Circaflex Posted March 28, 2019 Share Posted March 28, 2019 (edited) How embarrasing that the new iMacs come with 5400 RPM drives... what a joke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shiranui Posted March 28, 2019 Share Posted March 28, 2019 Love Louis Rossmann. +virtorio and Circaflex 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+JR1966 Subscriber² Posted March 28, 2019 Subscriber² Share Posted March 28, 2019 19 minutes ago, Circaflex said: How embarrasing that the new iMacs come with 5400 RPM drives... what a joke. What, Apple invented a 5400 RPM drive. They are so innovative. I'll take seven of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+virtorio MVC Posted March 28, 2019 MVC Share Posted March 28, 2019 A disgusting practice of complete dis-respect to their customers. +Raphaël G., spikey_richie and Circaflex 2 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shiranui Posted March 29, 2019 Share Posted March 29, 2019 PPBUS_G3 Hot! +virtorio 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dark Knight Posted March 29, 2019 Share Posted March 29, 2019 "How on earth does Apple continue to get away with this?" The answer is in your question itself. Because it is Apple. They know that most of their user base has blind faith in them and will accept practically anything that Apple says or does. And will also in turn justify all of it with other people that do question some aspects. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adrynalyne Posted March 29, 2019 Share Posted March 29, 2019 On 3/27/2019 at 6:14 PM, Circaflex said: How embarrasing that the new iMacs come with 5400 RPM drives... what a joke. To be fair, many prebuilt windows machines do as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon H Supervisor Posted March 29, 2019 Supervisor Share Posted March 29, 2019 4 minutes ago, adrynalyne said: To be fair, many prebuilt windows machines do as well. that's the point though; Mac is supposed to be considered "premium" for that starting price most would expect at least a 7200rpm drive if not a SSD now a days Jim K 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Montage Posted March 29, 2019 Share Posted March 29, 2019 I'm an Apple consumer, I use predominantly Apple hardware. And to be honest, this is a bit shocking. Sure, you can upgrade to faster SSDs but a 5400 as a baseline is quite poor. Notice there's no 7200 drive, they surely want people to go to the SSD option, thus the 5400 is low-end as hell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Eternal Tempest MVC Posted March 29, 2019 MVC Share Posted March 29, 2019 (edited) "Apple Tax" it's the stick to either upgrade the storage and or memory added with the fact most models you can't change the configuration, I was shocked that the new macMini ream can actually be upgraded / replaced. That being said, is this a "fusion" configuration where they merge an small SSD with an high capacity HDD that usualy gets SSD like peformance? Thinking Intel Optante, or a Seagate Monumentus Drive, except Apple been doing it a lot longer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adrynalyne Posted March 29, 2019 Share Posted March 29, 2019 (edited) 14 minutes ago, Brandon H said: that's the point though; Mac is supposed to be considered "premium" for that starting price most would expect at least a 7200rpm drive if not a SSD now a days Yeah the whole supposed to be premium idea just shows you how much people buy into marketing. Apple has never once given premium internal components to go along with it. Even the Pro desktop machines are just run-of-the-mill workstation parts. Brandon H and The Dark Knight 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim K Global Moderator Posted March 29, 2019 Global Moderator Share Posted March 29, 2019 Yea, 5400 should be a no go. 7200 for the baseline would have been better... especially considering they are only a few bucks more...if any. 5400 drives should be reserved for dirt cheap systems/storage...not an iMacs primary drive IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FunkyMike Posted April 3, 2019 Share Posted April 3, 2019 "How on earth does Apple continue to get away with this?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marujan Posted April 3, 2019 Share Posted April 3, 2019 (edited) buying Apple iMac or laptop is waste of money. Terrible slow HDD and bad keybord...no way pls buy Huawei Mate laptop for cheap (with hidden camera in keyboard to protect spying) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Graham Posted April 3, 2019 Share Posted April 3, 2019 They get away with this as people keep buying them. Sad as it would seem to folks like us, the general public has no clue and does not seem to care. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Eternal Tempest MVC Posted April 3, 2019 MVC Share Posted April 3, 2019 Apple, outside of the techworld, can also be a "fashion statement" or a "status symbol". There are some that buy apple because of this, not really caring about the tech underneath. Brandon H 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shockz Posted April 3, 2019 Share Posted April 3, 2019 24 minutes ago, Marujan said: buying Apple iMac or laptop is waste of money. Terrible slow HDD and bad keybord...no way pls buy Huawei Mate laptop for cheap (with hidden camera in keyboard to protect spying) Except of course that doesn't run OS X. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xendrome Posted April 3, 2019 Share Posted April 3, 2019 On 3/29/2019 at 9:15 AM, adrynalyne said: To be fair, many prebuilt windows machines do as well. Yeah starting at $600 for the system, nor $1,300 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marujan Posted April 3, 2019 Share Posted April 3, 2019 9 minutes ago, shockz said: Except of course that doesn't run OS X. Windows 10 has the same apps. I dont see any differences in using IOS or win10 very simple steps to make win10 same secure as IOS, use COMODO DNS on your router, dont use ADMIN rights on your profile, so do i need to be stressed of bad keyboard or slow running apps or data copying and pay EXTRA money for fruit logo on my working machine??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shockz Posted April 3, 2019 Share Posted April 3, 2019 (edited) 7 minutes ago, Marujan said: Windows 10 has the same apps. I dont see any differences in using IOS or win10 very simple steps to make win10 same secure as IOS, use COMODO DNS on your router, dont use ADMIN rights on your profile, so do i need to be stressed of bad keyboard or slow running apps or data copying and pay EXTRA money for fruit logo on my working machine??? Still not macOS. Marujan 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adrynalyne Posted April 3, 2019 Share Posted April 3, 2019 (edited) 2 hours ago, xendrome said: Yeah starting at $600 for the system, nor $1,300 Wanna make a wager on that? Keep in mind you need to price out a comparable monitor too when considering the price. Edited April 3, 2019 by adrynalyne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaP Posted April 3, 2019 Share Posted April 3, 2019 2 hours ago, xendrome said: Yeah starting at $600 for the system, nor $1,300 The price doesn't really matter to be honest. In 2019 no laptop should come with a 5400rpm drive not even the cheapest one. A 5400rpm drive will bottle neck even the cheapest of the cpus out there. The first thing anyone should do before buying a laptop is check the drive. I've seen so many good windows laptop bottle-necked by a 5400rpm drive. It's not rare to see people wanting to upgrade their perfectly fine 3-5 years old laptop used mainly for emails and browsing the web because the 5400rpm drive bottle neck it to a crawl. When you recommend them to upgrade the drive to a ssd they are astonished by the difference and think it's a whole new machine. Brandon H 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adrynalyne Posted April 3, 2019 Share Posted April 3, 2019 (edited) 5 minutes ago, LaP said: The price doesn't really matter to be honest. In 2019 no laptop should come with a 5400rpm drive not even the cheapest one. A 5400rpm drive will bottle neck even the cheapest of the cpus out there. The first thing anyone should do before buying a laptop is check the drive. I've seen so many good windows laptop bottle-necked by a 5400rpm drive. It's not rare to see people wanting to upgrade their perfectly fine 3-5 years old laptop used mainly for emails and browsing the web because the 5400rpm drive bottle neck it to a crawl. When you recommend them to upgrade the drive to a ssd they are astonished by the difference and think it's a whole new machine. We aren't discussing laptops though. Not originally anyway. Edit: Not disagreeing, just pointing that out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaP Posted April 3, 2019 Share Posted April 3, 2019 (edited) 3 minutes ago, adrynalyne said: We aren't discussing laptops though. Not originally anyway. Well laptop of desktop it's the same no computer should come with a 5400rpm drive in 2019 even the cheapest options. It's just too big of a bottle neck and the price difference is just not worth it. Outside of gaming a 5400rpm drive is by far the biggest bottle neck you could put in a computer in 2019. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adrynalyne Posted April 3, 2019 Share Posted April 3, 2019 Just now, LaP said: Well laptop of desktop it's the same no computer should come with a 5400rpm drive in 2019 even the cheapest options. It's just too big of a bottle neck and the price difference is just not worth it. A 5400rpm drive is by far the biggest bottle neck you could put in a computer in 2019. I agree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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