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Apple has introduced a new $2,199 configuration of the 27-inch iMac with Retina 5K display and has lowered the price of the top-end iMac with Retina 5K display.
of course, you're there already and ahead of us in N.A. So I guess the rumours were and are true.
The problem is they're upside down and ahead at the same time. ;P And... the announcement leaked out earlier today.
The problem is they're upside down and ahead at the same time. ;P And... the announcement leaked out earlier today.
I wouldn't buy one with a Fusion drive.
@chscag
You are far from the only senior figure on the Forums who has expounded this view. If you've got the time, can you tell me why? I currently have a Fusion Drive, but your answer could well influence my future purchases.
While you're at it, want to throw an order in there for me?Apple offers up new 27-inch iMac
I love it when Apple go into the 2nd Gen of anything and they lower prices . . . Makes me want to sign up for that 10k Credit Card.
I don't know enough about any technical limits but I suppose my thinking is "why not go fully flash"? I admit that I keep things light on my machine (if I have more than 100GB of content, I've done something wrong) so I find it hard to want any semblance of a traditional HD in my machine. I suppose though, if you had a large amount of data that you needed to keep on your machine, a FD would look attractive.I'm curious myself also. I personally plan to buy a Retina iMac when the next gen is released and expect to get a Fusion drive (I'll never go without an SSD as my boot drive again). I'd rather not use it as a Fusion drive though... I have an SSD and HDD in my current iMac and prefer to have them as separate volumes that I control what goes where. I know there is some hackery that can be done to force this on models that ship with Fusion drives, but I'd worry this will break with an OS update.
Really, the more I think about it, I think I'd rather just get an SSD and use an external Thunderbolt drive for my media library.