Updated iMacs this Week?

[DHagan4755]

Maybe all three?

First and foremost, Apple released both updated PowerBooks and the eMac on the same day once upon a time. So more than one product can be updated at a time.

Secondly, and equally as important, I don't think the iMac will be "bumped" before the PowerBook. Not only have the PowerBooks waited longer for a rev, but they are also the "pro" line, and it would be sad that the PowerBook gets eclipsed in speed and performance by the consumer oriented iMac.

Therefore, we can draw two conventional conclusions from the imminent report of new iMacs: either they will get bumped along with the PowerBooks in some announcement or they will get bumped after the PowerBooks.

Now, if iMacs are bumped before new PowerBooks are intro'd, this is going to lend a lot of creed to those who feel and believe that a PowerBook with a G5 processor is due because of the aforementioned points.

Whatever the case, the days that lie ahead should prove to be very interesting....

 

[mvc]

Originally posted by Phil Of Mac
Why is it wrong? It's rather idiotic to make an argument without bothering to back it.…I can't stand when people make random arguments without backing them. If you don't have anything intelligent to say, don't waste our time.

While I also find random unsubstantiated prognostications annoying, perhaps you might want to back away from the keyboard for a little while? That rebuke seems a trifle severe

 

[rainman::|:|]

i think it's funny that so many people are just sure that ___ product line is going to be updated, just because they want it to be. watching you guys, i see why so many people play the lottery...

pnw

 

[trog]

Originally posted by Photorun
.... ain't no G5 in the iMac until next year either if ever.

If ever? Are you suggesting they will skip the G5 and start using the G6 in a few years, or that the iMac will be phased out for some other consumer model?

I am sure you don't mean that the iMac will use the G4 *forever* because that's ridiculous... don't you think?

 

[Postal]

An iMac update this week would make sense. One week before the Apple Expo, you get the "oh, that's nice" update out of the way and then launch the more significant update at the expo everyone will be watching.

I hope a price cut does come along with an update, but I don't know if Apple is willing to drop the 15" by $300 (to the magic $999) at the same time as they're updating the internal components. Doubtlessly it would be a good way to get the iMac selling at a time when no one wants to touch a desktop G4 with a ten-foot pole.

And for those griping that the iMac would just go to 1.25 GHz: remember, 2002 went without a real performance upgrade (the GeForce 4 MX doesn't really count). The fact that 2003 has seen a jump from 800 MHz to 1 GHz, and likely now to 1.25 GHz, is relatively dramatic. That's over a 50% boost just in CPU speed. I'm pretty sure that Apple is going to keep up that kind of pace in 2004 as well.

 

[Powerbook G5]

I remember hearing people say the iMac will never get a G4 upgrade since the G4 was pro only and the consumer oriented iMac would never need one...the G5 will probably be in an iMac in a year or so. Heck, a few years from now we may have iBook G5s and people would be wondering when Apple will finally drop the slow G5s for at least a G6 in their bottom of the line. That's the way technology goes.

 

[pgwalsh]

Not that I expect it in the slightest, but it would be great to see Apple introduce G5 based iMacs .... 1.2 1.4 1.6ghz... Otherwise a minor speed bump wont be a big deal.

 

[Freg3000]

Originally posted by trog
If ever? Are you suggesting they will skip the G5 and start using the G6 in a few years, or that the iMac will be phased out for some other consumer model?

I am sure you don't mean that the iMac will use the G4 *forever* because that's ridiculous... don't you think?

The original iMac never got a G4, only the new FP iMac. Maybe this incarnation of the iMac will never see a G5, but a new model will.

Just a thought.

 

[mvc]

Originally posted by Postal
…The fact that 2003 has seen a jump from 800 MHz to 1 GHz, and likely now to 1.25 GHz, is relatively dramatic. That's over a 50% boost just in CPU speed. I'm pretty sure that Apple is going to keep up that kind of pace in 2004 as well.

Yes, but we are talking about a speed increase from way too slow > still too slow.

Meanwhile, the rest of the world rolls on to 3GHz and beyond, while iMac sales languish. Its a huge shame, because its a great concept, poorly executed in practice. Once (for about six months) iMacs were way cool AND relatively fast.

So they had better more than match their current upgrade pace in 2004 as you say, or start selling it for under a grand.

 

[mvc]

Bring it on!

Originally posted by Freg3000
Maybe this incarnation of the iMac will never see a G5, but a new model will.

Thats more like it - overhaul the whole package so that it becomes a must-buy item!

 

[theipodgod16]

While I also find random unsubstantiated prognostications annoying, perhaps you might want to back away from the keyboard for a little while? That rebuke seems a trifle sever

will you teach my vocabulary class? hehe

 

[mvc]

Originally posted by theipodgod16
will you teach my vocabulary class? hehe

Yeah, I gotta learn to go easy on the syllables. But how many times in one life can you use the word "prognostication" and get away with it, even assuming I spelt it right

 

[saint.duo]

No G5s in anything but the tower this year.

Have any of you complaining about this being too little actually used an iMac? The target audience for an iMac really doesn't need a G5. Do you need a G5 for home video/photo editing, web surfing, email, and typing? No. (The iBook is still "only a G3", and I know quite a few people that are very happy with their new iBook.)

Originally posted by Phil Of Mac How do you know?

 

[Steven1621]

what about the ibooks? they are just as due for an update as anything else in the mac line.

 

[Phil Of Mac]

Originally posted by Freg3000
Ok, he didn't do it, so i will.

G5's will have to go first in PowerBooks and xServes. No iMacs yet.

Fair enough, that seems reasonable. PowerBooks and Xserves seem to have similar heat needs too. That said, if the next iMac revision is a G5, and so is the next PowerBook revision, it doesn't really matter which is released first if they're going to be released within a week of each other.

I guess we'll see tomorrow morning

 

[Scottgfx]

Originally posted by mvc
Yeah, I gotta learn to go easy on the syllables. But how many times in one life can you use the word "prognostication" and get away with it, even assuming I spelt it right

Would you please stop pandering to the pretentious pinheads that peruse these panels?

 

[Phil Of Mac]

Originally posted by saint.duo
Have any of you complaining about this being too little actually used an iMac? The target audience for an iMac really doesn't need a G5. Do you need a G5 for home video/photo editing, web surfing, email, and typing? No. (The iBook is still "only a G3", and I know quite a few people that are very happy with their new iBook.)

My current Mac is an iMac.

If a G5 helps with Final Cut and Photoshop, it helps just as much with iPhoto and iMovie. The Power Mac will always be faster--granted.

The original iMac was a G3. Not a 603e. One might have said, "You don't need a G3 to access the internet." The thing is, Apple sees even its home customers doing lots of things that do need high-end processors. If it wasn't for the constant G4 shortages, Apple would have standardized on the G4 for everything. The idea of only having one processor type across the line worked in the G3 era and Apple is undoubtedly looking for it in the IBM era.

 

[Phazer80s]

B O R I N G

Such an underwhelming update (if true) makes me wanna snooze.

Wake me when the iMac has a price/performance ratio that'll convince Joe Schmo to buy one instead of a Wintel junkbox.

Zzzzzzz....

 

[legion]

It'd be interesting if there are new iPods.

Around my house (in and around Santa Monica/West LA) 3 new iPod billboards have went up. They are colour-blocked with a solid colour background, an individual's sillohuette (in black) and the iPod in white (colour-blocked). Wonder if they are popping up anywhere else??

 

[arn]

Originally posted by legion
It'd be interesting if there are new iPods.

Around my house (in and around Santa Monica/West LA) 3 new iPod billboards have went up. They are colour-blocked with a solid colour background, an individual's sillohuette (in black) and the iPod in white (colour-blocked). Wonder if they are popping up anywhere else??

iPod ads being discussed in this thread

Let's keep this thread on upcoming iMac updates.

arn

 

[Jesus on OSX]

The iPod rumor is not true. I can guarantee that 10000%.

The "Buy a bundle, Get a bundle back" promotion doesn't run out till September 27th. iPod is in that category. There is no way Apple would introduce updated iPods or anything relating to iPods till that date passes.

 

[dricci]

Apple should just kill the iMac line and replace them with low cost (sub-$1,000) MDD PowerMacs, and team up with some 3rd party flat panel makers to bundle 15"/17"/18" LCDs. Would solve the problem of no expandable consumer products, and would probably raise marketshare because of all those users waiting for a sub-$1,000 Tower Mac.

 

[Phil Of Mac]

The iMac is Apple's most successful product line ever. They won't cancel it.

 

[mvc]

Originally posted by dricci
Apple should just kill the iMac line and replace them with low cost (sub-$1,000) MDD PowerMacs…

No, because done correctly, the iMac fills a market niche no-one else can, as has been demonstrated by past successes of the brand and past failures of the impersonators .

Its just not being done right at the moment. It needs to rock performance wise, look smart, as well as be soo user friendly that everybody wants to hug one - the original iMac achieved this, the current model is not a patch on it.

It is missing some of the original iMac's anthropomorphic magic somehow, without being inherently cool enough to engender rabid technolust instead.

 

[Phil Of Mac]

I think the LCD iMac is lust-inducing enough, but it could use more power. I remember when the LCD iMac was still pretty hot. And it still is. i mean, isn't it the most logical possible design for an all-in-one LCD?