Thanks for remembering! Like you, I really don't care how they bring it out or how they connect the two!! Just get a new iMac out Apple
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2012 iMac - next big date?
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Thanks for remembering! Like you, I really don't care how they bring it out or how they connect the two!! Just get a new iMac out Apple
Everything is still in stock in the UK store, with quick delivery after providing postal code...
Dispatched 1 - 3 business days
Delivery 18 Oct, 2012 - 22 Oct, 2012 by Standard Shipping
I welcome the thinner design. That's the progress of technology. Look at anything we take for granted that came out of the 20th century that has gotten smaller, faster, thinner, better:
Radios - FM tuners are incorporated into nearly anything these days, no longer is a radio a giant console/piece of furniture.
Televisions - TVs have gotten so incredible thin. Yes because we hang them on the wall, but even on a stand they're much more pleasing the thinner they get. No more tubes. Flat screens that are extremely thin. And theres still room to get thinner, lighter, and better.
Cell Phones - We aren't carrying around these monolith devices with giant antennas jutting out of them anymore. Look at the latest cell phones. They're thinner than a deck of cards and will continue to get thinner.
Laptop Computers - The original laptops were huge! Now they're amazingly thin. Look at the MacBook Air!
Desktop Computers - Sure the All In One has existed for quite a while, especially from Apple, however, as everything else, it keeps getting more powerful, thinner, and better, each and every generation.
This is even seen with modular PC parts! Mini ITX motherboards offer everything a full ATX board offers in regard to performance (not expansion, obviously). Even the latest 1155 Mini ITX boards from ASUS allow for extremely overclocking of an i7 3770k and the accommodation of the maximum amount of ram for that chipset (granted only two slots), and a 16x PCIe GPU.
Graphics cards are using less energy, giving more performance. CPUs have been doing the same for years. This is called progress. So give me my ultra thin device that is super fast. I don't care how much room is available on my desk. I'll take a thinner iMac!
If I want something modular that can accommodate the latest and greatest hardware, then I would be building another PC in a full ATX tower, not complaining on an iMac forum about how thin an All In One computer has become.
/end rant
Now as far as speculating whats going on with that leaked image, I just want to make a few points:
1. No ODD (thank the gods!)
2. Thats a 2.5" HDD
3. Interesting to see the CPU socket toward the top right of the computer. Previously it was toward the bottom left.
4. Looks like those black items on the left and right may be either fans, or speakers, or both. Who knows?
5. Wonder what else this picture isn't showing? Where is the GPU?
Radios - FM tuners are incorporated into nearly anything these days, no longer is a radio a giant console/piece of furniture.
Televisions - TVs have gotten so incredible thin. Yes because we hang them on the wall, but even on a stand they're much more pleasing the thinner they get. No more tubes. Flat screens that are extremely thin. And theres still room to get thinner, lighter, and better.
Cell Phones - We aren't carrying around these monolith devices with giant antennas jutting out of them anymore. Look at the latest cell phones. They're thinner than a deck of cards and will continue to get thinner.
Laptop Computers - The original laptops were huge! Now they're amazingly thin. Look at the MacBook Air!
Desktop Computers - Sure the All In One has existed for quite a while, especially from Apple, however, as everything else, it keeps getting more powerful, thinner, and better, each and every generation.
This is even seen with modular PC parts! Mini ITX motherboards offer everything a full ATX board offers in regard to performance (not expansion, obviously). Even the latest 1155 Mini ITX boards from ASUS allow for extremely overclocking of an i7 3770k and the accommodation of the maximum amount of ram for that chipset (granted only two slots), and a 16x PCIe GPU.
Graphics cards are using less energy, giving more performance. CPUs have been doing the same for years. This is called progress. So give me my ultra thin device that is super fast. I don't care how much room is available on my desk. I'll take a thinner iMac!
If I want something modular that can accommodate the latest and greatest hardware, then I would be building another PC in a full ATX tower, not complaining on an iMac forum about how thin an All In One computer has become.
/end rant
Now as far as speculating whats going on with that leaked image, I just want to make a few points:
1. No ODD (thank the gods!)
2. Thats a 2.5" HDD
3. Interesting to see the CPU socket toward the top right of the computer. Previously it was toward the bottom left.
4. Looks like those black items on the left and right may be either fans, or speakers, or both. Who knows?
5. Wonder what else this picture isn't showing? Where is the GPU?
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I am thinking that this might be a new imac model that will add to the current ones. I know a good portion of imac users dont really care about looks but performance. This is why i think apple might release this flat imac. Just like the macbook air and or the retina imac.
I think, i hope and i want to believe this is the case.
I think, i hope and i want to believe this is the case.
If the iMac winds up being thinner to the point of having to use even more mobile parts then all I can say is "congratulations Apple, you have spent over 500 days making a vertical notebook." I am all for thinner / prettier, but the rumor read along the lines of not being able to discern any real thickness. I worry for the quality of the internal components.
However I am merely a consumer and have no idea how much 'horse power' can be put 'under the hood'. So long as I can run Final Cut Studio, Photoshop and After Effects better than my current model, and enjoy my Lord of the Rings Online at days end, I'll be happy.
Cautious optimism is now my approach. Will hang around and see how more tech-savvy people interpret this 'thinner' malarkey.
However I am merely a consumer and have no idea how much 'horse power' can be put 'under the hood'. So long as I can run Final Cut Studio, Photoshop and After Effects better than my current model, and enjoy my Lord of the Rings Online at days end, I'll be happy.
Cautious optimism is now my approach. Will hang around and see how more tech-savvy people interpret this 'thinner' malarkey.
Fair point. Once the Ivy Bridge iMacs come out; people will start to speculate on the 2013 iMacs.
I don't think we'll see the 680m in the coming line up because of it's price. I read somewhere that this gpu could account for about $800 of the price of the computer, which seems a bit excessive. The 675MX should be about $200 less, and not that far away in terms of performance.
I never thought it would appear on MacRumor when I read the original post a couple weeks ago.
It seems true to me and the person who took this picture has seen the new iMac!
I just hope the price tag don't scares me.
Tell him to get us more pics and info!
it says in the original chinese post that he has seen the original but couldnt get a picture of it. Man I look forward to see this beast. ....thin beast
I'm still very confused, no 27 inch iMac??? Wuutt????? I thought Kou said that the 21.5 inch was ready in sep and the 27 inch be ready in October and it seems that the iMac will be released late October so how can the 27 inch not be released along side ??? Also there's more lack of 27 inch iMacs than 21 inch ones, am I missing something here? I don't know how apple will introduce one and not the other. I could understand them not having as many machines for the 27 inch but not release them at all? I don't get it guys, ill rage if the they don't release them together lol.
I'd take an inch thicker for:
1. Retina display
2. Ability to use a desktop graphics card
3. 802.11ac
4. Release dates that are nearer to the bleeding edge rather than 6 months after
Thinner shouldn't be the end goal of a desktop computer, just a natural consequence of technological progress. This update is just the hardware side of iOS/iPading everything...
Anyone who's asking for a thinner iMac (at current generation) is either joking or a joke. And I agree.
What kinda desk u got a window sil? This thing with thinner = better is nonsense on a desktop computer
It's my imaginary 2022 slim and narrow computer desk. I know, right? We want a desktop, not a non-portable oversized laptop. Thanks.
I'm still very confused, no 27 inch iMac??? Wuutt????? I thought Kou said that the 21.5 inch was ready in sep and the 27 inch be ready in October and it seems that the iMac will be released late October so how can the 27 inch not be released along side ???
Guess he was talking out of his a$$
Also there's more lack of 27 inch iMacs than 21 inch ones, am I missing something here?
Yes a 27inch imac to be precise
I don't know how apple will introduce one and not the other.
In a world where G.W Bush can be a president of one of the biggest super powers in the world, id say that apple doing a staggered release of imacs is quite probable.
I could understand them not having as many machines for the 27 inch but not release them at all?
Yes its a living nightmare
I don't get it guys, ill rage if the they don't release them together lol.
Please do Edry ... please do .... mwarrhahahaha
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How can you all not see it???... this is not a picture of the 2012 iMac... because there is no 2012 iMac!!!! DUH! Did you not get the memo? Apple has clearly telegraphed that we are in the Post PC Era TM. The 2011 iMac is the EOL. Get over it! Everyone knows that is the general consensus. Apple will never make another computer again... especially not its flagship desktop. This is clearly a photo of the internals of the iPad Maxi 14" tablet we've all been hearing hushed whispers about.
How can you all not see it???... this is not a picture of the 2012 iMac... because there is no 2012 iMac!!! DUH! Did you not get the memo? Apple has clearly telegraphed that we are in the Post PC Era TM. The 2011 iMac is the EOL. Get over it!
Wait really no it can't be NooooOoooooooooooOOoooooooooooooooooo!!
Wait who are you again the all seeing and know mac rumor God!?
Its all love really
It's only progress of technology if you can make it thinner without limiting/sacrificing performance, features, reliability, and repairability.
I don`t understand why u don`t see future in Apple Desktops. I was meny meny years PC user, always was buying PC desktops and then I had two PC laptops. I have never upgraded my PC desktop, just bought new one. If u have a PC desktop for few years for me it is too late for upgrading it. After few years you can have faster CPU, GPU, RAM, BUS etc. so you have to buy NEW computer
You said no office 2013. I don`t see problem with that also, because most people are using doc files, I didn`t see any documents with docx ( maybe only me). So maybe you like to have every year new interface?
Well Office is not only Doc(x), it is also Excel and Power Point. I agree, that writing a letter, doc is fine and You can use Open Office or whatever (even this funny stuff apple is asking money for), but when You Enviroment uses this newer office, one has to follow.
Anyway, I am out of this discussion and concentrating on migrating or re-switch, the word I read in the web.
Nice reply. I especially like the support argument that goes with it. Smarta$$
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There's really no way of telling when this redesign started. To tie it to lagging rmbp sales is a bit of a stretch. I see this and the other changes as an evolution of design for apple products more so a stop gap due to lagging sales. This redesign could have been in the works for a couple of upgrade cycles but components/technology was just not readily available to support their vision.
There will never be a desktop card in an all in one from Apple. The lines between mobile and desktop GPUs are beginning to blur in some regard. The form factor of a mobile card suits the All in One better (MXM slot, no need fr a power connect, etc). A desktop card is modular by design to fit ATX style cases and would require a bit of R&D to "reinvent the wheel" in sorts.
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