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

Well I am outta here... Finally ordered The 15" MacBook Pro 2.8Ghz, Antiglare, Twin GFX cards, 4GB Ram and 7200rpm HD. Got £200 off due to my son being at uni and it allows me to sell my 2Ghz MacBook Alu to generate another £500 to £600..

So ill catch you guys next time we I am on the roundabout. :)
 
Tempted This is only $1299 in the refurb store!

Refurbished iMac 24-inch 2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Duo

24-inch glossy widescreen display
4GB memory
640GB hard drive
8x SuperDrive (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
NVIDIA GeForce 9400M with 256MB memory
Built-in iSight camera
 
I don't necessarily think that a Corei7 launch or a BD drive are reasons for an "event", but if they are keeping the Core2Duo as the processor, then all then waiting has been for nothing, IMO.

Perhaps the biggest reveal will be the price cut? $999 iMac 20"? $1299 for a 24"?
 
klrobinson999 said:
I don't necessarily think that a Corei7 launch or a BD drive are reasons for an "event", but if they are keeping the Core2Duo as the processor, then all then waiting has been for nothing, IMO.

Perhaps the biggest reveal will be the price cut? $999 iMac 20"? $1299 for a 24"?
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yea I don't know..No rumors on new sku's, no spy shots, no nothing. Just a few sites saying 'maybe'. I don't know if we're going to see anything.
 
Unless there is a very significant price cut, if they stick with C2D thats just going to be one lame update

in my opinion this would also confirm that we wont see Clarksfield in any mac, and that the next updates of MBP's and iMacs will be arrandale chipsets.
 
superlatic said:
Unless there is a very significant price cut, if they stick with C2D thats just going to be one lame update

in my opinion this would also confirm that we wont see Clarksfield in any mac, and that the next updates of MBP's and iMacs will be arrandale chipsets.
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i think it's safe to say that Apple won't be releasing anything anytime soon. Hopefully I'm wrong. But I think they are content to go to the holidays with this lineup. Realistically, only the most hardcore Mac people will care, the majority of the population doesn't care about i7, Clarksfield, Core 2 Duo, or anything. They just look at a mac and say it looks good and it can do what I want it to do, so I'll get it.
 
dwd3885 said:
i think it's safe to say that Apple won't be releasing anything anytime soon. Hopefully I'm wrong. But I think they are content to go to the holidays with this lineup. Realistically, only the most hardcore Mac people will care, the majority of the population doesn't care about i7, Clarksfield, Core 2 Duo, or anything. They just look at a mac and say it looks good and it can do what I want it to do, so I'll get it.
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The imac - yes. I think they could just about get through christmas with this line up, although I still think they would need to cut the price.

Mac Mini and White Macbook: Different story. What apple is charging for the specs they are offering in these machines is nothing short of criminal. A significant price cut or healthy bump in specs is needed and soon
 
Buying my iMAC this Weekend If nothing is announced this week. This way I have some time into early Nov to exchange if by some miracle there is an update worth the Restock fee. Im over the waiting game.
 
I think if Apple fails to update the iMac, and in a substantial way, they are going to be in a bit of trouble during the holiday shopping season.

We've already seen that even though Apple is not in a majority position with any of their products, they are seen as a mind share leader and are under assault by MS, Verizon, RIM, etc.

A failure to update the iMac line will only result in increasingly valid attack ads from their competitors.

Consumers aren't totally stupid. They understand they are paying a premium for an Apple product and that part of the cost is the OS and they appear to be fine with that... for now.

This holiday shopping season though MS will have their retail effort underway and don't expect HP, Dell or others to hold back punches either. They will increasingly point to the fact that iMac does not have quad core, Blu-Ray ROM, etc, all as reasons not to buy a very expensive Mac and instead try to convince consumers to buy a Windows 7 machine that has these features.

Apple is going to be in a very difficult spot if they soldier on with the current machines even if they do spec bump them a bit.

All of this won't necessarily be a bad thing though. If Apple gets pummeled with poor sales then they might consider giving consumers a bit more for their money and be willing to take just a bit less profit in return.
 
The other thing is that Windows 7 is getting some good press at the moments and there is going to be some nice new hardware for Win7, so its in Apple's interest to do something..
 
jmpage2 said:
This holiday shopping season though MS will have their retail effort underway and don't expect HP, Dell or others to hold back punches either. They will increasingly point to the fact that iMac does not have quad core, Blu-Ray ROM, etc, all as reasons not to buy a very expensive Mac and instead try to convince consumers to buy a Windows 7 machine that has these features.
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I agree with that. And Dell and the others aren't stupid either. Dell has noticed the popularity of the Mac form factors and is releasing copy cat Mac Air notebooks and Mac Mini towers. Anything Apple does that sells eventually gets copied, OS AND hardware.
 
MrBrekke said:
might be might be: http://www.hardmac.com/news/2009/10/19/new-imacs-tomorrow
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In addition to our previous reports and information, a french website reports that a distributor of consumer electronics products added two additional reference in its database.
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Two references? Does that mean only two new/updated models?

As it seems to be a event-free update, we doubt that the future iMac models will feature Intel Core ix CPU, it will most likely remain powered by a Core 2 Duo with larger HDs, faster CPU and GPU, and potentially a BD drive...
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Not sure if a jump to Clarksfield needs an event (and the redesign is rumored to be on the minor side), but then again we have the new keyboard/mouse rumors.
 
iMacmatician said:
Two references? Does that mean only two new/updated models?

Not sure if a jump to Clarksfield needs an event (and the redesign is rumored to be on the minor side), but then again we have the new keyboard/mouse rumors.
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I agree that the jump to Clarksfield does not warrent an event. I highly doubt Apple will stick with Core 2 Duo. The Clarksfield chips offer the same and greater performance because of Turbo Boost. There is no compromise anymore as there used to be between high powered dual-core and low-powered Quad Core.

The question about tomorrow centers around how much Apple is updating. If the case is just getting a little thinner but looks the same, no event.

If it looks different, plus the Keyboard, a multi-touch mouse, a new mini and a redesigned Macbook, then an event is necessary and won't be until the 27th.
 
I think the Win7 release is really informing our expectations.

If there isn't anything announced or changed or anything by this weekend, then there is no really driving force on a date, except maybe Black Friday, but that's an eternity around here.
 
Inno said:
I think the Win7 release is really informing our expectations.

If there isn't anything announced or changed or anything by this weekend, then there is no really driving force on a date, except maybe Black Friday, but that's an eternity around here.
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I tend to agree, but I also think Apple has to do something before Christmas, everyone else is updating hardware.
 
So, everybody that's been saying "updates soon, soon, soon... OK, by October 20th TUESDAY at the latest" - what do you say? I guess it means invites go out today for an event tomorrow? LOL! BWAHAHAHAAH!!!!

C'mon, like I've been telling you guys from day one: NO UPDATES!!! this year, at best, they'll do a tiny refresh speed bumps on the iMacs, maybe a price cut on the mini, and that's all for this year.

And if there are no Ci7 chips this year, that means it'll be Arrandale next year. Which means get ready for increasingly laughable Apple hardware, anemic and weak, and overpriced. It's already that way today, but it'll be mind-bogglingly bad if it keeps up like this next year - they'll lose a ton of sales, which is why they'll have to diversify their product line. I'm looking forward to a mid-tower in 2010!
 
OldCorpse said:
So, everybody that's been saying "updates soon, soon, soon... OK, by October 20th TUESDAY at the latest" - what do you say? I guess it means invites go out today for an event tomorrow? LOL! BWAHAHAHAAH!!!!

C'mon, like I've been telling you guys from day one: NO UPDATES!!! this year, at best, they'll do a tiny refresh speed bumps on the iMacs, maybe a price cut on the mini, and that's all for this year.

And if there are no Ci7 chips this year, that means it'll be Arrandale next year. Which means get ready for increasingly laughable Apple hardware, anemic and weak, and overpriced. It's already that way today, but it'll be mind-bogglingly bad if it keeps up like this next year - they'll lose a ton of sales, which is why they'll have to diversify their product line. I'm looking forward to a mid-tower in 2010!
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Unfortunately for you and your giant ego, many of us here have learned to put shields up when your reality distortion field goes into action.
 
OldCorpse said:
C'mon, like I've been telling you guys from day one: NO UPDATES!!! this year, at best, they'll do a tiny refresh speed bumps on the iMacs, maybe a price cut on the mini, and that's all for this year.
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So you say 'NO UPDATES', then in the next sentence you say, 'tiny refresh speed bumps'...That sounds like an update to me.
 
jmpage2 said:
Unfortunately for you and your giant ego, many of us here have learned to put shields up when your reality distortion field goes into action.
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I must admit you are right, even if you got a couple of details the other way around - those shields you put up? Those are like those fun house mirror glass quality reality distortion shields, so you look through those shields and everything out there looks warped. When I try to tell you what reality looks like, you only see distortions. On the other hand, I've been right all along, so what does that say? I guess you enjoy living in a little bubble, cause you're happy there thinking Apple hardware is actually at the cutting edge, instead of the tired old moldy overpriced C2D giblets that they are in reality.
 
OldCorpse said:
So, everybody that's been saying "updates soon, soon, soon... OK, by October 20th TUESDAY at the latest" - what do you say? I guess it means invites go out today for an event tomorrow? LOL! BWAHAHAHAAH!!!!

C'mon, like I've been telling you guys from day one: NO UPDATES!!! this year, at best, they'll do a tiny refresh speed bumps on the iMacs, maybe a price cut on the mini, and that's all for this year.

And if there are no Ci7 chips this year, that means it'll be Arrandale next year. Which means get ready for increasingly laughable Apple hardware, anemic and weak, and overpriced. It's already that way today, but it'll be mind-bogglingly bad if it keeps up like this next year - they'll lose a ton of sales, which is why they'll have to diversify their product line. I'm looking forward to a mid-tower in 2010!
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