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I'm amazed about the whole Blue_ray debate. Would it be nice to have a BTO option - sure it would. In a perfect world, you could BTO the exact system you want. But all this discussion about how many people want BR vs. those who don't is a waste of time. If it's something you want, GREAT. If you don't find it useful, - GREAT. I don't understand all this energy around telling the other camp why they are wrong. It's kinda like hamburgers. Some people want pickles, some don't. Who here would stand in line at Burger King and tell someone they ordered THEIR burger wrong?

PS - the only reason I even bring this up is that it's hard to read through all that when I'm looking for info on what IS in the iMac. Maybe there should be another thread to discuss who cares one way or the other about BR. </rant>

Gettin a 27" quad and excited about it. Glad they added the video input. I have a MBP for my business machine that I use at home sometimes. It will be nice to use the 27" display for that.
 
You serious? "Outside" is your breaking point?!

To quote that Irish guy on the movie Titanic... "We'll you give us a chance to live?!"

Live without mirrored reflection - If I wanted to see myself, I'd go look in an actual mirror!

Live without light reflection - Some lighting is not manually adjusted and one has to deal with it

Live without window daylight reflection - my desk is in such a position that my back is to the window, but no worries, I have a nice mirror copy in my monitor!

All of which I contended with and said no freaking way, Apple!

HEY APPLE.... GLOSSY SCREENS ARE VERY ANNOYING! NOT TO MENTION THEY SCREW WITH MY EYES AND THEY ARE BAD ENOUGH AS IT IS! Matte BTO, please!!!!!! Except you need to give a coupon. Why should matte screen devotees have to pay for matte now when they didn't in the past. It was Apple's decision to go with glossy, why do we have to suffer physically as well as monetarily?!

Whoa, settle down Francis. That's my opinion. I primarily use my MacBook Pro's inside, and the glossy has never bothered me. I've even used it outside and it didn't bother me.

So before you jump down someone else's throat for their opinion, I suggest you settle down. And if you don't like glossy, then don't buy Apple. Simple as that. Bitching about it on a non-Apple site really isn't going to get you far. Should matte be an option on every computer? Sure. Do I care? No. Does Apple care? Clearly not.
 
Now i realize the meaning of the 27" 2560x1440.

It is for 1280x720 (720p) HD x 2! It means every pixel in the 720p film will light up 2x2 = 4 pixels on this new screen. So you can stand far away and watch low rez HD!

What an expensive way of doing it! Four times the required processing power, drivers, screen resolution etc.

Is this really a great idea? I should have preferred a 27" 1920x1080 and sit further away from the screen. Great on the desk so I could use the desk for papers etc in front of the screen.


whu?
 
Yay! Just now I have noticed that it's a Radeon 4670 :D So there IS hope for my hackintosh after all :D

Unibody MacBook + Hackintosh = happiness :D
 
For those of you complaining about bluray I have a solution for you...

Get one of these and tape it to the back :p

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http://www.techcurse.com/2008/10/17/amex-portable-blu-ray-burner-for-your-new-mac/
 
It's kinda like hamburgers. Some people want pickles, some don't. Who here would stand in line at Burger King and tell someone they ordered THEIR burger wrong?
I agree 100%. The problem is, Apple isn't offering the choice of pickles.
 
Apparently a lot of mac users think because they are not interested in Blu-ray, every other mac user should be denied even having the option, despite it being supported in Windows for ages now.

Not really "ages" at all - didn't Blu-ray support in Windows come after Microsoft's chosen format (HD-DVD) bit the bullet?

These types of decisions may seem irrational but they're entirely strategic. Microsoft went with HD-DVD. It flopped. So MS incorporated Blu-ray support (only a year ago I believe).

Apple's failure to give us a Blu-ray option is obviously not a technical issue, but a strategic one. The wrong decision in my opinion, but it is what it is.
 
That's what I'm wondering. Blu-ray is nothing special and will NEVER replace DVD's.. plain and simple. Get over it people.

Not really. So far Blu-Ray adoption is at 8%. At this point in the DVD's cycle it was 4% (as in when DVD's were introduced, at this time of the life cycle it was at 4 %. In addition, Blu Ray Sales are up by 91% since last year, and DVD's are down 16%. The facts speak for themselves.
 
I was going to buy an imac but this update really isn't for me. I can understand peoples excitement but give it a few days and I think it will wear off. Seriously look at the prices, absolutely ridiculous complete joke. Yes Apple make expensive computers but the hardware is still not at the price it should be.

The screen sizes are odd. I would have liked a 20". The 16:9 ratio is a good move though.

The silver chin is still there. This should have been scrapped.

Quad core should be standard now.

Blu ray should be an option.

Video input should be available on 21.5"

Maybe even go as far as saying USB 3 should have been put in for future proofing for the next few years. The standard has been finalised now.

Oh well next time maybe.
 
I agree 100%. The problem is, Apple isn't offering the choice of pickles.

Oh I agree with you completely. As I said in my OP, it would be great if we all had a laundry list of options to get exactly what we want, but in some cases Apple is not giving people options (BR, SSD, more USB etc.). One tangible way to give feedback to Apple is not to buy their products if they don't offer the right features.
 
New 27 GPU choice seems a bit weak to drive that display!

Man I really want to upgrade my 24 iMac with the new 27 but the GPU choice is questionable. I continue to have to keep a fully up to date gaming PC for nothing but games. It would be fantastic if I could do everything on my iMac.

I know this thing won't be able to handle Windows gaming at those resolutions, I can only hope the rest of the user experience is acceptable. I wonder how many other users are forced to keep a Windows box just for games.....
 
Whew!

I was in my local the other day trying to replace a dying G5. I just couldn't bring myself to part with Aus$ 4,500 for a base Mac Pro. Any reason why an i7 iMac (at under $3K) wouldn't be a (far) better option? (plus I can flog that ugly old 24" Dell screen!).
 
I LOVE it! I think I'll have to say that SSD options and blu-ray are the next logical steps. They should be offered already but whatever.

What's BS is that they dropped the C2D's down to 3mb cache from the old 6mb cache. What are the new model numbers on the C2D's?

MBP's need an update badly. The hdd and ram all need updating as well as the processors. Why not update them at the same time as the rest?
 
I hope they never use anything but glossy screens on every iMac from here forward (infinitely) just to hear more people complain about it.
 
Who cares about officials?
It's still just as good for what you do today as it was yesterday.

But you don't get the prestige of saying that you have the latest model. Some people care about that. (obviously not me, but I'm just saying....)
 
Man I really want to upgrade my 24 iMac with the new 27 but the GPU choice is questionable. I continue to have to keep a fully up to date gaming PC for nothing but games. It would be fantastic if I could do everything on my iMac.

I know this thing won't be able to handle Windows gaming at those resolutions, I can only hope the rest of the user experience is acceptable. I wonder how many other users are forced to keep a Windows box just for games.....

That's the only thing that annoys me, you won't be running games at the full res. Will any res under the max one on the monitor look blurry? Like if I play one now at 1280x800 it will look fine, but then if I put it to 1680x10050 and back again, you realise it is blurry. Would it be the same between 1950x1080 and the other ridiculously high resolution? Or would 1080P look good no matter what?
 
Yes Apple make expensive computers but the hardware is still not at the price it should be.

Are you aware of the price of IPS panels?

The 27" is 1000$ worth and the 21.5 is 400$ worth...

If you're not aware, get an HP/Dell/etc all-in-one with crappy TN panel...(and you still pay them a lot)...
 
BD "never achieved critical mass"? Whats this nonsense? Do you read the news at all? BD this year is up over 86% compared to last year. At the beginning of the year, BD was being adopted at TWICE the rate DVD was adopted. That means that BD is being adopted even faster still than DVD was at the very same point in its life. When DVD was 2.5-3 years old, it only had 4% market share. Blu-ray at the same point had 8%. And its growing faster still.

So all of this talk about blu-ray not being adopted or being DOA is nonsense. It's a very successful format and being adopted faster than DVD ever was. Don't forget that DVD was NOT an overnight success. It was introduced early in 1997 in the US and didn't achieve 51% market share until 2003.

Also, licensing was just an excuse for Apple to push iTunes "HD" (if you can even call it that, since it looks so terrible) instead of adopting blu-ray. More than a year ago, PC notebooks were available with blu-ray drives at the $800 and below mark. Right now I can go over to HP and buy an 18" system with a 16x9 display, GeForce GT 230 1GB, Core i7, 4GB DDR3, 320GB 7200 RPM HDD, and a host of other features for $400 less than the cost of a 15.4" MBP with integrated graphics.

Oh yeah, excuse me while I literally laugh out loud at the thought of paying $2,000 for a computer with a Core i5, when I could built a desktop with a better display, much faster processor, more RAM, much faster GPU, etc. for about half as much.
What is your hourly rate? Build me a Hackintosh All-In-One with the same, or better specs as the 27" quad-core i7 iMac, LED ISP 2560 x 1440 for half the cost, and I'm in.
 
What is your hourly rate? Build me a Hackintosh All-In-One with the same, or better specs as the 27" quad-core i7 iMac, LED ISP 2560 x 1440 for half the cost, and I'm in.

This is going to get interesting...

*pops some popcorn*
 
Seriously, 27"? Too big.

The previous 24" was too big for my use. 27" is double overkill. If they'd offered a 21.5" model with a quad-core i5 I'd have been very interested. Apple just blew any chance of selling an iMac to me (and I was considering one).
 
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