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Apple Releases Core 2 Duo iMac, Adds 24" Model

If release products is standard during a week with a holiday in it. Then I cant see them updating the MB next tuesday at a big event, seeing as a 24" iMac is much bigger news. The only reason they will have the MBP at the event, is if there is a new case design, but it is a pro machine, and the event will more likely be consumer based.

So I would say its going to be iPod/iTunes or maybe a new iTunes, as now its movies too?!?
 
asterizk said:
In case you guys were wondering (I had to search around a little), the res on the 24"er is 1900x1200.
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Yes, which means that it is exactly the same resolution as the 23" cinema display (meaning it might as well be 23", with slightly bigger pixels). Too bad Apple could not have increased the resoltion a little; I wonder why?

However, I am not about to complain... This is a very nice release indeed. :)
 
zap2 said:
TheKrillr said:
I wouldn't be surprised if we saw a Conroe 2.4Ghz in a mini-tower called just "Mac" very soon.
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The only reason they would call it "Mac" would be in Johnathn Ives was either dead or VERY drunk when he named it
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Amen to that. No way in hell would Steve allow them to call a Mac "Mac." Mac is the term for all the computers with the Mac OS running on them. You'd go into the store and say "I'd like to buy a Mac" and they'd say "OK, which one?" to which you'd reply "A Mac" and so on and so on.

It's like when Americans come into the café and ask for a coffee to which I say "What type of coffee" and they say "A Coffee." I then run through the usual options (all espresso based, we drink no brewed coffee here) and confused, they pause and say "Can I get a coffee." I then belt them round the head.

There would be a lot of belted heads if Apple called a Mac "Mac" and I worked in an Apple store.
 
milozauckerman said:
A nice computer, and I suspect it will sell well, but I'm not sold.

Basically, with Apple Student Developer prices, I can get an iMac 24"/7600GT/1GB/500GB for the same price as a MP 2.66/1GB/160GB/X1900XT. While I'd like the 24" HD screen, I already own ye old 20" ACDs.

'Power' users (or prosumers) are still better served with the various flavors o' Mac Pro - and would be served better yet by a mid-tower option.
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Would be interesting if they introduced a mini-cube... something looking like a mini, but instead os a rectangular solid (6.5x6.5x2 inches) it'd be a cube at 6.5x6.5x6.5 (inches).
 
milo said:
Enough already with mp3 player crap. It will never happen. Apple does not like to copy the PC world.

Enough already with "mini-computer" crap. It will never happen. Apple does not like to copy the PC world.

:rolleyes:
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MP3 player? What are those. Apple sells a digital music player and heavly promotes AAC. MP3, come on that's so Y2K.

Alright you got me. But mini towers just are so ugly and useless. How about a Cube. Would that satisfy the mini tower people.
 
thank you apple for releasing on a wed instead of a tuesday! may have just been because of the long weekend but for once we can all stop crying on tuesdays.
 
*Suddenly feels the urge to sell Powerbook and buy 24" iMac*
 
Ok... I can't decide whether just under £400 is worth it for the 4 inches of extra screen and the better GPU...

What do you think?

If I bought either that machine or the next one down, they'd have the 256MB card upgrade.
 
EGT said:
*Suddenly feels the urge to sell Powerbook and buy 24" iMac*
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-sticks you in a padded room with big guards and keeps your powerbook in a safe until you recover from this insanity-

There's probably a reason you have a laptop, so you should keep it. You'd look silly carrying a 24" imac around in your briefcase/backpack/whatever anyway :p
 
milo said:
Enough already with mp3 player crap. It will never happen. Apple does not like to copy the PC world.

Enough already with "mini-computer" crap. It will never happen. Apple does not like to copy the PC world.

:rolleyes:
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I really don't see the ligic in your statement. Creative was making MP3 players before Apple. Are they the "PC world?" No, they are not, they don't even make computers.
 
DavidLeblond said:
Just think about how many emails/websites you could view AT ONE TIME on a 24" display. Is that not worth the cost??!? ;)
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Well, it is the exact same number as one can with an Apple 23" display, as Apple kept it at the same resolution instead of taking advantage of that extra inch. (1900 x 1200) :confused:
 
milozauckerman said:
A nice computer, and I suspect it will sell well, but I'm not sold.

Basically, with Apple Student Developer prices, I can get an iMac 24"/7600GT/1GB/500GB for the same price as a MP 2.66/1GB/160GB/X1900XT. While I'd like the 24" HD screen, I already own ye old 20" ACDs.

'Power' users (or prosumers) are still better served with the various flavors o' Mac Pro - and would be served better yet by a mid-tower option.
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Agreed, a MacPro sporting a 2GB/2.66GHz Xeon/X1900XT/BT+AE/160GB drive would cost me £1780, a maxed out 24" iMac would cost me £1668 and i'll have to throw it away when i fill up the HDD and use up the 3GB RAM or outgrow the Graphics card....or even processor.

There is just no point really....well for me anyways
 
~Shard~ said:
Yeah, you'd never see Apple moving to an Intel architecture or running Windows on a Mac - yep, never... :rolleyes: :p :cool:



What about those who want the power of the iMac without it being an AIO? What about people who have their own monitors? What are their non-AIO options? A mini or the Mac Pro - there is a huge gap between these 2 models, no? And don't say that's where the iMac goes - it's an AIO so it's in its own category. :cool:

I doubt it will ever happen as well, but I still see the gap which it could theoretically address.
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But Apple does not see it to be a gap. Adding another machine will just confuse consumers. Have you been to Dell's website lately.

Apple did try this before. It was called the Cube. A computer that everyone loved, but no one bought. I for one serously looked at it and in the end decided to spend the extra money and get the tower. I assume most other people also went that path. And at the time the iMac or the Mini (which didn't exist) weren't even a option.
 
Ok... I can't decide whether just under £400 is worth it for the 4 inches of extra screen and the better GPU...

What do you think?

If I bought either that machine or the next one down, they'd have the 256MB card upgrade.
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Im in the same boat bro!
I think the 20' is still a great size tbh! (£800 in the edu store is way cool!)
 
For those wondering about graphics performance...

"Benchmarks revealed that the 7600GT seriously outperformed its original market opponent, the ATI Radeon X1600 XT, ATI reduced prices of its Radeon X850XT PE (the fastest video card of its previous-generation product line) and introduced the X1800 GTO, which was slighty more expensive than the 7600GT but slightly faster thanks to its 256 bit memory bus, higher peak pixel fill rate and more raw shading power."
 
whatever said:
But Apple does not see it to be a gap.
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I hate this "Apple gives us what they want and we like it or lump it" attitude many of you have.

I doesn't MATTER if Apple sees a gap or not. If consumers see one then those are potential Mac customers that are lost.

And they WILL see a gap when they're looking at Conroe PC desktops compared to laptop based iMac's.

Apple, like any company, should be bending over backwards to get every customer they can. Not the other way around.
 
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