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Online Ad Evidence of Imminent iMac, Mac Mini and MacBook Updates?

Chupa Chupa said:
Apple has only announced iLife ahead of it's year designation once, in 2008, and that is only because they completely missed 2007. So I'd say, no to that. Frankly the iLife/iWork updates have become so boring who cares. And the $79 upgrade is a complete rip for current owners given the minor updates year over year. I'd like to see Apple offer a $29 upgrade for previous year owners, i.e '09 to '10, not '08 to '10.
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Oh, I didn't know they didn't release it before the end of the year. Personally though, I find them very interesting, as I'm sure many other do. I guess it depends if you use it a lot or not.
 
I think it would be a silent update... After all, the original introduction of the MacBook in 2006 was silent wasn't it? I don't remember an event for it. However, recent intros like the 2009 iPods had an event, even though not much was new...
 
hiimamac said:
the point I'm trying to make us that there is a huge market that apple does not target. For example, Finsl Cut is purchased by Prosumers more than Pros. Pros still use avid and after effects, although I have seen FCP on a smallnscale at NBC, Bravo, still, it's purchased by the promsumer.

Gaming: Larger Market then music and videio sales. Music DAWs: 1000 x if not 10,000 to every one Pro purchase.

Audio people neen express slots for FX cards and CPU quad for more FX and virtual instruments plus the ability to use fast ram and 16-32GB if ram and I even hear pros complain that Apple used ecc in the mac pro, keeping Ram upgrades very pricey compaered to non ecc, hello, these are workstations, not servers.

Video: Quad needed fir faster rendering as well as real time FX without rendering and many complaints are that iMovie works easier with FX and codecs than FCP go figure.

Past white Jay Leno matte chin iMacs where in design studio everywhere.

You see, apple bulks Pro with Prosumer when in fact it's not true. Avid/Digidesign saw the writing in the wall and they knew CPUs where getting stronger and people stopped buying Pro Tool TDM systems and started using native RTAS which is very CPU dependent.

This is a huge market and Apple has it wrong that it would eat into Mac Pro sales. Just the opposite. The studios that have mac pros also have PC rendering Xeon servers as it's cheap and works.

Apple would sell 10s of thousands if these si called quad devices. The just need to realize the market for high end CPU machines are wanted in so many areas. It's time for Apple to STOP using old, outdated mobile parts and start using modern parts as one poster said, an iMac stronger then a 2 year old Dell laptop.
Peace.
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Awesome, glad someone gets it.
 
bobdard said:
I think it would be a silent update... After all, the original introduction of the MacBook in 2006 was silent wasn't it? I don't remember an event for it. However, recent intros like the 2009 iPods had an event, even though not much was new...
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I think your right... Really how Long can they talk about a thinner iMac and mouse.
 
Found Interesting Info!

I have been watching recent post about the iMac update and I have seen that Apple has a glitch on their educational store showing that the iMac ships within 2 weeks. Check it out!
 

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bobdard said:
I think it would be a silent update... After all, the original introduction of the MacBook in 2006 was silent wasn't it? I don't remember an event for it. However, recent intros like the 2009 iPods had an event, even though not much was new...
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I dont know, they could just post it on tuesday....
 
Eidorian said:
Dell and even in small form factor.

If you just want the cores you can go with an Athlon II X4 620 for about $100 on the processor alone and a 780/785G board for another $60. The 780G is a decent IGP and it offers HDMI out. I've mention this before but I've installed a few Inspiron 546 towers and even they're sporting HDMI for $287 after tax.

Like it was mentioned before, Handbrake runs just as well under Windows. That's what I do with my DVDs instead of turning my MacBook into a molten pile of plastic.
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A little more costly here in Japan . Least expensive Dell with 21" monitor / Intel Core 2 Quad I could find is around $ 880 .

Base iMac right now is around $ 1200 .
 
jmpage2 said:
This demonstrates a complete lack of understanding of how Snow Leopard and Grand Central Dispatch works.

The fact is that there's no difference in a GCD/SL world between two cores, four cores or twenty cores.

GCD knows how many cores there are and what state they are in. When a function call to GCD is made asking for multi-thread execution in a process GCD makes the determination about how many threads/cores to utilize for that call and the threads are then created and tracked.

In other words, the application does not need to know how many cores there are or how best to take advantage of them. GCD takes care of these details, freeing programmers up to more quickly implement multi threading in their apps.

This is why it is disappointing that Apple appears to have let another year go by while continuing to cling to legacy architecture. In all likelihood there won't be a single major application that won't be written to take full advantage of this within the next 6-12 months. Apple is starting to look foolish by developing next generation software for Snow Leopard and then running it on four year old processor technology.
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The program has to be developed for Quad Core to take full advantage of the software, GCD can only go so far. There's a reason why you don't see Mac Pro users doing backflips due to their improvements with Snow Leopard. This is why during tests of Snow Leopard vs Leopard in Mac Pro's there really isn't that big of a difference at all.
 
All iMac's do say 2 weeks shipping. Education store. I opened a chat with The apple store and my answer was " in shortage due to back to school rush" ships around 2 weeks........ YEAH.................
 
Changing External looks...

gr81mgbgt said:
I wonder if this is going to be a silent update???? Obviously more than spec bump...
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Traditionally Apple has always changed the external design of the iMac when there is significant changes under the hood...? (i.e. new processor/motherboard config.) ?

I'm willing to pay a premium for my :apple: product but I would like to see an option for a different GPU in the 20" iMac. The 24's are just too big imo.
 
R-Thornhill said:
I have been watching recent post about the iMac update and I have seen that Apple has a glitch on their educational store showing that the iMac ships within 2 weeks. Check it out!
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Interesting... none of the other computers ship in 2 weeks

perhaps no event just a silent update
 
MacApple21 said:
Are you telling me that it is profitable to make the products so small that they can only handle weak last-gen CPUs and GPUs, which ultimately leads to the fact that a lot people won't buy them.
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weak might be one way to describe the situation, but you need to understand that it's the overall feature set the iMac provides, not just the speed, which drives consumer adoption.

Not everyone needs intel i5/i7, but most folks would probably love to watch Bluray movies on their LED based iMacs with a fancy new remote to control it all.**

MacApple21 said:
Seriously, I don't think 1,5 lb. of aluminum and less than 100 cm3 spared materials and space per iMac can make it up for all the users who decides to buy something else :rolleyes:
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These iMacs sell in the hundreds of thousands. When you project sales in that scale, costs are also drawn to the same scale.

A shave off of the total cost of raw materials will certainly make it worthwhile because of the fact that analysts like to do something called comparitive trend analysis. They will compare cost of good sold from last year, the year before and the current year to see how well the company is efficiently operating itself.

:)
 
gunraidan said:
The program has to be developed for Quad Core to take full advantage of the software, GCD can only go so far. There's a reason why you don't see Mac Pro users doing backflips due to their improvements with Snow Leopard. This is why during tests of Snow Leopard vs Leopard in Mac Pro's there really isn't that big of a difference at all.
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Or maybe the reason they aren't seeing much improvement is that the applications they use, such as Final Cut, CS4, Premier, etc, aren't currently written to take advantage of GCD.
 
macus3r said:
Not everyone needs intel i5/i7, but most folks would probably love to watch Bluray movies on their LED based iMacs with a fancy new remote to control it all.**
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Hum, no, I'd rather watch blu-rays on my big screen TV and 6.1 home theater system. Makes more sense to dump a blu-ray drive in a Mac Mini than an iMac for movie playback.
 
KnightWRX said:
Hum, no, I'd rather watch blu-rays on my big screen TV and 6.1 home theater system. Makes more sense to dump a blu-ray drive in a Mac Mini than an iMac for movie playback.
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I have three Blu-ray players in the house (two PS3 and one dedicated set top box). I no longer buy my movies on DVD.

This means that in my Mac household there is no way for us to convert those BD discs to other formats so that we can view them on our iPhones, watch them on our laptops when traveling, etc.

Additionally, since everyone I know now has a BD player, it would be nice to be able to author BD with the macs so that we can send our home movies to Grandma in BD and provide higher resolution, etc.
 
The new imac air now shipping with pentium m performance, the power of the gma 950 and its 5mm thin starting at 1100
 
KnightWRX said:
You mean 4 cores on one CPU. Because 16 cores for 750$ is really hard to believe. :rolleyes:
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Only "sockets" and "cores" are unambiguous. Use one of those terms to avoid confusion. The terms "CPU" and "processor" mean different things in different contexts.

A "core" fulfills all of the characteristics of a "CPU" or a "processor" - both logical CPUs and physical CPUs.

You run the same SMP code for a four socket four core system as for a one socket four core system.
 
KnightWRX said:
Hence why I said for movie playback. Way to over react there buddy.
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heheh. Yes it would def be better suited on a nice big display but like you had inferred, the practical use would be for media burning purposes.

Again that adds to the whole "total package" concept instead of focusing on one particular area for improvement.

If you notice, most car companies change few properties to their engine designs and focus more on conveniences and luxury features to help distinguish their product.

Similar concept being applied here.
 
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