Apple Says New iMacs Geared Towards Pros Coming Later This Year

[MysteryMii215]

Coffee Lake Intel 8th Gen chips are arriving in 2H 2017, so I hope they delayed the iMac to have those processors put into the new iMac in October (hoping for October rather than December). The high-end desktops will appear somewhere in July-onward.

Let's hope they don't give us Kaby Lake with DDR4 at that time. I'd buy a couple desktops, if that is the case.

To be completely fair, the new iMacs could come at WWDC.

Also, Coffee Lake is going to use the same LGA1151 socket as both Skylake and Kaby Lake used. So it could be possible that they could launch with Kaby Lake iMacs in the summer at WWDC, and then update the computers with Coffee Lake when that launches in 2H 2017. (Assuming 200 and 100 series motherboard chipsets get a BIOS update to support the new CPUs like Kaby Lake).

 

[keysofanxiety]

*cough* GTX 1050 and 1050 Ti *cough*

*cough* Nvidia suck for FCPX/LPX and even a 2016 15" rMBP would make mincemeat of one of those GPUs if you're basing performance on Apple's Pro Apps *cough*

(that was a big ol' cough)

 

[iModFrenzy]

Hope I can keep my 2013 iMac up and running that long, it's on it's last legs.

I'm still using a MacBook Pro 13" Mid-2010... and it runs perfect for all the pro work I'm doing(Photoshop, Premier Pro,coding,etc) but please tell me why the iMac is on its last legs?

 

[Mr. Dee]

Well, this is a sign, what the company announced today regarding the Mac Pro, is likely what they are going to do with the MacBook Pro too; realize that it is too darn thin to be truly a useful professional machine. They are likely to restore the 2015 chassis.

 

[shk718]

Hope I can keep my 2013 iMac up and running that long, it's on it's last legs.

my iMac is from 2011 and is like new - what kinds of problems are you haveing with a newer model - on it's last legs???

 

[CPark98]

I still have an early '08 iMac 24 inch with 4 gb of ram and it has served me well and still runs El Capitan pretty good but I am looking for a more powerful machine to replace it, so hopefully this next-gen iMac won't disappoint.

 

[Apple Knowledge Navigator]

I think Phil's had a few ales.

 

[MysteryMii215]

*cough* Nvidia suck for FCPX/LPX and even a 2016 15" rMBP would make mincemeat of one of those GPUs if you're basing performance on Apple's Pro Apps *cough*

(that was a big ol' cough)

I was pointing out that the 1050 and 1050 Ti could make the computers cost-friendly while having a Nvidia GPU in them. I'm not saying they SHOULD use them. (The GTX 1060 could also work in that case, but still)

 

[canadianreader]

:/ Could later this year mean WWDC?!?

I don't want to wait

I was thinking about October since he used "later" not "soon"

 

[canadianreader]

RIP Mac Mini

 

[shk718]

I wonder how they are going to beat Surface Studio because their current OS policy is what it is. Meaning separate OS for touch devices and desktop.

i bet they add pencil support.

 

[MysteryMii215]

i bet they add pencil support.

The Apple Pencil can't work without a touch screen.
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I wonder how they are going to beat Surface Studio

Simple, better specs at the same price as the Surface Studio.

 

[mr.steevo]

I still have an early '08 iMac 24 inch with 4 gb of ram and it has served me well and still runs El Capitan pretty good but I am looking for a more powerful machine to replace it, so hopefully this next-gen iMac won't disappoint.

I have an '07 iMac and I was shocked to see it got a security update the other day. Apple did well with these iMacs.

 

[Weaselboy]

RIP Mac Mini

I don't think so. The Gruber article mentions the Mini.

http://daringfireball.net/2017/04/the_mac_pro_lives

Near the end, John Paczkowski had the presence of mind to ask about the Mac Mini, which hadn’t been mentioned at all until that point. Schiller: “On that I’ll say the Mac Mini is an important product in our lineup and we weren’t bringing it up because it’s more of a mix of consumer with some pro use. … The Mac Mini remains a product in our lineup, but nothing more to say about it today.”

 

[BeamWalker]

If they take this freakin' long they better completely update the design as well and get rid of those thick bezels.

 

[Roller]

Hope I can keep my 2013 iMac up and running that long, it's on it's last legs.

My late 2012 iMac (27", 3.4 GHz i7) is still chugging along fine.

I hope that the next iMac has more than a CPU/GPU/other component refresh. I'd love to see a height-adjustable monitor and easily-accessbile ports in the base or on the front.

 

[albebaubles]

The article mentioned the new iMac will have configurations targeted at large segments of the Pro market. This is really interesting to me. I'm in the segment where I might not need a full on Mac Pro, but a higher spec'd iMac would be pretty great. This is the best news of the past year.

Let this be a lesson to all: Gruber is the guy. He's usually right and has the connections. Don't doubt him.

gruber is right because he gets his info from apple.

 

[Dave245]

Simple, better specs at the same price as the Surface Studio.

But without the touch screen, Apple wont do and i don't think they should. I'm very interested in this "pro" iMac that Phil mentioned tho.
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My late 2012 iMac (27", 3.4 GHz i7) is still chugging along fine.

I hope that the next iMac has more than a CPU/GPU/other component refresh. I'd love to see a height-adjustable monitor and easily-accessbile ports in the base or on the front.

I've also got the 2012 iMac, it's been a great machine. I'm waiting to see if we get a redesign before buying a new one, that 5K screen looks really good tho even for day to day tasks.

 

[TurboPGT!]

At least the incessant whining can stop.

 

[Merode]

I hope at least we'll get RX 5xx GPUs, AMD is close to rebranding the 4xx ones (5xx = 4xx + few MHz = more $$). If I had to say it, I would pick Nvidia over AMD. In my HTPC I started with a RX460, but swapped that for a GTX1050 TI. Much lower power and specially for video decoding much more powerfull (4K HEVC and VP9).

nVidia has great drivers going for it. AMD on the other hand has better architecture and performs better in Vulkan.

While nVidia has slight edge right now, AMD is more future-proof in my opinion.

 

[truthertech]

Before everyone gets their hopes up, absolutely nothing is known about what this upgrade means, or how it will compare hardware-wise with other brands of computers.

You don't need to start forecasting doom and gloom but a healthy dose of skepticism is probably warranted.

Get out of that negative rut--life is too short

 

[1Zach1]

What's wrong with it? It should still be a great computer at 3.5 years old.

I'm still using a MacBook Pro 13" Mid-2010... and it runs perfect for all the pro work I'm doing(Photoshop, Premier Pro,coding,etc) but please tell me why the iMac is on its last legs?

my iMac is from 2011 and is like new - what kinds of problems are you haveing with a newer model - on it's last legs???

It's become extremely slow to load and run programs, even simple functions like getting iTunes or Chrome booted up can take 10 minutes.
I also have regular (once a day) crashes of iTunes, Aperture, iMovie, Chrome etc.
Regular (every few days) unprompted reboots, 20-30 minutes to get it to wake up from the Sleep function overnight.

I recently went through the dreaded (I don't know if it's really dreaded, but it sounded good) MacOS update crash bug, where the iMac wouldn't load past a black screen. Finally figured out it was a known issue and followed the steps I found online to get the update to fully load, but I am still having the above issues.

 

[truthertech]

I hope this marks the beginning of a new era of greater transparency (and regularity) in upgrading their desktop computers. The amount of (legitimate) angst Apple's actions (or lack thereof) have caused in the pro/prosumer community of Apple users was reaching toxic levels and IMHO had begun to threaten the Mac's status as a platform people can count on long term.

Still, the proof will be in the pudding, and while the spec bumped Mac Pro's are a nice start, Apple's got a long road ahead of them if they want to regain user trust.

Actually, if you read carefully, you'll see that sales show user trust is doing just fine; they are just acting to keep it.

 

[andy.ringwood]

There you are. You can all shut up now.

Why do you think Apple focus a lot on iPhone? Oh yeah, because it makes up the majority of their revenue. Why would they focus on something like the iMac?

 

[TMRJIJ]

It's become extremely slow to load and run programs, even simple functions like getting iTunes or Chrome booted up can take 10 minutes.
I also have regular (once a day) crashes of iTunes, Aperture, iMovie, Chrome etc.
Regular (every few days) unprompted reboots, 20-30 minutes to get it to wake up from the Sleep function overnight.

I recently went through the dreaded (I don't know if it's really dreaded, but it sounded good) MacOS update crash bug, where the iMac wouldn't load past a black screen. Finally figured out it was a known issue and followed the steps I found online to get the update to fully load, but I am still having the above issues.

Sounds like you need a fresh OS install.