Haswell iMac in Late August?

It's still just speculative though....I'm sporting a nearly new rMBP 13" and am saving for my wedding, so this will be one refresh I am skipping out on. KGI could be right, but In my opnion? I think the refresh is more likely to,occur atmthemsame time as the new phone.

Sweet!

Hopefully, by the time I am ready to by my iMac late November, they will have refurbished Haswell based iMacs.

I'm disappointed in Kuo. He was very good last year. This year he seems to be scattershotting every possibility so that one will be right.

Macman45 said:

It's still just speculative though....I'm sporting a nearly new rMBP 13" and am saving for my wedding, so this will be one refresh I am skipping out on. KGI could be right, but In my opnion? I think the refresh is more likely to,occur atmthemsame time as the new phone.

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Actually some of us are thinking that most Mac upgrades will be with or shortly after Mavericks is released.

I'm thinking Apple won't update the iPhone and Macs at the same time as an iPhone update tends to swamp the Apple Store website.

it would be nice if Miss Kuo is right

for an update in late August...while the Mavericks release makes complete sense for the rMBPs, not sure if it does for iMacs since the Haswell chip won't make much difference in the desktop. And it would be nice for students to have another Mac option to purchase before the Back to School promotion ends.

I'd rather have the Mac releases staggered than all at once. We're waiting on the Mac Pro, rMBPs, iMacs and the Minis.

Realistically though, I think the folks here who are calling everything being updated at the same time as Mavericks are probably right.

saving up for this.

Eventually someone has to be right with their iMac prediction.

I agree that it'll be coming in late August, or after Mavericks releases, or in November/December, or sometime in 2014.

This is really annoying Apple has yet to announce any of their products (besides the Macbook Air). I got a gut feeling that this years iMac will be overlooked by iOS devices like the new iPad and the new iPhone. Much like Mavericks was overlooked by iOS7.

forty2j said:

I'm disappointed in Kuo. He was very good last year. This year he seems to be scattershotting every possibility so that one will be right.

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Hear hear.

Maybe (s)he's lots his(her) contact.

I doubt Apple will release anything before the iPhone event September 10th. If they do it will be imminent, and we haven't heard any rumors to support this.

Johnny Vegas said:

I doubt Apple will release anything before the iPhone event September 10th. If they do it will be imminent, and we haven't heard any rumors to support this.

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Exactly

Before an imminent release, there would be vague rumors about parts, leaks and all that. Not as intensive as an iPhone/iPad release would because iMac is not exactly "popular".

But there would be rumors how little they are.

iSayuSay said:

Before an imminent release, there would be vague rumors about parts, leaks and all that. Not as intensive as an iPhone/iPad release would because iMac is not exactly "popular".

But there would be rumors how little they are.

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I agree, we can hope as much as we want, but realistically expect Q4 2013 or Q1 2014.

mrmarts said:

This is really annoying Apple has yet to announce any of their products (besides the Macbook Air). I got a gut feeling that this years iMac will be overlooked by iOS devices like the new iPad and the new iPhone. Much like Mavericks was overlooked by iOS7.

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Apple only announces new products if they are, like - new. The iMac will be just a minor update, nothing 'new'. Same for rMBP. And I don't see how Mavericks was overlooked by iOS7?

leman said:

Apple only announces new products if they are, like - new. The iMac will be just a minor update, nothing 'new'. Same for rMBP. And I don't see how Mavericks was overlooked by iOS7?

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How come they announced the MBA? It's only a "minor" update and nothing "new" after all..?

tanax said:

how come they announced the mba? It's only a "minor" update and nothing "new" after all..?

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+1

Tanax said:

How come they announced the MBA? It's only a "minor" update and nothing "new" after all..?

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Correct me if I am wrong, but they were not 'announced', they were actually released with immediate availability. An announcement for me means 'the product will be available at some point later'. Besides, there are some major new features which are well worth an announcement - like the 12h battery.

Tanax said:

How come they announced the MBA? It's only a "minor" update and nothing "new" after all..?

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They felt the crazy battery life was worth putting it on stage for, and indeed that's pretty much the whole point of Haswell. As an added bonus they got to talk about improved SSD speeds.

I have no doubt there will be an iMac update in the fall, and it will just be a silent press release with immediate availability.

leman said:

Correct me if I am wrong, but they were not 'announced', they were actually released with immediate availability. An announcement for me means 'the product will be available at some point later'. Besides, there are some major new features which are well worth an announcement - like the 12h battery.

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forty2j said:

They felt the crazy battery life was worth putting it on stage for, and indeed that's pretty much the whole point of Haswell. As an added bonus they got to talk about improved SSD speeds.

I have no doubt there will be an iMac update in the fall, and it will just be a silent press release with immediate availability.

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Well those "features" you talk about aren't new, they are just - like you previously said about the Haswell iMac update - improvements.

iMac will also have improved SSD speed, 802.11ac, better GPU - at least. Then we don't know if they have more things up their sleeve.

I still don't see the difference nor why they would give MBA stage time for these updates but not the iMac. Silent updates, for me, are for minor processor updates or alike - like they did with the rMBP.

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I still don't see the difference nor why they would give MBA stage time for these updates but not the iMac. Silent updates, for me, are for minor processor updates or alike - like they did with the rMBP.

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Because the MBA is an Apple top seller, and the iMac probably sells the least of all their OS X-based systems.

WilliamG said:

Because the MBA is an Apple top seller, and the iMac probably sells the least of all their OS X-based systems.

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Excluding the Mac Pro, eh? I doubt the Mac Pro is selling more than the iMac.

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Excluding the Mac Pro, eh? I doubt the Mac Pro is selling more than the iMac.

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All "current" systems.

Not sure why people keep linking OS X releases to new Macs. The two don't necessarily have to coincide. In fact for the most part they haven't in the past from what I recall.

Johnny Vegas said:

I doubt Apple will release anything before the iPhone event September 10th. If they do it will be imminent, and we haven't heard any rumors to support this.

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Yes. We are rapidly approaching the iPhone halo time. Apple is not going to do anything to distract from the iPhone. October is the earliest.