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2012 iMac - next big date?
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LMFAO!!
I am glad I wasn't drinking anything. Exciting times indeed. Can't wait, I'll be back home on Windows if that's the case, but still I am excited for that refresh in 2014!!
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Haswell will be very late 2013, April is for the mobile chips, and you have to remember that is "April" in Intel time, so June would be a better guess! 😀
Fingers crossed for October, if not I might make do with this crappy macbook until I see what the "Something for Pro users in 2013" turns out to be.
Fingers crossed for October, if not I might make do with this crappy macbook until I see what the "Something for Pro users in 2013" turns out to be.
If I found out that it was I would be in the same boat. No way to tell though.
Really? I have a late 2006 iMac running lion just fine. Awesome machine but it just takes way to long converting my movies to mp4.
Yes, but even 5/6 months ago the old 2011 iMac was dated and in need of a price reduction.
How is Windows 8 related to iMacs? I mean I'd understand if Apple were to release a new version of OS X, it'd may make sense to release it shortly before it to steal the spotlight, but even considering the Surface tablet there's hardly anything in common...
(Yes, I'm starting to despair)
My guess is it was a bit of sarcasm. Either saying Apple won't respond until then, or if you want some news you have to wait for MS to do something instead.
And yes, I know the Apple Desktop despair just as well...
So I wasn't wrong saying 2014 then for the iMac
At this point I'll just be happy with Ivy Bridge, there is not a huge CPU speed increase between models but in 3-4 years when I'm shopping for the next new Mac it could be 50% faster with the CPUs out in 2016.
My only question is. If the iMacs don't get refreshed before January, why did Cook send out a correction on the "we have something special for you iMac and Mac Pro users in 2013"?
He DIDN'T say that, not in quotes, not even paraphrased.
He replied to someone who had complained on a forum about Mac Pros, and when news reports inaccurately said that Cook said that iMac and Mac Pros wouldn't be updated until 2013 "sources" from Apple directly contacted David Pogue at the New York Times as well as Forbes.com to say that no, Cook was only referring to Mac Pros and 2013.
http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/11/an-explanation-of-the-news-from-apple/
http://www.forbes.com/sites/connieg...esigns-for-imac-mac-pro-in-works-due-in-2013/
My only real concern is how Apple view iMac users... Consumer or Pro? As a % of sales we are a minority, does that group us in the Pro category?
iToys and Airs appear to be the consumer level products, could it be that there will be a Pro machine in 2013 along with an Apple smart TV/iMac hybrid.
Thats the only reason I could see for delaying iMac to 2013.
Haswell i think is a curve ball, I think that the Haswell rMBP will be a hell of a product and at that point i could see the vanilla MBPs vanishing.
iToys and Airs appear to be the consumer level products, could it be that there will be a Pro machine in 2013 along with an Apple smart TV/iMac hybrid.
Thats the only reason I could see for delaying iMac to 2013.
Haswell i think is a curve ball, I think that the Haswell rMBP will be a hell of a product and at that point i could see the vanilla MBPs vanishing.
But why go out of his way to specifically mention that users were to expect something special for Mac Pros ONLY... in 2013?
It's one of two things. (Reasonably speaking.)
Either there will be a new 2012 iMac or that they've EOL'ed it.
I'm confident that they're not doing away with the iMac which, imo, only leaves the option for a new iMac - sometime - before 2013.
I'm pretty sure that's how the majority of the people on this site read it as well.
If there's one thing I've learned during the time I've been looking at this site, it is that Apple don't give a damn about rumors unfortunately ... what we can do is only speculate, but it will not be thanks to this site or to all of us writing here if a new iMac will be finally released ...
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