Bloomberg: Apple Likely to Hold Mac Launch Event on October 30 or 31

[tomtad]

Going to have to be invites going out today if they have an event next week. Not long till we find out

 

[Jaymes]

Whatever happens with the iMacs, can we please add the ethernet port back onto the device rather than on the power supply? And while we're talking about the power supply, can we not make both the power supply and the extension cable that plugs into the power supply smooth plastic without some kind of locking mechanism? Whomever thought this was a good idea has a not so great understand of forces, friction (or the lack thereof) in particular.

 

[sshroy943]

I honestly don't know what to go with. My current desktop is a Dell. It will be my last device to complete my overhaul to all Apple products. I was going to buy the Mac Mini with the Studio Display. Now the updated Imac is coming. Don't know which one to go with. I hate going to a 24inch screen over the 27inch Studio Display. I guess I'll wait to see if the new Imac does come with the M3 chip. If not, probably go with the Mac Mini and the Studio Display. Or do I just wait until next year to see if they come out with a M3 Mac Mini. Fricken Apple.

 

[darngooddesign]

I honestly don't know what to go with. My current desktop is a Dell. It will be my last device to complete my overhaul to all Apple products. I was going to buy the Mac Mini with the Studio Display. Now the updated Imac is coming. Don't know which one to go with. I hate going to a 24inch screen over the 27inch Studio Display. I guess I'll wait to see if the new Imac does come with the M3 chip. If not, probably go with the Mac Mini and the Studio Display. Or do I just wait until next year to see if they come out with a M3 Mac Mini. Fricken Apple.

Just wait until the first M3 Mac to see how much more powerful it is than an M2 Mac. Then you can decide if you want to wait a year for an M3 Mini or get an M2 Mini or Studio if you don't like whatever the latest iMac is.

Also, the M2/Pro Minis and M2Max/Ultra Studios are available refurbished.

 

[Chuckeee]

I doubt is too thin and if so minimally so. A MacBook Pro 14 inch is 15.6 mm when closed down and that includes the screen if I understand the drawings correctly. Subtract the screen, say 3 mm, the height of the body is 12.6 mm. The body of the 24 iMac is 11.5 mm. I think the current iMac should be able to have both a Pro and a Max if Apple wanted as the chin is more isolated from other components than in an MBP. A 1-2 mm increased body thickness of the iMac would be negligible and would not make it less attractive design wise.

You should take a look at a 24” iMac tear down. There are several available. The whole screen assembly is thicker than 3mm. In addition, The issue about the space behind the screen are the mechanical and acoustic components that already fill the that space. I should have said that there is no SPARE space.

The interior of the M1 iMac

Side view on M1 iMac showing screen assembly

M1 iMac logic board

M2 Mac mini logic board

M2 Pro Mac mini logic board with heat sink

M2 Pro Mac mini logic board without heat sink

 

[VisceralRealist]

Just waitin' on those invites...

Edit: I need wait no more.

 

[jwdsail]

An iMac mini can handle an M2 pro chip so the 27” Intel iMac chassis SHOULD be able to handle it. There is plenty of physical space and cooling behind the center of the 27”Intel iMac screen. But just because it could fit, doesn’t mean it will happen.

I believe the current 24” iMac could not physically accommodate a M2 Pro chip. The space on the logic board in the chin is too small (not wide enough) to mount an M2 Pro chip. And there is not enough space behind the current 24” iMac screen for a logic board. The CURRENT 24” iMac is too thin. The only space for a logic board is in the chin. To accommodate a Pro (or a Max) chip would require the current 24” iMac to grow (a bigger chin or a thick chassis)

I think that an ARM 27” iMac is not a viable Apple product. Not enough to differentiate it from the 24” iMac. The 27” was only viable while the “small” iMac was 21.5”.

I have several customers hanging on to old 27" Retina iMacs who would disagree?

 

[Gudi]

Ming 'the Merciless' Kuo "no new Macs this year" vs Mad Mark Gurman "New Macs in a week". FIGHT!

Kuo draws first blood with, There are no invites for an event, but Gurman quickly counters with a combination of online events and product updates.