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Apple Updates iMac with Haswell and Faster PCIe Flash Storage
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It's more than that; our college has a limited IT budget and the fiscal year always rolls over in July. So we can't order anything until then, when we know what our budget is. We have to get all equipment installed in August before the semester starts. Once we have the equipment, that lab won't be upgraded again for another five years. So having the latest tech is really important; it has to last a long time (in tech years).
it's an extra $500+ isn't it?
Isn't the iMac already HD..... retinas 4k? I mean I think my ipad 3 looks great but my ipad mini looks fine. People act like your getting a box tv because it's not retina.
WOuld have been nice if Apple dropped the price a bit like they did with the Air's but what can you do. Guying this as soon as they have it at the apple store
Does this debunk the rumor that the rmbp will ship without a dGPU? Well, at least for the 15 inch? That's a deal breaker for me.
I wish the smaller version had the option of the 3.5 i7. I know there might be cooling issues, but still I wish they had designed for it and made that option available.
And if Apple is selling a 3.5Ghz i7 iMac for $2199 (i7 4771 cpu costs $319 at newegg), would it be that unrealistic for them to sell the base model of the upcoming Mac Pro with a Xeon E5-1620 v2 3.7Ghz (list price $294) for around that same $2199, if not a little less? CPU is about the same price, and I'd argue that for what the 27 inch monitor costs they should be able to cover the things that are unique to the Mac Pro. Sure the MP case probably isn't dirt cheap to design and make but neither is the iMac's.
And if Apple is selling a 3.5Ghz i7 iMac for $2199 (i7 4771 cpu costs $319 at newegg), would it be that unrealistic for them to sell the base model of the upcoming Mac Pro with a Xeon E5-1620 v2 3.7Ghz (list price $294) for around that same $2199, if not a little less? CPU is about the same price, and I'd argue that for what the 27 inch monitor costs they should be able to cover the things that are unique to the Mac Pro. Sure the MP case probably isn't dirt cheap to design and make but neither is the iMac's.
What is Apple's stance with Pages/Numbers/Keynote now? As I'm going through the options for the new iMacs, these three pieces of software are listed as "Pre-Installed Software" but yet there is an option to pay $19.99/each.
I thought these were going to start being free with new hardware?
They mean they will preinstall it for you if you choose to pay for them. They are not included in the price of the iMac. They are only free with iPhones. I'm confused too as to why they didn't give it for free on Macs.
To me the most interesting thing about this announcement is that there is no word of a free upgrade to Mavericks with purchase of a new iMac, like there usually is when a new Mac comes out right before an OS X release. This leads me to believe Mavericks might be free.
Yes, especially since there are 4k-sized desktop pictures in mavericks. ASUS sells a 4k monitor for $3500, it'll probably be around that.
Yes, especially since there are 4k-sized desktop pictures in mavericks. ASUS sells a 4k monitor for $3500, it'll probably be around that.
No
Well, seeing as it's a 2.5-inch, 9.5mm drive in the 21.5-inch iMacs now, what exactly would they upgrade it to? 1 TB is as much capacity as you can get in that form factor, and there is only one 7200 RPM, 1 TB model on the market at this point (HGST Travelstar 7K1000) which launched earlier this year. Single sourcing the HDD for your base model desktop would be a pretty stupid move for Apple, and while they could offer a 7200 RPM version as a CTO option, why would they (and who would buy it) when there is already a Fusion Drive option for $200 for those who care about performance?
On another note, it seems that the new iMacs don't get Thunderbolt 2.0 this go round. Furthermore, there is nothing alluding to DisplayPort 1.2 support, so it looks like they might still be using Cactus Ridge instead of Redwood Ridge. And this is a little disconcerting:
I have to imagine that multiple external displays are still supported; I'm guessing this was just worded for the 21.5-inch model which can only drive a single external display at 2560x1600.
Their "secret" update cycles (with non-availability of older gear once the new stuff is out) is one of the main reasons why Apple doesn't get their foot into the enterprise market.
Nice spec bump, though. Unfortunately the SSD prices are insane and having no SSD per default in a desktop at this price is unacceptable.
I was sooooooo mad about that! I bought my iPad 3 so that I could brag that I had the best and so that people will know me and girls will flock to me! /s
Quite a hefty spec update in the GPU department there...If I was in my upgrade year I'd stick with the 3TB FD and add the 4GB GPU...Would certainly help X-Plane along nicely. I think we will see more mainstream game companies writing for OSX now...they have always been bleating about texture memory, now they don't have an excuse.
This is pretty much how they have been updated the iMacs over the last few years. There are a couple exceptions, like when they made it thinner.
It's a pcie ssd, not sata. I don't know about apple, but mushkin sells their 960gb pcie ssd for more than a thousand bucks and it has reading speeds on 2150 mb/s http://www.ramexperts.com/ssd-drives/mushkin-enhanced-scorpion-deluxe-mknp44sc960gb-dx-pcie-960gb-sata-internal-solid-state-drive-ssd-pcie-2-0-x8.html
Holy schnikes, hope you didn't have to sell a liver or anything like that.
Congrat, should last as long as the prior version - other than storage
Yeah...I have a 4TB NAS that houses all my stuff. I prefer to think of the iMac as just a client.
Visually, to me the retina is by far much cleaner, brighter, and a nicer presentation.
I stick with the retina on the ipad, laptops, and would love a retina desktop.
When companies purchase large quantities of IT gear they usually want to get what they ordered and not something different, just because the vendor decides that the gear isn't available any more. Purchases with larger volumes can easily take 6 months to go through the enterprise's bureaucracy.
And what if you have licensed that stuff for a specific application (i.e. something mission critical or legally challenging like in medicine) and you just can't get a replacement for it ?
I new I should have waited just another year before grabbing an iMac. Now I want to upgrade to this one.
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Most likely they will.
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Most likely they will.
Woah! Didn't see that coming today.
Sadly we are reduced to store updates and press releases for when new iMacs are released. Used to be they were a source of achievement that Apple would crow about
What unbelievable tradeoff?
Now I'm scared. And here I though I was so smart with my retina MBP 
so what about ppl who bought recently launched imacs which is just 10months old.
apple think that it can silently refresh new imacs and people will easily accept the fact that they are fools.
not so cool stop fooling people apple
they should atleast replace processors for newly bought imacs
Why you so MAD? If you bought a new car today and it was updated next year would you want the new rims and sound system?
Apple owe you nothing and you're clearly new to this stuff companies not just Apple update all the time, Deal with it and stop raging. Is your iMac not working now this is out? Exactly. If you want to be broke then keep updating your macs yearly, or accept it and enjoy your machine knowing when you do upgrade in the future you'll get more.
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I am not buying a new imac as I have a 2011 one but a rough price comparison says with i7 and fusion drive and 16GB ram (have to get it bto) that's $2.5k whereas my old 2011 imac with i7 and upgraded gpu and 7200 drive was only $1.8k. $700 price increase. Well $600 if you include the after market 16GB ram I bought.
Also 2 points.
Entry level 21.5 - What's up with "Intel Iris Pro graphics". I'd really like to know some insight into why Apple "supposedly" cheaped out here.
High end 21.5 - NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M graphics processor with 1GB of GDDR5 memory
About time this has 1gb VRam. Very nice.
Also 2 points.
Entry level 21.5 - What's up with "Intel Iris Pro graphics". I'd really like to know some insight into why Apple "supposedly" cheaped out here.
High end 21.5 - NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M graphics processor with 1GB of GDDR5 memory
About time this has 1gb VRam. Very nice.
Well, it surely shows that Apple does not want to sacrifice the GPU performance. The Iris Pro is faster then old gen, so its ok. It is slower than 740M however...