looks like I'm leaning toward a 21.5". I've always thought that the 22" range monitor was the ideal size.
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Apple Releases Updated iMac Models With 21.5- and 27-Inch LED Screens
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I like these new iMacs.
That said, the C2D models are a waste of time. Get the i5/i7 choice if you're going to buy.
That said, the C2D models are a waste of time. Get the i5/i7 choice if you're going to buy.
Same no cost upgrade at the regular store as well and damn that i7 looks awful tempting if only it had e-sata...
You'd have to account for weight, drag, wind velocity, trajectory and throwing speed. Provide those, and I'll give you an idea.
The Core i7 860 outperforms the Core i7 920.
The iMac is better now at raw CPU action.
Get over it. iMac could have dual quad core Xenon CPUs and 16GB of RAM standard and you'd still cry that you can build a cheap ass tower with a crummy display and run it as a Hackintosh for less.
As much as I want one, I don't think I would get the money before the next update, so if I don't I will be able to get the better graphics, but if I do, I'll get one as it will be able to run most games amazingly, and probably at 1080P which is honestly enough for me.
Typically, the first runs of shipments go to Apple Stores. I know when the new unibody MBPs were released, Best Buy got them about four weeks later.
So, I would imagine within the next month.
Your logic is flawed. No one has the amount of storage space required to sustain a library of HD digital downloads. Unless storage space takes over those numbers by a wide margin, you'll still have a healthy chunk that hold on to physical media (ignoring the fact that many are wary of digital ownership only). Apple is simply leveraging their HUGE online marketplace presence due to the fact that not having Blu Ray likely will not hurt them that much.
It doesn't mention the Apple TV but does say "Compatible with Apple products introduced in 2005 or later that have a built-in infrared (IR) receiver."
bluray schmooray
for the blu-ray complainers, maybe a you should consider the fact that physical media is dying a slow and painful death, egged on by high prices and DRM headaches, and I can see where Apple would be tremendously reluctant to support a format that is actively becoming obsolete, before the adoption and density really even grow to a point of mass market concern. yea ok everyone on the bleeding edge just has-to-have blu-ray because for a couple years it was promoted as the Next Great Big Deal, but seriously, how often do you really ever (re) watch stuff on your physical media? Thought not, it just sits on a shelf gathering dust most of the time doesn't it?
I haven't rented or bought anything (music OR movies) on physical media since 2006 and I watch plenty of movies and listen to a ton of music. I'm not a torrent fiend either. I vastly prefer purchasing software via downloadable methods too. Honestly if I never buy a wasteful stupid plastic piece of media ever in my life again, I'll be happy. Downloadable electrons don't gather dust, break, scratch, get yoinked by roommates or get lost under the bed. You just have to be diligent about archival and you're set.
as far as archival / backup goes... geez, how cheap is flash memory getting these days? If you're really that paranoid about hard drive failures, you can make endless redundant copies of backup on existing optical media formats and/or cheap USB memory sticks.
anyone remember laserdisc? yeah, thought not. that format had an equally rabid fanbase, too.
for the blu-ray complainers, maybe a you should consider the fact that physical media is dying a slow and painful death, egged on by high prices and DRM headaches, and I can see where Apple would be tremendously reluctant to support a format that is actively becoming obsolete, before the adoption and density really even grow to a point of mass market concern. yea ok everyone on the bleeding edge just has-to-have blu-ray because for a couple years it was promoted as the Next Great Big Deal, but seriously, how often do you really ever (re) watch stuff on your physical media? Thought not, it just sits on a shelf gathering dust most of the time doesn't it?
I haven't rented or bought anything (music OR movies) on physical media since 2006 and I watch plenty of movies and listen to a ton of music. I'm not a torrent fiend either. I vastly prefer purchasing software via downloadable methods too. Honestly if I never buy a wasteful stupid plastic piece of media ever in my life again, I'll be happy. Downloadable electrons don't gather dust, break, scratch, get yoinked by roommates or get lost under the bed. You just have to be diligent about archival and you're set.
as far as archival / backup goes... geez, how cheap is flash memory getting these days? If you're really that paranoid about hard drive failures, you can make endless redundant copies of backup on existing optical media formats and/or cheap USB memory sticks.
anyone remember laserdisc? yeah, thought not. that format had an equally rabid fanbase, too.
I've said this already, but I'm *VERY* disappointed at the lack of a 5870 or equivalent. The 4850 was a pretty decent card early this year on a 24" screen. But now, almost a year later, it's going to be a HUGE bottleneck at the 27's resolution.
I guess I'll hold out for the Mac Pro refresh.
Yes, depending on what you use the machine for. Photographers, video nuts, graphics artists and programmers will swoon over the ability to finally get quad core in an iMac. At least until the six core Mac Pros hit next year.
The 27-inch display is useless for the Mac OS. How are you supposed to reach the menus when they're so far high and to the left corner.
It's time for Apple to make the Menu float around the desktop.
It's time for Apple to make the Menu float around the desktop.
Think about it. You're already sitting at the top, with the most beautiful and largest LED display Apple has ever created, at 27" with the resolution supporting up to 2560 x 1440 and they decide to yet again, opt out on the very medium that too, is at the very top of the consumer HD food chain, aka, blu-ray.
Without knocking the blu-ray folks for once, if those nay sayers could just try once, to have an imagination, and envision how picture perfect 1080p blu-ray content would look on a display like that. And no don't even bring up iTunes HD movies into this. It's.Not.The.Same.
Surely, a BTO option would have easily sufficed, don't you agree?
are you seriously kidding me? people said the EXACT SAME THING about .mp3 downloads/storage in 2000.
I honestly didn't think Apple would release this much amazing kit without an event or something where-by someone could stand smug on stage and announce them.
How wrong I was.
I've had the big beast a 27" Quad Core 2.8 with the new remote in a basket for the last 20 minutes whilst I gathered up the bottle to hit the complete checkout button.
Just did it, now I feel excited and sick at the same time, hehehe, the latter because I've now gota break it to the missus. Roll on November
P.S.
Oh and I couldn't give a flying f**k about BlueRay, I hate media anyway, I don't have any DVD stuff either, got burnt by that over the years as medium keep changing from tape to CD to DVD to BlueRay, why bother keep having to change media and be stuck with all the old crap, its a mugs game, just keep everything digital nowadays!
How wrong I was.
I've had the big beast a 27" Quad Core 2.8 with the new remote in a basket for the last 20 minutes whilst I gathered up the bottle to hit the complete checkout button.
Just did it, now I feel excited and sick at the same time, hehehe, the latter because I've now gota break it to the missus. Roll on November
P.S.
Oh and I couldn't give a flying f**k about BlueRay, I hate media anyway, I don't have any DVD stuff either, got burnt by that over the years as medium keep changing from tape to CD to DVD to BlueRay, why bother keep having to change media and be stuck with all the old crap, its a mugs game, just keep everything digital nowadays!
I've said this already, but I'm *VERY* disappointed at the lack of a 5870 or equivalent. The 4850 was a pretty decent card early this year on a 24" screen. But now, almost a year later, it's going to be a HUGE bottleneck at the 27's resolution.
I guess I'll hold out for the Mac Pro refresh.
Come on now, they have to have something to put in for the Spring 2010 refresh. 5800 series video card and maybe finally blu-ray would be high on the likely list.