I'd like to know why this was excluded from the design of the new iMac. I am also woefully short on USB ports on the back to plug in the cables, etc I need for my many items such as my older Apple gear, etc.
The USB ports should be on the side or front where they are reachable.
Also, what is the best anti-virus software for the iMac?
Thanks group (and Apple),
iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.5)
Zofmui wrote:
Re: AV software, Sophos has a free one designed for Macs. Not sure how robust it is though.
The "pretty" factor is a lame excuse for people who actually use their iMac.
My old iMac had a built in optical drive and it works great, to this day. I upgraded the HD to a rather expansive 4 Tb. So I just assumed my new iMac would have the same design. I'm disappointed in the design team, in a sense, that they felt this was a worthy sacrifice. I would have preferred a thicker machine and more useful features than having a "pretty" computer. Sigh, oh well.
Thanks mates.
Just out of curiosity,
When you purchased this new iMac, when was the last time you researched Mac models and specs?
These new slimline iMacs have been around for over 4 years!
I really hate to ask this, but which new iMac screen model did you purchase and with what specs and what are you going to use this new iMac for?
I have two optical drives. The one in my iMac and an external FW optical drive.
To this day, I, too, still get a lot of use out of these drives!
I don't think it's that ridiculous that there are still users out there using optical media.
Using optical media for important data backups is still far cheaper and more reliable and stable for long term data storage than continually adding/replacing expensive external hard drives where you'll be lucky if these newer hard drives last 5 years, no?
I STILL have important backed up data on optical discs that is over 10 years old and still readable!
This is a hard claim to make with any of the newer crop of avaialble hard drives that are out there.
I just had almost 12 year old 256 GB WD external FW 400 hard drive that finally started giving me problems where I, April 2015, i had to replace with a new external FW800 hard drive.
I don't think these new hard drives are going to last as long as that one did!
And there is no other new types of "more permanent" media to long term store important data onto.
I still use the drive to burn my homemade movies to DVD in order to send them to (mostly) Europe and give to friends and family here. However, I bought an external drive a long time ago after having to have the internal replaced twice (on separate Macs) - the slim vertically installed drives were just not reliable. I also occasionally archive important data on Verbatim archival grade media (advertised as lasting for up to 100 years).
If you decide to buy an external drive, consider getting a tray loading drive (rather than slot loading) - they are generally more reliable although not as slim/cool in appearance. I got a previous edition of this one and it'll read anything:
Happy to see internal CD/DVD drives go by the way side.
They were always a first point of failure on systems that I
have owned or dealt with over the years, Macs or PCs.
As far as front panel access to USB outlets, check this out:
https://www.sabrent.com/product/HB-IMCU/4-port-usb-3-0-hub-imac-slim-unibody/#de scription
Why isn't there a CD drive in my new iMac?
