It makes perfect sense. You buy the computer and then are forced to buy Leopard. Apple gets more money. Besides they can't wait any longer, June was waiting too long and they didn't release them.
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iMac Revision and iLife on August 7th?
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It makes perfect sense. You buy the computer and then are forced to buy Leopard. Apple gets more money. Besides they can't wait any longer, June was waiting too long and they didn't release them.
Is it possible that they would announce it so far in advance? Is that the Apple way? Just seems a long time to wait
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Nah. It's been nearly 11 months since the last iMac update. Before that, the longest wait was 9 months. If anything, we'll see updates to this update when Leopard comes out. Clock speed upgrades or a bigger screen could be announced alongside Leopard, that's not entirely unreasonable. Anyways, the only rumors we've been hearing about any Mac stuff is that the new iMac would be out mid to late summer. Well, that's where we are right now. As far as paying for Leopard is concerned, I'm willing to bet that Apple will allow purchasers of the new iMac to upgrade to Leopard for $20. Was 10.1 a free or $20 upgrade from 10.0? I remember the public beta being $20 which came with a voucher for a discount on the final release of 10.0.
As far as the new iLife goes, there is one thing that I would like to see Apple implement in iPhoto. Though I can't find much information on it anymore, I remember Microsoft demoing a feature in Vista called Group Photo or something of the sort. Essentially it allows you to analyze several photos that have multiple people in them and merge them into one. So, say you had a picture of yourself and a friend. For simplicty, in one photo your eyes are shut and in the other your friends eyes are shut. Group Photo let you select the open eyes in each picture and give you a final picture with both people's eyes open. Yes this may be a trivial thing for some in Photoshop or even less, but for many people this would be a dream feature.
Personally, I think its unlikely. It would be weird if they released a whole new design of product, with no major event.
The iMac G3, G4, G5 were all new designs and all had major events associated with them. Personally, I think that it may be a little later in the year.
The iMac G3, G4, G5 were all new designs and all had major events associated with them. Personally, I think that it may be a little later in the year.
If Apple announces on August 7 that new iMacs will be out in October, most sales of iMacs would die until October.
I know quite a few people who have had the logic board of their iMacs die. This includes the G3 iMac.
Can I hear from you readers your experience or opinion?
The longer this takes the more of a disappointment it's going to be if there is not a major upgrade in the internals. At this point, even matching the MBP would be a big let-down for me. Nothing less than a move to the desktop cpu and memory components and something better than the 8600M would satisfy at this point (or maybe that new extreme mobile part).
Internals
I anticipate we'll see a boost in the standard RAM (possibly just in the 24"), slightly higher clockings on the Core 2 processors, and the move to 8600 graphics chips.
I don't see them doing anything beyond the 8600's for graphics, but who knows.
EDIT: Oh and more than likely the HDD's will make the jump to 320gb, or if apple is really bold 500gb
I anticipate we'll see a boost in the standard RAM (possibly just in the 24"), slightly higher clockings on the Core 2 processors, and the move to 8600 graphics chips.
I don't see them doing anything beyond the 8600's for graphics, but who knows.
EDIT: Oh and more than likely the HDD's will make the jump to 320gb, or if apple is really bold 500gb
gaaah! No please no! Apple doesn't announce computers two months before release. Plus, they've gone WAY TOO LONG without an update.
Definitely do not think Apple would wait until October to release the new iMacs. They would completely lose out on BTS sales! This is the prime time to announce - and release - new school products, and iMac is the perfect machine for either students or semi-pros (24" of course). Waiting until October would kill off a large potential demographic waiting to buy these machines (or who are just now starting to shop for a new machine, including college kids, parents, new grads, etc...).
Hey, that's cool. As long as they give us the specs and show us the pics and whatnot on the apple site, that'll hold me off until October.
Fingerprints? I've been trying to eat that little guy for an hour (I forgot my lunch money again)!
Media invite
One would think the media invite is coming out today if the event is on the 7th...
Patiently awaiting.....
One would think the media invite is coming out today if the event is on the 7th...
Patiently awaiting.....
I get the impression that Steve wanted to get away from having an event for every new product.
back to school? does not ring a bell. you might want to call apple back and confirm, they may have been pulling your leg.
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