Final Cut Pro X and Photoshop work. i9 does not make this work faster. I also know a very good photography studio that is local that uses a G5 Mac.
Indeed. While it is possible that Apple will provide support for the Intel Macs a bit shorter than usual, why be the guinea pig for ARM? If your work depends on everything working properly, it may may sense to wait a couple of iterations before jumping to ARM. It will take time for software to be re-jigged and recompiled for ARM, and then even more time to get all the bugs worked out.
The only good reason to stay on a G5 Mac is to use legacy software. A friend of mine was using an OS 9 machine until at least around 2010 for a print shop because they had legacy software for one of the machines that was never ported over to OS X. Everything else they had was relatively modern though. So much faster... including Photoshop. Maybe an i9 isn't necessary, but a G5 is very limiting obviously.
I’m in the same situation right now. My MacBook Pro 2913 died and I’m looking to get an iMac to work from home with the current situation we’re in but nothing is going on. I don’t know what to do and I need a 32gb ram 😩
Oh sorry it was the G5 Power Mac not iMac. It was the last G5 Power Mac and does not have any problems.
That means a new one must be coming this month. Thanks for taking one for the team!
Probably was one of the last air cooled ones then. Not the liquid cooled model. Those were a disaster.
According to this guy, who is a huge Photoshop guy, and very well respected, it is the fastest available, even today, and in most cases easily beats an iMac Pro and even beats a brand new 2020 Mac Pro (all core counts) unless you need more than 128GB RAM. FCP is a dif story and cores matter much more, but I guarantee you are not editing FCP on a G5 tower claiming it's faster than an i9 iMac?
Valid hypothesis but would that really be enough people to compete with global market production? Not to mention that I don’t see them getting fresh out of the assembly line ones and more refurbished, repurposed, older but functional (depending on department) ones.
hahah, spot on.
That’s a pretty narrow view of the situation.
Does everybody have this situation?
A $5k 27” iMac can become $4k if eyeing refurbished.
So why am I seeing a Catalina Screen Graphic and quick delivery on the 21 inch and
Amid rumors and hints of a forthcoming update for the iMac, supplies of Apple's current 27-inch iMac continue to dwindle with mid- and high-end stock configurations now seeing shipping estimates pushed back into September.
The 27-inch iMac has seen tight supplies and extended shipping estimates for months now, but the situation has been gradually worsening to the point where new buyers can now expect to wait nearly two months to receive their machines.
Rumors of an imminent iMac update date back to March when reliable leaker CoinX indicated that one was coming "soon." A few weeks later, word of a new 23-inch iMac coming in the second half of the year surfaced, while Bloomberg's Mark Gurman noted that a "substantial" iMac refresh potentially including a redesign would be coming later in the year.
As WWDC approached, occasional leaker Sonny Dickson claimed that a redesigned iMac with "iPad Pro design language" would be arriving at the conference, but it failed to materialize, leaving considerable uncertainty about when we should expect an update to arrive.
MacRumors mockup of an iMac in the style of an iPad Pro
Lurking in the background is Apple's transition to Apple Silicon in its Mac lineup, as noted analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has said that a redesigned 24-inch iMac will be one of the first machines to make the move, and Apple announced that the first Apple Silicon-based Macs will be released before the end of the year.
Kuo also said that the current Intel-based iMac will get one more update in the third quarter of this year, which would be between now and the end of September, and we have in fact seen a recent Geekbench benchmark for an apparent unreleased iMac equipped with unreleased Intel Comet Lake-S and AMD graphics processors.
So when will we see the next iMac update? It's hard to say at this point. We've heard no specific rumors of an update coming in the very near future, but with Apple rumored to be releasing an Apple Silicon-based iMac before the end of the year, it would seem this last Intel version should come sooner rather than later. Even a refresh right now would leave a relatively short update cycle unless the Apple Silicon-based iMac coming at the end of the year is intended to be sold alongside Intel-based models during a transition period.
Article Link: Shipping Estimates for 27-Inch iMac Continue to Slip, Now Into September
Amid rumors and hints of a forthcoming update for the iMac, supplies of Apple's current 27-inch iMac continue to dwindle with mid- and high-end stock configurations now seeing shipping estimates pushed back into September.
The 27-inch iMac has seen tight supplies and extended shipping estimates for months now, but the situation has been gradually worsening to the point where new buyers can now expect to wait nearly two months to receive their machines.
Rumors of an imminent iMac update date back to March when reliable leaker CoinX indicated that one was coming "soon." A few weeks later, word of a new 23-inch iMac coming in the second half of the year surfaced, while Bloomberg's Mark Gurman noted that a "substantial" iMac refresh potentially including a redesign would be coming later in the year.
As WWDC approached, occasional leaker Sonny Dickson claimed that a redesigned iMac with "iPad Pro design language" would be arriving at the conference, but it failed to materialize, leaving considerable uncertainty about when we should expect an update to arrive.
MacRumors mockup of an iMac in the style of an iPad Pro
Lurking in the background is Apple's transition to Apple Silicon in its Mac lineup, as noted analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has said that a redesigned 24-inch iMac will be one of the first machines to make the move, and Apple announced that the first Apple Silicon-based Macs will be released before the end of the year.
Kuo also said that the current Intel-based iMac will get one more update in the third quarter of this year, which would be between now and the end of September, and we have in fact seen a recent Geekbench benchmark for an apparent unreleased iMac equipped with unreleased Intel Comet Lake-S and AMD graphics processors.
So when will we see the next iMac update? It's hard to say at this point. We've heard no specific rumors of an update coming in the very near future, but with Apple rumored to be releasing an Apple Silicon-based iMac before the end of the year, it would seem this last Intel version should come sooner rather than later. Even a refresh right now would leave a relatively short update cycle unless the Apple Silicon-based iMac coming at the end of the year is intended to be sold alongside Intel-based models during a transition period.
Article Link: Shipping Estimates for 27-Inch iMac Continue to Slip, Now Into September
The retina MacBooks were the best, I think Apple downgraded the MacBook Pro line after these machines.
