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Apple Updates iMac with Haswell and Faster PCIe Flash Storage
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You mean like the Macbook Air that wasn't announced at WWDC....except that it was....
Yes, but a lot of people are predicting Apple to drop the dGPU in the Haswell refresh because Iris Pro is almost as good as 650M.
£50 increase in the Uk, No change to price on all SSD iMac, (I was going to purchase tat version) but...... Money stays in pocket.
Increase price on iPhones. now Imac yearly due to decrease in sales, in order to maximise profits, I now expect same with iPad.
Increase price on iPhones. now Imac yearly due to decrease in sales, in order to maximise profits, I now expect same with iPad.
Yes, I would here. I work on computers all day long and even though I have a work-provided high resolution 27" monitor, I still prefer my rMBP's screen. I want more space but not at a cost of the sharpness of Retina.
Or he could just get rMBP..
Even folks with perfect eye-sight loves retina displays and rather prefer that over the other screens.
For folks who work all days on computers, Retina Displays are nice to have.
No, only for the flash storage. There is absolutely no point of doing PCIe for Fusion Drive and hard drives, they're not fast enough to need the faster PCIe storage.
Smaller panels are easier and cheaper to work with. The bigger it gets, the more expensive it gets, and especially if yields are not good enough.
At the moment, the most dense panel they can make is with Sharp's IGZO. It is currently maxing out at 3,840 x 2,160 resolution for 32" panel.
For Retina Cinema Display, they need to do 5120 x 1880. We're likely 2-3 years away from this.
There is no PCIe Fusion Drive, it's just Fusion Drive and PCIe flash storage, they have nothing to do with each other.
Neither, really. Same performance on most applications. OpenCL will shine when developers use OpenCL compute in their apps. Apple's pro apps are heavily optimized for OpenCL, as is OS X.
1982. Data Systems Design 5 mb 8" hard drive for PDP-11. I think the drive was a Shugart, and you could see the head moving. 19" rack mount.
$5,500.
I was glad to get it.
Don't forget that there are a lot of people out there just buying on specs alone or mainly on specs. If they see that one item has bigger numbers than the other, they'd get it with the bigger numbers.
What?
Apple has done this before-releasing small updates to their desktops/laptops without fanfare.
Apple has had Mac-centric events for many years. Last year the new iMac was front and center. The year before 10.7 was. This year, in just a couple weeks, it will be the new Mac Pro and 10.8. But Apple can't focus on every single minute update. That why the iMac was silently updated.
Yup. No longer, like when they introduced the iMac, 13"rMBP, and MacMini last October. Or when they Introduced the MacBook Air and the MacPro in June at WWDC.
Apple has been releasing spec-bump Macs like this for a decade, well before the iPhone. Unless there's a form factor change, a silent website update is the rule, not the exception. This is nothing new or telling.
They WILL drop the dGPU eventually, the question is when. It is not likely in Haswell because Iris Pro isn't there yet, it's still weaker than 650M but it is in the range.
Intel is working overtime to improve their iGPU and they made a lot of progress in the last two years alone. There's going to be more improvements in the next few generations as well.
Will it have to take that long? http://www.asus.com/Monitors_Projectors/PQ321Q/#overview
Quite expensive thingy, though and I understand that screen will be difficult to drive even with Iris Pro (if it's even possible, I think not). But maybe you're right. Within two years perhaps, hopefully not three.
Define "normal viewing distance." I don't expect to put monitors any further than where I put my MBP display on my desk15 to 20 inches from my eyes. Maybe slightly further for 27-inch display. Still, 109 ppi is quite noticeable to me at this distance.
The fact you can't tell the difference doesn't mean no one can. I can't bear using any low-ppi devices any longer (so I don't use them).
I suspect you'll see a subtle redesign for at least the 13" model. If Haswell lets them reduce power requirements for the system to slim down the battery pack I can see a reduction in thickness and weight being enough to push it to keynote status.
Actually there's another reason I think you'll see it at the keynote - Mavericks. I'm expecting Apple to roll out a line along the lines of "we've completely rewritten our retina support in Mavericks. Graphical performance is now up to X times faster." Basically a fancy way of saying that they're reworked the codebase to offshore work to the GPU instead of occasionally maxing out the CPU. Plus it'd tie into a 'pro' event theme as surely we'll see the Mac Pro released along with a likely push for iPad's as creative tools with the new 64 bit SoC's...
If latest tech doesn't matter as much as getting it fast, I might have recommended just going and picking one up from the store. Just my $.02.
I would have done that if it was possible.
Now waiting on pricing of new Mac Pro to see which way to go. These could probably handle my video processing needs. Certainly could handle all CS6 applications, even concurrently.