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New iMacs Released

mongoos150 said:
I've decided to wait until Leopard is released until I buy my new iMac. Aggravating, but I don't want to pay for the upgrade.
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I am doing exactly the same thing. Here in Australia, Leopard costs $ 200 and that is money I'm not prepared to just throw away.

I was planning on waiting unti Penryn mobile CPUs arrived too, but today I decided that might not be until March 08 or so, and decided that I'll order as soon as Leopard is shipping.

Then again, if Intel gives some firm dates.... I'd love that SSE4 for my iMovie work, plus the virtualization boost for my 'real' work.
 
Gentile said:
My upgraded imac left the Philippines over a day ago, but the FedEx tracking site has not been updated since then. It estimates a delivery time of Aug 15, 2007 by 10:30 AM...the waiting is killing me.

I can't believe that the thing has been in the air for an entire day. Anyone have any idea how long it takes to travel from the Philippines to the midwest?
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I assume FedEx is now showing movement?

Mine has been showing as having left the philippines about 24 hours ago, so i assume i'm in the same boat as you were in yesterday... fedex must hate me refreshing every 30 minutes or so :)
 
why does all the iMacs you guys have come from china and phillipines when mine shipped from the US ?
 
stuff99 said:
why does all the iMacs you guys have come from china and phillipines when mine shipped from the US ?
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Two possible thoughts... ours are 'build to order' and yours wasn't... or yours was already in the US and set up the way you wanted so they didn't have to build it. Odds are it was built in china and shipped here before you ordered.
 
wowsers

my 2.8ghz iMac arrived yesterday morning - 1 day ahead of the fedex estimate.

took like 9 hours to migrate 250gb off my old drive... installed 2gb extra memory in a flash - very simple.

first impression: OMG this sucker is FAST (especially compared to my iMac 2.0ghz G5!) - encoding a movie i was working on it like lightening compared to the old mac.

haven't really noticed the glare - i see it at times but i have lights on in the room right now... can say that images/movies seem more crisp and vibrant. This monitor sitting next to a Dell (supplied by my day job) makes that look horribly dull and flat (it is 2 years old tho too).
 
Sooo I'm retracting my earlier statement of waiting until Leopard comes out. I can't take not having a computer at home. I FINALLY was able to reserve at 24 incher at my Apple store (they have been out of stock this ENTIRE TIME since they were announced (!!) ) and am picking 'er up in an hour. My 1GB stick arrived yesterday from Crucial. 2.8GHz upgrade doesn't seem worth it - the 2.4GHz will be fine for CS3 work and light FCP (I'd be saying different if the system wasn't bottleneked with the vid card), so I'll be doing gaming on my PS3. I am ready. :D
 
mongoos150 said:
Sooo I'm retracting my earlier statement of waiting until Leopard comes out. I can't take not having a computer at home. I FINALLY was able to reserve at 24 incher at my Apple store (they have been out of stock this ENTIRE TIME since they were announced (!!) ) and am picking 'er up in an hour. My 1GB stick arrived yesterday from Crucial. 2.8GHz upgrade doesn't seem worth it - the 2.4GHz will be fine for CS3 work and light FCP (I'd be saying different if the system wasn't bottleneked with the vid card), so I'll be doing gaming on my PS3. I am ready. :D
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congratulations! welcome to the club!

my 24" 2.8 is just what i needed - it is fast as lightening for me and i don't need a gaming graphics card...
 
Question for iMac G5 switchers

Hello!

I had a question for those of you who upgraded from the PPC-based iMac G5 to the new Intel-based iMac - did you use the Migration Assistant or did you start over from scratch? Are there any compatibility issues?

I am holding out on upgrading until I get at least 3 years of use out of the current iMac.

Thanks!
Mike
 
pshady said:
Hello!

I had a question for those of you who upgraded from the PPC-based iMac G5 to the new Intel-based iMac - did you use the Migration Assistant or did you start over from scratch? Are there any compatibility issues?
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I used migration assistant and had no issues - has only been 1.5 days since i got my mac, but everything seems fine so far. only a couple of minor things didn't work - aperture didn't keep its serial number and i notice it didn't bring over the setting to let PHP run on my webserver (which i haven't fixed yet)... but nothing else i've noticed.

very smooth change over - much better than doing it manually myself (tho it did take 9 hours with 250gb of data)
 
ariel said:
I used migration assistant and had no issues - has only been 1.5 days since i got my mac, but everything seems fine so far. only a couple of minor things didn't work - aperture didn't keep its serial number and i notice it didn't bring over the setting to let PHP run on my webserver (which i haven't fixed yet)... but nothing else i've noticed.

very smooth change over - much better than doing it manually myself (tho it did take 9 hours with 250gb of data)
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Glad to hear Migration Assistant works well. 9 hours for 250GB of data seems a bit excessive but I guess you can let it run overnight.

Looking forward to getting one in the next year or so!

Mike
 
pshady said:
Glad to hear Migration Assistant works well. 9 hours for 250GB of data seems a bit excessive but I guess you can let it run overnight.
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i wish i could have done it overnight, but heck the darn thing came at 9am and i was too impatient to wait... tho if i'd known it was gonna take that long i might have actually waited... it is like watching paint dry - painfully slow when you want to just get to it :)
 
Does Migration Assistant work with Firewire 800? I'm hoping so, because that will speed things up for me.
 
If I remember correctly, I used FW 800 to transfer from my PBG4 500 to my PBG4 1.67. So yes, at least the port will work for it (PBG4 was FW 400, FW cable with 800 on one end and 400 on the other).
 
ariel said:
i wish i could have done it overnight, but heck the darn thing came at 9am and i was too impatient to wait... tho if i'd known it was gonna take that long i might have actually waited... it is like watching paint dry - painfully slow when you want to just get to it :)
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I'm hoping I can start mine in the morning and good off to work, and come hoem to find a happy new mac. :)
 
ariel said:
I used migration assistant and had no issues - has only been 1.5 days since i got my mac, but everything seems fine so far. only a couple of minor things didn't work - aperture didn't keep its serial number and i notice it didn't bring over the setting to let PHP run on my webserver (which i haven't fixed yet)... but nothing else i've noticed.

very smooth change over - much better than doing it manually myself (tho it did take 9 hours with 250gb of data)
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It took me 3 hours from PPC G5 2GHz DP to iMac 2.4... Migration assistant hates Microsoft mice, but other than that perfect... It's so (too) easy. Just make sure if you've got Quark/CS3 deactivate the old one using the help menu first on your PPC Mac. After the 3 hours, straight back to work, cannot recommend it enough... My Windows using colleagues were aghast at how simple it was!:)

Edit: Was 192 GBs of Data for me
 
ju5tin81 said:
It took me 3 hours from PPC G5 2GHz DP to iMac 2.4... Migration assistant hates Microsoft mice, but other than that perfect... It's so (too) easy. Just make sure if you've got Quark/CS3 deactivate the old one using the help menu first on your PPC Mac. After the 3 hours, straight back to work, cannot recommend it enough... My Windows using colleagues were aghast at how simple it was!:)

Edit: Was 192 GBs of Data for me
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I wonder why mine was sooo much longer than yours... my data heavier than yours? LOL

oh well - it is over now and i'm just speedin along!
 
Ha... That's the first time I've ever been quoted, I feel much more welcome in the forums now :)

My first impressions of the new iMac (Copied and pasted from the other masses/huge quantities of iMac topics for anyone reading this one.)

Ta da...
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My new 20' iMac arrived today...

I've used a glossy screen MacBook before and never had a problem, but I must say, the iMac's glass front is REALLY shiny... I'm not seeing ceiling light reflections or anything, just myself! I can see myself in the reflection all the time and it is really quite distracting...

Will take some getting used to. Also the 20' panel is not nearly as good as the standalone cinema display. For one, the icons in the dock are almost out of focus. (Too bright to see, the viewing angle is really tight vertically.)

Screen definitely doesn't feel like an improvement.

App launching etc. a delight compared to the PowerMac 2 GHz G5 it replaces. Speed Great! :D

Keyboard... Very low, but nippy and responsive.

Black apple, hugely prominent. The chrome one on the cinema display just faded into the background when working. This one screams for attention.

One thing.... I had hoped to eventually get an iMac to replace my TV at home. The white ones would've been so much better for that. This one blends into the black office Dells very well (I'm the only Mac user.), and is, well, too obviously a computer to use as anything else... :(

Good, but cosmetically, change for the sake of it really. No real innovative benefits, I just find the logo and screen a bit too distracting. (Will look great in the shop, not sure about home though.)

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Still like it though.

Don't need any quotes from this one... ;)
 
Glossy Screen Problems?

I've had my new 24" Imac for 6 days now (my first mac ever:)). Before receiving it I heard all these complaints about the glossy screen and possible reflections being distracting. I have not seen any reflections from the screen while it is on. While in sleep mode and the screen in black there is a reflection. Trust me, I've been looking for any type of reflection while working on it because of all I have read on this site. By the way, I love the new design and I'm loving OSX more.:D
 
ariel said:
congratulations! welcome to the club!

my 24" 2.8 is just what i needed - it is fast as lightening for me and i don't need a gaming graphics card...
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I love it. Used the 2.8GHz, not a noticeable difference (in normal tasks) - the upgrade in ram is much more noticeable (and worth your money). I bought a new desk and chair as well, and added to the new paint job in my room (and the lighting I replaced 2 weeks ago), my room looks straight out of a design magazine. And I'm in college. W00t!

P.S. I have bright halogen lighting in my room. When the computer is off, the reflection is fairly obvious in the monitor. When the display is on, and the computer is being used however, the screen is perfect. No glare. I actually have to tilt the screen into it's highest position to see any glare. And I'm hella picky about those kinds of things. We all knew most of the naysayers hadn't actually used one in a home environment.:D
 
mongoos150 said:
I love it. Used the 2.8GHz, not a noticeable difference (in normal tasks) - the upgrade in ram is much more noticeable (and worth your money). I bought a new desk and chair as well, and added to the new paint job in my room (and the lighting I replaced 2 weeks ago), my room looks straight out of a design magazine. And I'm in college. W00t!

Congrats on the new iMac. Is the 2.8ghz much faster than the 2.4ghz? It's just CPU clock speed and not also a front side business speed increase correct? Does the 2.8ghz CPU have more cache?

Also, does anyone know whether this is the "mobile" version of the Core 2 Duo (i.e. not Conroe)?

Thanks!
Mike
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pshady said:
Congrats on the new iMac. Is the 2.8ghz much faster than the 2.4ghz? It's just CPU clock speed and not also a front side business speed increase correct? Does the 2.8ghz CPU have more cache?

Also, does anyone know whether this is the "mobile" version of the Core 2 Duo (i.e. not Conroe)?
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The 2.8 has a clockspeed about 17% faster than the 2.4, but the same FSB speed and the same amount of cache. In theory, it is possible to overclock the 2.8, since the chip is supposed to be unlocked when Intel ships it, but I don't know how it can be overclocked in the iMac, and doing so would likely void the warranty.

And yes, it is the mobile version of the chip.
 
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