It’s all about the details

When the iMac with Retina 4K display first came out, it was a bit of an odd machine. For a lot of people, it should be a nearly ideal desktop choice: you get a fantastic, highly detailed display for viewing photos or working, quad-core processor power and the advantages of a desktop, such as lots of connection ports and big storage options.

But while it was a pretty good machine, it didn’t really reach that potential, thanks to some specific disappointments. First among them was that it came with a slow 1TB mobile hard drive, instead of a Fusion Drive (Apple’s name for mixing a small SSD with a large hard drive for making Macs feel fast and offer big storage, but without the expensive cost of equivalent pure flash drives), which should always have been included as a minimum. The other main gripe was that its visuals were powered by Intel’s integrated graphics chips (rather than a dedicated GPU), which was okay for basic use, but didn’t give much headroom for intensive tasks that benefit a lot from a beefy graphics chip. It was half-baked.

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