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Next Apple iMacs with "Striking New Industrial Design"?
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Best mock up ever.Or maybe it will look like this:
A combination of multi-touch and desktop
Where do people come up with these specifications seriously?
Hey thats a legitimate request. That is a High End, Mid Range Computer now in Days.
The Mac Pro will soon Have the Ability to run (2) Quad Core Xeon CPUs at upwards of 2.66Ghz or Even 3GHz... Run on a faster 1333FSB. The Ability for up to 16GB of Ram, 4+ Hard Drives, 2 or More Higher End 768MB 8800GTX's... etc... Much Much Higher Specs than the Above Proposed iMac... so whats the problem?
That's not something an iMac would have.
1. Quad-cores: not until Gilo (still not completely confirmed) or Penryn
2. GeForce Mobile 8000: Don't expect anything higher then the 83xx/86xx.
3.2 x 1 TB drives: Apple has never had more then one drive on the iMac
It's fun and all but people tend to post insane specifications much too often. Quad-core I can see maybe in 2008. The 8 or X2000 Series launches with Santa Rosa so that's easily possible within the next few months. In some magical future sure, just around the corner with everything you want? No.
Exactly. And I would love to see mobile 8300 or 8600 GPU's in it. That way you can future-proof yourself for DirectX 10.
looks to mo like the Sony Vaio VGC-LS25E is a bit thicker and and less powerful than the iMac. do i sense a PC user in denial?
Also, the Sony Vaio VGC-LS25E has a lower quality screen with lower res, is less bright, and cheap looking to boot (Vista, that is)
Should I keep my current 17" C2D or sell it and get one of these new ones.
Any Advice would be very helpful.
Jordan
Wait till mid-June then sell it for a newer model.
Should I keep my current 17" C2D or sell it and get one of these new ones.
Any Advice would be very helpful.
Jordan
you have a C2D and your thinking of selling it for a newer model? i have a PPC G4; 3 years old-- i want a new model but i'm going to keep this for a while because it still is working fine.
maybe because your girlfriends are idiots. sorry to take offense, but i'm a girlfriend and i'm not retarded and know how to behave with other peoples' machinery. how the hell did your girlfriend escape from chains to get close enough to your lcd anyways?
Want to buy an iMac, but when?
Hello everyone,
I've been a PC user my whole life, but now I would like to join the Mac family. I am interested in the iMac, and I was thinking of purchasing one very soon. But more and more, after having seen many threads like these, and also reading about rumors that there should be a new design coming out anytime soon, I'm unsure about what I should do. At first, I was going to get a 20-inch 2.33 GHz, 2GB, with the ATI X1600/256MB VRAM. So I guess what I'm asking is, should I be patient and wait a few weeks (months?) before getting an iMac? I don't exactly need it right away, but the sooner the better. Thanks in advance.
Hello everyone,
I've been a PC user my whole life, but now I would like to join the Mac family. I am interested in the iMac, and I was thinking of purchasing one very soon. But more and more, after having seen many threads like these, and also reading about rumors that there should be a new design coming out anytime soon, I'm unsure about what I should do. At first, I was going to get a 20-inch 2.33 GHz, 2GB, with the ATI X1600/256MB VRAM. So I guess what I'm asking is, should I be patient and wait a few weeks (months?) before getting an iMac? I don't exactly need it right away, but the sooner the better. Thanks in advance.
It boils down to this: buy the computer you need at the time you need it. Don't try to get into the rumor mill...it's a gong show and you'll never end up being satisfied with your purchase.
The only time it's really useful is to check and see how likely an update in the next month is. You can usually tell when something's about to change, but then again this forum over the past year has steadily grown to its most ridiculous depths ever.
I wouldn't expect new iMacs until Leopard, and Leopard is more than a month away (you can start the anxious clocks next time Apple previews Leopard; until then, it's nowhere close to release).
Like I was thinking of getting it around Easter. If I would wait 'till let's say, end of April, beginning of May, could it possibly be released around that time? Or is it only around mid June?
I know I could use a new computer now, but if the new release is this close from arriving, I wouldn't want to have bought an iMac at this moment. And also, could there be some sort of price drop with the new designs or would the computers just be more powerful and around same price?
I'm not sure when they'll bring it out, but I'd recommend waiting for a couple of months before buying anything. Unless you really need it now!
Something to remember with the iMacs is that they are basically laptops in a desktop-ish enclosure. So they utilise laptop hardware which is slower than desktop hardware. Currently Apple do not have a standard desktop computer (the Mac Pro is based on server hardware), and it's something that they really should hurry up and bring out.
seing leopard going resolution independent would it be a safe to bet the new imacs will have a high dpi? like that ibm t221 monitor.
and maybe ditching the mighty mouse and ship with these instead? http://www003.upp.so-net.ne.jp/hat/mouse/img/sensa.jpg
and maybe ditching the mighty mouse and ship with these instead? http://www003.upp.so-net.ne.jp/hat/mouse/img/sensa.jpg
ibook tank
same here... (with iBook G4)
- carried for two years on a daily basis, also ET-like on a rather shaky bike
- heavy load of water while djing in the garden and umbrella colapsed under rain showers
- dripping over power cord, throwing it off from about 1 and 1/2 meters
still working as intended ,-j
same here... (with iBook G4)
- carried for two years on a daily basis, also ET-like on a rather shaky bike
- heavy load of water while djing in the garden and umbrella colapsed under rain showers
- dripping over power cord, throwing it off from about 1 and 1/2 meters
still working as intended ,-j
Exactly... a "real" desktop.
I don't need/want/desire a computer with some new artsy fartsy design inspired by someone's stroll through a Zen Garden. Give me a system with decent upper-mid-range specs, don't feed me marketing hype. Vista doesn't make me go "Wow!" and neither will a new iMac design (if this *rumor* does come true at all).
"Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union", to quote Frank Lloyd Wright. OS X achieves that sort of illusive union... if only Apple's hardware could come as close...
Stunning design. I personally think Apple's will be more revolutionary, but this one is simply amazing.Or maybe it will look like this:
A combination of multi-touch and desktop
What exactly is slower about them? The Intel 945GM is used on desktop motherboards, the Core 2 Duo is certainly desktop-grade performance, and last I checked they took full-size DDR2 RAM at full speed.
So no, I don't agree with that assessment for the current crop of iMacs.
They use the laptop variant of the Core 2 Duo. And laptop memory as well (SO-DIMM), even though it is 667MHz DDR2. Not to forget the graphics chip.
The only non-laptop component is the hard drive, as far as I know.
Went to the new Apple store in Manchester last weekend, the rep there told me there that Apple have no plans what so ever in bringing a new Imac out. I think it is about time that Apple should let people know there plans one way or the other. I myself are one of the many people who are waiting to buy our first Mac.