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

Bubba Satori said:
You obviously don't sell computers.

Why, in the name of all that is holy, does the iMac need to be thinner ? More appealing than what ? Faster and cheaper is more appealing. Do you live in a closet that you need a thinner computer ? :rolleyes:
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If you want to live in a halls of residence, any room for clothes, booze and books on your desk is a good thing. 8D
 
queshy said:
Hrmm, I'll be pretty angry if all they do is make it 0.1" thinner and just lower the price by a bit, and box in a new kb and m. I want more power!
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Honest question: What would you guys do with that extra power? In terms of actual expectations: are you thinking it would be faster for web surfing or something?

I don't get it. This is an iMac we are talking about, not a gaming PC or a workstation where the processor would matter much. As long as the new iMac is snappy enough and can do everything you want it to do, what difference does it make if it's got the latest-and-greatest or last years tech?

I say they should focus on the things that will make a difference day-to-day. Get it fast enough, sure, but then give me a beautiful screen, great KB&M and a sexy design. That's all I want from the iMac.
 
I certainly hope we're getting something besides "thinner".... that's certainly not a "compelling" update.

If it goes thinner, will they ditch the optical drive altogether?
 
IWantItThatWay said:
No, a lot of people want that. Apple's choices are too limited, underpowered, outdated, and expensive.
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Doesn't seem like you're in the market for an iMac or any Apple system. If other choices are so much better, why not buy those system? You can buy those amazing HP AIO's.
 
Lesser Evets said:
So true. I can never get anything done on these Apples: too much style, no substance.

Its impossible to have both, as well. But you can have neither, like a PC.
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Apple hardware is about 4 years behind PC hardware, but they still charge 4 times as much cuz it be unibody ya dig.
 
AutoSpies said:
Apple could easily offer a 32" iMac for the price of the old machines since panel prices have come WAY down over the last 2 years

Maybe they will surprise and THAT'S why the smaller/thinner enclosure matters

Agent 001
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I like the way you think! "Thinner" definitely wouldn't be such a scary prospect if this was the case :rolleyes:

In saying that, the ad only refers to 20" and 24" options :(
 
The Mac mini definitely looks promising with a price reduction - especially for first time Mac users. I want to purchase a MacBook next year, so fingers crossed for a price reduction on that too.
 
IWantItThatWay said:
Apple hardware is about 4 years behind PC hardware, but they still charge 4 times as much cuz it be unibody ya dig.
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And you can be sure that it annoys all the PC makers to no end that Apple gets away with it year after year after year while they have to just keep lowering the price (and the profit margin) in order to push any of their product. :p
 
CWallace said:
And you can be sure that it annoys all the PC makers to no end that Apple gets away with it year after year after year while they have to just keep lowering the price (and the profit margin) in order to push any of their product. :p
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It annoys me too. I mean a $2500 machine with only 3 gigs of RAM and a GeForce GT 120? Is this 2005? lol.
 
MorphingDragon said:
If you want to live in a halls of residence, any room for clothes, booze and books on your desk is a good thing. 8D
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But for the rest of the world that has a normal desk (and not something better suited to a 13" laptop) the iMac could be twice as thick and still not matter.
 
Thinner could mean the end of a desktop level hard drive. Wouldn't be very happy to see that as laptop drives don't have the size, speed or cache of their desktop versions. Regardless of what other improvements they may make this would more that likely result in a slower system.

:mad:
 
greg400 said:
"iMac: Ultra Thin 20 & 24 inch models. From only € 1099. Apple Store"

I called it. They are just going to make it thinner. I doubt anything else will be upgraded besides the keyboard, mouse and remote alongside it. Glad I purchased my iMac in June, seeing as how I really couldn't care less on how thin it is.
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I don't know enough about backlight and LED panels to know for sure, but last night I had a thought that changing from the backlight to an LED screen could be at least part of the cause the new iMac is rumouredly going to be thinner, rather than Apple purposely trying to make it thinner by design. :)
 
IWantItThatWay said:
It annoys me too. I mean a $2500 machine with only 3 gigs of RAM and a GeForce GT 120? Is this 2005? lol.
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nope, its just an Apple computer. And they'll continue to sell their overpriced computers without a problem.

It seems pretty simple, they offer a very limited amount of products, if you can't settle on one of those products, then you buy something else. As a company they sure aren't struggling.

Sure WE want to see a cheaper Mac tower or a better iMac, but we aren't exactly Apple's target market.
 
IWantItThatWay said:
It annoys me too. I mean a $2500 machine with only 3 gigs of RAM and a GeForce GT 120? Is this 2005? lol.
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Well, the top end iMac has 4GB of RAM, has a GeForce GT130, and is $2200, but I know I'm splitting hairs and I see what you're getting at.

Basically you're buying a 24" laptop.
 
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