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My wife is in slightly similar situation: 2009 iMac and her five year upgrade schedule is next year. So we're wondering if/when there's any new iMacs coming and should she upgrade Jan 1 or wait a bit?

Split the difference with a DIY SSD upgrade? https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/ssd/owc/imac/early-2009

“I miss feeling confident that Macs represented the most stable and trustable part of their ecosystem,” wrote podcaster Merlin Mann. Wirecutter editor Dan Frakes wrote, “For the first time since the early 2000s, there’s no current [laptop] model that I truly enjoy using.”...

If your income or professional success is gated by computer speed, it’s cheap money well spent.

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What is with these reviews on Twitter? Ugh! Hate this growing trend of multi-tweet stories and such nonsense. Harrumph. Get off my lawn.

Not buying. But always interested in new hardware. A bunch of reviews are out. I’m a bit perplexed why so many reviewers are comparing the iMac pro to an MBP and being surprised at how fast it is. Of course a GPU-enabled, 10-core Xenon CPU is going to blow the socks off a laptop. The right...

Yep. I did that with WinXP on my MBP in 2007. I could play Bioshock in Bootcamp and do office-y stuff in Parallels.

Wow, loaded up!

Fair enough. When I was browsing, I mostly noticed the price jump and the touchbar. I thought the relative price jump to the non-touchbar'd MBP was $400+, not $300. But I wasn't shopping seriously the notebooks. I'm an iPad and iMac guy.

I was hoping the iMac update would bring a touchbar keyboard. But given the reviews and the likelihood such a keyboard would cost $400+, I'm now having they didn't tempt me with such an accessory. I did buy the Magic Trackpad 2, upgrading from the original. Similarly, I'm finding the force...

I like the idea of it. And I was optimistic about it. But the reviews I've read are generally negative towards its current implementation. Of course those are written by expert users and experience may be different for casual and novice users. But that's a problem for a $400 option in the...

Is the new touchbar a waste of money? http://tidbits.com/article/17377

I think that was one Ars' best reviews. Having read that, I wonder why that hasn't been the norm for the past 20 years? (Ok, I know the answer, but still.) And it shows that I was about right, perhaps optimistic in my historical comparisons: Are showed 50% to 100% improvement in raw...

Reflecting on computer performance, given upgrades and different comments on being or not being "wowed"... In 1993 the first generation of Pentium were released, running at 60MHz. (Although too rich for me, and I had bought a 486DX2 33MHz). Jumping to 2001, the Pentium 4's were out, running...