iMac now or later?

[Joel Beason]

My girlfriend want a new computer she has a 12" powerbook, but for some reason doesn't want a macbook (why, "everyone has them" wow.) Anyway, I know that intel is going to be lower there prices on the quad cores (266$ for the lowest model yay!) and I was wondering if she should get one now or towards the end of the summer time, will there be any changes, that she should wait for, I know the new OS will be out, but do you think that it will be out by then? Thanks!!

[Eidorian]

May would be the earliest time for an update and there wouldn't be another revision until next year.

[psycoswimmer]

Well if you want to consider this (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=289059) thread / rumor to have truth... then wait.

Santa Rosa could possibly be incorporated into an iMac.

[Zwhaler]

My girlfriend want a new computer she has a 12" powerbook, but for some reason doesn't want a macbook (why, "everyone has them" wow.) Anyway, I know that intel is going to be lower there prices on the quad cores (266$ for the lowest model yay!) and I was wondering if she should get one now or towards the end of the summer time, will there be any changes, that she should wait for, I know the new OS will be out, but do you think that it will be out by then? Thanks!!

Ok, so you are saying that instead of a MacBook, she wants an iMac? I don't think we will see quad core in the next revision... perhaps by the time penryn is out (maybe later) we can realistically expect quad core in consumer desktops. I still don't see why she doesn't want a MacBook, everyone having one (which is not true anyway) is not a very good reason. I think she should wait for the whole line of Apple computers to be revamped, and then she should rethink weather or not she wants a desktop. But don't get your hopes up for quad core.

[Eidorian]

Gilo is a possible mobile quad core. Clovertown hits 50W TDP already.

[iBunny]

Now is deffinatly the worst time to buy... updates are pending... very very soon.

[Cybergypsy]

Nope not me :)

[emac82]

Nope not me :)

Why do you have to post in everybody's thread that you have had a bad experience?? If you don't like Macs, then why do you hang out in a Mac forum??

[Joel Beason]

I agree with the macbook, I'm not trying to get one, I have explained it to her 1000 times and she still doesn't want it, I figured that the quad cores wouldn't be for a while (I hope to make a new PC with one though sometime) She says she will keep her laptop until june, Ill give he my old desktop till the end of summer, so waiting is never a bad thing, Ill repost then to make sure nothing else is coming out, Thanks