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iMac Gets Thunderbolt I/O, Quad-core
fergus07 writes "Apple's desktop lineup has typically pushed users requiring plenty of fast I/O towards the Mac Pro — but the latest iMac refresh has broken the tradition. Quad-core Sandy Bridge CPUs and faster ATI Radeon HD GPUs are welcomed, but it's the addition of Thunderbolt ports (one in the 21.5-inch and two in the 27-inch) that really ups the ante for a number of professional users."
> What use case would adding a BD-ROM or BD-R drive solve that isn't already solved by Netflix streaming, iTunes streaming, or external hard drives?
What happened to Apple products being for "non geeks". Most "non geeks" simply aren't going to relate well to your attitude and probably want a spinny disk.
BD-ROM happens to be the modern spinny disk format.
Apple is suppose to be the "media platform". They even bundle "media apps" with the OS. So "what gives" with trying to ignore today's most common high definition video format?
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
Allienware? Ricers? What a stupid snob.
Yea Apple doesn't build anything like that http://www.apple.com/macpro/specs.html
So is a MacPro a ricer or a wannabe Alienware box.
ThunderBolt is really got potential but there is only one Thunderbolt port on these machines.
So If want to to upgrade the video card. maybe Maybe I want to run a Quadro for CAD. Maybe in the future there will some strange box like external video cards that used Thunderbolt but not now.
Or maybe I want a RAID for storage?
Really you are just a stupid freaking brain dead wannabe Apple fanboi. You just can not get your mind around the fact that a developer might want something between the workstation class MacPro and the iMac?
Then you freaking use insults like ricer? Really?
So just how would you set up a RAID 6 array and a Quadro video card using the the single Thunderbolt port today?
See my blog http://ilovecookes.blogspot.com/ for light hearted technical information.