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Who's gonna buy an iMac with the next revision?
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i badly need a new imac or macbook to replace my 5 year old piece of crap PC. im waiting for the next revision. there definitely isnt gonna be a woodcrest in the imac. its a workstation chip, they wont put it in their average desktop. i would place my money on the conroe it makes sense. mac pro-woodcrest... imac-conroe... mac mini-merom...
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I am thinking long and hard about it for sure. I have a 5 year old DP 533 that believe it or not still does pretty much all I need to do but the thought of BootCamp and Parallels Desktop is exciting to an old System Analyst such as myself. It will be hard to let the old girl go but some friends of mine will be very happy with it as they just went through a long and miserable week putting a DVD together on Windows. As I told them how easy it was with the Mac they could not believe it.
Here's to next Tuesday and the following where if the 23" has dual hard drives I think I'll be picking one up.
Glennsan
I am thinking long and hard about it for sure. I have a 5 year old DP 533 that believe it or not still does pretty much all I need to do but the thought of BootCamp and Parallels Desktop is exciting to an old System Analyst such as myself. It will be hard to let the old girl go but some friends of mine will be very happy with it as they just went through a long and miserable week putting a DVD together on Windows. As I told them how easy it was with the Mac they could not believe it.
Here's to next Tuesday and the following where if the 23" has dual hard drives I think I'll be picking one up.
Glennsan
Caitlyn said:I was planning to buy a 23" ACD...I wanna wait and see the price of the 23" iMac. If it's only a few hundred more, maybe I'll spring. Who knows?
There have been rumors or a 23" iMac since the first 20" was created.
This may be nothing more than wishful thinking, but there would certainly be a demand if Apple can manage to keep the price reasonable.
I was going to, but with university classes starting on the 20th of September and a 3 hour round trip bus ride every day with about two hours of sitting around between classes...I think I'm gonna grab a MacBook instead, as much as I desperately want to replace my Windows PC
I want the next rev iMac badly though.
I'm going to have to hope for Merom, faster Yonahs, or a price drop (coinciding with Yonah's price drop) before MacExpo Paris ends.
I want the next rev iMac badly though.
I'm going to have to hope for Merom, faster Yonahs, or a price drop (coinciding with Yonah's price drop) before MacExpo Paris ends.
Since your eventual goal is to have both the portablility on a Mac Book and the
power of an iMac too, I'd go for a refurb Mac Book 2.0 GHz adding 2 GB RAM ASAP.
The newest iMacs may be attractive, but a few months in the wild will allow them
to prove themselves.
Having both is a great plan.
power of an iMac too, I'd go for a refurb Mac Book 2.0 GHz adding 2 GB RAM ASAP.
The newest iMacs may be attractive, but a few months in the wild will allow them
to prove themselves.
Having both is a great plan.
I plan to get one with a matching size ACD. If the 23" comes out, I hope it has HD capabilites to go with the HD 23" ACD. If it doesn't, would it be easy to tell that the iMac doesn't have HD, but the Cinema Display does? They're going to be right next to each other, of course.
Daniel.
Daniel.
Woodcrest in the iMac is not going to happen. Remember Woodcrest requires a different chipset then Conroe/Merom/Yonah. It also requires FB-DIMM memory.FFTT said:
I'm hoping Intel's impending large scale layoff's don't affect the quality of this
revision or reflect an undisclosed problem.
revision or reflect an undisclosed problem.
amin said:
After 4 weeks of waiting for my order - recieving a current rev and everyone else recieving a new rev would be a kick in the face.
I could cancel my order, but there's a £250 deposit at stake
bob5820 said:
We know that Yonah and Merom are supposed to be pin compatible, but I'm not at all clear on whether Conroe and Woodcrest will be able to use the same logic board.
IF... Conroes use the same logic board as Woodcrest, then either one may require FB ECC RAM.
Otherwise, there might be an individual consumer grade Conroe logic board that
would not be pin compatible with Yonah/ Merom or Woodcrest.
Conroes use the same chipset as Yonah/Merom, Woodcrest does not. Also I beleive that Woodcrest has a different pin count then Yonah/Conroe/MeromFFTT said:
I couldn't find a definitive answer on the Conroe's logic board compatibility.
I would hate to see a crippled semi-pro configuration like the 4 DIMM 1.8 and Rev C 2.0 PowerMac G5's, but it could be a possibility.
Since Apple will want to keep the prices down on iMacs, any requirment for FB ECC RAM would be inconvenient to say the least.
At least until FB ECC RAM goes mainstream and the prices drop.
This should prove to be an interesting revision.
With Core Duo 2 processors and a decent video card, you already have an iMac AOI that competes quite honorably with my Pro 8 DIMM DP 2.0 G5.
One blessing in the court of a 23" iMac would be 4 DIMM slots, allowing the
user to upgrade to 4-8 GB RAM. 4GB RAM would be plenty enough to handle most Pro applications.
I would hate to see a crippled semi-pro configuration like the 4 DIMM 1.8 and Rev C 2.0 PowerMac G5's, but it could be a possibility.
Since Apple will want to keep the prices down on iMacs, any requirment for FB ECC RAM would be inconvenient to say the least.
At least until FB ECC RAM goes mainstream and the prices drop.
This should prove to be an interesting revision.
With Core Duo 2 processors and a decent video card, you already have an iMac AOI that competes quite honorably with my Pro 8 DIMM DP 2.0 G5.
One blessing in the court of a 23" iMac would be 4 DIMM slots, allowing the
user to upgrade to 4-8 GB RAM. 4GB RAM would be plenty enough to handle most Pro applications.