On Friday, 12 June 2015 at 08:46:19 UTC, rsw0x wrote:
for example, the $999 hidpi monitor they sell on their site? you can buy the same exact monitor for ~$250 on ebay directly from the korean manufacturer. I own one, it looks identical to the apple one.
I'm not surprised! I bet they saw too many developers buying 4-core minis and no screen and thought: "hey, let's force devs to buy our 4-core iMacs, then we get to sell a screen too!". And I have to admit, if I _had_ to buy an iMac I'd be tempted to consider the retina version.
But I think I'll just pass on an upgrade and make my next machine a 6+ core Linux box with a clang cross compiler and shared filesystem. I don't really mind using makefiles that much.
