Caporegime
Thought we should have a thread for this.
Who is buying one on the 30th?
Poll: *** The official 24" M1 iMac thread (it has seven colours and everything!) ***
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Thought we should have a thread for this.
Who is buying one on the 30th?
Commissario
You beat me to it, I was just about to do this 
Poll added.
Poll added.
For me this is a perfect machine for my work which is web browser, office suite and meetings. I also know from experience that the M1 with 16GB RAM can handle Adobe Lightroom without issues.
Personally, pay the few hundred extra and go for 16GB. The 8GB M1 Air I had would heavily lean on swap when having a number of apps open, which resulted in those apps having this popping effect as they are quickly pulled back from swap.
Commissario
@ChrisBuzz
I've moved your posts into this thread as they're very specific for the new model.
I've moved your posts into this thread as they're very specific for the new model.
The problem is there aren't any monitors you can buy that are comparable to this.
Soldato
@ChrisBuzz - going off your question about photo editing, I'd suggest pretty much any external that fits the budget will be sufficient. Mechanical mobile drives will be slower than their desktop counterparts but are much smaller. Of course, if you were after backing the data up, the cheapest option could be using two drives or investing in one that can do this for you (MyBook Duo).
I could certainly see myself tempted away from my current setup to one of these, especially if the need to hot desk and work on the fly comes to an end.
Mechanical mobile drives will be slower than their desktop counterparts but are much smaller. Of course, if you were after backing the data up, the cheapest option could be using two drives or investing in one that can do this for you (MyBook Duo).I could certainly see myself tempted away from my current setup to one of these, especially if the need to hot desk and work on the fly comes to an end.
thats what stopped me buying the Mini M1 when it was released,i dont know what monitor would compare but it was just the stress of looking and trying to find one that was a near as it could be,so i decided wait for the new imac. Did Apple used to or still do sell seperate monitor that is similar?
thankyou.I have made my mind up to get an SSD. what is the reason the mechanical drives are smaller,I thought they would be bigger because of the mechanics or is it that the SSD has to have a bigger enclosure?@ChrisBuzz - going off your question about photo editing, I'd suggest pretty much any external that fits the budget will be sufficient.
I could certainly see myself tempted away from my current setup to one of these, especially if the need to hot desk and work on the fly comes to an end.
Soldato
It's more a thing of portable mechanical drives using the 2.5" disks rather than the 3.5" disks like in desktop storage. Makes them smaller, lighter and ultimately more portable. SSD's are of course much quicker and can be smaller again. I have a My Passport SSD which is half the size again and very fast.
yes that sounds more like I want
I will need to buy some sort of USB hub as im going for the base model with just the 2 thunderbolt option. does that need to be a different connector for the thunderbolt I guess,plenty around?i use wifi so dont need ethernet. or touch keyboard, but like our friend suggested will look at getting the xtra ram
Using still my mid 2011 27 Imac but my canon CR2 raw files turn magenta when taken into Apple photos,so im converting in canon DPP first.High Sierra is the culprit I think, had apple support on the phone from County Cork the distribution manager Anthony for 11/2 hours the first time and 1 hour the second, they are now wanting to go through me putting catalina from an externa drive to see if that sorts the problem, im amazed at the support for a 10 year old imac.
