Wow! New Apple products that are in short supply for the first few months after release. When did this start?
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New iMac and iPad Mini to Be in Short Supply Until 2013
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This starts reminding me about the Amiga Scene...
Lots of promises about great products and NOTHING happens... Just the good stuff getting worse, and then even not being delivered.
Lots of promises about great products and NOTHING happens... Just the good stuff getting worse, and then even not being delivered.
Well Steve said Final Cut Pro X was coming and it was going to be "awesome" in Fall of 2010. I don't think that was a rumor. Then a little over half a year after that Apple had a giant preview for video editors at a major conference, announcing it would come out a few months later. I don't think that was a rumor. Then it finally came out. Half baked. Then a year after that it was finally ready for primetime. That most certainly wasn't a rumor. ^_^
And the current president of Apple said a new mac pro was coming. That's not what I'd consider a rumor either.
All of that to say, the point is, I think this iMac launch is mid tier drawn out at best, but then, I'm one of the idiots who bought a beige G3 tower in '97 when Apple was at absolute rock bottom, so maybe you should take what I say with a grain of salt. ^_^;
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It's unfortunate that there are not enough leading edge companies out there that are able to keep up with Apple's technology and production demands. Perhaps Apple should hold back on rapid innovation? NOT!
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Why don't Apple get another supply chain before the release of new iMac? Tim Cook should think about what he is doing to Apple.[/QUOTE]
If there was "another supply chain", I think Apple would be using it. Trouble is that manufacturers can't keep up with Apple's innovation. Apple hires the best minds right out of college, leaving the second and third tier grads for manufacturers to fight over. They just can't keep up with the leader.
Apple is known not put on the latest and greatest the moment it releases, unless they designed it themselves. So it will be a good six months before we can expect to see them using Haswell, if they do at all
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Except that Cook said at the keynote that supplies would be limited at launch.
And with the numbers they have on sales trends, it is possible that holidays are the lowest sales for iMacs and thus the best time for a limit.
It's not even a rumor, just fact with some BS tossed in.
Fact- Apple said from the start that the 21.5 inch models would be available in November, not Nov 1 but November
Fact - November 30 is in November
Fact - Tom Cook said at the keynote that supplies would be limited
Fact - Apple said the 27 inch would come in December
The BS is claims of issues as if this is something new much less true. It's possible that Apple is holding back on purpose to get a feel for which models are more popular. They don't want to guess wrong and have stores having to ship back in selling models or worse holding them for ages with less room for the models they can sell.
And the same folks are saying Apple is not innovative enough and not putting enough new technology into their product. Isn't the problem with these two product delay caused by supplier not able to fill their promise? Do you want old technology instead?
Not if you go to the stores. Many of them are in stock to a day or two for the next shipment
And as these computers aren't on sale we can't really say what the wait time will be.
But if your product cycle started in Spring, all your technology is already 4-5 months behind. So you can produce in large volume but someone else hot new toys will take the sales prize. Nexus 7 was announced what 4-5 months ago? it is already old news. And I already saw an analysts estimate cutting Nexus 7 sales to 4M for 2012 from 5M before Ipad mini launch. And Asus said that Google sold 2.3M unit in 3Q. So they are moving the sales target from 2.7M in 4Q to 1.7M all because of Ipad mini competition. It is better to fight production problem than demand problem.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericsav...rest-says-nexus-sales-light-which-boosts-eps/
Agreed. Like the retina MBP, I would wait until Rev B on this slender fella. Hell, I won't even buy a Rev B iMac either. I will wait until the gutted iMac (e.g. TBD) comes out and plug it into whatever refurb laptop I'm running then.
ummmm the ipad mini has the same lame screen and the same old chips that are in the old ipad 2..lol that is on the damn 3gs .. you mean tok tell me that apple is having trouble making that crap?
Not one of my clients has ever asked me how thin is my computer, they just want the work done on time.
Sucks mini is short supply. Don't they have three or four manufacturers for the screen?
And that iMac is LG only but hasn't this been the case for a while? Certainly that screen is similar to previous iMacs it's maybe the design they're slow at pumping out?
And that iMac is LG only but hasn't this been the case for a while? Certainly that screen is similar to previous iMacs it's maybe the design they're slow at pumping out?
If you're going to write "Fact" I want to know who this Tom is
Also, and I may be wrong so I won't say "Fact", I do believe in fact that he didn't say at the Keynote about the supply constraints but rather at the Investors 4th Quarter Results Release. I could be wrong and wouldn't usually pull some one up on such a minor thing but you did rather emphatically use the word "Fact".
Omg
Can NOT wait to see the issues that pop up on these iMac screens. This is a recipe for disaster.
Can NOT wait to see the issues that pop up on these iMac screens. This is a recipe for disaster.
It's funny non-retina devices are in short supply. Just an observation.
I really wish I knew who made my iPad 3 and mini screens. The nerd in me enjoys it, I used to pick all the parts I wanted in my PC tower back in the day. Same with monitor, etc. Though with portables it's more difficult to have your specifications. My first (mini) and this one are bright and pop. My second one was sort of paler in color, though less washed out (cant wait for color profiles) but a weird weird tint that buggered me. My iPad 3 is cherry picked amongst a lot of them because they are garbage (most of these 2048x1536 screens that make it into iPad 3/4. uneven multiple tint is just ewww) I heard a lot of iPad 4's have image retention issues like the 15" rMBP (and maybe 13"? haven't been following, have the air).
Are LG iMac displays that problematic relative to other manufacturers?
-mini owner
I really wish I knew who made my iPad 3 and mini screens. The nerd in me enjoys it, I used to pick all the parts I wanted in my PC tower back in the day. Same with monitor, etc. Though with portables it's more difficult to have your specifications. My first (mini) and this one are bright and pop. My second one was sort of paler in color, though less washed out (cant wait for color profiles) but a weird weird tint that buggered me. My iPad 3 is cherry picked amongst a lot of them because they are garbage (most of these 2048x1536 screens that make it into iPad 3/4. uneven multiple tint is just ewww) I heard a lot of iPad 4's have image retention issues like the 15" rMBP (and maybe 13"? haven't been following, have the air).
Are LG iMac displays that problematic relative to other manufacturers?
-mini owner
Not a very well run company it seems these days. And more firings over the maps disaster has to be hurting employee moral
LG Panel is Absolutely Superb in iMac
Yes and IMHO that LG panel is absolutely superb and not at all inferior to Samsung.
Yes and IMHO that LG panel is absolutely superb and not at all inferior to Samsung.
I thought they were all LG (the iMacs)
At least you can't blame it on manufacturer bias from unit-to-unit comparisons.
They also put them in Korean 3rd party panels like Achieva Shimian.
I'd totally snatch up a QH270-Lite on eBay with squaretrade for my MBA if I didn't get a ZR24W last year that I still love quite enough.
At least you can't blame it on manufacturer bias from unit-to-unit comparisons.
They also put them in Korean 3rd party panels like Achieva Shimian.
I'd totally snatch up a QH270-Lite on eBay with squaretrade for my MBA if I didn't get a ZR24W last year that I still love quite enough.
NO it is not. The A5 chip is 55% of the size of the one in the old iPad 2. It is using the new 32nm cpu technology, consumes less power and less heat.
LCD panel is extra tin and new design, ultra tin battery. Basically Apple had to design a Mini with half the volume of the old iPad 2, half wait, with better specs like better camera, same battery live etc. Not an easy job I would say.