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Analyst: iMac and MacBook Updates Coming Within Weeks?
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Corax
macrumors 6502
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...
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?
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!
Bubba Satori
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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.
Anonymouslives
macrumors 6502
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.
AlexisV
macrumors 68000
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.
Bubba Satori
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AAPLaday
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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 🙄
Yea the last time they did that they did what to the white macbook exactly???
DaBrain
macrumors 65816
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--)))
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--)))
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.
Processor went from 2.0GHz to 2.13GHz and hard drive went from 120GB to 160GB.
http://www.soft32.com/s/Windows/System_Utilities/Memory_Management/3-66-0-0.html -> There's 40 options.
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.🙄
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.
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.🙄
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!!!! 😉
There's also the possibility of yet another (dual-core) Penryn update.
Fudzilla on price:
Fudzilla 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.
BlizzardBomb
macrumors 68030
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.
mac 2005
macrumors 6502a
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? 🙄
dernhelm
macrumors 68000
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.