Never Buy an Apple iMac Without Fusion Drive

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Obviously this article isn't written for the technically-oriented, for those who might say "well duh".

I do find it surprising you can still find computers that come with just a spinning rust drive, let alone in a "premium" machine like the Mac is advertised as.

I thought most of the Windows Machines you buy come with 5400 RPM spinning 1 TB HDD and not much people fancy the 256 GB costlier version of SSD.

At least, this is the case in India.

So does the base iMac. The rust based drive is incredibly slow. For some generations of imac's, we had a 100% failure rate over long period of time of spinning disks. When I was buying iMacs for my company, all the SSD models were special order, wait a few weeks to build.

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