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Next-Generation iMac to Offer Two 'Compelling' New Features?
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Eventually, yes. Our kids will look at a disc and wonder wtf to do with it, much like confronting a teenager today with a record or 8 track.
I'm extremely skeptical of the flash memory mob lately in terms of production and ease of such vs. pressing an optical disc.
For $80, I can get a 3 GHz, 65 W Athlon II X2 (can't find a X3). For $99, I can get a 2.6 GHz, 95 W Phenom II X3. If I could find an Athlon X3, I'd get it.
EDIT: Read that the Athlon II X3 is launching this month. I also saw some benchmarks saying a slightly higher-frequency Athlon X2 will outperform a Phenom II X2. I think the extra core and seemingly inconsequential-for-a-HTPC L3 cache is worth the extra $20. Do you think the 400 MHz makes up for the lost core in the Athlon?
A Phenom II X4 Black was overclocked to just over 6.7 GHz.
Didn't see that. It makes sense now.
Why?
Moores law clearly shows that within the next 5 years capacity will make optical disks completely irrelevant
The other Athlon II lines aren't out yet...
Nothing new to me.
It's tough to swallow given the ease in the creation of the static optical media vs. circuits.
Just read that. If I can find an Athlon X3 greater than 2.6 GHz for around the same price at the time of purchase, I'll go with that.
Darn.
The current design already looks like the 24" LED Display...in fact that display was probably modeled after the current iMac.
Easy mode.
It's tough to show me something new when it comes to computer hardware. This was the last thing.
Thanks. Q4 2009 might be a bit late, though.
IMO, the word "Phenom" sounds almost like a superhero, whereas the name "Athlon" sounds like an endurance race.
Everyone feels they're qualified to be a futurist...
"Nuclear powered vacuum cleaners will probably be a reality within 10 years." —Alex Lewyt, president of the Lewyt Vacuum Cleaner Company, quoted in the New York Times, June 10, 1955
"Before man reaches the moon, your mail will be delivered within hours from New York to Australia by guided missiles. We stand on the threshold of rocket mail." —Arthur Summerfield, U.S. Postmaster General under Eisenhower, 1959
"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out." -- Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962
The Athlon II X4 630 should be by the end of this month with the Phenom II X4 965.
You might want to hit me up on AIM instead so we don't turn the thread into solely our own conversation.
That sounds more like a Mac Pro.
The iMac is Apple's model for the typical consumer and not the pro user. You specs are way above what we will see in the iMac update.
Hmm, Pressing an organic compound onto a pice of plastic OR refining Silicon, Copper, Black Dye. Then manufacturing the small components.
YOU wish!!!
I just dont see that happening until Bio-Computing is so advanced we can grow computer parts on GM trees... within a matter of seconds.
Quad (or more) i7 and BDR
My bet is on quad core i7 along with a BluRay burner.
Optical is going to be around for the foreseeable future; certainly long enough to allow inclusion into the Apple line. BluRay is becoming more popular and is the least expensive & most accessible way to backup these mondo sized drives these days (unless you go to another HDD).
My bet is on quad core i7 along with a BluRay burner.
Optical is going to be around for the foreseeable future; certainly long enough to allow inclusion into the Apple line. BluRay is becoming more popular and is the least expensive & most accessible way to backup these mondo sized drives these days (unless you go to another HDD).
Moore's Law, while certainly not future-proof, is still fairly safe for a good few generations and has plenty of historical data to support extrapolation.
The stuff you quote isn't really extrapolation; it's just out of the blue prediction in two cases and opinion in one.
Moores law has stopped applying ages ago.
We've moved form Megahertz days... remember?
Our better understanding of Quantum Physics could let us make Uber disks. With a layer that responds to each spectrum of light. Low energy (Red Lazer) at the bottom. High energy (Violet Lazer) At the top. Then use existing methods of Multi layering to make even more layering.
So thats 7 layers already. 8 layering is possible for each type of colour...
Therfore we could make a disc thats 56 Layers at about 10-20GB each. Thats
1.2TB for something that costs about 5-10 cents to make.
Lets see Flash do that, with Copper and Silicon at its current rates.
Blu-Ray burner: Possible.
Core i7: Not until the Nehalem architecture goes mobile. That is happening later this year, but with frequency topping out at 2 GHz and people still believing the megahertz myth, Apple won't implement Nehalem in anything but the Mac Pro until Arrandale, which hits the streets around Q1 2010. But still, with Arrandale only hitting 2.66 GHz, it may not happen because people may still have the MHz myth in their head, although a maximum TDP of 35 W will entice tree huggers.
about new imac features
I dont know about you guys, but a feature I have long dreamed of is a 30" iMac screen, and YES I agree that a stand alone graphics card, blueray, usb3 and quadcore processors would be awesome. Could the next processor be i7?
Isnt it time for the refresh already? I'll bet we will have to wait until the release of osxSL. Steve Jobs will probably release all this cool stuff with his first keynote since back on the job. What do you think?
I dont know about you guys, but a feature I have long dreamed of is a 30" iMac screen, and YES I agree that a stand alone graphics card, blueray, usb3 and quadcore processors would be awesome. Could the next processor be i7?
Isnt it time for the refresh already? I'll bet we will have to wait until the release of osxSL. Steve Jobs will probably release all this cool stuff with his first keynote since back on the job. What do you think?