Dead Imac -------- Moving on

[digga]

Well Bramley 'puters are going to have a look at the mac next week. If its a write off ill be looking for a new unit, maybe an older laptop that could be upgraded with ram and an SSD to make it fly. I am nowhere near a power user.

looking at the new imacs and laptops it seems that Apple appear to be more interested in profit than pushing things forward ... even more so than before

i upgraded the ram in the old Mac , now you have to specify at the buy point because they have seen fit to solder it in, not plug and play now.

The Fusion drive has had the SSD section reduced by a 5th!! Down fronm 128 to 24gb unless its the 3TB version.
Similarly the Mac books lose ports and therefore connectivity.

So if a laptop to upgrade is a better what should i be looking at?

 

[Andy B]

Have you thought about a Mac Mini? Go for a refurb'd 2012 model with the quadcore processor and you can upgrade ram and hd if you want. Loads of info on YouTube.

 

[sagalout]

Macbook Air is all the computer that most people need, has all day battery life, enough sockets and will still be worth a fair bit in 5 years.

 

[Schtum]

Macbook Air is all the computer that most people need, has all day battery life, enough sockets and will still be worth a fair bit in 5 years.

Agreed. This mid 2011 13" with 4 Gb of RAM and a 250 GB SSD has done everything I've needed since I got it new, including running Photoshop and Lightroom, BaseCamp, Windows 7 in Virtual Box... It does now need a new battery and the touchpad can sometimes be a bit wobbly but it's still as fast as ever.

 

[er-minio]

As a general rule of thumb, if you buy a new Mac, do a BTO and order it with the most RAM you can fit/afford since they sadly do the shitty soldered on thing.
If you don't really need a laptop, I second the MacMini option.

Bought one a few years back, BTO "all option to maximum" and it's a more than decent desktop machine (I do work on it, and have a bunch of cheesegrater MacPros at work for comparison).

What happened to the iMac? Software or Hardware fault?

 

[digga]

As a general rule of thumb, if you buy a new Mac, do a BTO and order it with the most RAM you can fit/afford since they sadly do the shitty soldered on thing.
If you don't really need a laptop, I second the MacMini option.
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Bought one a few years back, BTO "all option to maximum" and it's a more than decent desktop machine (I do work on it, and have a bunch of cheesegrater MacPros at work for comparison).



What happened to the iMac? Software or Hardware fault?

Hardware fault . Software fault is relatively easy to sort.