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27-Inch iMac Continues to See Extended Shipping Estimates Ahead of Rumored WWDC Update
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People still have rather funny ideas about how and why Apple makes certain marketing decisions.
As stated elsewhere (I would expect Macrumors to keep up) the slipping has been going on for ages and its believed that the reason was the panel for 27" from the supplier. Its also believed that the reason why iMac Pro is available is because Apple prioritise that instead as it has higher margin.
With iMac refresh being imminent it also makes sense as Apple would probably have to deal with returns especially when the stores were closed and the return period got extended.
It would also be nicer reporting, if you at least went to iMac forum and took the info thats in the massive thread there as there is a lot of valuable info. That would make for far better article than this.
Sorry, but For Fusion Sake
The prioritization theory doesn't make much sense as the Apple Stores all have the iMac Pro and 21.5" iMac in stock. A custom configured iMac Pro can be delivered to your door in less than 10 days. But a base model 27" iMac needs 3-4 weeks for delivery? Apple can't be that bad in allocation and predicting consumer demand.
My main concern is how repairable and upgradable will it be. Will it still have the door in back to upgrade ram, will they do away with hard drives/fusion drives, will internal storage be significant enough so one wouldn’t need an external drive.
If it’s noticing enough, maybe this new model might be good enough to replace my late 2015 5k iMac which i’d give
To my folks who could use a bigger screen. They still rock my old Mid 2011 21.5” Core i5 which still works great with the SDD I put in a few years ago. My concern with it is it’s reaching the age where you ask yourself, How much longer will this thing continue to function. They’d love the massive retina screen of my 5k.
If it’s noticing enough, maybe this new model might be good enough to replace my late 2015 5k iMac which i’d give
To my folks who could use a bigger screen. They still rock my old Mid 2011 21.5” Core i5 which still works great with the SDD I put in a few years ago. My concern with it is it’s reaching the age where you ask yourself, How much longer will this thing continue to function. They’d love the massive retina screen of my 5k.
Full feasting mode, I should imagine.
Azrael.
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Is that you, Phil Schiller?
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What Adobe Apps are you using? What work are you doing that you 'need' the Adobe apps?
Can't you migrate to Affinity suite of Apps? Photo. Design and Publisher?
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I hope 100% hope for this.
Azrael.
so true. Target display mode is greatly missed. Screen Sharing over network somewhat works, I am using that now but it's limited in screen size.
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I bet they get rid of the RAM Access. No more fusion is the rumor and very likely. 5400rpm hdd in 2020, common apple.
Multiple new rumors are that the "Mid-2020 iMac" will be SSD only.
As for being able to upgrade RAM, said rumors also claim an improved cooling system is coming. If this is like the iMac Pro, that might negate easily user-upgradeable RAM if they have to move that to the sides like on the iMac Pro.
Target display mode was lost with the 4K and 5K iMacs because of the custom timing controller Apple had to develop due to the lack of DisplayPort at the time to support a 60Hz refresh rate. While newer versions of DisplayPort do support 60Hz (and higher), Apple appears to still use their own controller.
But how? 10th gen CPU released in mid-May and there is no way to use them in a short period of time since it usually takes several months to use the newest desktop CPU.
This delay in shipping has been happening since almost a month ago. Could be anything or could be that the new build lines transition were happening or pandemic delays. About a month+ ago, in Canada, I ordered an iMac and it stated end of June estimated delivery. MacBook Pro and similar where also weeks delayed. I went refurbished to accelerate the delivery (since those are in the US and not overseas)
... If it does gets announced though, I’m packing it back! Legitly excited for these potential new design
... If it does gets announced though, I’m packing it back! Legitly excited for these potential new design
For Adobe Lightroom users there really isn't a decent replacement. And that's triply true if you have tens/hundreds of thousands of non-destructively edited photos in your library.
If anyone is planning to order the current iMac, I ordered a BTO 5K model on May 13 and it arrived May 28. So, 2 weeks from clicking "place order" to UPS delivery. Not bad.
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Well, aside from the Mac Pro, the trend has slowly been away from user-upgradability, so I wouldn't be surprised if the user-accessible RAM will be sacrificed for remodeled internals.
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Well, aside from the Mac Pro, the trend has slowly been away from user-upgradability, so I wouldn't be surprised if the user-accessible RAM will be sacrificed for remodeled internals.
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Apple is clearly going ARM and they'll probably transition the laptops first. Desktops ( top spec iMac and iMac Pro ) require more CPU power and many of those users want their Windows access too, so it's possible their transition could be delayed. With technology like bitcode ( LLVM's intermediate code ), Apple can easily rebuild their frameworks for ARM and still leave the Intel frameworks in the macOS release. This should give current Intel Macs lots of life. The current tech also enables a reasonable upgrade path for software developers without the pain we saw going from PPC to Intel.
Saying it another way: just because Apple moves to ARM doesn't mean current machines are automatically obsolete/EOL in a few years. What Apple actually implements is unknown but the technology is available.
Yes, talk about an actually useful feature seemingly removed for no reason whatsoever...
I also want to see that Mac Pro modularity move to the rest of the Mac lineup. wishful thinking I know...
I wouldn’t be at all surprised if Apple used rivets to hold this thing together to keep people from opening it up. And I’m sure it will have a T2 chip making any upgrade impossible even if you could open it up.
Oh, wow.
I'm an idiot and totally missed that.
And apple are idiots for taking it away.
Apple should contact you to cut the glass panels for the new iMacs.
As awesome as that would be I am a bit worried that would price me out of the larger size model. I have been eyeing the 27" and its at the top end of my budget already. A 24" model would be a bit too small. If they can manage to pull off a 32" model while only increasing the price by $100-200 then I would be all over that.
Apple will come out with something mind-blowing.
If You remember, these iMacs once had optical drives but at a certain time in history, they were taken out.
The new iMacs will not have any storage at all. No Hard Drives, No SSDs. Only RAM and super fast online storage.
First there will be outrage, but after time, people will go along with it.
If You remember, these iMacs once had optical drives but at a certain time in history, they were taken out.
The new iMacs will not have any storage at all. No Hard Drives, No SSDs. Only RAM and super fast online storage.
First there will be outrage, but after time, people will go along with it.
It was removed so the 4K and 5K displays could refresh at a usable 60Hz instead of an unusable 30Hz.
As the owner of 5K iMacs since 2014, they would have been idiots to have the screen refresh at a jittery 30Hz by not taking it away.
There have been plenty of folks on these forums demanding that Apple add the T2 chip to improve performance in things like SSD read/write and video/audio conversion tasks.
Not sure if your saying this tongue-in-cheek or not (hard to tell online these days), but in case you aren't, I sincerely doubt that. The NVMe SSDs Apple uses barely take up any space. Can't really compare that to the optical drives. And of course they're not going to put the reputation of the speed of the machine at the mercy of people's internet connections, which are all over the place in terms of speed and reliability.
