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2012 iMac - next big date?

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davidcmc said:
You're just agreeing with Apple ******** of "form over funtion".

Do you realize what you just said? They're using underclocked and undervolted **** in a desktop computer.

If you want portability (aka: a thin computer), you buy a laptop.
If you want performance, you buy a desktop.

So why are people so happy for buying a portable computer that doesn't leave the desk?
People are happy for buying a computer that doesn't have the performance it should have for being created as a "desktop".

This is disgusting. In one way or another, you have to sacrifice performance to make a computer as thin as this new iMac.
And people love it. Disgusting.
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So everyone should buy a 12 core Mac Pro because any other Mac is underpowered?
 
Incindium said:
The new Ivy Bridge chips are designed for ultrabooks and they are putting them into the new iMac. Designed to be low wattage and cool. Perfect for this design... you are going to have all the CPU power you need without all the heat.

The Nvidia GPU is where heat could be an issue but running the mobile Kepler GPU versions should alleviate that. I'm not that familiar with the Kepler mobile line though.
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No, the mobile quad ib CPUs are not suitable for ultra books. Please stop posting this bs
 
ihaveneverknown said:
Just an interesting point for all of you worried about RAM, but you could buy an $999 Apple Thunderbolt and $599 MacMini for $200 less than the entry level 27" iMac...
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And you'd need to add the cables, speakers, keyboards and etc etc....it still adds up
 
theSeb said:
That's exactly what I said a couple of posts ago. Your first post is still wrong. Fusion drive is not hardware? It is a caching algorithm.
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The question is it a caching algorithm in software or in the firmware of the Fusion drive or both.

Hybrid drives are nothing new... I have one in the computer I'm using now... a lot of them don't speed things up that much though. Although there is the potential if it is integrated into the OS for it to work pretty well.

I wonder if the Fusion drive will work with Bootcamp running Windows.
 
captjon said:
So everyone should buy a 12 core Mac Pro because any other Mac is underpowered?
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That's what Apple wants you to do: to buy an extremely expensive desktop if you want performance.

I don't even know why I keep calling iMacs as "desktops", because they surely don't look like desktops.

Apple could focus on making powerful iMacs and improving their OS X (I know many people who hate the new Mountain Lion).

Steve Jobs said that consumers don't know what they really need, and it's Apple's job to discover what is appropriate for it's consumers.
Really? Do they really think that people need a thin computer standing on their desks that hasn't the same performance it would have if it weren't so thin?

I'd accept that "form over function" argument if we were talking about laptops (laptops are less powerful than equivalent desktops because their chips are smaller and thinner), but this is the iMac section of MacRumors forum.

This is bad. People shouldn't be happy for this capped desktop computer launch. I'm disappointed with the way that Apple is following regarding their desktop Macs.
 
Incindium said:
The new Ivy Bridge chips are designed for ultrabooks and they are putting them into the new iMac. Designed to be low wattage and cool. Perfect for this design... you are going to have all the CPU power you need without all the heat.

The Nvidia GPU is where heat could be an issue but running the mobile Kepler GPU versions should alleviate that. I'm not that familiar with the Kepler mobile line though.
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What does 42 think about the GPU situation? Is he around?
 
I also see the new page.
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Incindium said:
The question is it a caching algorithm in software or in the firmware of the Fusion drive or both.

Hybrid drives are nothing new... I have one in the computer I'm using now... a lot of them don't speed things up that much though. Although there is the potential if it is integrated into the OS for it to work pretty well.

I wonder if the Fusion drive will work with Bootcamp running Windows.
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SRT caching is part of intel's chipset features. I assume they are using it.
 
The new iMac looks awesome. :D

Pretty much everything i hoped for in an evolutionary redesign. Good riddance ODD! Been nice knowing you :D :cool:
 
frag2 said:
No. They could've easily allowed Thunderbolt to accept it ala the old mini-DP HDMI adapters but apple software [hardware?] blocked it on Thunderbolt. The only option, and even then they are finicky, are the myriad of 150$+ Thunderbolt adapters.
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Ugh this sucks....so are you guys saying theres no simple way to hook up these new iMacs to a HDTV set?
 
So it looks like the RAM is not user serviceable. Looks like in the cutaway they stuck it right behind the power cord. Maybe apple will wake up and drop the prices on their own RAM... ugh. I want 32gb... but I refuse to buy RAM from apple at their current pricing.
 
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