Would Apple Just Do a Processor Bump?

If there's a processor bump, there's USB 3.

NutsNGum said:

If there's a processor bump, there's USB 3.

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At this point anything is better than nothing. Personally usb 3 is a big thing in my book future proofing the iMac for couple of years.

I can't come up with a reason that they would have waited until all of the 2012 GPUs are released and still just done a CPU jump. If they wanted to do just CPU they could have done that before WWDC.

sukai said:

At this point anything is better than nothing. Personally usb 3 is a big thing in my book future proofing the iMac for couple of years.

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Future proofing came with Thunderbolt ( add a TB->USB3 ) adapter!

harcosparky said:

Future proofing came with Thunderbolt ( add a TB->USB3 ) adapter!

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Except that USB is affordable. The cable alone for TB costs twice as much a USB 3.0 enclosure with cable.

If it was what you call just a CPU Bump then we would also get a GPU bump with USB3. I just hope we can get some sort of ssd options as that would improve performance SO much!

forty2j said:

I can't come up with a reason that they would have waited until all of the 2012 GPUs are released and still just done a CPU jump. If they wanted to do just CPU they could have done that before WWDC.

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Exactly. Something's up. I hope they've learned their lesson about lame updates with the Mac Pro.

Nandifix said:

I just hope we can get some sort of ssd options as that would improve performance SO much!

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I couldn't agree more. This will determine whether or not I go for the 2012 iMac (if it ever appears). I don't want to pay the ludicrous amount of money for the BTO SSD option.

dearlaserworks said:

Except that USB is affordable. The cable alone for TB costs twice as much a USB 3.0 enclosure with cable.

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For the moment it does.

For my money, I'd buy a TB enclosure before I would by a USB3 enclosure.

I have one notebook here that has USB3, it's useless to me ... totally useless.

It's kinda like that other interface that I never used ..... esata.

harcosparky said:

For my money, I'd buy a TB enclosure before I would by a USB3 enclosure.

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For Time Machine, I'd like USB 3.0, have the drive already. I'm hopeful Apple will add a small, affordable SSD boot option. If they don't, I'm waffling between an external TB enclosure and opening my new iMac to install an SSD boot drive. Yeah, I'm cheap.

Whether the new iMac releases or not, we are going to be SURPRISED!! I just hope I won't be disappointed.

harcosparky said:

Future proofing came with Thunderbolt ( add a TB->USB3 ) adapter!

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I wish this adapter would be made. I could use it on my 2011. I have found no place with one yet.