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iMac Shipments Running Low Ahead of Refresh?

iBookG4user said:
Why would the iMac get these ports before the Mac Pro? :confused:
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Same reason the Mini has an nvidia 320m and the iMacs still have 9400m's. Apple works on its own timetable.

Eidorian said:
I remember getting DDR2-800 for $10-20 per 2 GB stick.
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Arrgh... don't remind me. The cheapest I saw was $34 for a 4GB ddr2 so-dimm in late 2008. Good times....

While we're dreaming, maybe the new iMac will have an ATI 5-series gpu with dual-displayport for eyefinity :D
 
Here is my prediciton:

Same case for both models since it was just redesigned. All will have one USB 3.0 port, Firewire upgraded to 1600/3200. Possible choice between Magic Mouse & Magic Pad (new device that has been floating around). Still no black, back-lit keyboard for some strange reason. Same price, maybe a drop if the low-end uses core2duo. No Blu-Ray.

21" Low End

Core2Duo 3.33
NVIDIA 320M
4 gigs of RAM
750 gig hard drive

21" High End

Core i5 Clarksdale (2-cores), not sure what speed
ATI 5600's
4 gigs of RAM
1.5 TB hard drive

27" Low End

Core i5 Clarksdale (2-cores), not sure what speed
ATI 5600 series
4 gigs of RAM
1.5 TB hard drive

27" High End

Core i7 2.8
ATI 5850
8 gigs of RAM
2 TB
 
Icaras said:
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No
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Agreed, they just updated it. Nothing wrong with the current design.
 
Darkroom said:
the screens on the iMac are junk. i wish "screengate" became a popular term years ago when this started.
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Mine is great -- I think you will find that most folks will disagree, though some had problems early on. I have not seen a more beautiful monitor than the one i am looking at right now.
 
just my prediction:

No USB3.0
No FW1600/3200
No Blu-ray
No redesign
New graphics cards
Little more speed on the CPU's
Price goes up
 
BC2009 said:
Mine is great -- I think you will find that most folks will disagree, though some had problems early on. I have not seen a more beautiful monitor than the one i am looking at right now.
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Neither have I. I am very picky with monitors. I sold my Macbook Air because of the line issue that Apple refused to fix (which plagues the REV B & C models). I haven't seen any yellowing of my iMac and I bought the first day it was released.
 
A rumor that isn't about the ipad, iphone, or other useless ishoppingcart device?

Having said that, I'll put this one in the same category as the imminent MacPro release announcements made a few months back
 
itsmeok said:
SJ: "As of today, we are discontinuing our 21" iMac. Instead we will have just a 21" touch screen running ios4. We will throw in every product feature we ever made. It has widescreen ipod, an iphone, an ipad, an imac. And we are calling it iPhone + iMac = the iPac"
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iPaq you say? :D
 
does this mean that if the refresh includes an ATI 5*** GPU, will this GPU be able to fit pre-refresh iMacs, such as my 27in i7
 
The 21.5" iMacs will get Intel i3's, and S.Jobs will tell someone by email that "these things are off the hook"

If they don't include i5's, it'll be as laughable as when he said the 13" MacBook Pro's had "killer graphics"

.....

seriously....

LOL!
 
DesmoPilot said:
you can't upgrade you iMac's CPU/GPU, just the RAM/HDD. Welcome to all-in-one's (at least Apples).
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i kno I cant but Apple can, they just went into my iMac and switched out my 4850 since it fried so if it were to occur again, can i pay the difference and they put in a 5000 series card....would there be a heat problem, or something of the sort
 
aphxtwinin said:
i kno I cant but Apple can, they just went into my iMac and switched out my 4850 since it fried so if it were to occur again, can i pay the difference and they put in a 5000 series card....would there be a heat problem, or something of the sort
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Not-so-long-stort short - No.
 
miniroll32 said:
The 21.5" iMacs will get Intel i3's, and S.Jobs will tell someone by email that "these things are off the hook"
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I just hope that, if nothing else, there's a BTO option for a quad-core in the 21" form factor. I'd like to encode stuff at a decent speed, but not have to buy a giant screen to go along with it.
 
...touch screen on an iMac ???

DoNoHarm said:
It's time for touch screen.
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Why would anybody want a touch screen on an iMac ? :confused:

With the new touch pad, which I'm convinced in inbound soon we get all the functionality of a touch screen without the stretching over the desk and oily finger prints all over the workspace . Now that would be cool. :cool:
 
dolphin842 said:
I just hope that, if nothing else, there's a BTO option for a quad-core in the 21" form factor. I'd like to encode stuff at a decent speed, but not have to buy a giant screen to go along with it.
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Like DesmoPilot said above: "Welcome to all-in-one's (at least Apples)."
 
Banyan Bruce said:
Why would anybody want a touch screen on an iMac ? :confused:
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Agreed... a touchscreen wouldn't do much for me at all. Actually, instead of a touchpad, I'm interested in seeing if people will begin to tinker with something more along the lines of Microsoft's Kinect for a new way of interfacing with computers. At least with that, you're not reaching out to the screen itself.

ValSalva said:
Like DesmoPilot said above: "Welcome to all-in-one's (at least Apples)."
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Yeah, I don't have my hopes up... but quad-core is pretty commonplace now, even in low-to-mid tier PCs. Those old i5 750's can't be *that* expensive for Apple now compared to a year ago.
 
For my first wish...

iMac with same design and touch screen. Dashboard replaced with iOS. Faster, more memory.

Mac Pro with new case. New processor. Lots of everything you'd expect from a top of the line current tower. Blu-Ray in tower only. Not in iMac.
 
Eidorian said:
AMD isn't selling hope on waiting for Southern Islands. The biggest trend this year is the GF104 but that's only due to the price point.

The Southern Island parts scheduled for this year are just HD 55xx/56xx replacements with Fusion being part of the line up as well.
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I don't think the late 2010 mobile refresh is Southern Islands (early 2011 one probably is though).

Mobility HD 5870 doesn't look to get a true successor until 2011.
 
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