Toggle sidebar Toggle sidebar
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

iMac 2020 what to expect?

iMac itself is already outdated since the design is identical from the 2012 version. Even the cooling system is totally identical! Adding better components wont gonna improve iMac dramatically. They seriously need to redesign iMac series.
 
  • Like
Reactions: WozniakDestroyTimCook and Icaras
I kinda think those hoping for a full re-design are dreaming.

Modern Apple tends to do the most obvious, boring, cost effective thing possible.

Which to me says - iMac Pro chassis (in silver) with consumer intel gear in it. 10900k or whatever it is at the high end.

If this happens I expect the iMac Pro to never be updated again. It'll just sit around for 5+ years until it disappears.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Fishrrman
You should expect ultrathin bezels almost hair like. And also whole mini tower stuck on the back of display. Everything will be user upgradable. There will be AMD Threadripper with 128 cores in basic config. And of course price will drop like thousand dollars at least.

/s just in case
 
  • Like
  • Haha
Reactions: Moonjumper, arefbe, mdbradigan and 2 others
nihil0 said:
You should expect ultrathin bezels almost hair like. And also whole mini tower stuck on the back of display. Everything will be user upgradable. There will be AMD Threadripper with 128 cores in basic config. And of course price will drop like thousand dollars at least.

/s just in case
Click to expand...

We must have user upgradable RAM! How will I ever watch Youtube on my new iMac without first installing 128gb of cheap RAM found on Amazon...
 
  • Like
Reactions: EmmEff and nihil0
Icaras said:
Who here would actually move down to a 24" from a 27"? I know I would.
Click to expand...

Absolutely not for me.

But I would consider moving up to a 32" provided it was 8K | 7680x4320 (so at Retina it was effective 4K | 3840x2160) and I could pair it with non-Retina 4K | 3840x2160 monitors and not have my windows resize when I move between them.

What I do not want to see is them adopt the panel or resolution of the Pro XDR display since that would be Retina 3008x1692 which matches nothing.
 
Last edited:
  • Like
Reactions: Wolf1701
Fishrrman said:
Question:
"iMac 2020 what to expect?"

Answer:
More of the same, slightly revised.
Click to expand...

I could be wrong, but I have a feeling the next iMac will have a redesign of some sort, even if it’s only to shrink the bezels and/or improve thermals - so basically the iMac version of what they did for the 16” MacBook Pro last year.

Mac Pro, MacBook Pro, Air, and even Mac Mini (sort of) got updates and redesigns recently. I don’t see them just doing another spec update for the iMac. Honestly, I would prefer no redesign over a space grey color update (like the Mini).
 
high heaven said:
iMac itself is already outdated since the design is identical from the 2012 version. Even the cooling system is totally identical! Adding better components wont gonna improve iMac dramatically. They seriously need to redesign iMac series.
Click to expand...

Agreed. The new design of iMac will look something like this in 2020

63BE1725-8BF5-4330-ACB7-D423945DEED4.jpeg
 
  • Haha
Reactions: jonblatho and nihil0
I believe the chin is there in large part because of the speakers. As the iMac uses LG displays, I wonder if a redesign would switch to LG's Crystal Sound? This involves vibrating the screen to create the sound, so removes the need for separate speakers. LG are already using it on the G8 mobile phone, and have show prototype TVs with it. Sony were the first to release a TV with similar technology. You do not seen the screen vibrate (the Sony does have a separate woofer at the back as that could cause the screen to vibrate), but has the advantage of the sound being where the action is, not below. Plus it is also a space saver and gets rid of the need for speaker ports.
 
CWallace said:
They were a significantly smaller company back then with a significantly smaller portfolio of products and services that senior management had to focus on.
Click to expand...

they are a significantly larger company with a (significantly?) larger portfolio of products and services that senior (management?) have to focus on.

they have more resources, more employees, more money, more senior management, but one single man less.
 
  • Like
Reactions: askunk
askunk said:
Once upon a time, Apple was able to deliver innovation in 10 months...
Click to expand...

Not entirely Apple's fault. Once upon a time, Intel delivered real performance increases with successive CPU generations.

Sandy Bridge to Coffee Lake, 9 years of "innovation", has brought us a 10-20% IPC increase, single thread at identical clocks; slightly higher clock speeds; more cores (under pressure from Ryzen); and much hotter CPU's. No real desktop successor is happening until late this year, and who knows if that's any less fictional than the last couple rounds of Foobar Lake announcements.

The new Mac Pro should be running Epyc Rome, and the new iMac should be running whatever Zen 3 turns out to be. Intel will eventually catch up, one has to assume, but Apple doesn't need to wait.
 
WozniakDestroyTimCook said:
I don't find it ugly 😆 and it looks identical to the previous model but the thinner bezel looks better than the current model.
Click to expand...

Well, no offense, but it's good that you're not the one that gets to decide then. The bezels are small, who cares, every tech 15-year-old YouTuber makes the bezels thinner, because "muh futuristic design", that's not good taste and design. Not to mention that it's copy-pasted from the iPad Pro, probably using paint.net or something... It's uninspired, the stand is too wide, it looks like a cheap acer monitor (generic), and the only reason it says "iMac" (disgusting lol), is because the "designer" couldn't fit an apple logo that small in the front..

What I personally love about Apple is that there is a segregation between nerd and designer, between Wozniak and Jobs. I know the engineer "100% logical" types don't understand the importance of good design, but that doesn't mean that design doesn't matter. Please let Apple continue to be Apple, and make a gaming rig.
 
I was hoping they were going to redesign the iMac last year, they didn't. I don't really have much hope for this year either. I would like to see a redesign, I'm currently using a 2012 redesign model and it's getting long in the tooth.
 
Wolf1701 said:
they have more resources, more employees, more money, more senior management, but one single man less.
Click to expand...
askunk said:
They also had half of the employees, though.
Click to expand...

However Apple still follows a functional organizational structure where senior management is organized around general expertise and not around products. This means the corporate senior management has their hands in every product and service as opposed to every product and service having their own separate management teams who are in turn overseen by corporate senior management.

So every product and service Apple makes needs to compete for senior management's attention and the most important is the one that gets the most attention.

Before 2001 that attention was focused on Mac since Mac was all Apple (effectively) made. After 2001, more and more attention was focused on iPod, but iPod was relatively self-contained so Mac will received plenty of attention. Then came iPhone in 2007 and it's pretty much secured the majority of attention because it has made up the majority of Apple's revenues ever since, though Services is gaining more and more attention strengthens it's #2 position. And now wearables is almost as strong as Mac, which means Mac might soon become the 4th of 5 major things management pays attention to (with iPad being #5).
 
When they built the first iPod, their focus was on Macs. You are right.
In fact, the 10 months were for a new product, with not even a team assembled at the time of conception.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.
Top Bottom
Back