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iMac to be released in September-ish together with...

Jerommeke said:
More launch rumors, no iMac's though http://9to5mac.com/2012/07/30/new-t...c-MacAllDay+(9+to+5+Mac+-+Apple+Intelligence)
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It infuriates me to read this type of thing without even a mention of the imac. If we don't see a new imac in october i'll probably have to buy a 2011 model, but i refuse to pay full price for year old technology.

If apple want to wait this long between releases thats fine as long as they drop the price of the 2011 model. If the imac really accounts for so little of the company's revenue it wouldnt kill them to actually sell the parts for what they were worth now as opposed to what is now way over priced.
 
Lol, same here, quite annoyed now. Almost ordered top of the line 27" last month until I heard about a possible update this month. Then it became september. Now it looks like october but other products are mentioned for a launch in november and no sign of iMac's yet.
 
I suspect that Apple will make major changes to the whole desktop line "later in 2013" so I don't see the iMac changing a whole lot in the near future if at all.

No one but Apple really knows anything for sure up until Apple leaks a few details close to an announcement and if they say they do they're full of it.
 
At this point my best guess is-
iPhone -September
iMac -October
Mini iPad - November

If the manufacturing issues are already fixed then maybe August for the iMac, but I can't see them releasing anything else in September to compete with the iPhone.
 
:( guess the initial plan of just not checking Mac rumors until October would have been better for keeping my mood up.

Big iPad, small iPad, iPhone part this, iPhone part that, some more boring iPads, suing Samsung, iPhone 4 oh it's now metal back!, suing Samsung some more...

This is the rumor mill these days :( yawn!
 
mcpix said:
At this point my best guess is-
iPhone -September
iMac -October
Mini iPad - November

If the manufacturing issues are already fixed then maybe August for the iMac, but I can't see them releasing anything else in September to compete with the iPhone.
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I have been thinking the same thing, but really - how much of the spotlight would the iMac take from the almighty iPhone? Not much. Unless the new iMac is a radical redesign, it won't make much difference to the iPhone publicity. I'm in the market for both, so it would be cool though :)
 
gnrredphoenix said:
It infuriates me to read this type of thing without even a mention of the imac. If we don't see a new imac in october i'll probably have to buy a 2011 model, but i refuse to pay full price for year old technology.

If apple want to wait this long between releases thats fine as long as they drop the price of the 2011 model. If the imac really accounts for so little of the company's revenue it wouldnt kill them to actually sell the parts for what they were worth now as opposed to what is now way over priced.
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I think that 9to5Mac has largely become an iOS rumors site. They didn't say anything about the retina 13" MacBook Pro either, but there are a lot of signs pointing to that. That being said, it did sort of infuriate me to see that as well, even before I saw your comment. Maybe I should stop visiting them.
 
forty2j said:
I laughed at this guy when he said in June that MBAs and Retina MBPs were coming at WWDC instead of iMacs. The right CPU's aren't available for MBAs, I said. There's no way Retina is ready for 15" the same year it came out for 10", I said. And even if it were ready, Apple doesn't hedge - if they think Retina is the future of the MBP then they won't sell a non-Retina one, I said.

I'm not laughing anymore. If this guy tells me that there's a new screen with a manufacturing issue with lamination, and we should start to see new iMacs in late September or early October, then by golly, So Say We All.
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By your command
 
Razorhog said:
I have been thinking the same thing, but really - how much of the spotlight would the iMac take from the almighty iPhone? Not much. Unless the new iMac is a radical redesign, it won't make much difference to the iPhone publicity. I'm in the market for both, so it would be cool though :)
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2012 iMac or, 2012 BIG Mac!

So hungry!
 
Reaktor5 said:
One channel of Thunderbolt does not have enough bandwidth to drive a Retina display.
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Really? I'm not questioning you (because I can't find anything that contradicts your claim), but I'm just surprised that a single Thunderbolt channel (10Gbps full duplex) wouldn't be enough to run one retina display.

IBM ran a retina display (IBM T220/T221, 3840×2400 resolution) with just four DVI inputs. Each DVI connector has a maximum bandwidth of 3.96Gbps. This is raw bandwidth, not PCI-E as carried by Thunderbolt.

In theory, why couldn't Apple run a multi-head PCI-E card in an external enclosure (or married to the back of the display) to run the monitor?
 
aarond12 said:
Really? I'm not questioning you (because I can't find anything that contradicts your claim), but I'm just surprised that a single Thunderbolt channel (10Gbps full duplex) wouldn't be enough to run one retina display.

IBM ran a retina display (IBM T220/T221, 3840×2400 resolution) with just four DVI inputs. Each DVI connector has a maximum bandwidth of 3.96Gbps. This is raw bandwidth, not PCI-E as carried by Thunderbolt.

In theory, why couldn't Apple run a multi-head PCI-E card in an external enclosure (or married to the back of the display) to run the monitor?
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If a 27” Retina Display is a “2X” version of the current panel, that’s a 5120x2880 panel — running that at 60 Hz requires more bandwidth (over 21 Gbps for 24-bit color) than Thunderbolt offers today (up to two 10 Gbps channels).
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Originally Posted by forty2j
I laughed at this guy when he said in June that MBAs and Retina MBPs were coming at WWDC instead of iMacs. The right CPU's aren't available for MBAs, I said. There's no way Retina is ready for 15" the same year it came out for 10", I said. And even if it were ready, Apple doesn't hedge - if they think Retina is the future of the MBP then they won't sell a non-Retina one, I said.

I'm not laughing anymore. If this guy tells me that there's a new screen with a manufacturing issue with lamination, and we should start to see new iMacs in late September or early October, then by golly, So Say We All.
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By your command
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All this has happened before. All this will happen again.
 
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