New iMacs Released

[DrMacintosh]

13 minutes ago, Firewrath9 said:

part warranty and not the 90day warranty that apple has.

Last I checked, 365 days != 90 days. Apple has a 1 year warranty as is required by law. 

[suicidalfranco]

5 minutes ago, DrMacintosh said:

is required by law.

so not even an argument 

[Firewrath9]

18 minutes ago, DrMacintosh said:

Last I checked, 365 days != 90 days. Apple has a 1 year warranty as is required by law. 

? thought it was 90 days, unless you pay for AppleCare. besides, individual parts have much longer warranty (i.e. 3y or more for ssd, 5y+ for cooler, lifetime (?) for cpu+ram, 3y for mobo, 5+y for psu, etc). Also, wasn't there a YouTube whose iMac pro vesa mount or something got fked up by the ppl at the apple store, and they wouldn't fix it.

[DrMacintosh]

1 minute ago, Firewrath9 said:

? thought it was 90 days, unless you pay for AppleCare.

No

1 minute ago, Firewrath9 said:

individual parts have much longer warranty (i.e. 3y or more for ssd, 5y+ for cooler, lifetime (?) for cpu+ram, 3y for mobo, 5+y for psu, etc).

Anyone in the market for an iMac is not going to want to go through all of that.

1 minute ago, Firewrath9 said:

Also, wasn't there a YouTube whose iMac pro vesa mount or something got fked up by the ppl at the apple store, and they wouldn't fix it.

No.

[Firewrath9]

3 minutes ago, DrMacintosh said:

 

looked at it over, and they have 90d for on the phone, and 1y limited warranty.

My dad got an iMac, and he has other pcs that I built for him, he just uses Final Cut (he can use it on a hackintosh too tho). We already voided warranty bc we didn't want to pay 400$ for a 1TB ssd, and just bought a 2.5" sata one. some people who buy iMacs are fine with using warranty.

[Firewrath9]

8 minutes ago, DrMacintosh said:

 

No.

found it

He messed up the vesa mount becuase apple cheeped out on screws, and got a replacement, but it was shit.

[DrMacintosh]

1 minute ago, Firewrath9 said:

He messed up the vesa mount becuase apple cheeped out on screws, and got a replacement, but it was shit.

In later follow up videos he explains how Apple replaced the body of his machine for free. It’s literally all documented on his channel. 

[Blademaster91]

41 minutes ago, Firewrath9 said:

found it

He messed up the vesa mount becuase apple cheeped out on screws, and got a replacement, but it was shit.

He only got replacements because of being a famous person on Youtube, Apple tried to deny it and said he installed it wrong. Thats a lot more crap to go through than literally RMA'ing a failed part to a company like Asus,Gigabyte,Asrock,MSI or EVGA. And more downtime if the computer is needed for work,as opposed to opening up the case and swapping in a new part.

[Hellion]

Yay, more overpriced crap that apple tools portray as a status symbol.

 

Hopefully these ones can actaully hit sustained boost clocks without thermal throttling...

 

Form over function, forever!  - Am I doing it right apple?

[DrMacintosh]

On 3/20/2019 at 4:38 PM, Blademaster91 said:

He only got replacements because of being a famous person on Youtube

Can you prove that?

[Blademaster91]

18 minutes ago, DrMacintosh said:

Can you prove that?

With how much attention the video got on Youtube and social media, of course they replaced his iMac pro, but as he says they probably wouldn't do it for everyone.

[DrMacintosh]

1 minute ago, Blademaster91 said:

With how much attention the video got on Youtube and social media, of course they replaced his iMac pro, but as he says they probably wouldn't do it for everyone.

So you can’t prove it?

[Commodus]

18 hours ago, Hellion said:

Yay, more overpriced crap that apple tools portray as a status symbol.

 

Hopefully these ones can actaully hit sustained boost clocks without thermal throttling...

 

Form over function, forever!  - Am I doing it right apple?

To borrow from the web comic: shh... let people enjoy things.

 

iMacs are fine machines.  The display is amazing (I'm using an iMac 5K right now), it's quiet in all but the most intense scenarios, the performance for my needs holds up well to this day... hell, there are little things I appreciate, like the quiet keyboard.  And yes, it's nice not to have to string wires all over the place.  It's not for everyone, of course, but I'm happy.

[handymanshandle]

23 hours ago, Commodus said:

To borrow from the web comic: shh... let people enjoy things.

 

iMacs are fine machines.  The display is amazing (I'm using an iMac 5K right now), it's quiet in all but the most intense scenarios, the performance for my needs holds up well to this day... hell, there are little things I appreciate, like the quiet keyboard.  And yes, it's nice not to have to string wires all over the place.  It's not for everyone, of course, but I'm happy.

well and I think that's a big thing that a lot of people don't take into consideration the real utility that apple products have generally had for quite awhile, not sure if I could argue Apple's stuff has always been that way though it has been for at least 2 decades I wanna say.

 

Not only does the computer function as well a computer it also sorta functions as a decor piece

[mrchow19910319]

On 3/20/2019 at 2:53 AM, firelighter487 said:

you get an entire computer, a display, keyboard and mouse. and the computer looks very good. 

 

yes you can build a computer that's better for that price. but it won't run macOS and it won't look as good. 

 

and not running macOS is a dealbreaker for most people who choose an iMac over a pc. 

did you just explain to someone that Apple actually  has a place in this universe and not hot garbage managed by braindeads, on this PC building forum???

 

how DARE you???!!!! 

 

/s

[AlTech]

On 3/19/2019 at 6:04 PM, Firewrath9 said:

Pricing is bad. Base model iMac 27" is 1800$ for a "570X" (a cut down 570) (150$),

An RX 570X is not a cutdown RX 570.

 

A Radeon Pro 570X is.

On 3/19/2019 at 6:04 PM, Firewrath9 said:

and thats the base model, which is the BEST VALUE

 

Now lets look at the most expensive.

2300$ for a i5-9600k (280$? not even.)

STILL 8GB of ram (50$)

STILL only a 2TB SSHD (100$)

RX 580X (200$)

5k screen etc.

You're missing the Vega 48 graphics which is the highest end available on the 27".

On 3/19/2019 at 6:04 PM, Firewrath9 said:

 

 

[Firewrath9]

6 hours ago, AluminiumTech said:

An RX 570X is not a cutdown RX 570.

 

A Radeon Pro 570X is.

Uh, The iMac 27" has a Radeon Pro RX 570X?

"Radeon Pro 570X with 4GB of GDDR5 memory"

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/radeon-pro-570x.c3396

1792 CU vs 2048 on regular RX 570

6 hours ago, AluminiumTech said:

You're missing the Vega 48 graphics which is the highest end available on the 27".

 

Yeah, and that costs the same price as a Vega 64 (450$ add. above the RX 580X). I was talking about the pre-configed ones.

[AlTech]

3 hours ago, Firewrath9 said:

Uh, The iMac 27" has a Radeon Pro RX 570X?

"Radeon Pro 570X with 4GB of GDDR5 memory"

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/radeon-pro-570x.c3396

1792 CU vs 2048 on regular RX 570

Yes I know, that's what I was saying.

[DrMacintosh]

Something I just noticed, I really hope that the 2GB Radeon Pro 555X isn't going to hold back that 4K Display. 2GB of VRAM is pretty useless in 2019. 

[Drak3]

10 minutes ago, DrMacintosh said:

I really hope that the 2GB Radeon Pro 555X isn't going to hold back that 4K Display

It's not.

 

11 minutes ago, DrMacintosh said:

2GB of VRAM is pretty useless in 2019. 

Only if your a high end gamer or content creator.