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Analyst: iMac and MacBook Updates Coming Within Weeks?

seeing as many people are mentioning hardrive, wouldnt it be cool if you could have a slot at the top of the iMac and drop your hard drive in?

hell put 2.

apple could then put a 64gb SSD inside while giving u the option to put a 1TB HD in the other slot
 
guitarlord said:
I would like to see the following:

Return of a 17" iMac. While this might not be popular not everyone wants / needs a huge screen. I would definitely prefer this.

The option to have higher specs on smaller iMac. As I just said not everyone wants a huge iMac but might want the top specs.

As far as an iMac redesign goes I can see the range removing the bottom silver lip and just looking like the cinema display which would be very nice.

Hopefully the Macbook spec will be upped to 4GB and a slightly faster processor and the price lowered. At the moment I am looking for a laptop, and while I really want a macbook / pro, I can get a Dell Studio 15 with 1080p screen, 4GB ram, 320 GB HDD, 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo, Blu Ray, backlit keyboard etc for £800. And in my opinion Windows 7 is damn good - Enough to make me not want to spend the extra £700 for a lower spec 15" MBP.

Thanks
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You meen this one here? LINK
First it has no BluRay,
second also the Ati card shares system RAM,
third No Windows 7 yet,
fourth no connection for digitall DVI-D (VGA to DVI adapter won't work cauz VGA is analog) and most of LCD-screens nowadays use digital DVI-D,
fifth huge plastic casing,
sixth no Dual Link DVI for xxl screens with higher resolutions than 1920x1200,
seventh not a great standard software set,
eighth only analog stereo audio-jacks (MBP has Fiber Optic)
and so on...
 
I dont see myself upgrading to a new imac unless it has easier to access hard drive. Id also like option to upgrade graphics card but i know this is never going to happen. If they could do this then id buy a new one tomorrow :)
 
Excuse my ignorance, if any, but when this Analyst has said Apple may be renewing the MacBook, does he mean the White, plastic polycarbonate models or the Unibody models?
 
Bubba Satori said:
No Macs for poor people. They shouldn't be using computers anyway. And we don't want them in our stylish, hip stores. They would ruin the ambience with their Walmart wardrobes and annoying behavior. Let eat cake and use emachines. :D
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Becuase it's so much better to sell the poor people half baked PC's - I mean let the big corporations get all the money they can by selling cheap, underpowered PC's so everyone can "enjoy" the beauty of spending hours running virus scans and memory managers to the poor people. That's brilliant - every restaraurant should adopt Mcdonalds dollar menu too or else their not catering to poor people too? I'm glad you're such an advocate for poor people's rights...I'm sure there's an amendment out there somewhere to everyone's basic computing right and I'm glad you're here upholding it...

...or something like that....
 
As a serious hobbyist photographer, I have been completely spoiled with the LED backlit monitor on my MBP (although I don't like the glossy). It is so beautiful and bright! I am in need of a desktop upgrade for the home and would have purchased the last iMac line if it had been updated with the same monitors. I will do the same this time. IF the LED BL display is indeed added, then I will make the purchase immediately. If not then I will again hold out. The MP is just a tad too expensive for my taste. And cost usually doesn't stop me from buying anything! LOL!
 
gloomcookie1 said:
Becuase it's so much better to sell the poor people half baked PC's - I mean let the big corporations get all the money they can by selling cheap, underpowered PC's so everyone can "enjoy" the beauty of spending hours running virus scans and memory managers to the poor people. That's brilliant - every restaraurant should adopt Mcdonalds dollar menu too or else their not catering to poor people too? I'm glad you're such an advocate for poor people's rights...I'm sure there's an amendment out there somewhere to everyone's basic computing right and I'm glad you're here upholding it...

...or something like that....
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Because they can't afford premium, hip, cool, thin and stylish...

Underpowered, half baked & cheap ? A quad core HP Phenom X4 with 6GB & a 640GB drive is $600.

I refuse to believe that Apple can't offer a few genuinely affordable and full featured computers that aren't a bag of hurt junk. It's a cop out. $30 billion in the bank arrogance.
 
hamzab said:
Excuse my ignorance, if any, but when this Analyst has said Apple may be renewing the MacBook, does he mean the White, plastic polycarbonate models or the Unibody models?
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When Apple does a refresh of their laptop lines, it's generally ALL of their laptops. That doesn't mean there will be huge changes made to each model, but they will likely ALL be changed/upgraded/updated in some way, shape, or form.
 
I dont see myself upgrading to a new imac unless it has easier to access hard drive. Id also like option to upgrade graphics card but i know this is never going to happen. If they could do this then id buy a new one tomorrow
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So a terabyte hard drive isn't enough for you? Not taking into account he number of terabytes you could have using external disks.

You can already upgrade the graphics card when you buy it, and it's more cost effective to just sell it on ebay after 3 years and buy another.

If you could upgrade the hard drive and GPU, you would probably currently own a white G5 iMac with an out of date GPU and a small hard drive by today's standards. The GPU and HD are just two minor parts - nobody who upgrades their PC has a motherboard from 2003 or 2004.
 
AlexisV said:
So a terabyte hard drive isn't enough for you? Not taking into account he number of terabytes you could have using external disks.

You can already upgrade the graphics card when you buy it, and it's more cost effective to just sell it on ebay after 3 years and buy another.

If you could upgrade the hard drive and GPU, you would probably currently own a white G5 iMac with an out of date GPU and a small hard drive by today's standards. The GPU and HD are just two minor parts - nobody who upgrades their PC has a motherboard from 2003 or 2004.
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A terabyte hard drive is more than enough but as my imac came with a 320GB hard drive its way short of a terabyte. And yes you can select a different gpu when you buy it but back in 2007 there was no ati 4850 option :rolleyes:
 
For the iMac I would LOVE to see:

A Revolutionary redesign and NOT evolutionary if there's really going to be a redesign so soon since the black metal came out.

LED Backlit Screen

Matte or Glass Option with no extra charge

Replaceable HD, RAM, and GPU

Latest Firewire

USB 3.0

Bring back the sleep light!

Plenty of ports (Apple do not eliminate any)

Keyboard backlit with a "Detachable Blue Ray Mouse pad" like the mouse pads on the new macbooks

NO Power Brick!

And "NO" Touch screen! (Not that there will be one) but just to counter squash all the dumb requests for one--)))
 
Bubba Satori said:
Because they can't afford premium, hip, cool, thin and stylish...

Underpowered, half baked & cheap ? A quad core HP Phenom X4 with 6GB & a 640GB drive is $600.

I refuse to believe that Apple can't offer a few genuinely affordable and full featured computers that aren't a bag of hurt junk. It's a cop out. $30 billion in the bank arrogance.
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I don't know what poor people you're hanging out with but $600 is alot of money and we both know it doesn't stop at 600 dollars if we get down to it. Don't tell me that the PC companies are selling computers cheaply out of the goodness of their hearts. It's a business decision just like Apple makes business decisions on what they provide and what they don't.
 
gloomcookie1 said:
Becuase it's so much better to sell the poor people half baked PC's - I mean let the big corporations get all the money they can by selling cheap, underpowered PC's so everyone can "enjoy" the beauty of spending hours running virus scans and memory managers to the poor people. That's brilliant - every restaraurant should adopt Mcdonalds dollar menu too or else their not catering to poor people too? I'm glad you're such an advocate for poor people's rights...I'm sure there's an amendment out there somewhere to everyone's basic computing right and I'm glad you're here upholding it...

...or something like that....
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what's a memory manager?
 
Personally I never liked the look of the black on aluminum. I would love to see Apple break away from this glass trend, that'd be great.

As far as functionality goes, just get on the blu-ray bandwagon and deal with it. Easily replaceable hardware components would be great, lets face it, there is a large portion of mac users who still would never be able to figure it out and pay that premium for Apple to do it (ever listened in on those "lessons" at the mac school, not the most tech savvy people).

And if they ever get around to changing up the MB/MBPs, maybe just pay attention to the little things like the space between your ports so I can actually use both usbs at the same time.:rolleyes:

gloomcookie1 said:
... every restaraurant should adopt Mcdonalds dollar menu too...
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Yeah, I agree with that statement. ;) But even at the $1500-$2k optinos offered by those companies (not the restaurants) still offer way more in terms of performance and hardware options. I can pick 4 things for a MBP 15"...HDD, RAM, Graphics, Display type (matte or glassy). And they start at $2k for dedicated graphics...

I'll still buy Apple notebooks, but I know that I'm paying more than I should be. Though if I get around to building a desktop, its going to be a hackintosh or windows machine.
 
We're finally getting the mythical, oft rumored, oft wished for, upgradeable, mac mini tower!!!! ;)
 
Thomas2006 said:
As far as processors are concerned, Apple is between a rock and a hard place. They can stay with dual-core and use the Core i7-620M (32nm Westmere microarchitecture) running at 2.66 GHz (3.33 GHz turbo) or move to quad-core and use the Core i7-920XM (45nm Nehalem microarchitecture) running at 2.0 GHz (3.2 GHz turbo). Maybe the Core i7-620M will be standard and the Core i7-920XM will be a CTO option.
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There's also the possibility of yet another (dual-core) Penryn update.

Fudzilla on price:

Fudzilla said:
As for the when, sources tell us that we will see a launch in February 2010. It is said that it will retail for between less than $1,000 when it arrives. Our sources seem to believe that the price will likely be between $799 and $899, and it is less likely that it will be closer to the $1,000 price point.
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cg0def said:
Are you honestly going to argue that you need a blueray drive in your computer? The only thing that you can currently use the format for is watching movies. And as much as I appreciate high def, even on the 17" MBPs a dvd quality video is enough. I have no doubts that one day all MBPs will come with a blue ray drive but I would much rather want them to wait until someone manufactures a fast burner with a relatively low price. And that is not likely to happen in the next 1-2 years so suck it up.
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I don't need a BD Drive in my computer but will NOT purchase my first iMac (or any mac for that matter) until it supports this technology. The moment it's released, I'll purchase it.
 
djellison said:
Not enough. You can buy a quad core machine with 4gb of ram and an HDD 3x the size, for £100 less than that.

The Mac Mini is bargin-basement parts. it needs to be bargin basement prices.
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It would also be much bigger, so that's a different market you're talking about. We're talking about a small computer here and at £399, it would give Dell's Studio Hybrid (which is aimed at the same market) a run for its money.
 
mdntcallr said:
no new mac laptop for me until BLU-RAY!!!

sorry, time passes and Apple continues to just stonewall this new technology
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I won't buy an iMac until it includes a Blu-Ray player. I agree about Apple stonewalling; if the licensing issues were prohibitive, why is Apple alone in not offering it? :rolleyes:
 
wdaleherring said:
I don't need a BD Drive in my computer but will NOT purchase my first iMac (or any mac for that matter) until it supports this technology. The moment it's released, I'll purchase it.
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That's right. Stick to your guns!

The BD burner argument is actually a null argument anyway. Before Apple introduced DVD burners in all their macs, they were expensive too. Once Apple decides they want BD burners in all their macs, there will be a sudden drop in the cost of the drives, as everyone and their brother enter into a bidding war for the rights.

Bottom line, if a computer (_any_ computer) doesn't do what you want it to do, you won't be happy with it, and they are still too expensive to own one that you feel you compromised on.

As I've said many times on this forum. If you can afford to wait before buying a new computer, it is always better to wait. If you can no longer afford to wait, then you should buy.

Eventually Apple will adopt BD drives. Certainly, once BluRay players are common in most households, people are going to want to produce disks usable on those players.

You may have to buy before Apple adopts BluRay, if that's the case, and it still matters to you a lot (more than the OS and other goodies associated with Apple), you can always pick up a Windows 7 machine somewhere. Choice is good.
 
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