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Absolute garbage. Impossible. Other adjectives.
Anyone with sense knows that this cannot happen.
I love everybody's confidence about whats coming out and when. I love it. I'll love it even more when everyone cries that it doesn't come out tomorrow.
Or everyone will love it when you're wrong...DUN DUN DUN!
And NT we're all trying to act like that post never existed of course.
Well, I have a 17"MBP 2.6GHZ 4Gb and I love it so much that I am often tempted to whack off while looking at it ... and it's enough for what I do, but I was actually awaiting the update for the 24" iMac.
I do video rendering, but I need something reasonably portable and powerful. Not daily, but a few times a month. Hence the MPB.
The Mac Pro is too much of a behemoth + monitor, etc ... and I figured this next update would go Quad. I was going to stick that on the desk and use my MPB as my daily carry laptop instead of my HP.
I bought a 2.93 Ghz QX6800 Core2Quad Dell in June of 2007, and recently sold it due to size and the requirement of multiple boxes to move + the MBP was a reasonable replacement.
In March of 2009, nearly 2 years later, C2D in the the 3Ghz range feels a little like standing in quicksand.
I understand the iMac is somewhere between a desktop and a laptop, but if this upgrade is true, it's not much of an upgrade.
Unless it goes quad, I'll stick with my MBP. Maybe buy an external monitor.
Apple is obsessed with the mass consumer toys, not the computers.
iPhone, iPod, etc.
I keep waiting for them to announce that they will drop the computer line all together.
You can get a hardware equivalent mini for $300 at Office Depot. Fine, it will be larger and won't run OSX, but how much production work can you do on a mini, and how often will you really move it around? My HP laptop will still be more powerful than the Mini, and it was less than $800 with 84000GS Graphics, HDMI port, 4GB RAM, 320GB HD.
I hope they find a way to put a quad into an iMac.
I do video rendering, but I need something reasonably portable and powerful. Not daily, but a few times a month. Hence the MPB.
The Mac Pro is too much of a behemoth + monitor, etc ... and I figured this next update would go Quad. I was going to stick that on the desk and use my MPB as my daily carry laptop instead of my HP.
I bought a 2.93 Ghz QX6800 Core2Quad Dell in June of 2007, and recently sold it due to size and the requirement of multiple boxes to move + the MBP was a reasonable replacement.
In March of 2009, nearly 2 years later, C2D in the the 3Ghz range feels a little like standing in quicksand.
I understand the iMac is somewhere between a desktop and a laptop, but if this upgrade is true, it's not much of an upgrade.
Unless it goes quad, I'll stick with my MBP. Maybe buy an external monitor.
Apple is obsessed with the mass consumer toys, not the computers.
iPhone, iPod, etc.
I keep waiting for them to announce that they will drop the computer line all together.
You can get a hardware equivalent mini for $300 at Office Depot. Fine, it will be larger and won't run OSX, but how much production work can you do on a mini, and how often will you really move it around? My HP laptop will still be more powerful than the Mini, and it was less than $800 with 84000GS Graphics, HDMI port, 4GB RAM, 320GB HD.
I hope they find a way to put a quad into an iMac.
I will be completely disappointed too, though lately that's not unusual for Apple. It just seems they are more focused on the iPhone and iPod than their computer line as of late, which are falling farther and farther behind of the PC market.
you can laugh at me all you want if im wrong. But if im right, my post is KING.
The new iMacs don't seem much of an upgrade from the existing ones? I will wait for a quad core. The 2.4 Ghz iMac is working just fine and will keep plugging along with the G5 iMac.
I'm curious to know what those demanding quad core plan to do with their computers. I understand that there are some legit concerns for people who do a lot of intensive work on applications that actually use multiple cores (very few), but it seems like people are overrating it at the moment.
I really hope this turns out to be true. I'm about to move to a new place for 6 months and have no entertainment equipment, rather than go the usual TV route I'm planning on getting a reasonably sized monitor, some speakers and a Mac Mini to sit underneath.
It seems most broadcast telly in the US is also available more conveniently online so I'll just use that and not bother with any direct TV reception.
It seems most broadcast telly in the US is also available more conveniently online so I'll just use that and not bother with any direct TV reception.
Yeah, it the Audio part that's bugging me. Would have been nice to jus be able to hook it up to an HDTV and that's it. But you need an additional high definition(?) audio Cable just for delivering the sound..
Would the Mac mini with the new rumored specs be able to playback 1080p video? If so, with or without hardware accelerated GPU or both?
720p demands less and can even be played on a decent netbook, or so I've heard.
There's also the cost issue with 65 W quad-core. In a way you could say you are somewhat getting two free cores by using 65 W quad instead of mobile dual.
I've got my quad-core here because I do a lot of video editing + encoding. Not to mention a bunch of Photoshop work.
But I think we can admit, as a consumer market, dual-core CPUs will remain the norm for quite a while, and I won't look down on Apple one bit if they choose to continue shipping iMacs with the Core 2 Duo line.
Indeed; a tip of the hat to the experts who exposed Monthy as a fraud through pixel analysis, telltale spectral hotspots, misaligned logos and connectors and other definitive evidence. Monthy ownes you as of tomorrow.
iMac makes a good point up there BUT I still have this odd feeling that most of the people yelling for quad cores don't legitimately need it they just want it. Which I guess there isn't a ton wrong with.
I do think the highest end should have one though. Maybe that's what's in the box, 28" with quads.
I do think the highest end should have one though. Maybe that's what's in the box, 28" with quads.
My current Mini (C2D 2.0/4Gb RAM [yes, really 3.3]) handles 1080P .MKV with no trouble at all, and that's with the crappy Intel GMA. I imagine the new Mini will handle 1080P out of the box without effort.
Doesn't Apple still sell a stripped down 17" white model for edu use? Maybe that is the really low end one.
It was even worse in 2007 when the leaked aluminum keyboard pictures were released.
Turns out that back then, just like now, many of the vociferous "experts" were those who ended up wrong.
Me too BUT not going to happen. Just look at their refurb mini on sale today for for $679! Gimme a break Apple!