iBox (the hardware)
Cloudscout
– January 14, 2008 10:08AM
iBox
Box mini
Box Pro
BoxBook
BoxBook Pro
The more the boxes change, the more they stay the same... or don't.
(talk about the hardware here)
porruka
(Admin)
– May 03, 2011 07:19PM
Even non-accountants like the numeric keypad. I don't even see myself trying to live without one, despite the fact that I probably don't use the one I have more than 10 times a month.
Non-touch typists (like me) like having number easily accessible. Even my wireless keyboard is a full-sized one (before the switch to the aluminum one).
Tony Leggett
(Moderator)
– May 03, 2011 09:45PM
It's also useful for lots of games...
El Jeffe
– May 04, 2011 12:37AM
What a journey.
Everything has advantages and disadvantages. I applaud Apple for both keyboards for designing one that has very little space for GUNK to fall down between the keys, and one that is very durable, with the metal design. Some days I desire the extended keys/pad, others I don't. I do wish the keys were a bit more contoured. But I do not dislike the keyboard.
ddt
– May 04, 2011 05:09AM
Huh. I guess the old Mac Pro is
still fastest -- at least when tricked out.
ddt
johnny k
– May 04, 2011 05:20AM
I wonder how the iMac BTO Core i7 at 3.4GHz would do, though.
ddt
– May 04, 2011 05:24AM
True... but as we've all said before, actual professional users will probably have concerns (fast and big and redundant HDs, muscular GPUs) best handled by the Mac Pro. Though Thunderbolt and multicores could go a long way towards that.
ddt
Tony Leggett
(Moderator)
– May 04, 2011 03:39PM
A semi-replaceable GPU? Interesting...
bahamut
– May 06, 2011 03:48AM
I'm so much happier with my Mac Pro. I always felt the iMac had some kind of performance bottleneck at the hard drive. The Mac Pro felt snappier out of the box and with the SSD I could put in it, it's been modded to be much faster. I wouldn't buy another iMac. Only thing annoying is the lack of an SD slot in the Apple display (how hard is that?). Always reaching for it only to remember its not there.
John Willoughby
– May 11, 2011 06:01PM
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
El Jeffe
– May 12, 2011 12:36AM
What a journey.
strange/unexpected.
John Willoughby
– May 12, 2011 08:24AM
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
johnny k
– May 12, 2011 09:32AM
Has anyone here ever upgraded their iMac's hard drive?
John Willoughby
– May 12, 2011 09:33AM
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
Thought about it with a lampshade iMac, but never did.
tliet
– May 12, 2011 10:36AM
Apple will probably have a reason for it, such as heat control. But to me this sounds like the 'not invented here' syndrome seems to get back into the company.
John Willoughby
– May 12, 2011 10:55AM
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
I don't think it's NIH; I think it's just a combination of avoiding service requests because customers broke things trying to upgrade themselves, and a desire to make more money off of customers by forcing them to buy overpriced hard drives from the Apple Store.
John Willoughby
– May 12, 2011 10:57AM
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
Why do all of our names have initial underscores? _tliet, _John Willoughby, etc.
Maybe it's just my browser.
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 05/12/2011 10:58AM by John Willoughby.
Mokers
(Moderator)
– May 12, 2011 11:22AM
Formerly Remy Martin
The G5 iMacs were really easy. The Core2 White iMacs became significantly harder due to the placement of the drive. The silver iMacs are pretty much no go because it requires some suction cups to get the display panel out without fucking shit up. Under apple care, I always take the parts back, but it is nice to be able to remove the hard drives after it is out of warranty or in cases where you need to recover data. Sometimes target disk mode won't work for some reason and the next best thing is to pull the drive and attach to a USB drive sled.
John Willoughby
– May 12, 2011 11:58AM
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
Hmm. Underscores are gone. Remy fixed them!
johnny k
– May 12, 2011 12:24PM
The underscores are actually a space within the same A HREF as your profile picture, which is why I don't have one.
Heat control sounds pretty reasonable to me. Apple is trying to pull off a combination of thinness, power and quiet operation that no one else even cares to, and that requires integration. I'm sure hard drive supplier lock-in is a bonus, but as I was getting at with my question,
no one seems to actually upgrade their iMac's hard drive anyway. Next you'll want PCI slots!
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/12/2011 12:24PM by johnny k.
El Jeffe
– May 12, 2011 01:38PM
What a journey.
Quote
johnny k
Has anyone here ever upgraded their iMac's hard drive?
Yeah, done it many times. See following "do it yourself" guides ... from APPLE. All Apple products/support should be designed to allow customers to do this if they want to. These were. They even had a self-serve site I used. It asked questions about the issue, my fan was squeaking, and at the end of the diagnosis they sent me the parts (replacement fans) and the instructions to do it myself. The way it should be, imo.
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/imacG5_17inch_harddrive.pdf
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1811
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2278
