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I'm watching this iMac announcement and .. hm, I still find it underwhelming. The top-spec'd iMac will be less powerful (when it comes to CPU) in Jan/2018 than my current desktop I bought in mid-2015. We'll see the actual pricing though.

I don't think that forcing high-perf components into a small desktop chassis makes a lot of sense, but it might me only me.

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>The top-spec'd iMac will be less powerful (when it comes to CPU) in Jan/2018 than my current desktop

Your current desktop has a more powerful CPU than an 18-core Skylake Xeon?!

I think there a VERY small subset for users that need anything that the current line of iMac can't deliver. At my previous employer I had a 2012 iMac as a developer workstation. It would still be more than sufficient today. Even my 2011 MacBook Air would still be fine, if it wasn't for me wanting a better screen and more than 128GB of storage.

People buy Macs for the operating system, not the hardware. The hardware has been sufficient for at least five years in a row, for all but a very small subset of consumers.

I would agree with you that the Mac isn't a particular cost efficient way of getting high performance hardware, it's just that I don't think that matter any more. Windows is still a bastard operating system and Linux is not nearly as polished as MacOS. Personally I'm not sure that I'll necessarily get a Mac next time, but there's also not a whole lot of other options out there. Maybe I'll built an OpenBSD box, at least that OS is consistent.

For starting at 5k the pricing requires a bank loan for most people when you could pick up a refurbished desktop for $300-400

I bought a suit from Goodwill for $50 in uni. Doesn't mean there isn't a market for more expensive suits.

I don't think this is for the average consumer.

The market for this is enterprise users.

Which is why it isn't aimed at "most people."

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