Wow good catch. This is some serious bulls--t. Shared memory in the iMac. Come on Apple.
Ugh, and a 9400M. AND it's more expensive.
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Wow good catch. This is some serious bulls--t. Shared memory in the iMac. Come on Apple.
Ugh, and a 9400M. AND it's more expensive.
Its a downgrade from a certain card (which apparantly was on the higher up iMac) but it will EASILY meet your needs.
Same Poor Design on the iMac
Despite numerous pleadings via Apple Feedback, Apple continued the bad design of combining analog and Toslink audio out. So what if you want both? Do they offer a splitter so we can use headphones, yet also use our Toslink for audio? NO NO NO!!!! Idiot
Despite numerous pleadings via Apple Feedback, Apple continued the bad design of combining analog and Toslink audio out. So what if you want both? Do they offer a splitter so we can use headphones, yet also use our Toslink for audio? NO NO NO!!!! Idiot
Yes, Apple is using the same basic platform for the entry 20/24 iMacs, MacBooks, MBPs, and Minis. The 9400M on all of those use shared memory. The 9400 series does, however, get put on budget discrete cards, so there's a bona fide full-featured GPU in there (much more than the previous offerings from Intel). Stay calm and wait for the real world benchmarks. I'll be just as miffed if these things don't perform.
What the hell? How many people out there do you really think fall into the same situation as you? The iMac is a CONSUMER product, I dont even know what you are talking about, why would joe-needs-a-computer?Despite numerous pleadings via Apple Feedback, Apple continued the bad design of combining analog and Toslink audio out. So what if you want both? Do they offer a splitter so we can use headphones, yet also use our Toslink for audio? NO NO NO!!!! Idiot
Its like some people think restructuring a product line for something 1% of users will care about is GOOD business sense!
He has a valid complaint. Several people in the music industry are using iMacs... I'm guessing because they don't want a big ugly metal box sitting in their office. That, or the $3000 in savings...
Thats a problem.
Anyway, as far as APPLE is concerned (again APPLE, not me) the iMac is the CONSUMER computer, not the professional computer.
Been waiting a while to upgrade to a mid range iMac with a dedicated graphics card and decent screen. But not for £1500. Just not prepared to part with that kind of money in this economic climate. Way overpriced, lousy exchange rate or not, for what is a very modest upgrade. Would have considered a mac mini but once you spec it up I'd be paying £700 pounds for what is a bottom of the range machine and no monitor. Just how dumb do Apple take me for? Quite happy to sit this one out...
Can't say I blame you dude. Apple is really getting out of hand here. I mean their prices have always been a little on the "premium" side, but this...I mean it just feels like they're TRYING to push Mac users like ourselves away. This new iMac is a joke. Only hardcore Apple fans would think any hardware shown today was good.
Mobility Radeon 2600 HD isn't the card of the old imac but is the radeon 2600 HD XT
Great! I'll stick with the 24" Just wish the estimated ship time wasn't 8 days...oh well I'm excited!
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please do not compare the Imac with a Mac Pro
I've your in the music industry you want more monitors, more pci-e slots, more, more and more options
the Imac would be in the livingroom
The price to double your RAM from Apple...$1,000!!! Apple REALLY sucks when it comes to the price of RAM!!! I'll stick to my current 4 GB RAM/1 terabyte HD/24 inch iMac!!The only iMac change with this upgrade is more RAM by default.
Past sales are no guarantee of future performance.
It's not simply Apple going for a high cost low quality 'design' strategy. It's doing it in the teeth of a Depression. We'll be 3-4 years into that in a couple of years. I think the World will be a different place. A 'design' strategy wont cut it in that world
Apple wont want to go low cost so computers will get neglected as we're seeing now. Apple will still be around (from the iPhone/ iPod/ CE) but the computer stuff gone (or sold off).
The other thing is look at how car sales fell off a cliff. We are about to see a massive wave of credit card defaults. And I'm guessing many people are used to buying their computers on credit. That will become much more difficult. So sales of the higher priced stuff will plunge.
Apple built up a great brand reputation (certainly in my head) for high quality high spec consumer computers. But they're blowing that reputation and it will be hard to get back once it's lost. Last time it needed a healthy Steve Jobs to turn it around
This is what I see - maybe you're right. This is a parallel universe
care to explain the prices on the old models seeing as again the same models are available but in the uk the price got bumped 26% and in the US it stayed the same.
did the currency go down 26% overnight or what??
2009 worldwide forecast...
Computers shipped 260 million.
Apple computers shipped 13 million.
marketshare worldwide.... 5%.
they are on the cusp of nothing.
That may be so but we'll see how badly those sales tank. Apple isn't exempt from the downturn.
However I predicted no-one would buy the MBA rev a and I was wrong
lots of people bought them...
at $999
"MacMini: Welcome to 2004!" -Digg.com from today.
I'm impressed as to how much they updated today. In fact, the TC/AE is impressive: I'm always switching my AEBS back and forth to 5 and 2.4 GHz. I turn it up to 5 when I need to transfer files but then I need to turn it back down otherwise my PC and iPhone won't work. Kinda dumb to go buy a 200$ router because of this problem though...
Also, i don't think the new iMac is enough to make me sell my white 24" iMac which is somehow feeling ancient compared to these new models. The grand-daddy iMac looks great!
I'm impressed as to how much they updated today. In fact, the TC/AE is impressive: I'm always switching my AEBS back and forth to 5 and 2.4 GHz. I turn it up to 5 when I need to transfer files but then I need to turn it back down otherwise my PC and iPhone won't work. Kinda dumb to go buy a 200$ router because of this problem though...
Also, i don't think the new iMac is enough to make me sell my white 24" iMac which is somehow feeling ancient compared to these new models. The grand-daddy iMac looks great!