Trouble is I've been waiting for the new iMac since February and I'm tempted by the new phone. Not sure I want to buy both in the same month.
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Updates to Apple's iMac Line Reportedly 'Imminent'
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IMO this 'refresh' will be along the lines of the MBP, no physical change, apart from maybe a new LCD without the glass but no retina. I think will still have DVD and the same ports the current one has but with Ivy Bridge CPUs, more RAM, bigger HDD and better video, oh and of course USB3. We will keep FW and Ethernet. JMO.
How likely do you guys think it is that Apple will do what they did with the MacBook Pro - and by that, I mean spec bumps across the board with a high-end Retina option without the ODD and with a thinner form factor? Also, how likely does anyone think it is that they'll go for Flash storage over normal hard drives? While it's not necessary for the purpose of making the machine thinner, which I believe to be pointless in a desktop, it'd seem that it's cheaper to manufacture flash storage and it's possible to get more of it in the same space as you would a standard hard drive. Thoughts? I'm not saying that this is what they should do, but maybe it's a possibility.
optical drive
I, for one, would hope they keep they optical drive. It is a sort of necessary for things like iMovie and iDVD. I use it to rip our DVDs for putting them on my child's iPod Touch. I back up our photo library to DVDs.
Why on earth would you want to remove it from a desktop computer? They can make the thing thicker if need be, after all ITS A FREAKING DESKTOP!
I remember having to buy an external floppy drive for my Pismo. While I understood phasing that out, dropping optical support at this point would be asinine. When I want to burn home movies to a disc, or back up photos, I don't what to be sitting on 50 little USB drives.
Adding an external DVD drive would also clutter up the desktop. In every picture I've seen of Apple promoting the iMac, form and style seem to be a big part. Do you think they really want to clutter that up with making everyone add the DVD drive to the desktop?
P.S. I've been waiting to buy one since January. My MacBook runs fine, but it is time to replace my snowball iMac G4
I, for one, would hope they keep they optical drive. It is a sort of necessary for things like iMovie and iDVD. I use it to rip our DVDs for putting them on my child's iPod Touch. I back up our photo library to DVDs.
Why on earth would you want to remove it from a desktop computer? They can make the thing thicker if need be, after all ITS A FREAKING DESKTOP!
I remember having to buy an external floppy drive for my Pismo. While I understood phasing that out, dropping optical support at this point would be asinine. When I want to burn home movies to a disc, or back up photos, I don't what to be sitting on 50 little USB drives.
Adding an external DVD drive would also clutter up the desktop. In every picture I've seen of Apple promoting the iMac, form and style seem to be a big part. Do you think they really want to clutter that up with making everyone add the DVD drive to the desktop?
P.S. I've been waiting to buy one since January. My MacBook runs fine, but it is time to replace my snowball iMac G4
Wow I'm shocked
As of this writing 9 pages of posts totalling over 200 individual entries and not one hater bashing the source of this news.
With the number of people that normally bash this specific source as completely bogus... I had to read every post to believe it myself.
Perhaps it's the desperation of waiting so long for Apple to leave bread crumbs. Maybe the haters are all out today.
Who knows? It's refreshing to see adult behavior, that's for sure.
I'm rather eager myself, to see what's in store.
As of this writing 9 pages of posts totalling over 200 individual entries and not one hater bashing the source of this news.
With the number of people that normally bash this specific source as completely bogus... I had to read every post to believe it myself.
Perhaps it's the desperation of waiting so long for Apple to leave bread crumbs. Maybe the haters are all out today.
Who knows? It's refreshing to see adult behavior, that's for sure.
I'm rather eager myself, to see what's in store.
I don't. Mine died on my iMac and I didn't realize how much I missed the damned thing.
My iMac doubles as a bedroom tv....no watching dvd's
Ripping music cds.... um, hard to do without a drive.... not that I do this very often, but none the less... now if they offered a cheap $49 external burner, me would like much
My hairdresser told me this morning she bought a 27 inch iMac yesterday from the local Apple Store. Unlucky
But this is good news
No retina this year need the video card support and the displays cost a ton
That's all about to change.
The new redesigned 2012 iMacs wil have an ergonomic stand that folds down so you can position the screen horizontally, to allow for full ergonomic use of the all new iMac touch screen. That's why they've been having problems with screen laminations; the new touchscreen presented new factory problems, but they've straightened those out now. That's also why OSX has been becoming more iOS like over the past two years. With the all new 2012 iMac touchscreen, OSX will compete head on with Windows 8 for tablet-like experience.
Remember, you heard it here first.
You're welcome.
I've played with very large (40" -> 60") prototypes like that going back a number of years. Google Earth is a *blast* on a giant (more or less) horizontal touch screen.
I'm getting the update when it comes regardless, having this capability would be a very nice bonus.
I'm getting the update when it comes regardless, having this capability would be a very nice bonus.
To expensive. And it would mean Apple would have to stop using garbage GPUs, that aint gonna happen
Yeah unlikely, but we might get a less gloss LCD screen.
I'm just hoping it has USB3 since I just bought a new USB3 HDD for backups and to do the migration ten times quicker than USB2. Which will help allot since on USB2 it could take more than 12 hours for my system.
I'm still betting the new iMac will follow the lines of the MBP, Ivy Bridge update with USB3 and better/faster CPUs, i7 standard on 27" models along with 8Gb of RAM, bigger HDDs with cheaper SSD options. Price points will stay about the same, maybe lower in some markets.
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I have to agree that it was all foreshadowed. If you listen carefully to Steve Jobs speak at some of the D Conferences.. He basically hinted at everything that is happening now. Doing away with the file system is the one that has me scared the most though.
Again, I may just be old.. but I don't see how things are going to get "better" by doing away with the traditional OS. I am just scratching my head as to why apple seems to have given up on staying current with Desktop Hardware, or, being very casual about updating their hardware regularly.
I still think the Macbooks require an optical drive, it is a must for a desktop, like you say, it is a desktop! There is no room to really waste, it is there for people that need it. And an external dvd drive for the Mac Mini, iMac or Macbooks just defeats the purpose of being streamlined.
Reminds me if someone wanting the thinnest television possible and then stick it on a bulky console and not the wall.
I agree with this, I often hear people act like something still widely used should be removed because "they" no longer need it. Nothing is lost by keeping it while removing it stops people for using it how they would like.
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It matters to me, until Apple opens up the iTunes store. A lot of music that I listen to must be bought on CD from the UK. I don't listen to Top 40 trash.
Don't want retina. Will use up my GPU and performance will be significantly degraded.
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I think this is likely, but the high end model with a retina display will be called "Mac Pro". I'm not sure we're going to see the Mac Pro as we know it ever again (that is not to infer negativity, rather than I think they are looking at different options).
Apple already said a new Mac Pro tower was coming later in 2013.
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The supply lines are almost empty of certain models. And the machine hasn't been updated for 500+ days. There is a VERY GOOD chance that the machine is possibly redesigned...because otherwise, they could have done the same thing they did with the Mac Pro and silent upgrade it and just put a 'new' banner across the icon and updated the specs.
They wouldn't wait 500+ days for just a 'mainboard' revision. No logical sense in that. Something obviously changed, whether it's the form factor, the screen, etc. to have these delays.
