac users out there who are disgusted with this one move from Apple that they are going back to PC!!
Not only is apple lagging in the design arena, relying on previous designs to keep them going is not good enough. The PC market is making massive leaps over the apple designs now making apple look more pathetic by the month...
If things don't shape up, my next purchase will definitely be a PC.
Review: 27-inch iMac mixes advancements, compromises
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Posted 06 April 2013 - 01:49 AM
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I have a 2007 model intel duo core iMac and have been looking at upgrading. I am soooooo disappointed with the new mac lineup, and particularly with the new iMac this year that I have decided to keep my 2007 model and upgrade the OS to Snow Leopard with extra RAM and wireless keyboard and trackpad. Having taken out the optical drive on a desktop machine with no options (like on the new macbook pros) to retain the drive or not in my opinion is market suicide. If things don't shape up, my next purchase will definitely be a PC.
Sounds almost exactly like the rhetoric when Apple removed the floppy drive from the bondi blue G3s (and introduced the original imac with no floppy drive). I bought a royal blue imac... Guess what... apple went from strength to strength.
You can order your 27 inch with a USB optical drive if your heart is set on retaining one. This is exactly what I've just done. I will keep the drive in my desk drawer because the reality is most people don't really use them all that much any more. PCs are going the same way (intel are not even going to build a tower board with their next generation of chips).
The new machine will be night and day vs. your old core2duo, and they are much cheaper than they were back in 2007 to boot.
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Posted 08 April 2013 - 05:14 AM
Nice,but when will Apple once again take the lead with truly inspiring technological leaps? - Allow the iMac to have a battery, change position or leave the desk entirely? Make it a GIANT iPad with touch screen (sketch) input. I would be wiling to sit with the Goliath in my lap if I could continue to play/work.
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Posted 19 April 2013 - 09:58 AM
My igrpe with the iMac is the decision with the rear jack placements- nothing conveniently located on the sides. What are you thinking Apple? Some of us do need to plug things in back there. I am sure it was a cost saving move for Apple. Who cares about the consumer-we have them wraped around our fingers-let them figure out a solution. I am thrilled that I have to turn the monitor everytime I need to plug something in. Thanks Apple.
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Posted 11 May 2013 - 09:55 PM
They can make iMac's faster, bigger capacity and sexier, but at the end of the day I'm still mostly just using it for email, surfing and some photo editing - something I've been able to do with my five year old iMac just fine thank you.
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Posted 08 June 2013 - 10:56 PM
redfuji said:
My igrpe with the iMac is the decision with the rear jack placements- nothing conveniently located on the sides. What are you thinking Apple? Some of us do need to plug things in back there. I am sure it was a cost saving move for Apple. Who cares about the consumer-we have them wraped around our fingers-let them figure out a solution. I am thrilled that I have to turn the monitor everytime I need to plug something in. Thanks Apple.
Firstly, the side will get thinner and thinner and there is no space for ports and secondly, really? You are that lazy so you can't turn your monitor a bit? Oh and also, it's in the back so you dont see any cables and it's tidy.
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Posted 08 June 2013 - 10:58 PM
SharkTankToy said:
Nice,but when will Apple once again take the lead with truly inspiring technological leaps? - Allow the iMac to have a battery, change position or leave the desk entirely? Make it a GIANT iPad with touch screen (sketch) input. I would be wiling to sit with the Goliath in my lap if I could continue to play/work.
It's a desktop computer why would it have a battery? Seriously it weights 10kgs, where are you gonna take it ? Change position to what? A giant Ipad? Well touch screen is good but only on the desk, why in your right mind would you lift a 10kg computer and put it on your lap? Have you had a laptop, maybe you should buy one and if you do you will see that if you keep it in your lap for an hour or two you would be tired.
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Posted 08 June 2013 - 11:01 PM
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I just got my 27" iMac with 3TB Fusion. It's beautiful, but I was dismayed to find that BootCamp won't run on it. There are online workarounds, but I wind up with my 3TB split into 2 Mac partitions plus 1 for Windows, and Windows doesn't have drivers for the iMac hardware (which I think would be taken care of in a "normal" BootCamp installation.) Apple wouldn't commit to me that they are going to fix this; can MacWorld get them to commit?
Already fixed.
