I think that if you follow the advice on sites like tonymac, then you should be fine. What bothers me is the fact that OS X updates tend to break your hackintosh and then you have to muck about. I don't have to the time, nor the inclination, to do this. I've also noticed that even if you do follow the advice on what hardware you get, there are still small things that don't work quite 100%.
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2012 iMac - next big date?
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I think that if you follow the advice on sites like tonymac, then you should be fine. What bothers me is the fact that OS X updates tend to break your hackintosh and then you have to muck about. I don't have to the time, nor the inclination, to do this. I've also noticed that even if you do follow the advice on what hardware you get, there are still small things that don't work quite 100%.
even though no one probably will agree on this but, theres definitely something going on in october i think the hint was itunes being release on october. Something is going on october i dont care if itunes its only related to music and ipods alone so why would apple specifically use october for a release date? in my opinion it was a hint whether it has to do with imac or not with that in mind lets not forget that itunes its osx software not ios, so again theres definately something coming up.
Yeah I am thinking that an early to mid October release makes the most sense. Lets all keep our fingers crossed.
I am so tempted to buy components and just run another PC, but I just came from that. The deciding factor was OSX. I wish I never got into PC games in the first place, that was the forbidden fruit that had me switch teams in the first place.
I am so tempted to buy components and just run another PC, but I just came from that. The deciding factor was OSX. I wish I never got into PC games in the first place, that was the forbidden fruit that had me switch teams in the first place.
Last Dec/Jan I built a Hackintosh and this was where I was at. I found that I was spending as much time fixing things as I spent fixing things in Windows. So I just went back to using my old MBP. Now I am holding out for an iMac... That won't show up...
We should not forget that the iPad Mini is widely rumored to release in October.
Ehm...
http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/26/maingear-announces-alpha-24-super-stock/
but even Msi-Alienware are good Windows portable gaming rig because to be honest i don't use my Mac to play games,for games i use W7 and my XBox360
and while it would be great to have a AiO with OSX and BootCamp and a 680m/7970m or even better this delay shows up that maybe an Imac with these features won't be available this year.
So what can i do,build an hackintosh to bootcamp and play Windows games?Doesn't make sense to me,too many efforts to replicate what its normally available,better wait till the end of October and if no new Imac will be released then i'll buy a Classic MacBookPro and later a windows gaming rig (with the Prodigy case and the Tonyx86 specs..just in case ) and in the middle a good 24/27 display with hdmi/display port input.
http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/26/maingear-announces-alpha-24-super-stock/
but even Msi-Alienware are good Windows portable gaming rig because to be honest i don't use my Mac to play games,for games i use W7 and my XBox360
and while it would be great to have a AiO with OSX and BootCamp and a 680m/7970m or even better this delay shows up that maybe an Imac with these features won't be available this year.
So what can i do,build an hackintosh to bootcamp and play Windows games?Doesn't make sense to me,too many efforts to replicate what its normally available,better wait till the end of October and if no new Imac will be released then i'll buy a Classic MacBookPro and later a windows gaming rig (with the Prodigy case and the Tonyx86 specs..just in case ) and in the middle a good 24/27 display with hdmi/display port input.
I come up with $2224 when configured similarly to how I expect the stock top 27" 2012 iMac to be set up, assuming no SSD.
Plus you have to look at that thing your desk. That's a dealbreaker for me.
Note: Estimated ship date October 10. ...
I come up with $2224 when configured similarly to how I expect the stock top 27" 2012 iMac to be set up, assuming no SSD.
Plus you have to look at that thing your desk. That's a dealbreaker for me.
Note: Estimated ship date October 10. ...
"Estimated ship date October 10" shipping dates for what? i put the 27 inch imac on cart estimate ship is oct 3
Ack! That solo is hideous, but FINALLY someone made an AIO with a legit GPU.
If that thing were pretty, it would have gotten my money. How do they not get this concept? If aesthetics were not a concern, we'd be buying a tower.
If that thing were pretty, it would have gotten my money. How do they not get this concept? If aesthetics were not a concern, we'd be buying a tower.
Long time lurker... got bored waiting for the iMac update, so I registered.
My money is on October with a caveat...
I suspect a redesign of some sort, if it was a silent refresh I think we would have seen it by now. Some change big enough to warrant not launching months ago, I know we have seen reports of screen lamination issues, but it would be better to launch with a restricted supply than delay a launch for so long.
So I expect thinner, maybe no ODD etc... something!
No way is apple going to take the store down even for a second within a month of launching a new iPhone, so even if there is new product sat in the warehouses, it will be there for a while.
iTunes and iPad mini to take main stage in late october (23rd or 30th), with a mention of the 13" MBPr and iMac.
Now for the caveat...
Ivy Bridge uses LGA1155 I think, what will haswell use? 1150 is a rumour, but lets say it was 1155 then if you were apple, at this point would you tool up for haswell and then launch as soon as intel can ship in volume?
My money is on October with a caveat...
I suspect a redesign of some sort, if it was a silent refresh I think we would have seen it by now. Some change big enough to warrant not launching months ago, I know we have seen reports of screen lamination issues, but it would be better to launch with a restricted supply than delay a launch for so long.
So I expect thinner, maybe no ODD etc... something!
No way is apple going to take the store down even for a second within a month of launching a new iPhone, so even if there is new product sat in the warehouses, it will be there for a while.
iTunes and iPad mini to take main stage in late october (23rd or 30th), with a mention of the 13" MBPr and iMac.
Now for the caveat...
Ivy Bridge uses LGA1155 I think, what will haswell use? 1150 is a rumour, but lets say it was 1155 then if you were apple, at this point would you tool up for haswell and then launch as soon as intel can ship in volume?
Apple doesnt pay for processors when they sell them. They buy them upfront, so if 2012 iMacs are in production they ahve bought huge amounts of IB CPU's which they don't have much use for since it isnt the mobile version, so its way better form them to ship a 2012 with a short lifetime than wait for a 2013 HW iMac.
Its a little bit off topic but this is a good news in perspective
the first serious multi track audio recorder for Android
http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.audio-evolution.com&usg=AFQjCNErp2-7Sgtt0miF-0_pO2dy9Af1Gw
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.extreamsd.aemobile
Why good for us?In my opinion in Iphone starts to slide down losing ground
in areas where it was the only player (such as the musical appz) will make users going there (Android-Windows Mobile) instead of being "forced" to look just to Ios,then losing grounds/money Apple will be forced to wake from the "Forstall Distortion sleep field" and to concentrate in areas they were going to abandon such as the desktops,the old beloved ship which already shielded Apple in the past.
Well,at least this is my hope.
the first serious multi track audio recorder for Android
http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.audio-evolution.com&usg=AFQjCNErp2-7Sgtt0miF-0_pO2dy9Af1Gw
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.extreamsd.aemobile
Why good for us?In my opinion in Iphone starts to slide down losing ground
in areas where it was the only player (such as the musical appz) will make users going there (Android-Windows Mobile) instead of being "forced" to look just to Ios,then losing grounds/money Apple will be forced to wake from the "Forstall Distortion sleep field" and to concentrate in areas they were going to abandon such as the desktops,the old beloved ship which already shielded Apple in the past.
Well,at least this is my hope.
Applestore availability.
There is something very fishy about the apple website.
Every day, a few stores are run out of select iMac models, with an estimated availability date. Every day after the "run out" the avability date is pushed 1 day. And suddenly one day, several days before the ETA the model is restocked at that store.
F. eks: 2 stores are saying the base 21" is out of stock with ETA: 3rd oct. Tomorrow, those same 2 stores will say ETA 4th, oct, and friday they will say 5th oct.
Then suddenly on monday, they will all have restocked, and another store will say 8 oct.
This MIGHT be wtf Tim Cook was talking about when saying: "doubling down on secrecy". Now we cant just figure it out on the delivery or stock dates. Hurray for nothing!!!!
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This notion is shared by many, that the iPhone business is takin over the Mac business.
I disagree.
They are increasingly producing and selling iMacs, and the quality of their launches are amazing compared to their competitors. It would be impossibly foolish of apple to tell the iMac team to stop working, or firing them, or not allowing them to launch products just because their iToys business is booming. They are 2 seperate divisions, and work under diferent terms. Most likely, the iMac team are working on the same levels as they always have, because they are STILL making sales and profit to Apple.
Usually when you have several business you keep them all until one starts losing money, at which point you pump money into it fromt he other businesses to save it, before you let it go.
The iMac business is HARDLY at the losing money stage, nor is the Macpro business. The 2 groups prolly have something big planned, and want to revive the lines in some sort.
There is something very fishy about the apple website.
Every day, a few stores are run out of select iMac models, with an estimated availability date. Every day after the "run out" the avability date is pushed 1 day. And suddenly one day, several days before the ETA the model is restocked at that store.
F. eks: 2 stores are saying the base 21" is out of stock with ETA: 3rd oct. Tomorrow, those same 2 stores will say ETA 4th, oct, and friday they will say 5th oct.
Then suddenly on monday, they will all have restocked, and another store will say 8 oct.
This MIGHT be wtf Tim Cook was talking about when saying: "doubling down on secrecy". Now we cant just figure it out on the delivery or stock dates. Hurray for nothing!!!!
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This notion is shared by many, that the iPhone business is takin over the Mac business.
I disagree.
They are increasingly producing and selling iMacs, and the quality of their launches are amazing compared to their competitors. It would be impossibly foolish of apple to tell the iMac team to stop working, or firing them, or not allowing them to launch products just because their iToys business is booming. They are 2 seperate divisions, and work under diferent terms. Most likely, the iMac team are working on the same levels as they always have, because they are STILL making sales and profit to Apple.
Usually when you have several business you keep them all until one starts losing money, at which point you pump money into it fromt he other businesses to save it, before you let it go.
The iMac business is HARDLY at the losing money stage, nor is the Macpro business. The 2 groups prolly have something big planned, and want to revive the lines in some sort.
I come up with $2224 when configured similarly to how I expect the stock top 27" 2012 iMac to be set up, assuming no SSD.
Plus you have to look at that thing your desk. That's a dealbreaker for me.
Note: Estimated ship date October 10. ...
Lets not forget that this the Maingear computer has the desktop version of the 680 gpu, which is much more powerful (and probably expensive). In fact, these are all desktop parts, rather than mobile parts, and should outbench a similarly spec'd iMac using the mobile counterparts.
Also, the setup you're looking at (the same way i happened to config it) pics out a high end Core i7 (apple charges $ for this) and 680 (another $200 expected from apple) and 16 gigs of ram (1 billion $ from apple), etc. If you were to choose the Maingear SSD, they use a legit drive high transfer rate drive at half the price ($250), not the bottom feeding junk SSD that apple currently gives you ($500).
A similarly max'd iMac (again, without any ssd option and assuming a similar pricing scheme for the new model) would run you $2600.
...but hot damn is it ugly. If it were better looking I'd have bought it TODAY.
Exactly what I'm waiting for and why. I messed around with the i7 27" with 4gb of RAM at the Apple Store, and it was a screamer. I can't imagine how it would be with an SSD and 32gb of RAM!
I went with the i5 and 8 GB of RAM, but the upgraded wireless keyboard & mouse and windows 7 ultimate to try to emulate the apple keyboard & magic mouse/trackpad and OS X.
It was this AIO that was giving me Oct 10. Not iMacs.
I hadn't noticed that the "M" was missing from their 680. You'd probably configure it with a 660 to get similar performance to the 680M. And I'm trying to do comparisons to a hypothetical 2012 model with no released spec sheet, not to the current available 2011 model.
Blech. One of the *benefits* of the iMac is its mobile GPU. Apple could easily put a desktop GPU in the iMac and it would probably even be cheaper, but it would use a lot more power and produce a lot more heat. And even with its huge heatsinks the iMac already runs pretty hot... one of the reasons I've been reluctant to buy an iMac in the past is because when I put my hand on the top of a 27" model at the Apple Store, it's worryingly hot. Remember the screen splotching issues on 2009 iMacs? People were saying that was due to heat and it wouldn't surprise me.
Sale or return?!
What I mean is how hard would it be to change the order (they don't carry huge amounts of components even if they have forward contracts at volume. Intel would bend over backwards to satisfy Apple.
Its hard to say, but I can imagine alot of the 2012 computers arealready built, or get built before Display production and assembly.
If they could just easily return all their components, they wouldnt need the Refub store, they would simply send as much back to manufactorers as possible. Manufactorers need reliable numbers before production in order to meet demand and not dump prices too much, so its hard for them to take back whatever major companies send back.
Im not saying its impossible, and Intel would probably opblige, but its not a reliable business model. Either way, disassembling a 2012 iMac wouldnt just mean sending CPUs back, but also chipsets, maybe RAM, Maybe GFX, maybe HDD etc, since they would have to launch "current" hardware in a 2013 launch as well.
Out of interest, where in the world is this?
In the UK apple retail stores in Liverpool and Manchester both have 21 and 27" stock, as does the apple UK online store. I'm waiting to push the button on the BTO 27" with the i7 and the 2gb Vram to replace my 24" 2.8 that I use for photo editing.
Even the Bto is showing 1-3 days for dispatch which doesn't suggest that there's a stock shortage in the UK
Out of interest, where in the world is this?
In the UK apple retail stores in Liverpool and Manchester both have 21 and 27" stock, as does the apple UK online store. I'm waiting to push the button on the BTO 27" with the i7 and the 2gb Vram to replace my 24" 2.8 that I use for photo editing.
Even the Bto is showing 1-3 days for dispatch which doesn't suggest that there's a stock shortage in the UK
Bto always takes longer
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