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Apple to "Completely Overhaul" the iPad, iMac, iPhone and MacBook Air in 2012?

Brien said:
Merging the MBA and MBP lines sounds like it might mean crappy CPU/GPU combos and no decent notebook. Hope they're wrong.
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Ivy Bridge chips will have Integrated GPU twice as fast as the current HD3000.
And according to the multitude of tests done around the Internet, the MBA 13" Ultimate with i7 chip is as fast as a Pro machine.

Relax, they just might keep a pair of 13" & 15" models, one Pro, the other Air.
 
I don't know if it is doable at this time but I wish that Apple could make a macbook pro that is extremely thin like the macbook air but performs the exact same (or better) than the current pro.
 
Abazigal said:
The fans more than suffice in keeping the imac cool. That the aluminium body feels hot is irrelevant since you will not be hugging it or having it rest on your lap or anything. I don't plan to touch the internals of my imac ever (never did even with my previous windows desktop CPUs), so the fact that I need suction cups to open it up doesn't really mean anything. I would also worry about a thin metal rod supporting a heavy 27' screen, which seems like it might snap at any moment.

So yes to all your questions. ;)
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King Alekay said:
Yeah! +1 to that!
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The shortsightedness of your comment amuses me.

Even though you will seldom (if ever) touch the back of your iMac, the fact that they are using desktop components that generate so much heat for such a thin thermal envelope means that they need much more in the way of sensors and fans to keep it from overheating. I'm sure you won't open your iMac. Most won't. Most can't. But when your hard drive inevitably dies, you'll need a special hard drive from Apple (read: no third-party drive) that has the special firmware to turn the power pin that would've been the hard drive indicator light (which you don't find on Macs but do on PC desktops) into the connector for the drive's internal temperature sensor, WHICH YOU NEED BECAUSE THAT iMAC GETS THAT HOT, and it will cost you a stupid amount of money when your AppleCare dies as opposed to the third-party drive, which is an option in literally every other Mac because those Macs don't get so close to overheating. But hey, you'll never have to open it up, so why worry?

Also, increased heating issues makes for decreased reliability. At my work, we had more iMacs than any other computer as far as non-accidental/non-REP repairs were concerned.
 
So really I should set aside about £3000 for 2012. :apple:
Better than spending it on hookers and drugs I guess.

I wonder if there's room in the budget for some acid... :p
 
AppleDroid said:
Preparing myself for an onslaught of negatives but here it goes:

iMac + Matte Screen Option.

There I said it and I don't regret anything. :D
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What is this obsession with Matte screen? Its contrast is lacking.Glossy FTW !!
 
Pretty sure desktop Radeons will be happening anyways next year, since the 7000 series will have much lower wattage than the 6000 series.
 
ohbrilliance said:
An overhaul of the MBA without one for the MBP makes no sense. I'd take this rumour with a big grain of salt.
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It could simply mean doing away with the MBP line and consolidating it under the MBA family.

I know many will cry out that engineeringwise, this is not possible, but who knows. They already did away with the macbook, and there's already some overlap between the MBA and MBP line. :)
 
I'm holding onto my Iphone 3G for a little longer in the hope the Iphone 5 is impressive next year. In particular the design.
 
Yebubbleman said:
The shortsightedness of your comment amuses me.

Even though you will seldom (if ever) touch the back of your iMac, the fact that they are using desktop components that generate so much heat for such a thin thermal envelope means that they need much more in the way of sensors and fans to keep it from overheating. I'm sure you won't open your iMac. Most won't. Most can't. But when your hard drive inevitably dies, you'll need a special hard drive from Apple (read: no third-party drive) that has the special firmware to turn the power pin that would've been the hard drive indicator light (which you don't find on Macs but do on PC desktops) into the connector for the drive's internal temperature sensor, WHICH YOU NEED BECAUSE THAT iMAC GETS THAT HOT, and it will cost you a stupid amount of money when your AppleCare dies as opposed to the third-party drive, which is an option in literally every other Mac because those Macs don't get so close to overheating. But hey, you'll never have to open it up, so why worry?

Also, increased heating issues makes for decreased reliability. At my work, we had more iMacs than any other computer as far as non-accidental/non-REP repairs were concerned.
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'The shortsightedness of your comment amuses me.' Your contempt amuses me. Why don't you stop looking down on people because they may not know as much about computers as you? I'm not tech savvy at all. Also, Why does that mean that you should go back to an older design? Just improve the cooling system on the current design.
 
mganai said:
Pretty sure desktop Radeons will be happening anyways next year, since the 7000 series will have much lower wattage than the 6000 series.
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Any word on when those are due out?

Abazigal said:
It could simply mean doing away with the MBP line and consolidating it under the MBA family.

I know many will cry out that engineeringwise, this is not possible, but who knows. They already did away with the macbook, and there's already some overlap between the MBA and MBP line. :)
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What overlap? There's no overlap, you have an 11" MacBook Air that has a weak processor, an okay amount of RAM for today, and an SSD, a 13" Air that's slightly faster, a 13" Pro that's way faster that has the option of either a hard drive or an SSD, a 15" Pro that beats the crap out of any of those three, and a 17" Pro that has the higher-end 15" Pro's options but adds extra ports, two more inches of diagonal screen real-estate and an ExpressCard slot.

King Alekay said:
'The shortsightedness of your comment amuses me.' Your contempt amuses me. Why don't you stop looking down on people because they may not know as much about computers as you? I'm not tech savvy at all. Also, Why does that mean that you should go back to an older design? Just improve the cooling system on the current design.
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It's one thing to talk like you know what you're talking about but not, and it's another to talk like you know what you're talking about and actually know what you're talking about. This site has a plethora of the former and way too little of the latter. My contempt is with the former group for incorrectly assuming that they are in the latter camp. Case in point: "Just improve the cooling system of the current design."

And how exactly would you propose doing that (hint: if you don't want to sound any further like you don't know what you're talking about, I'd use the words "thicker design", but at that point we're talking about something that harkens to an older and less problematic [at least as far as heat was ever concerned] design and your argument is rendered invalid)?

By the way, I will never look down on anyone for actually admitting that they don't know what they're talking about, especially when it comes to engineering quandaries like Apple computers and their anorexia.
 
Apple? New products within a year that will make you want to replace what's barely got the new worn off it? Say it ain't so.

I FINALLY found a 4S in the model I want at a local Apple Store. On reserve, I pick it up in a few hours. Look at it this way: Jobs is dead. If Apple goes haywire without him, we've got the last iPhones that aren't crippled by Flash and otherwise junked up. If Apple holds the course, then round about November, 2012, we'll have to fork over a couple hundred bucks for the iPhone 5, if there's enough there to make us go all quivery.

But I'm still on my original iPad. I was actually going to upgrade to a 2 when it came out. I like the iPad 2, but it made me feel like I'd accidentally smash it. I almost certainly wouldn't smash it, but it made me feel that way, like I'd be nervous using it -- so I kept the original. You may have some kind of good reason you'll be glad you have a 4S instead of a 5. At the very least you'll get to use everything a the 4S offers for 8 - 12 months ahead of waiting for a 5.

Thanatoast said:
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 5_0 like Mac OS X; en_US) AppleWebKit (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile [FBAN/FBForIPhone;FBAV/4.0.2;FBBV/4020.0;FBDV/iPhone4,1;FBMD/iPhone;FBSN/iPhone OS;FBSV/5.0;FBSS/2; FBCR/AT&T;FBID/phone;FBLC/en_US;FBSF/2.0])

Not a new iPhone already! I *just* got a 4S. The rumored "5" does kinda fit with the Air, though. I wonder what that would imply for the iMac and the legendary AppleTelevision?
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I assure you Yebubbleman, that Apple is not going to be working backwards and go back to an older design.

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I know you would hate this but if any changes in design happen it will be that the iMac will get even thinner.
 
The new statement: My new Mac is a Frankentosh

techfreak85 said:
Hmm... Maybe the iPad, iMac, iPhone and MacBook Air will be the entirety of Apple's main product lineup? If we have a 15 inch "ultrabook" coming, that might allow all notebooks to be under one unified line.
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That would be bad to think that the iMac was twice as good as the next best Mac, the Mac Mini. Something like that would really give a sales boost to the Mac Clone market now called the Frankentosh by many. I guess that this would go along with the dumbing down of the Mac OS.
 
King Alekay said:
I assure you Yebubbleman, that Apple is not going to be working backwards and go back to an older design.

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I know you would hate this but if any changes in design happen it will be that the iMac will get even thinner.
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While there are a lot of consumer-unfriendly issues that plague this current generation of iMac due to its thinness, I'm unfortunately inclined to agree with you there. This is why I have sworn off iMacs in favor of MacBook Pros, for every single problem I have with the iMac (and Mac mini, and MacBook Air too for that matter) is absent in the MacBook Pro.
 
The macbook pro is obese and needs to lose some pounds in my opinion.

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It needs to be thinner.
 
King Alekay said:
The macbook pro is obese and needs to lose some pounds in my opinion. It needs to be thinner.
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If it does that, you can't have a discrete video card or a quad-core CPU. At that point, you have a MacBook Air. So, get a MacBook Air. Problem solved. And you don't have to wait until 2012!
 
SilianRail said:
Axing the MBPs and Mac Pros leaving only gimmicky facebook/email/MSOffice machines. Tragic.
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But I do my Excel spreadsheets with my Mac Pro & MacBook Pro. No iMac or MacBook Air for me. There's been too many compromises to make both of them. It is a strange day when a laptop, MacBook Pro is more upgradable than a so called desktop, the iMac.

People that have used Macs for over 27 years like me know that we must use the Mac OS. Most of us would rather have an Apple Mac but if push comes to shove we will be the large group going to make the Frankentosh the number 1 computer model. That will require ThunderBolt so that we have a way to run all of our FW800 drive setups. This is as the biggest difference between a Windows box & a Mac box is whether there is FW800 present. The next Intel boxes will take care of that.
 
I switched recently to Apple for simplicity, integration and reliability, not the greedy forced obsolescence, constant upgrading and connector incompatibility of the Windows world. I like my iPad 2, iPhone 4s, iMac and iCloud. I have this uneasy feeling that Apple could drift into that kind of whacky Windows consumer experience. Hope I'm wrong.
 
Hopefully with the option of matte screens, or at least using this new "invisible" glass:

Japanese Firm Develops ‘Invisible Glass’
http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/NEWS_EN/20111028/199970

Amazing Invisible Glass Kills Glare Dead
http://gizmodo.com/5854321/amazing-invisible-glass-kills-glare-dead

‘Invisible glass’ could reduce display glare, fails as food-in-teeth mirror
http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/31/invisible-glass-could-reduce-display-glare-fails-as-food-in-t

Apple, please, it is a health and productivity issue. Thank you.
 
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