totally depends on the pc.
my htpc (640gb hd, 4 gigs of ram, triple core phenom) with a blu-ray player only cost me $400 canadian. and this was 2 years ago.
lol @ macs who still don't have blu-ray.
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Next-Generation iMac: Quad-Core Processors? No Blu-Ray?
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totally depends on the pc.
my htpc (640gb hd, 4 gigs of ram, triple core phenom) with a blu-ray player only cost me $400 canadian. and this was 2 years ago.
lol @ macs who still don't have blu-ray.
Considering the rumor with thinner iMacs and no quadcore, one of them has to be wrong...
I mean if they expect to have the full turboboos option, then it would be wiser to make more space for cooling then less.
Well.. im still curious. (even if i'm getting the feeling of being playd with, with all the upcoming rumors like a cat&mouse)
Tod
Btw: Im guessing they will stick with the 4850. Though it would be awesome to have the new 5000er series from ATI
Hmmm... With Jobs back at Apple, what better way to celebrate his return than with an engineering marvel: Ultra-thin Turboboost Quad-Code LED BL iMac.
In Jobs We Trust.... no political pun intended
Disney and cheaper MSRPs can never be used in the same sentence.
Disney is the reason to really hate HD-DVD losing the format war. The one less discussed outcome as that Disney can (and does) load up blu-rays with many previews before you reach the movie. HD-DVD licensing required the movie load immediately.
Blu-Ray lets them abuse the format like they did with DVD. With Disney films we push the next chapter button at least six times before a menu shows... it can really take five minutes from disk start even doing that to get to the real movie.
well 2 of the 4 iMacs currently ship w/ discrete graphics. maybe Clarksfield + discrete for those 2 and Penryn + integrated for the bottom 2 models
Thats about 10-15% premium for BluRay on iMac... if it is worth it to you then go ahead. I assume these are low speed 4x BluRay read/write???
You can add a Blu-ray drive to most Dell or HP computers for about $49 for BD ROM. Burners are still running a $200-300 premium.
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I just bought Snow White on Blu-ray for $9.99 on Amazon last week, and it came with the DVD too.im just guessing here but based on the architecture of the 1.66GHZ processor... can it receive tasks at an increased speed? and if they cant fit/make cool enough to put a 2.66GHZ into a "Proposed Slimline iMac" a 1.66GHZ Quad Core is an improvement over many/all of the current iMac processors?
honestly no idea what i'm talking about, just seems to make sense lol
You just dont know where to shop!
Oh no I noted that on post #94. I got that deal too
I don't think intel even makes an integrated graphics chip that works with the Clarksfield's chipset. Intel specifically targeted this processor at mobile with more power and dedicated graphics. Arrandale is the processor for integrated graphics.
Hmmm... With Jobs back at Apple, what better way to celebrate his return than with an engineering marvel: Ultra-thin Turboboost Quad-Code LED BL iMac.
In Jobs We Trust.... no political pun intended
if that came out i would quite happily put myself in debt just to purchase one while jizzing in my pants at the thought...
I am hoping for Apple iMagination and creativity will shine through and blow us ALL away with the new iMac.
Besides the price part as I'll mention below I can't even fathom the slow speed of it. I do basic video editing on my iMac at home. To burn a 30 minute DVD out takes 10-15 minutes for DVD Studio Pro after it have the files compiled for a DVD. That's for 1 GB of data. A BluRay slot loading drive would take 25 hours to burn the full disc. Therefore I don't see it feasible in an iMac to have a BluRay burner. The drive speeds for a slot loading drive are terrible compared to a standard drive and I think therefore hurt BluRay ever coming to an iMac. I could see it in a Mac Pro, but not an iMac anytime soon.
What Dell charges I think would cost Apple about 2-3 times as much. Heck, to replace the slot loading Superdrive in the iMac I think is in the $300-$350 range. I would think the BluRay drive would be $500-600 and I doubt they would just do a reader without the writer part. Would people really pay for that?
Very likely the bottom Penryn based models would then transition to Arrandale in the fall.
No more CPU specification pessimism for the iMacs for me. (At last.)
Core i5 (desktop) is too hot for the iMac.
I wonder what this means for the integrated GPU iMacs. Will they stay with Penryn or gain a discrete GPU?
Though on an iPod or a smaller TV (42 and less) I find that HD content is overkill.
I disagree with this. My reason being that what I like about HD video is pixel for pixel matching with the resolution of a screen. So for example a 24" imac has a resolution of 1920 x 1200 and a blu-ray video has a res of 1920 x 1080 so it looks great an un-stretched on a 24" monitor.
My monitor is 1280 x 1024 and dvds do look stretched on it and 720p looks perfect and the resolution matches my monitors pixel width (1280 x 720). However 1080p video would be overkill, but it is not to do with screen size in my opinion.
I think so they will probably also drop in price.
I think Apple probably did perform a production run of dual-core iMacs with new enclosures like the previous rumor suggested.
They are now making a separate production run for the Clarksfield quad-core iMacs.
There is probably a little bit of truth to both rumors.
Also, I think some people would be sitting in front of their iMacs when viewing blu-ray content, and up close, the detail will be more evident.
Obviously, sitting way back on your couch viewing on a display smaller than 40" will be much different than sitting up close to a 24" display.