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Apple Reportedly Launching Updated iMacs with Faster Processors Next Week
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What would be the performance difference of 0.1Ghz in this speed bump?
I guess that there have to be other goodies in addition to the price reduction.
Any new mouse? Trackpad?
What would be the low cost iMac specs??
About 4K or higher resolution displays, aren't there many 27" monitors already available from Dell and Samsung, and others, in the retail price range ~$700 like the current iMac/Thunderbolt display, why isn't this feasible???
Do you think Apple will not do an event for the launch of the retina or UHD display? Will they rely on the Beats marketing strategy instead?
I guess that there have to be other goodies in addition to the price reduction.
Any new mouse? Trackpad?
What would be the low cost iMac specs??
About 4K or higher resolution displays, aren't there many 27" monitors already available from Dell and Samsung, and others, in the retail price range ~$700 like the current iMac/Thunderbolt display, why isn't this feasible???
Do you think Apple will not do an event for the launch of the retina or UHD display? Will they rely on the Beats marketing strategy instead?
Simply not true!
"Grainy like Hell" isn't how I'd describe the current 27" display.
It amazes me how people see what they want to see according to marketing speak.
"THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH THE CURRENT 27" DISPLAY"
Someone tells you that retina is the only way - everything else is now obsolete?
Gotta buy retina....
BTW - what's the maximum 'DPI' or 'PPI' that a human eye can resolve? And at what distance between your retina and the display is this calculated?
Grainy my ass.
Unless Apple repositioned the mini from the "least expensive Mac line" to the "Your own Mac" line, be it entry level or hobbyist.
Revamp w/ a (BTO?) model that included a desktop class processor and discreet graphics -- a headless iMac, not the a headless 2012 13" MBP that it is right now. That would be different and play the "hobbyist"/"prosumer" role the the entry level MP use to be. $1699 for a 3.5QC i7/4GB GeForce 780M/ + upgradable RAM and SSD/HD as the current model offers. I'm all in.
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480i looked fantastic until 720p. 720p looked amazing until 1080p. 1080p looked phenomenal until 4K appeared. It's not marketing; it's progress and the human desire to have better than before. Is your 27" iMac obsolete? No. Enjoy it as long as you like. Reeelax.
Out of curiosity, what changes in Mavericks are you talking about? I didn't see anything touch screen related at all. Or are you confusing Mavericks and Yosemite? In that case, what changes in Yosemite are you talking about?
Facts: 1. My fingers are a lot less accurate than my mouse. 2. I hate fingerprints on my computer screen, and anyone touching it gets a slap on their hands. 3. There's still no solution to the "gorilla arm" problem.
hmmm
We'll see. I want to see what Apple means by Cheaper iMac... if they just release the same machines they have with a slight spec bump and a lower price and I can BTO that's different.
We'll see. I want to see what Apple means by Cheaper iMac... if they just release the same machines they have with a slight spec bump and a lower price and I can BTO that's different.
Looks like Apple is returning to it's old '90's loosing ways. Throw a $#!T-load of products at the consumers to confuse the heck out of them. No model will stand out as "the best", eliminating their Best Products Image. They're moving into the Samsung products class. Next think you know, Apple will be licensing their OS and iOS to outside manufacturers.
Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Because retina displays are not coming with the Haswell refresh. I don't expect any additional new products--including new models with retina displays--until Broadwell launches. Anyone hoping for an iMac with retina display before Broadwell is released is going to be disappointed with the refreshed models. OS X Yosemite is not coming until Fall, 2014, and Broadwell will launch about then, if not a little later. I have a feeling Apple is going to launch a deluge of new products at the end of this year.
The fact that there is no special press event tells me that it'll be another minor upgrade along the lines of the MacBook Air refresh that'll give Apple some room to manoeuvre until Broadwell makes its appearance along with the GPU grunt required to run a 27" Retina display without a hiccup.
so if this is true, will the gpu get bumped to?
I bought the maxed out iMac last week, would i be able to return it for the latest one next week?
I bought the maxed out iMac last week, would i be able to return it for the latest one next week?
I have heard as high as 1000 PPI indirectly calculated to as low as Apple's ~300 PPI definition which they tested themselves. Keep in mind the threshold would be higher with movement as rounded objects and more shading subtleties come into play.
Keep in mind also that this is an extremely difficult thing to test objectively.
Yes, you can! I purchased a brand new iMac last Friday, June 6th. Played with it over the weekend and had it until yesterday. As soon as I heard about this news (late yesterday), I went and returned my iMac last night.
The small CPU bump and $100 or so price drop doesn't mean anything to me, but I am holding my breath for a GPU update. I hope they toss a GTX 880M in this refresh, if not, I'll at least have a "2014 iMac" vs "Late 2013 iMac".
Cheers
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I hope to see TB 2 on the iMac refresh because TB 3 is due next year and I would like to see Apple maintain parity of TB versions across its product lines. The iMac will also likely need the bandwidth of TB 3 for any retina displays that approximate or reach 4k resolution; otherwise its performance may suffer.
Doesn't make much sense at all.
1. There is no i5-4790S. There is an i7 4790S
http://ark.intel.com/products/80808/Intel-Core-i7-4790S-Processor-8M-Cache-up-to-4_00-GHz
2. Those are back-sliding CPU+GPUs for a 21.5 iMac. Both of those are HD 4600 GPUs. The current entry iMacs have Iris Pro GPUs to compensate for no discrete GPU. If Apple is trying to chop costs seems unlikely they would be adding a dGPU + VRAM to the entry model. Perhaps they got a made clearance pricing on some dGPUs but typically when Apple adds more the costs go up; not down.
The 2013 base price went up $100. Moving back $100 only would put the iMac back where it was. Unless, Apple is moving the iMac prices $200-300 down, "lower" is far more just getting back to where they were; not opening up new market segments.
people get excited about new hardware. software and it's underlying capabilities are all just an expectation to most, just something that has to work and do whatever is expected and always a day too late. you could code the software equivalent of time travel and no one would blink an eye but tweak the profile of a phone enough that it looks different then their neighbor's and the world goes nuts. funny the world we live in...
For all intensive purposes, the 880M is a 680MX with faster clock and more memory. So it's better but at its core it's the same chip.
I think the return is 14 days from what i was reading, so that means if it isn't out by monday then I will be to late. If the do release a lower cost iMac by 100$ i don't see how they would add something better...hmm what to do..
That would be worth waiting until October or so to see if a retina iMac is announced this year.
Released hardware that typically shows off the new features of the new/upcoming software. Add "Retina" support to OS X ..... then probably should have a "Retina" Mac product on stage to do demo. Add "race to sleep " power saving features to OS X ..... then probably should have a laptop Mac on stage with longer battery life.
An 'either/or' chasm between hardware and software really is not Apple's focus. Apple sells systems which is a combination of both. If both make a point at WWDC then the system gets stage time. If not, then perhaps occasionally as a time filler. [ Or 'special event' that happens to line up; e.g., retiring the old Mac Pro form factor. ]
That sure would be disappointing since the 27 is deemed to be the higher end model to begin with.