My 4 year old mac is not cutting it for my D800. Its been a great PC but im growing impatient here. Now they are saying OCT. I just don't know when to buy.
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The lack of the iMac is getting old!
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October unfortunately sounds like the second best bet. Most likely they will be released when mountain lion is released.
Funny. I've been doing the same thing. Like watching a pot of water on the stove waiting for it to boil.
I know the feeling. Sitting here waiting for the new iMac so I could retire my 2009 MBP. However I've recently picked up a 2012 Air (initially as a travel laptop) and that handles the D800 files very well indeed, so it's serving as a good stop gap to keep me going until the iMac finally arrives!
7 months of watching that pot...I've wanted a new iMac since last fall too and I don't know what I'm going to do if it doesn't come out this month. I can't progress on Inferno on D3 anymore because it's so laggy.
There's a difference between need and NEED
Right now, I still don't NEED one. I'm waiting to switch back to OSX, and right now my PC is limping along well enough to do what I need.
Lots of people that claim they NEED one... I have to wonder how much they really do. I'm not saying EVERYONE that's annoyed at the wait really doesn't need one... I know a few people who's last machine is completely fried and are getting by on an iPad, iPhone, or some other small-screened band-aide.
But some are taking it a bit far.
IE: I know one guy that has a mid-range 2011 and is freaking out that the 2012's aren't out yet. Seriously
As it is, a lot of people admit that the only reason they're waiting is because it's supposedly around the corner. And they don't feel like paying full-price for 2011 hardware if 2012 hardware is "only" a day away. I fall into this category: if I'm going to switch back "soon" I'd rather get more bang for my buck if we're "supposedly" this close.
there is a nice refurb one right now on the site. I would consider it if it had 2gb memory.
Haha, yea I'm in the same boat as well with my 2006 MBP. Its freezes up and lines appear on the screen. Yea, its pretty much hanging by a thread. But I'm sill using it until an iMac update comes out. Do you think I need a new update soon.
If there's nothing along side ML on July 25ish, then find a good discount on a current model and run with it if your needs aren't currently being met.
So long as my 2007 continues to be minimum spec for games I play, I'm continuing to limp along and wait out whatever Apple has planned.
So long as my 2007 continues to be minimum spec for games I play, I'm continuing to limp along and wait out whatever Apple has planned.
Apple's future direction: More Mobile, Less Desktop?
Since Apple seems to be heading towards the mobile market w/ IOS and Macbooks, is that the core reason that iMacs/Minis/Pros get the least love?
If they've dragged out the release of the Pros and iMacs to over 1yr (2 for the Pro), will they continue to drag out the refreshes for these lines in the near future.
Since Apple seems to be heading towards the mobile market w/ IOS and Macbooks, is that the core reason that iMacs/Minis/Pros get the least love?
If they've dragged out the release of the Pros and iMacs to over 1yr (2 for the Pro), will they continue to drag out the refreshes for these lines in the near future.
I've been waiting since the Thailand floods last fall. As soon as they happened, it became obvious that the prices of HDDs and SSDs were about to have major changes. I figured the best thing to do would be to hold off for a couple of months and let things settle out. And in the general computer component marketplace, this in fact occurred as expected. It stood to reason that Apple's historic refresh frequency of the iMac would keep its pricing in line with those market changes, but the refresh has not occurred. Even today, a 2011 iMac demands $750 for a CTO upgrade to a 256GB SSD plus 2TB HDD, which is downright laughable. And THAT is why I did not buy, but am ready to buy a refreshed model. I found the CTO price updates to the MBP at the WWDC refresh to be within expected norms, so if the 2012 iMac CTOs are priced similarly, it's all good. Any time they're ready to shut up and take my money...
Thought well known Mac author David Pogue advised release of iMacs would be with Mac Pro next year?
We're running images from 39-50 Megapixel Hassleblads on the current top end 27" model so in reality there is no need for you to wait ... AT ALL !
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It is literally just around the corner ...... down the street and around the corner.
Question is this, how long is that darn street!
It's annoying buying the old thing that you could have purchased long ago. If it didn't warrant the upgrade then, it probably doesn't now. USB3 will be a nice addition.
That's probably a gpu or power inverter issue. They went kind of cheap on display parts with some of those.
The HDD manufacturers were actually posting high profits too. The flooding obviously pushed prices up, but there's no motivation for the manufacturers to push it back down. If things are selling at the higher price points, they'll tend to hang there.
1) For me it's a big investment, something I only do every 5 or more years so I want it to last a long time.
2) I don't want 'outdated' technology, if Apple were discounting the current iMac that would be a different story but we're paying the same now as we were in May 2011.
3) I want USB3 as it will be the main method to connect external drives in the next few years, TB is just too expensive right now.
I love how everyone remembers the headline but not the correction. This statement was clarified by Apple to be just referring to the Mac Pros.
Also it's not likely that after so long to 'upgrade' the Pro that they would add USB3 and TB before 2013 and a redesign. I'm still thinking any new Pro will mostly be internal, I doubt we'll see a new case as the current one has been around since the first G5 PPC, apart from a 2nd DVD and different port layouts.
If you plan to buy an iMac and keep it for at least 4 years (maybe to work with it), how could you buy now a machine that is more than one year old and that doesn't have USB3?