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iMac Revision and iLife on August 7th?

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Apple will not give iLife with Leopard, they haven't given it with Tiger or Panther before.

iLife is almost half the price of Tiger/Leopard!!!

To all those people that are asking if Apple will give them a free update to Leopard or iLife if they buy now... :confused::rolleyes::eek::mad:

Rich.
 
dmaxdmax said:
I assume a BTO would ship w/whatever software was current as of the shipment and not the order date. Yes?

Specifically, if I order on 8/5, iLife ships on 8/7 and my MBP ships after that I'll get the newest version.

No, I'm not going to wait the extra 2 days because 8/5 is a tax holiday.
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More likely you will have to pay $19.95 as part of the up-to-date program.

Even more likely that they won't give it to you, because their practice is to give it to you (for $19.95) only for purchases after the announcement.

So, if you want to get the sales tax break, place the order on the 5th, and hope, and then if the announcement comes on the 7th, call to request a revision to the order, and hope they don't rebill.
 
I am more interested in the iMac update, but the Mac Pro hasn't seen a real update since it's announcement (the 8-Core is simply an add-on).

Any chance Leopard will get released early?
 
Boy, I hope. I can't really trust ThinkSecret, as they were the ones who told us these iMacs were coming at the WWDC 07.
 
Eidorian said:
Yay, more waiting.

I've been waiting since Memorial Day. :(
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boo fricken hoo.

I've been waiting since I saw the travesty that was the G5 iMac. My 800MHz G4 is waiting for a new younger quicker brother... And I'd rather shoot myself in the face than buy that one-legged white box.

So call me superficial...

-Clive
 
Clive At Five said:
boo fricken hoo.

I've been waiting since I saw the travesty that was the G5 iMac. My 800MHz G4 is waiting for a new younger quicker brother... And I'd rather shoot myself in the face than buy that one-legged white box.

So call me superficial...

-Clive
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Sounds like you have a Mac then...
 
likeavaliant said:
maybe ipod update as well?!
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I think that would be in September at the Apple Expo in Paris. Apple wouldn't unveil two big products at once. They want maximum publicity and limelight on each product for as long as possible.
 
Great news.

Aug. 5 is when the new line of Transformer toys should come out too. According to the guy at Target.

What a great week in retail. Lol.
 
Macrumors said:


ThinkSecret pinpoints Tuesday, August 7th as the likely date for the long awaited iMac revision.

ThinkSecret also suggests that the overdue iLife updates could also arrive at the same time, but are less certain on this possibility.

A recent rumor had suggested that iLife update had gone "golden master", suggesting an imminent release.

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You have to admit think secret is great at this kind of stuff. I hope they are on for the release date since I am in the market for a new home computer.
 
I would have thought that iWork would be released the same time as iLife. No mention of iWork:-(

Isn't iLife/iWork supposed to rely on some Leopard features? If so, won't they release these all with Leopard in October? It makes sense from a business perspective as it will add more value to the Leopard upgrade as a kind of synergy, i.e. we'll buy Leopard with iLife/iWork.

And Santa Rosa for the Macbook? Blueray for the MBP? Also in August?
 
boss1 said:
I could see that Apple might want to have the iMac out for the school shopping season. Or at least announced and allow orders to start taking place. I just don't understand the 10.5 date. Are they going to allow those who purchased an iMac a 10.5 update? or are they going to gouge us for an additional 150bucks a month later?
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2 months, It seems to me a bit long to extend the free upgrade promotion...
 
As much as I'd like an iLife update I hope it doens't ship until Leopard ships, as I'd like to see a substantial update that really uses the new core technologies in leopard.
 
I work at a computer store and last week we had an Intel rep come to visit and give training. I asked when we would see quad cores in laptops and he told us that it would not be untill mid 2008. Being a Mac lover i said 'i take it we'll see them in apples first' it was to this that he let slip and said 'well apple already have a laptop type....' then he stopped went a dark shade of red and went 'oops'. so putting 2 and 2 together im holdin out for a quad core 24' iMac that would explain the brushed metal 'Pro' format.

just a rumor though
 
boss1 said:
I could see that Apple might want to have the iMac out for the school shopping season. Or at least announced and allow orders to start taking place. I just don't understand the 10.5 date. Are they going to allow those who purchased an iMac a 10.5 update? or are they going to gouge us for an additional 150bucks a month later?
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Nah, they'll gouge us for $129 later. ;)
 
Maybe, probably not

it would be a complete surprise if Apple released the next version of iLfe before Leopard shipped. Just does not make sense. If they release it, I suspect very slow sales until Leopard ships.
 
sweet160 said:
What do you people guess could change in the inside of the imac?

especially what kind of graphics card would fit in there?

:cool: I need Crysis to run smooth as butter ...
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Crysis is not going to run smooth as butter on any iMac. It would barely run smooth on the currently old x1900 in the mac pro with medium settings. Besides it's a DirectX10 game.
 
L3X said:
I'm pretty sure it will. The current OSX includes the current iLife suite.
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the only copy of mac os x you can buy off the shelves right now is tiger for ppc, which doesn't include ilife. ilife only comes shipped with new macs, and it's never been packed with the operating system itself.

Data said:
I think steve said in last years wwdc presentation of leopard that it would be full featured meaning the ilife apps would be included, but it has been more then a year so maybe if you play that from the apple site you can be sure about it ;-).
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he said the operating system would include the "complete package." i doubt this means to include ilife in the operating system. you don't need ilife to make mac os x. similarly, you don't need microsoft office to make windows a complete operating system. if ilife were really to be included with mac os x, steve would have said so explicitly at wwdc.
 
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