This purely market-driven approach post-Jobs is lame. It goes hand in hand with the iOSification of macOS and the general incremental nature of their product line updates

Apple plays it safe, lets the industry innovate around it, etc. they have the best product ecosystem and if it weren’t for that and my complete lack of excitement for Windows, I’d be switching. And I still might, form factor/design innovation is what brought me to them in the first place

The G3 certainly wasn’t a powerhouse. But there have been plenty of instances where off the rack configurations of G4, G5, and Intel iMacs encroached on the lower end of PowerMac/Mac Pro.

Laptops sell well because of their wide appeal. M architecture allows laptops to operate with desktop power, but that doesn’t change its market.

iMac has always been an attractive product to creative professionals. MacBooks from their roots were never very comparable. And now apple is flipping that script and leaving iMac in the back aisle.

iMac ProTouch, with Apple MotionWrite (aka the pencil+) should be early 2024

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With a base M3 I feel so slighted.

Why is it that apple silicon doesn’t have desktop and mobile chips in separate classes?

Same dude, same. They really making iMac the “buy it for your 13 year old” machine

Yeah, they really have said FU to professionals who like working on iMacs, and I won’t ever be buying an Apple display after using my i7 mini with a 70” tv (okay maybe I will one day when I’m not so poor)

Why should a MacBook Pro have better M3’s than the iMac? The fact that laptops are the powerhouses of Mac’s consumer level machines is annoying af… iMacs are my favorite devices ever :(

I honestly prefer typing on iPad the least