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Buy new 5k iMac or wait?


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Dartoumi

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Oct 14, 2015
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Hi all,

I have been waiting with the purchase of a new 5k iMac because of Skylake and other rumours. But now that the 5k iMac has been refreshed, is this the right time to buy one or wait?

Do u guys think Apple will surprise us with an all new iMac 27" in early 2016? Please share your thoughts.
 
Hi all,

I have been waiting with the purchase of a new 5k iMac because of Skylake and other rumours. But now that the 5k iMac has been refreshed, is this the right time to buy one or wait?

Do u guys think Apple will surprise us with an all new iMac 27" in early 2016? Please share your thoughts.

No.

You have to understand Apple's release schedule:

April: Macbooks
June: WWDC, tools, devs, new OSX, iOS
September: iPhone, iPad
October/November: iMacs

Unless they go for a new design, I'm not betting on another refresh early 2016. Maybe they will phase out Broadwell in the 21.5" models for Sylake but not until Q4 2016 I think. Intel still has 14nm yield issues.

You can also see that Apple considers iMac as a mature product, so small incremental tweaks without an event is enough.
 
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