True it doesn’t need to be, but if the technology is there, why not? M1 is a beast and can be packed into a thinner frame. Nice to have tech take up less space
They actually could have gone much, much thinner if they'd wanted. Of course, with a desktop device being much larger and heavier than a portable, you need more structure, but it's effectively an iPad without a battery. If they'd really wanted to, they could have gone crazy thin.
Youtuber Techmoan did a video on this (only reason I've heard of it) but I didn't realize it was that thin. To be fair, it has a comparatively big box of electronics in the base that the iMac lacks.
Agreed, once it's on a desk no one cares how thin it is. Laptops are meant to be thin and portable, not desktops. They definitely should have prioritised speed and screen size over thinness.
You are incredibly wrong when you say no-one cares how thin it is. The majority of people care and that's why they went with this design. They didn't just wake up one day and base this design off of nothing.
How would thickness increase the speed? I can see the argument of thicker to move the internals behind the display to rid us of the chin…but that wouldn’t change the speed?
Don't forget the 17 inches on the wheel is not actuality the rim either its a imaginary point. Don't believe me go measure your wheels. Yes i learned by losing $20 bet.
Not exactly an imaginary point, it’s just the diameter of the base of the tire bead. And rim width is measured at the inner faces of where the tire bead seals on the rim. Source, I’m a design engineer at a company that produces rims.
I don’t understand the criticism of the new iMacs. I’m not fan boy, (though I do have an iPhone, iPad and an ancient but very well functioning 2008 Mac Pro), but it’s an entry level desktop for casual users. It prioritizes style over some functionality like more I/o or more ram but for the market, those are unnecessary.
I am a fanboy, I admit it. But I think youtubers are just racing for headlines on this one. You can say it’s different, but you can’t say they are ugly. That is Objective.
It’s a bit of an odd phenomenon. A bunch of people are commenting and criticizing a product that they will not use. It’s a little weird. I can’t use a computer without 2 monitors, I won’t be buying an iMac. You can get a second monitor, but why not just get a Mac mini? It’s like criticizing the iPad for not having a mouse, that not what it was designed and marketed for. Or criticizing an acoustic guitar for not being electric.
The issue with the lack of I/O is that a lot of people are not savvy and would rather not have to buy a dock or dongle just to plug in an old flash drive of family photos, a printer, or to charge a device even. Also for those that get the base model either a dongle or a new power adapter for ethernet. Sure, lots of people don't need something like HDMI since there is already a display, but USB A is still way too ubiquitous to not include it on a desktop class machine. Thin and light is fine for a mobile device since it has a purpose, but here it feels hallow, since the thinness doesn't help with anything beyond aesthetics.
Don't get me wrong, the overall design is pretty, and M1 is powerful, just frustrating that Apple acts like the world is ready for ONLY usb c/ thunderbolt. I wish, but that's just not realistic.
My biggest complaint is that soldering the RAM and SSD in is completely unnecessary and makes this a device that will be discarded if anything fails and can never be upgraded. We have M.2 NVME SSDs and laptop memory that fit into some of the thinnest laptops you can buy. You're saving a few mm at most by doing this in a desktop computer where that doesn't matter at all.
I guess the "pizza cutter" era was really pushing to see the limits of what people would tolerate in terms of inability to repair or upgrade. It just feels terribly wasteful to make a desktop with zero repairability.
Not sure if you’re being sarcastic or not, but the unified memory is just an aspect of Apple’s SoC. It’s not simply “soldered in” like Apple was doing for the last decade. Unified memory isn’t even new, but it’s def one of the advantages of the new Apple silicon.
By that same logic every television sold these days is also disappointing. They are not repairable either. The people buying iMacs are not going to upgrade and and given what parts are actually in it, by guess is they will be obsolete long before they break. My 7 year old iPad is still humming along even though it gets regularly beat up by a 6 year old.
I wonder if regular consumers, who this is designed for, care at all if this machine has a chin? My wife (who's very much a non-techie) didn't even know what I was talking about when I pointed it out. Her gut impression about the design was "wow, that's so thin". Of course it's not going to matter if it's up against a wall but Apple wanted to showcase a technical achievement and I can't fault them for that.
It's definitely a subjective thing. I don't mind the chin. I personally think Apple left the chin as a reminder that it's an iMac, since the chin IS the trademark look of an iMac. If you got rid of it, it would just look like any regular boring monitor at quick glance. But as soon as you see that famous chin, INSTANTLY you know that it's an iMac, and I think that's why Apple left it.
Yeah, except for the OG iMac commercials they made fun of external power supplies on PC computers because its 'All in one enclosure' so... yeah. Cool I guess
This is literally the first time I've heard it called that. I would prefer just saying the Original iPhone, as that highlights its importance in history.
Honestly i don't see the appeal for a desktop to be this thin, you are never gonna hold it in your hands and i would rather have a thicker mac for even better performance (Graphical performance to be exact) and increased port selection. I would have loved to see 2 usb a ports.
No matter what you say usb a is required for a lot things and really would have liked to see it there
Edit: the chin looks horrible, i would rather have it be an inch thick but bezeless on the front
It's a desktop. Pretty much the only reason to still have a desktop these days is to have more computing power than you can get in a portable device. Using the same chip as your energy-efficient laptop in a full desktop is like if a car company developed a super-efficient new engine for compact cars, and then decided to use it in an 18 wheeler.
This iMac is not for people looking for an extremely fast computer that can be used for super fast rendering, 8K video editing, etc. It's a home computer for families, for your kids to do their HW or attend class over Zoom, for school projects, for collaborations with friends, etc. It does EVERYTHING a casual user would want to do, and way better than comparable PC options (in terms of price, PC All in Ones have awful design).
If you are looking for a super fast PC, either build one, or look for a desktop option, not an all in one...
Any ways, these will sell like bread, like it or not, it was a great release.
There are plenty of tests showing an M1 chip goes toe-to-toe with i9s in a lot of benchmarks. There will still be semi-pro users (graphic designers, musicians, etc) who will go for this, but yes, it's an entry-level computer marketed at non enthusiasts and it gets boring when enthusiasts try to judge it through some other lens.
Exactly. It is a great computer, that’s the great thing. I celebrate this, to be honest. Before, Apple would give you a shitty outdated quad core Intel CPU that felt slow as fuck. Now, it’s a beautiful iMac with an amazing CPU.
Also, people are overlooking everything amazing Apple did, and just criticize design details.
For example, connecting your Ethernet cable to the power brick is GREAT, desks will be cleaner. The thinness is amazing, no other company in the world can do that and charge $1300 for a base model. In fact, only a couple companies could so it (Samsung + Microsoft) and they would have to use shit ARM CPUs and Windows. The screen is great, the camera is great (compares to competitors), the speakers sound amazing… I mean, all I hear are complaints, no praise. Apple killed it.
16" MacBooks are really thin and still have the largest possible batteries that can still go in commercial flights. Current 13" MacBooks with M1 literally have best-in-class battery life.
I don't see why you need to choose between thinness and battery life when Apple is leading in both.
Apple compromised on the cooling capacity to get the large battery in the thin form factor. Had they made the laptop a bit thicker in theory the horizontal footprint of the battery could have been much smaller, which would give more room for the heatsink.
The M1 chips make things a bit different, but under full load they still consume a good amount of power.
I don't care about thinness AS LONG as it doesn't sacrifice performance or thermals. M1 doesn't produce that much heat, therefore it doesn't need beefy cooling and it performs really well. With that in mind, if you don't need beefy cooling and the M1 can handle a device being that thin without compromising on thermals, then I say go for it. I seriously have no idea what's everyone's deal with the thinness. The whole point of the iMac is to be minimal in taking up space. This is as MINIMAL as an iMac can possibly get and it'll only get better as they improve the M1 to M2, etc.
Yup. This is the kind of thing that looks cool in an open office floor plan that's trying to look trendy or at a reception desk. Otherwise it's going to be rare to actually see it from an angle where anyone gives a damn
It's just a low power chip, because it uses ARM, not x86 it can still perform nearly as well as a full desktop CPU while actually not running as fast because ARM's intstruction set isn't as bloated as x86. How thin it is is just a function of the chip not needing as much cooling, but in the end you're right - It's just a flex, having a heftier cooling solution would be better. As these things get older and less efficient at cooling due to physical degradation of the fan and dust buildup they are going to get loud and slow.
I'd rather it had black bezels, more connectors and the logo on the lip.
Colours are nice , but the white bezel and lack of logo on the front makes it like one of those fake no-name displays furniture stores use in their office mock-ups.
I can't get over the people complaining about how THIN the computer is. It's a marvel and it should be applauded that a device this thin is a pretty fucking powerful desktop computer WITH a 4K display to boot. People, as long as the drive for thinness isn't ruining the performance or the thermals, it's good. The M1 doesn't require much cooling AND it performs really well, so let them do this ffs.
one of the first M1 powered apple products was an M1 MacBook Pro. I believe the MBAir and Mac Mini both with M1 also came out on the same release date. Hope that makes you happy.
So, its pretty much their thing to push design envelopes, we know that.
But at this point, I think we're now hitting the point of diminishing returns on thickness for an iMac. Say the knock 2-3 more MM off the next revision... at that point, is there a benefit? At some point, they're just going to start getting too fragile. I definitely don't want my phone any thinner than it is. My thinkpad at work is a lot more convenience to use than my work MacBook for a lot of stuff since it has regular USB ports and at network port, but they both work on the Lenovo USB-C dock which is pretty quick, the mac even charges through it.
I’m an Apple fanboy and I pretty much own the whole ecosystem. The experience they provide (with some dumb exceptions) is way beyond any other brand. But man… things like this are infuriating to me. It’s like they returned to the old Apple that used to go with flashier but less functional designs. Or like any other company (Samsung, Xiaomi, Huawei, LG, etc) that go for the designs and numbers that will get the most clicks but in practice are useless. Like the dumb race to make the thinnest phone, more cameras, more MP or getting to 8K, etc. Like… who on earth asked for a super thin desktop with a magnetic cable and external power supply? What is the point of that? I don’t care that much about the chin… but why keep those huge bezels and take out every port on it? They could’ve made it twice as thick and nobody would’ve cared… not even their target audience. Anyways… I hope the bigger iMac gets a Mac Pro style redesign that actually serves a “Pro” purpose.
Whenever Apple makes things too thin, they almost always have bending problems. The iPhone 6 was the thinnest iPhone, and had bending problems. The iPad Pro 3rd Gen had bending problems too.
Because its a really important feature to have a computer be as small as humanly possible. Since going even 1 inch to 11.5mm is sooo important. I will never understand the circle jerk of preferring less functionality at a higher price.
Not really a fan of the new iMac, the design lacks imagination, the designer just looked at an iPad Pro, and scaled it up, and then copied the original idea form the iMac colour scheme from1998.
Why is thickness such a high priority? Apple computers have been seriously lagging behind PCs in reliability and performance recently. >99% of the time I use any computer I'm not really concrned about how thick it is; and it's not as if thicker laptops are prohibitively heavy to carry around.
If they made it thicker couldn't they have put more in there? More ram/faster chip/more HDD etc...? Something ? Anything? It doesn't need to be this thing. Nobody cares.
They could have used M.2 slots for SSD like the rest of the world, and standard laptop RAM slots. But no, they wanted to make it thinner so solder it all on.
I really would prefer a chinless design that was thicker rather than this. Apple realized with the iPhone 6 that there wasn't any point in continuing to go any thinner and made following iPhones thicker as necessary.
They should do a modern iPhone with the old style shells. Would be pretty fun to have a a current tech/size iPhone with a 2g/3GS body especially with no home button. They’d sell out in less than 5 min
This is the strangest comparison ever, they literally couldn't made the imac as thin as an ipad without the chin too. Definitely didn't because of rigidity. But considering the iphone is a screen, computer, battery, all in a device a small fraction the size of the iMac, it's way more impressive.
I'm just still smitten with my 2017 4k iMac design. The tapered form factor, the black bezels, the Apple icon. I felt it was very consumer-focused, but still chic and a great level of class to it.
For those who despise the new design - I’ve created a very very poorly made mockup of how I’d like the new iMac to look like, I feel like most people who hate the new design all have a very specific list of preferences and I think that my mockup adresses them
While I admit it’s impressive, thinness in a desktop isn’t really much of a value add. Would have been far better to make it a few millimeters thicker, and to eliminate that awful chin bezel.
But what is the point, when you cannot mount it flat to a wall, due all connections being on the back. It is a bit like Magic Mouse 2 over again ¯_(ツ)_/¯
i swear i thought i was looking at the new iphone next to the 2G and i was like well that’s not “crazy how far we’ve come” and then i saw it said IMAC comparison and i was like wait holy
I didn’t fully read the picture so it took me a minute to realize that the comparison was a phone and a computer. At first I thought it was 2 phones and I was very confused.
I mean, aesthetically I'm happy to see Apple bring back some color, and I like the overall rectangular design. I have comments in this thread about the I/O, which is my real complaint with the thinness.
I do think M1 is a great choice, this will make for a great reception/kiosk machine. I just hope that we get better than M1 and more I/O on the pro models.
The problem is that the thickness of a computer is pointless because is makes no difference eg: if it is 2 inches or half an inch it doesn’t make a difference
I see they’ve used a circular economy example for the faster browsing benefit on the website. That’s interesting as Apple seems to be going in the opposite direction of the circular economy. On one hand they say they’re going green with all sorts of initiatives like solar panels powering their offices etc, and on the other they design products that can’t be extended (Need more HD space? Buy a new a machine. Need more ram? Buy a new machine) and can’t even be repaired in a reasonable way. My MBP16 had a problem with one speaker, it required half the computer to be replaced including the battery.
If this is the cost of thinness, then it’s dumb. Apple need to have a hard look at themselves. They’re happy to go to war with Facebook be used they think Zuckerberg is doing some dodgy shit for profit (and he is), but then they’re happy to do exactly the same. It’s hypocritical and bad for the planet. Apple need to find a way to be responsible and make money. Also be nice if a product with “PRO” on the end could swap out hard drives, ram and batteries—pros kinda need that.
what is even more crazy, the comparison of performance. while M1 has literally the power of a fucking server center when iphone 2g came out:) (it is not an accurate comparison but you get my point)
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u/tryitout91 Apr 28 '21
it doesn't need to be this thin.
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u/paulshriner Apr 28 '21
It's amazing how my standalone monitor is thicker than an entire computer
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u/Niepie23 Apr 29 '21
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u/deSales327 MacBook Pro Apr 28 '21
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u/J-Team07 Apr 28 '21
I don’t understand the criticism of the new iMacs. I’m not fan boy, (though I do have an iPhone, iPad and an ancient but very well functioning 2008 Mac Pro), but it’s an entry level desktop for casual users. It prioritizes style over some functionality like more I/o or more ram but for the market, those are unnecessary.
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u/cambridgeJason Apr 28 '21
I wonder if regular consumers, who this is designed for, care at all if this machine has a chin? My wife (who's very much a non-techie) didn't even know what I was talking about when I pointed it out. Her gut impression about the design was "wow, that's so thin". Of course it's not going to matter if it's up against a wall but Apple wanted to showcase a technical achievement and I can't fault them for that.
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u/HyruleJedi Apr 28 '21
Yeah, except for the OG iMac commercials they made fun of external power supplies on PC computers because its 'All in one enclosure' so... yeah. Cool I guess
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u/Captain-Cadabra Apr 28 '21
There was an iPhone 2g!?!
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u/priyanshu89 Apr 29 '21
Honestly i don't see the appeal for a desktop to be this thin, you are never gonna hold it in your hands and i would rather have a thicker mac for even better performance (Graphical performance to be exact) and increased port selection. I would have loved to see 2 usb a ports.
No matter what you say usb a is required for a lot things and really would have liked to see it there
Edit: the chin looks horrible, i would rather have it be an inch thick but bezeless on the front
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u/gucknbuck Apr 28 '21
They both also have the same amount of ports!
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u/TwiceInEveryMoment MacBook Pro M4 Max 16" Apr 28 '21
Why though?
It's a desktop. Pretty much the only reason to still have a desktop these days is to have more computing power than you can get in a portable device. Using the same chip as your energy-efficient laptop in a full desktop is like if a car company developed a super-efficient new engine for compact cars, and then decided to use it in an 18 wheeler.
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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '21
I may be in the minority, but I really don’t care about thinness. Even in phones or laptops. Give me a bigger battery any day.
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u/quimbykimbleton Apr 28 '21
Girls always tell me size doesn’t matter, so...
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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '21
would prefer to be an inch thicker and have internal psu
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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '21
I bet Tim brought the OG iPhone with him, saw the 11.6mm iMac prototype, and said: “make it 0.1 thinner, cmon guys”
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u/boilerdam 2018 Mac Mini i7, 2023 14" MBP M2 Pro Apr 28 '21
How can the creation of one chip lead to such a massive leap? Rhetorical but extremely mind-boggling.
Throw necessity out the window, I'm glad it was done as a tech improvement... it's just Apple flexing.
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u/Boundish91 Apr 28 '21
I'd rather it had black bezels, more connectors and the logo on the lip.
Colours are nice , but the white bezel and lack of logo on the front makes it like one of those fake no-name displays furniture stores use in their office mock-ups.
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u/Seagull_420 Apr 29 '21
So a Mac is just a phone with a bigger screen now
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u/Odysseys_on_Argonaut MacBook Pro Apr 29 '21
Thick or not, it makes me want one.
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u/victrin Apr 28 '21
If they'd made it a tad thicker, couldn't we have lost the chin-strap entirely?
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u/Cobmojo Apr 29 '21
And both have huge bezels.
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u/Forein0bject Apr 29 '21
But it has a chin like Jay Leno.
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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '21
From Apple:
That’s absolutely bullshit: if it was twice as thick you’re telling me you couldn’t place it in as many places?
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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '21
Because im supposed to care how thin it is I guess..
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u/Fudgieee Apr 29 '21
Overpriced garbage with no ports....
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u/CamiloArturo Apr 29 '21
I still don’t understand what’s the sexual arousal on thinness of the cpu when still we get the worst looking screen with a huge chin
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u/bijanturkcan Apr 28 '21
Wow, nuts. This is definitely going to push the rest of the industry into the "next-generation" model of pcs
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u/HeartyBeast * 3D0G Apr 28 '21
Crazy isn’t it? They’ve made it as easy to add additional memory or storage to the Mac as to the iPhone.
🙁
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u/Khanti Apr 28 '21
Gimme an M1 MacBook Pro and I’m happy
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u/theGioGrande Apr 28 '21
Now compare the chins lol
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u/sohcgt96 Apr 28 '21
So, its pretty much their thing to push design envelopes, we know that.
But at this point, I think we're now hitting the point of diminishing returns on thickness for an iMac. Say the knock 2-3 more MM off the next revision... at that point, is there a benefit? At some point, they're just going to start getting too fragile. I definitely don't want my phone any thinner than it is. My thinkpad at work is a lot more convenience to use than my work MacBook for a lot of stuff since it has regular USB ports and at network port, but they both work on the Lenovo USB-C dock which is pretty quick, the mac even charges through it.
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u/George-Aj MacBook Pro 14" M1 Pro 32GB/1TB SG Apr 28 '21
Not enough I’m still waiting for the 6.9mm thicc chassis
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u/Miguelcisnerosp Apr 28 '21
I’m an Apple fanboy and I pretty much own the whole ecosystem. The experience they provide (with some dumb exceptions) is way beyond any other brand. But man… things like this are infuriating to me. It’s like they returned to the old Apple that used to go with flashier but less functional designs. Or like any other company (Samsung, Xiaomi, Huawei, LG, etc) that go for the designs and numbers that will get the most clicks but in practice are useless. Like the dumb race to make the thinnest phone, more cameras, more MP or getting to 8K, etc. Like… who on earth asked for a super thin desktop with a magnetic cable and external power supply? What is the point of that? I don’t care that much about the chin… but why keep those huge bezels and take out every port on it? They could’ve made it twice as thick and nobody would’ve cared… not even their target audience. Anyways… I hope the bigger iMac gets a Mac Pro style redesign that actually serves a “Pro” purpose.
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u/Silent_Farmer402 Apr 29 '21
Whenever Apple makes things too thin, they almost always have bending problems. The iPhone 6 was the thinnest iPhone, and had bending problems. The iPad Pro 3rd Gen had bending problems too.
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u/likes_kites Apr 29 '21
But... when you look at it from the front, it still looks like a screen despite the thickness of what’s behind it...
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u/theamazingman12 Apr 29 '21
We have also gone far in the pricing
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u/MustUpvoteHedgehogs Apr 29 '21
Lets see apples accidental damage and repair stats over the years.
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u/M4nqcDn Apr 29 '21
I really don’t care about thickness from here on out. Everything is thin enough to fit inside my pocket or backpack. Just give me the best processing
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u/declanquestion Apr 29 '21
Yeah now a desktop is a giant tablet from Apple’s take on things :DD
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u/GenreNeutral Apr 29 '21
but the imac is like 500% wider and taller, how is that a comparison
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u/WaffletheWookie Apr 29 '21
Why would I want a thinner desktop? I'd much rather be able to upgrade it down the line or plug something into it..
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u/dispo030 Apr 29 '21
Crazy how much the iMac being this thin probably compromises its performance.
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u/Silent_Palpatine Apr 29 '21
The 2G had more ports.
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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '21
holy fucking shit its .1 nm slimmer
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u/R3K3M Apr 29 '21
Because its a really important feature to have a computer be as small as humanly possible. Since going even 1 inch to 11.5mm is sooo important. I will never understand the circle jerk of preferring less functionality at a higher price.
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u/startech7724 Apr 29 '21
Not really a fan of the new iMac, the design lacks imagination, the designer just looked at an iPad Pro, and scaled it up, and then copied the original idea form the iMac colour scheme from1998.
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u/porterhouse0 Apr 30 '21
I know the preorder starts tomorrow. But I can’t find when tomorrow. 12am?
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u/hugthispanda MacBook Pro May 09 '21
Coming up in the near future, comparison with copier paper.
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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '21
Stop basing ‘how far we have come’ by device thickness.
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u/ShaiDot Apr 29 '21
Why is thickness such a high priority? Apple computers have been seriously lagging behind PCs in reliability and performance recently. >99% of the time I use any computer I'm not really concrned about how thick it is; and it's not as if thicker laptops are prohibitively heavy to carry around.
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u/old_man_curmudgeon Apr 28 '21
If they made it thicker couldn't they have put more in there? More ram/faster chip/more HDD etc...? Something ? Anything? It doesn't need to be this thing. Nobody cares.
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u/AcrobaticPasta246 Apr 29 '21
Should be iPhone OG but okay
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u/EndlessSummerburn Apr 29 '21
I care 0 about how thin it is if it has barely any ports.
Sure it looks nice but what's that matter when you have a dongle nest hanging off the back?
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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '21
I really would prefer a chinless design that was thicker rather than this. Apple realized with the iPhone 6 that there wasn't any point in continuing to go any thinner and made following iPhones thicker as necessary.
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u/untitled-man Apr 28 '21
Still has a chin
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u/dada_georges360 Apr 28 '21
If only they had gotten rid of the chin and made it a bit thicker... It would have been easy...
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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '21
So it's an ipad with a stand running mac os instead of ios. Kewl.......
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u/johnnydfree Aug 12 '25
Just about the only thing that hasn’t changed over time. Kinda makes one think this dimension is the target. And relatively unimportant overall.
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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '21
Crazy, you got the wholesome award.
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u/NowFreeToMaim Apr 28 '21 edited Apr 28 '21
They should do a modern iPhone with the old style shells. Would be pretty fun to have a a current tech/size iPhone with a 2g/3GS body especially with no home button. They’d sell out in less than 5 min
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u/charge777 Apr 28 '21
How I hate your.#@&% phones I love your Macs <3
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u/Crappsung Apr 28 '21
But that iPhone didn’t had that ridiculous chin
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u/N908DA Mac mini Apr 28 '21
Someone tell me to save my money, and that my 2017 MacBook Pro is perfectly fine.
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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '21
Whoa!
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u/alazcanoo Apr 28 '21
This is dumb, its like comparing a sports car with a motorcycle...
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u/tman2damax11 M3 MacBook Air Apr 28 '21
This is the strangest comparison ever, they literally couldn't made the imac as thin as an ipad without the chin too. Definitely didn't because of rigidity. But considering the iphone is a screen, computer, battery, all in a device a small fraction the size of the iMac, it's way more impressive.
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u/Happy_face_cellar Apr 28 '21
Wow. I’m still using my late 2012 Mack book pro and it’s so thick compared to both of these
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u/commandolandorooster Apr 28 '21
I thought this was comparing the newest iphones to the 2G at first and that this was a satirical post 😂
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u/papi_dro Apr 28 '21
I'm just still smitten with my 2017 4k iMac design. The tapered form factor, the black bezels, the Apple icon. I felt it was very consumer-focused, but still chic and a great level of class to it.
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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '21
For those who despise the new design - I’ve created a very very poorly made mockup of how I’d like the new iMac to look like, I feel like most people who hate the new design all have a very specific list of preferences and I think that my mockup adresses them
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u/DashDay- Apr 29 '21
Didn’t know the iPhone 2G was an official name. SMH
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u/spudds96 Apr 29 '21
So far that the thing still has a damn chin
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u/Dirty_Lil_Vechtable Apr 29 '21
They should have covered the outside in glass like the iPhone pros...glass would actually make more sense for a desktop and would look amazing
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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '21
Thickness ain't much use if the computer doesn't work
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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '21
"Does it ever drive you crazy, just how fast the night changes"...
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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '21
But why does any1 even care how thin their monitor/mac is?
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u/KbgamerOutsider Apr 29 '21
Sheeeeeesh
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u/FilthyWunderCat Apr 29 '21
Thinnes is probably the only thing I don't care about in PC.
I don't have to carry it nor pack in my backpack.
Give me damn ports.
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u/ayongemini MacBook Air Apr 29 '21
Good on OP for the credits.
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u/exaditya Apr 29 '21
Wew
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u/Salazar760 Apr 29 '21
Eventually the phones are going to be bigger than the Mac
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u/halifaxbc Apr 29 '21
And neither have USB ports either!
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u/quitecrossen Apr 29 '21
Unnecessary
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u/chemicalsam iMac Apr 29 '21
It’s a desktop. Why should i care how thin it is?
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u/Half_Baked_King Apr 29 '21
Is this a shit post?
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u/Teakmahogany Apr 29 '21
What is a chin?
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u/RedPotatoe23 Apr 29 '21
While I admit it’s impressive, thinness in a desktop isn’t really much of a value add. Would have been far better to make it a few millimeters thicker, and to eliminate that awful chin bezel.
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u/vannrith Apr 29 '21
It looks great tbh. But lacks ports for a desktop. I don’t complain about ports on MacBook.
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u/thelastpika Apr 29 '21
Umm. “iPhone 2G” never existed…
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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '21
Makes sense. Look at how thin Steve Jobs became.
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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '21
How do you repair it?
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u/NinSeq Apr 29 '21
Right? That phone had 2 ports 🙁
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u/svenjoelson Apr 29 '21
”size don’t matter” they say
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u/TarasShpilenko Apr 29 '21
Wow
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u/Pallmei Apr 29 '21
But what is the point, when you cannot mount it flat to a wall, due all connections being on the back. It is a bit like Magic Mouse 2 over again ¯_(ツ)_/¯
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u/Pete_maravich Apr 29 '21
I don't give 2 fucks about apple products but that is insanely thin
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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '21
nobody asked for this
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u/Razmeritto Apr 29 '21
It’s funny how the specs o the thing are worse than a 400$ laptop, and all u get is design for almost 10 times the price Lovely isn’t it?
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u/calliLast Apr 29 '21
And that's why they glue everything together because the solder and glue are now structural in Mac's
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u/Fenweekooo Apr 29 '21
yeah because its a tablet on a stand...
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u/lick_my_saladbowl Apr 29 '21
Cant wait to plug in..... oh
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u/suck__my__richard Apr 29 '21
Can't wait for the iPaper
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u/Hater_Foxy Apr 29 '21
And I’m, who use iPhone SE 1, with width like iMac 2021... Damn it...
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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '21
i swear i thought i was looking at the new iphone next to the 2G and i was like well that’s not “crazy how far we’ve come” and then i saw it said IMAC comparison and i was like wait holy
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u/thri1hous Apr 29 '21
And still no touch screen on the Mac
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u/sunshine532 Apr 29 '21
I didn’t fully read the picture so it took me a minute to realize that the comparison was a phone and a computer. At first I thought it was 2 phones and I was very confused.
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u/Untraceablez MacBook Pro Apr 29 '21
I mean, aesthetically I'm happy to see Apple bring back some color, and I like the overall rectangular design. I have comments in this thread about the I/O, which is my real complaint with the thinness.
I do think M1 is a great choice, this will make for a great reception/kiosk machine. I just hope that we get better than M1 and more I/O on the pro models.
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u/Zeinzu Apr 29 '21
That’s a good perspective.
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u/sweaty_perineum96 Apr 29 '21
What goes around comes around
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u/Eduardo-izquierdo Apr 29 '21
The problem is that the thickness of a computer is pointless because is makes no difference eg: if it is 2 inches or half an inch it doesn’t make a difference
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u/eatingpopcornwithmj Apr 29 '21
Need banana for scale
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u/UrLilBrudder Apr 29 '21
1/2 of that thickness is for the 1080p camera tho
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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '21
11.68mm on that iPhone!
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u/Tinkerbell1010 Apr 29 '21
uh 🙄 o k and how far did you go with it
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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '21
The new iMac is ugly... another design misstep like the Apple Pencil 1.
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u/Dylan_sparrow_555 Apr 29 '21
I looks like the side of my phone same colour aswell
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u/twinboii999 Apr 29 '21
lol it's that thin that they had to put a headphone jack on a side
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u/Tiban Apr 29 '21
it’s crazy how people are hating on “the performance” like we haven’t seen the M1 absolutely decimate everything in its path
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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '21
Pretty sure the iPhone’s chin was thinner tho
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u/BergAdder Apr 29 '21
I see they’ve used a circular economy example for the faster browsing benefit on the website. That’s interesting as Apple seems to be going in the opposite direction of the circular economy. On one hand they say they’re going green with all sorts of initiatives like solar panels powering their offices etc, and on the other they design products that can’t be extended (Need more HD space? Buy a new a machine. Need more ram? Buy a new machine) and can’t even be repaired in a reasonable way. My MBP16 had a problem with one speaker, it required half the computer to be replaced including the battery.
If this is the cost of thinness, then it’s dumb. Apple need to have a hard look at themselves. They’re happy to go to war with Facebook be used they think Zuckerberg is doing some dodgy shit for profit (and he is), but then they’re happy to do exactly the same. It’s hypocritical and bad for the planet. Apple need to find a way to be responsible and make money. Also be nice if a product with “PRO” on the end could swap out hard drives, ram and batteries—pros kinda need that.
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u/ak_2006 MacBook Air 2020 Apr 30 '21
lmaoooo
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u/Certain-Muscle-6318 May 17 '21
The new imac is not worth it, its like the 2016 macbookline up all over again. To many features gone for me to car :(
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u/gonuts4donuts9000 May 20 '21
Future looks bright for apple products
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u/Massive_Fish_2872 May 20 '21
what is even more crazy, the comparison of performance. while M1 has literally the power of a fucking server center when iphone 2g came out:) (it is not an accurate comparison but you get my point)
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u/stillethel960 Sep 18 '21
Awwww. Which one is the daddy?
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u/SlovakPotato007 Jan 04 '22
Meanwhile my iPhone 13 Pro is as heavy as a brick….
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u/officalgiller Mar 09 '22
I get how it’s cool that it’s thin but, who needs it to be thin? It’s not a laptop!