Sup Steemians, I'm back up and running again.. I've upgraded my computer setup from a MacBook Pro 13" (late 2013) to these new 4K iMac's that Apple released like last month or so.
These are the specs from the machine I picked up:
iMac (Retina 4K, 21.5-inch, 2017)
Processor: 3,4 GHz Intel Core i5 (quad-core)
Memory: 8 GB 2400 MHz DDR4
Graphics: Radeon Pro 560 4GB
Storage: 1TB Fusion Drive
The installation went very fast; I've made a back-up from my old MacBook with Time Machine and recovered it on this new iMac, everything was in place like my old machine! Right after that I installed Windows via Bootcamp for my gaming needs, so far these Radeon Pro graphics are doing a good job (playerunknown battlegrounds is a really fun game)!
After a day or so I was irritated with the Fusion Drive, I found out that only 24GB from the drive is SSD, the rest of the storage is just a pain in the ass 5400RPM drive... Last year 1TB Fusion Drive's had a whopping 128GB SSD... Wow Apple really?? 24 gigs is way too small for even general use, that means that most of the time your looking at the spinning rainbow.
So I've bought an external SSD drive from Freecom, the mSSD MAXX to be exact. This is the USB 3.1 GEN2 version with USB-C and 512GB for just under 300€. When I got the package I was blown away by the size of this thing, it's so small!
Look at this pretty bad boy compared to a lighter.. It's SMALL!!
I've installed MacOS directly on this external SSD and even got Windows installed as dual-boot via Bootcamp to work on this external drive. Normally Apple only allows you to install Windows on the internal drive! I will post an instruction to install a Bootcamp Windows on an external drive later on.. I'm using the internal 1TB Fusion Drive only for storage now.
I will put up some benchmarking with this drive sometime later, and even do some gaming benchmarks. For now, I'm happy with this fast and snappy system and incredible display!