Fridge whiteboards are $2 at the local housewares store.

You flip it over because fridge magnets are halbach magnet arrays - you get nearly zero magnetic effort on the front.

In Japan?

They are about $10 here - if you can find one.

Good old Klaus, eh? No magtape without him.

To answer earlier question striped is a raid array, combining two drives to get more speed, or more capacity, or more reliability... With enough drives you can combine these attributes into one array.

New iMacs are heat gun to release the glue/seal then merely horrible, there a videos. Buy it the way you want it.

Sure. I have fancied the newer shape iMac since it came out - I think it's a fabulously designed piece of kit. That said, I have no use for one until my old 24" finally carks it and it's trundling along nicely for my daughter at the time of writing.

As per my other recent thread, my next purchase will be an Air, or 13" MBP next year, morse likely the Air, thanks to all your input to my questions.

I still have an old iMac with the monitor attached to the half-football (sorry, no idea which model) still humming along when I occasionally boot it up. I also gave away an old eMac a few years ago and it's still running just fine.

Do you think Apple is deliberately moving away from repairability/durability, or are we just paying the price for miniaturisation?

I think Apple looked at the sales volume (with options) vs. the parts/repairs volume and decided that the customer base doesn't care that much. Once the limitation for a user-swappable battery etc. was removed the designers had a lot more options.

True. It's certainly not about to change is it? I'd imagine that their repair business is alo notably more profitable now, too.

That's my point - I don't think the repair business is significant. Therefore, machines can be designed without caring about repairability. (At least not warranty repairability. The water-sensitive keyboard is another discussion.)

I use Logitech K760s and I haven't found a suitable cover/protector yet.

The 27 unlike the 21 does have 4 user upgradeable memory slots via a little trap door. Yes in general thin means harder to repair, its not for spite or for profit.

http://www.apple.com/imac/specs/

FWIW, I've had the Mini with Fusion Drive since it was released in Late 2012.

I have nothing bad to say about it. It really does provide SSD speeds with HDD capacity.

As already stated, whatever the hardware of your storage devices, you should expect and prepare for them to fail.

Just to restate though Fusion drives slow to Hard Drive speeds if you work with Files larger then 4GB and you have more data then size of the SSD portion of the Fusion Drive. It is pretty Cool Tech.

I do feel though that as SSD storage prices have dropped its need has diminished for those who do not need gobs of storage (at least on their boot volume).

In this context, 'striped' means RAID Level 0.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raid_0#RAID_0

Trevor

Edit: Oops, I see that anthlover already answered this.