Category: Apple

The New iMac: One Step Back⇢

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Andrew Cunningham at Ars:

Here’s our biggest problem with the new iMac: making a laptop thinner and lighter is immediately noticeable. You touch and move a laptop constantly. Not everyone wants a laptop that values its size and weight more than, say, a faster processor or larger screen. But we can all at least agree that there is a very real place in the market for those thin and light devices, just as there’s a place in the market for gaming laptops or budget laptops. To achieve a more portable laptop, compromises like a lack of an optical drive or user-upgradeable memory are acceptable and even desirable.

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Bloomberg Businessweek Interviews Tim Cook⇢

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This whole interview is great, but this bit really jumped out at me. Here’s Tim Cook:

Everybody in our company is responsible to be innovative, whether they’re doing operational work or product work or customer service work. So in terms of the pressure, all of us put a great deal of pressure on ourselves. And yes, part of my job is to be a cheerleader, and getting people to stop for a moment and think about everything that’s been done.

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Inside the new iMac⇢

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I’ve taken every single generation of iMac apart, and I can tell you, this thing is a very different beast inside.

Using glue to hold the LCD in place is lame, and I worry about how iMacs that have been taken apart several times will fare. That said, with just one fan (instead of the previous machine’s 3) and so many SSD options, the new machines have far fewer moving parts, which are always more prone to failure. That said, Apple’s choice to use laptop hard drives makes me sad.

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Apple Ships LED Cinema Display Software Update 1.1⇢

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Apple Support:

This update addresses an issue with the 27-inch LED Cinema Display that may prevent sound from playing back through the speakers on the display.

Please leave your 27-inch LED Cinema Display attached to your Mac during the update process. Your screen may go black momentarily while the update is installing.

Just ran this on my display with no issues. Hopefully it fixes the bug, which has driven me crazy for months.

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New Thin iMac For Sale⇢

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Starting at $1299 for a 2.7GHz quad-core Intel Core i5 with 8 GB of RAM and a spinning hard disk, the new iMacs are now for sale. The 27-inch models ship in a couple of weeks. For $4,249.00, you can load up one of the bigger machines with these goodies:

  • 3.4GHz Quad-core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost up to 3.9GHz
  • 32GB 1600MHz DDR3 SDRAM
  • 768GB Flash Storage
  • NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX 2GB GDDR5

I ordered 5 entry-level models today for work.

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