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New I-Macs within days?
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Tallest Skil
macrumors P6
That would only happen if Apple wasn't a company.
Because they care about the money.
So they won't "build" it "slowly".
Even if Apple wanted to, wouldn't a simultaneous release would mean that the OS people were testing new hardware, while the hardware people were testing a new OS. It wouldn't be impossible, but it would be much easier to do one at a time.
thread starter-woody57
Hi John Lewis Oxford st ,London have just e-mailed me to say the range? of I-Macs will be instore and a stock item in the first 1/2 weeks of March 09,they did not state if they are the new ones everyone was waiting for?🙂Jim
Hi John Lewis Oxford st ,London have just e-mailed me to say the range? of I-Macs will be instore and a stock item in the first 1/2 weeks of March 09,they did not state if they are the new ones everyone was waiting for?🙂Jim
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macrumors P6
They actually don't know that. They might know when they were previously scheduled to get a shipment, but they don't know when the new ones are coming out.
PuckDaddy
macrumors regular
i think it's possible that the iMacs are ready, that they are prepping for a simultaneous release of hardware / software.
Theophany
macrumors 6502a
Thanks for pointing that out to us, I'm still trying to get the hang of this reading malarky. 😉
If the new iMacs/Mac minis come out in March, I hope it's during the second week (it will be my spring break) so I can go to the store and pick one up immediately.
LuminousFX
macrumors regular
Le Big Mac
macrumors 68030
So, having built them and boxed them, they're going to reopen the package and put the gold-master version of snow leopard on them?
Otherwise, they're just sticking the new OS in the box for you to load, and there's not much point in doing that.
Eric S.
macrumors 68040
It would make no sense to me that in a fast-changing technology world you would hold up products that were ready for months while sales drifted off to competitors offering more advanced products than your current ones, just to wait for software that they don't even need. If iMacs were ready now, the smart marketing strategy would be to release them now with Leopard and advertise them as "Snow-Leopard ready," stating that they'll perform even faster when Snow Leopard comes out. Apple could offer discounts on the upgrade for customers who buy iMacs now, thereby hooking them into the Snow Leopard purchase. If iMacs were ready of course (which they aren't).
Besides, we know that Snow Leopard like all OS releases will have some big issues when it first comes out. If iMacs are released simultaneously, people will identify those issues with the iMacs and they'll get a reputation of being buggy. It will not be good PR for Apple.
Hellhammer
Moderator emeritus
But why would Apple order 800 000 units every month and start shipping in January? (https://www.macrumors.com/2008/12/23/new-imacs-shipping-january-2009/)
That's sure that new iMacs will not ship with Snow Leopard because of money issues and SL may come at the end of Q2 or Q3, so that doesn't make sense that Apple would push the update to there. After Q1 iMacs it's very likely that new ones will come out before end of the year (maybe Nehelem iMac then??)
Not trying to be optimistic here, but a late February announcement could mean stock in early March?
Do you mean the first half of the first week in March or the first 2 weeks in March? 😕
Hellhammer
Moderator emeritus
Yea, it's possible but I think when new model are announced they'll ship immidetaly, I can't see why to wait few weeks longer for that
I do not see Apple announcing the iMacs. I just see them appearing "silently" one day on the Apple Store webpage.
gixxerredliner
macrumors regular
lol 🙂
I love you all equally but seriously this so called imac update rumor has been brewing since 06 and its 09 and we still have no update 🙂
I love you all equally but seriously this so called imac update rumor has been brewing since 06 and its 09 and we still have no update 🙂
Hellhammer
Moderator emeritus
A month after the release of new models we start this discussion again, trust me.
Tallest Skil
macrumors P6
They were updated last year.
Month? Are you insane? The minute that the keynote announcing is over, there will be five threads with people complaining that it doesn't have what they wanted.
And even though what these people want is their opinion, they are still wrong. They have incorrect opinions. 😀
Hellhammer
Moderator emeritus
You beat me up 😀 People have too high expatations (Blu-Ray, USB 3.0, Nehalems etc.) But complaining about specs isn't rumoring about new iMac, it's just being angry because they didn't get what they wanted 😛
Tallest Skil
macrumors P6
That's just the thing, though. The threads start out with, "well, we didn't get it now, so maybe next time" and degenerate from there into more baseless i7/Blu-ray/WiMax banter.
Hellhammer
Moderator emeritus
Ok, ok you won. So we have ~5min without rumors and that's the time when keynote is on and it's about iMac/Mini 😎
Imacs
I hope that the iMacs get updated really soon since I am ready to buy with credit card in hand. I am definitely going to go for the top of the line. I just hope it comes with a 9800 instead of the 9600. Also people were saying it may be a silent launch. I don't imagine it would because the entire desktop line is seriously over-due for updates. It seems to be that Apple is waiting for all the desktops to be ready before updating. It appears that is almost what they did with the notebooks before christmas except for the 17 incher. I just hope it is soon and that they don't wait for SL or i7. That would be too long to wait as I sold my Dell desktop before macworld and am now I only have a macbook.
BTW, this is my second post, although I have been lurking for over a year.
I hope that the iMacs get updated really soon since I am ready to buy with credit card in hand. I am definitely going to go for the top of the line. I just hope it comes with a 9800 instead of the 9600. Also people were saying it may be a silent launch. I don't imagine it would because the entire desktop line is seriously over-due for updates. It seems to be that Apple is waiting for all the desktops to be ready before updating. It appears that is almost what they did with the notebooks before christmas except for the 17 incher. I just hope it is soon and that they don't wait for SL or i7. That would be too long to wait as I sold my Dell desktop before macworld and am now I only have a macbook.
BTW, this is my second post, although I have been lurking for over a year.
Eric S.
macrumors 68040
That prediction said that iMacs would be announced at MWSF, which as you know was six weeks ago.
If Apple is going to release Clarksfield or Arrandale based iMacs before the end of this year, they're going to have to get on a faster development cycle than they seem to be at present.