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Apple Releases Core 2 Duo iMac, Adds 24" Model

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See this - the price of the spec I want in US Dollars, when converted to British Pounds, is...£1337!

Truly a message to poor gamers who cannot afford the Mac Pro...
 
hmmm..... may pick up one of the large ones.

wanna play with one at an apple store first though. also see if i can upgrade the graphics card. or see if the one included is good enough for photography and gaming.
 
A maxed out 24" is $3,384.00

:eek:

mdntcallr said:
hmmm..... may pick up one of the large ones.

wanna play with one at an apple store first though. also see if i can upgrade the graphics card. or see if the one included is good enough for photography and gaming.
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There is a 256MB option.
 
milo said:
Of course! This announcement doesn't have any effect on a MBP release (although the MB may not get the update yet).
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iMac and Mini updates today. maybe MBP updates today or this week also? make the media on the 12th all about the iPod and movies.
 
Wow, this is great news, I'm impressed - I never saw a 24" iMac in the cards!

And, since it's Merom, this makes the likelihood of seeing a Conroe minitower even better - after all, Apple has to stick the Conroe chip in something, right? ;) :D As it stands now, since Merom is technically the "mobile chip", Apple has 5 mobile solutions (2 mobile MB/MBPs, 3 not-so-mobile iMacs) and a workstation solution (Mac Pro), so where is the desktop solution? :p :cool:
 
Aussie prices up - 24" a bit exxy.

1.83GHz 17" iMac - $1549
2.00GHz 17" iMac - $1849
2.16GHz 20" iMac - $2299
2.16GHz 24" iMac - $2999

3GB RAM upgrade is $1400 :eek:

That's a bit higher than I'd thought for the 24" model, I was thinking about $2599 but ah well.

Off to check out edu prices.

EDIT - Edu prices more reasonable:

1.83GHz 17" iMac - $1393.70
2.00GHz 17" iMac - $1664.30
2.16GHz 20" iMac - $2069.10
2.16GHz 24" iMac - $2699.40
 
~Shard~ said:
Wow, this is great news, I'm impressed - I never saw a 24" iMac in the cards!

And, since it's Merom, this makes the likelihood of seeing a Conroe minitower even better - after all, Apple has to stick the Conroe chip in something, right? ;) :D As it stands now, since Merom is technically the "mobile chip", Apple has 5 mobile solutions (2 mobile MB/MBPs, 3 not-so-mobile iMacs) and a workstation solution (Mac Pro), so where is the desktop solution? :p :cool:
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Workstations sit on desktops. :p :D
 
carlos700 said:
I believe the GeForce 7600 GT is on par with the X1800 GT, faster in some cases, slower in others. It's a pretty good graphics card. I would just like to see the GeForce 7600 GT bump out the 7300 GT on Mac Pro.
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Does anyone know how the 7300GT compares to the X1600? I am leaning towards the 20" to replace my 17" rev. A iMacG5, but would upgrade to the 24" is the GPU is a big bump.
 
Chundles said:
1.83GHz 17" iMac - $1549
2.00GHz 17" iMac - $1849
2.16GHz 20" iMac - $2299
2.16GHz 24" iMac - $2999

That's a bit higher than I'd thought for the 24" model, I was thinking about $2599 but ah well.

Off to check out edu prices.
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It's $1999 Stateside. It's actually proportionally cheaper in the currency conversion than the 17" stripper base model.
 
Machead III said:
Every manufacturer and their mother has announced Core 2 Duo portables, and most of them consumer models too. Sheesh, I mean there are Core 2 Duo tablets, if they can do that, Apple can do bloody MacBooks.
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Yep, ANNOUNCED. But most of them still aren't shipping for a few days. Apple can still wait a bit to announce merom MBP and STILL beat most of the pc's to market.
 
Hey quick question.

I was originally going to get the 20". With the proc upgrade, ram upgrade, and graphics upgrade.

But now I'm looking at the 24" with only a ram upgrade. I'm not a "pro" so would I really notice a diff with the proc upgrade? And isn't the 128mb 7300 still much better than the 256mb 1600?

The price diff between those two models still puts it at the price I was planning on spending on the 20" before the upgrades happened.... what should I do? I mean 24" is a nice size, but what I'm looking at is brighter screen, better speakers, better vid card... thats where I should be going right?
 
micvog said:
Does anyone know how the 7300GT compares to the X1600? I am leaning towards the 20" to replace my 17" rev. A iMacG5, but would upgrade to the 24" is the GPU is a big bump.
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Well, it seems to be comparable with the X1800 GT, and that card is alot faster than the X1600.
 
~Shard~ said:
And, since it's Merom, this makes the likelihood of seeing a Conroe minitower even better - after all, Apple has to stick the Conroe chip in something, right? ;) :D As it stands now, since Merom is technically the "mobile chip", Apple has 5 mobile solutions (2 mobile MB/MBPs, 3 not-so-mobile iMacs) and a workstation solution (Mac Pro), so where is the desktop solution? :p :cool:
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Fingers crossed!
 
this 7300 GT...is this a mobile chip that we might possibly see in the mbp?
 
DavidLeblond said:
And isn't the 128mb 7300 still much better than the 256mb 1600?
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Yes, it is still better. Although the 7600, for $125, will make things even better than that.
 
charris said:
Forgive me if this isn't new, but I just noticed that you can order the BT keyboard and mighty mouse as a package for $60 ($54 edu discount). Given that the BT MM alone is $69, this is a great deal.
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But you don't get the wired keyboard/mouse if you do that. In other words, the $60 is really more like $100 with a $40 credit for the wired kb/mouse.
 
Le Big Mac said:
But you don't get the wired keyboard/mouse if you do that. In other words, the $60 is really more like $100 with a $40 credit for the wired kb/mouse.
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Isn't a wired keyboard required when initially setting up the computer?
 
charris said:
Forgive me if this isn't new, but I just noticed that you can order the BT keyboard and mighty mouse as a package for $60 ($54 edu discount). Given that the BT MM alone is $69, this is a great deal.
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So, does anyone want to buy this option with their mac and I'll pay the $60 for both of them. Ok... $70 for your time and shipping. ;)

~Shard~ And said:
something[/i], right? ;) :D As it stands now, since Merom is technically the "mobile chip", Apple has 5 mobile solutions (2 mobile MB/MBPs, 3 not-so-mobile iMacs) and a workstation solution (Mac Pro), so where is the desktop solution? :p :cool:
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Well, lets see where would they put it? Between Mac Mini and iMac.... you know in that $200 difference. Or maybe between iMac and Pro Mac.... in that what $300 difference. It seems like the Mac Mini bump and iMac expansion have left no room in the line-up for another Mac. Even with conroes... all speeds, sizes, prices are covered. There isn't room for a Conroe Mac. Period.

They probably aren't even going to use Conroe chips because I bet its a lot more work to redesign the iMac to use Conroe and then set up another supply chain just for Conroe chips when they could just use Merom and Woodcrest solely, it seems to fulfill their line-up well and makes it simpler for logistics.

I bet you a BT Might Mouse we won't see a Conroe Mac in the next 4 months.
 
Multimedia said:
I Am Pretty Sure It Will Support Two 2GB Sticks For A Total Of 4GB

Yes. I think they just didn't want to scare buyers with an extra $1500 of their insane RAM prices.
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It's possibly a waste of money, though. The 32-bit Napa chipset might make it impossible to use most of the top GiB.

But I'm sure somebody will put 4 GiB in one of these soon and tell us the real story!

(more at https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/2800136/)
 
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