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New iMacs Still Coming Before Holidays?

Dock? I think the patent thats been surfacing is in direct relation to the newly announced cinema display- I hope that they update all the displays and either put in a new video port in all there other products by the holidays, or atleast maybe a new 99.00 converter box- the new displays are sexy...

Anyway- I really do hope it's a silent update with more fun stuff, but keep that firewire 800- really how many consumers in the mac world have an external hard drive with some sort of firewire on it?

Please steve it's not a dying port... ... ... (Yeah, I cast my lot with the whinny "where's the FireWire folks")

Edit:
More in depth dock scenario- All the patents I have seen have matched the new displays except for having to store the macbook/pro into the actual display, seriously- charger, usb periphrials, sound, isight... anyone else besides me see it?
 
More RAM/Memory, bigger

I want/need 8GB of memory.
I want 27-inch.

The Mac Pro is overkill and too expensive.

I am very happy with my iMac (2.8 GHz, 24-inch), but I need more memory when trying to run Adobe's CS3 and VMWare's Fusion.

I want a 27-inch iMac with a 2160 x 1350 display.

Price is not an issue.
 
ChrisA said:
Or buy on e now before you find the next iMac a crippled without Firewire.
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god, you are all a bunch of whiners. Who cares about firewire, its dying. Most cameras/HDD's now use USB and if you have one that doesn't get an adapter, ITS JUST FIREWIRE, ITS NOT A DEAL BREAKER!
 
ryan.stewie said:
god, you are all a bunch of whiners. Who cares about firewire, its dying. Most cameras/HDD's now use USB and if you have one that doesn't get an adapter, ITS JUST FIREWIRE, ITS NOT A DEAL BREAKER!
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It may not be a deal breaker for you but for several of us who still use FireWire, it is a deal breaker.
 
ryan.stewie said:
god, you are all a bunch of whiners. Who cares about firewire, its dying. Most cameras/HDD's now use USB and if you have one that doesn't get an adapter, ITS JUST FIREWIRE, ITS NOT A DEAL BREAKER!
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There is no adapter you twit.

FireWire is the newer faster technology so you can't hook a FireWire device into a slower USB port and think it would work.
 
pismodude2 said:
It should have Blu-ray and a multitouch touchscreen. And double as a dock for the new MacBooks. That'd be SWEET!
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No possibility.

ryan.stewie said:
god, you are all a bunch of whiners. Who cares about firewire, its dying. Most cameras/HDD's now use USB and if you have one that doesn't get an adapter, ITS JUST FIREWIRE, ITS NOT A DEAL BREAKER!
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There is no viable FireWire to USB adapter.
 
Dear Apple,

I'm ready to buy a new 24" iMac the minute you announce it. BUT...

No FireWire = No Sale

Also, more than 3 USB ports would be nice. Geez, use some of that massive amount of case real estate. I'm sick of hubs all over my desk.
 
There will be at the very least a firewire 800 on the iMac.
BUT dropping the firewire in a "desktop all in one" iMac would be crazy. If Apple did this it would be NUCKING FUTS really really really bad. As in someone needs to put the crack pipe down, and step back.




BUT BUT BUT. IF they did it would have to be because they want a to make the imac a true consumer (seems consumer may mean no firewire) product and then the mini is either then replaced dropped or renamed what ever you want to call it to make room for a small mac pro'esq like tower or true pro mini tower.
 
ryan.stewie said:
i wish you'se would all stop screaming at me:

http://usbfirewire.com/uadapters.html
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It pays to read the details. The following is taken from the site:

It sounds great, but is it Mac compatible?
Unfortunately our cable is not Mac compatible. However, it is compatible only with Windows XP. This product is not Windows Vista compatible as of yet. We are currently trying to find a work-around for this.

And... like corinhorn said:

corinhorn said:
That thing again? Even if it did work, you have the bottleneck and inefficiency of USB.
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The Apple Insider article on dead ports killed by Apple was interesting. Notably the internal use of ADB (a Woz invention) until 1995. :)

I have posted before and I reiterate now, what Apple should make is a base station, nowadays attachable via 802.11, ethernet, or USB, that has ports and the appropriate software to address legacy drivers and hardware devices from days old. SCSI, ADB, RS-422, heck even Power Computing Parallel ports, and more. Call it a "hobby" project below the priority of Apple TV. The good news is once you get a feature working on it all three interface standards would have to die before the device became obsolete, so it would have legs!

Then we can buy a dongle to attach our 2020 Macs via microwave to a dongle that feeds to legacy Ethernet.

Driving our pen plotter over serial port using software drivers in use under OS 4.2.

Rocketman
 
happydude said:
get ready for apple to continue to rape the consumer market by killing imac support of firewire as well . . .
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I'm not one of those people that piss and moan about everything Apple does.

That said...I could care less if they dropped support of firewire in the MacBook but if they drop it in the iMac, I'll be very PISSED since I have lots of devices that make use of the firewire ports on my iMac G5.
 
The iMac will have the same specs as the MacbookPros. The 15"=20" and 17"=24"

The difference will be in hard drive space (probably no SSD option) and that's it. Expect 1 firewire 800 port and of course a faster processor as well as the MBP.

The mini if it gets an upgrade will be same specs as the macbook - maybe even with the nvidia (but probably not) but i would bet no firewire on the mini

unless they make it comporable to the air's specs and they try to make it AEBS size.

Who knows at this point, it's such an expensive computer for the specs it offers today. It's ridiculous and anyone who buys it now is getting ripped off - the technology is over 2 years old since it was old tech when the computer was released!
 
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