I can agree with you that Apple should have silently refreshed the iMacs in April-May with the same form factor as the 09-11's with AMD 7 series and simply waited to have this new design in full production by 2013, but they didn't. Apple is never bleeding edge when it comes to timely refreshes of new components. Because Apple will probably be using Nvidia again, the the 775MX & 780MX probably won't be released like I said until July-August, fitting my September theory quite well.
Btw, I didn't mean to be rude with telling you to calm down. I'm just tired of so many people on here freaking about the timing of the iMacs. Yes, they took longer than we all would have liked. But they are now here and more beautiful than ever.
But people are right to freak out when apple goes close to two years without an imac, and they are paying for the imac prices that should be cut by 20% to 40% due to the component price drop, arent' they? That's certainly understandable imho.
And I beg to differ as to how beautiful they are. To me they would have been beautiful had they opted for a proper ergonomic stand after years of using the same foot, all the more so when said foot, takes away in footprint what thinness provides in space savings. Just innovate a little bit for crying out loud, almost every dime a dozen aio features some ingenuity for ergonomics, we are sick and bloody tired of that foot, and it's not helping the computer FUNCTION any better either, you 'll still have to tilt your head up instead in the most unhealthy position in any computer safe usage manual, and probably not even the 27" imac, let alone the 21.5" (long gone) will allow for a vesa mount...
To me imac follows the general trend of apple products since Steve's passing (and a while back when he was ill): Very, very underwhelming at best, too heavily reliant on "innovation" from superior components by others, offering too little in terms of ingenuity in their own right, and, what is sadder, with their software too being a major let down: ios stagnating, os x being a mismatch of ill thought ios elements and no real technological advancement (offloaded on the hardware), iwork development close to being abandonware, a ho hum itunes release a month later, siri, maps (good god, when an apple product comes out that no one has bothered to debug to the extent that the statue of liberty is a murky collection of clouds...you know the s. has hit the fun)... they've are at the stage that they can't write a podcast app without littering it with tons of bugs and ill thought design.
Something isn't right, and sacking Forestall can't solve everything (all the more so, since I am being told that it was more a power move than anything else since Scott apparently, and allegedly, had the habit of sending out emails to his team about Cook's mishandling of apple... anyway makes for nice soap at least.
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And in terms of hardware? A taller iphone of the same design (albeit this time so scratchable, may come out of the box scuffed), a ho hum slimming down (and sealing in with non upgreadability) of the macbook pro with someone else's great display, a new port for the ipad, a new mac pro with 2 year old components and an age old case, crippling the mini in gpu, crippling the 13" pro too... it's all very ho hum and underwhelming, or just plain wrong, they are cruising on their former laurels, Steve is very apparently not there... And litigation, litigation, litigation... Even in the fields that Cook is supposed to be an expert at, operations, you get something like the imac release debacle.
I also considered picking up a new Mini to sit alongside my new gaming rig, then Apple decides not to make discrete GPUs available *at all* in the Mini.
Some of their decisions lately, are simply mind bogglingly bad, and pointlessly so. Why would anyone not put a discrete gpu on the mini, when it's on every other $600 notebook these days. When the mini works so well with an external display for cad/design/photo etc? Such a great little device, carrying the great legacy of the historic cube, going super advanced quad core cpu and being crippled with intel's piss poor graphics... Simply mind boggling why they 'd do such a thing. Stick a google exec in there, or any other arch enemy exec, and they still wouldn't do it out of pity for the poor mini...
