What is your plan if iMac won't arrive on July?

[CappyAA]

So if it is October will you wait?

I previously said that if it doesn't come by the end of this month and there aren't any rumours of an imminent release, then I won't wait any more. But is 3 months more really that much longer to wait..... yes it is but can I hack it.......probably, just. How about you?

Yeah I'm going to wait regardless. I am currently running an early 2008 MBP. While I have definitely noticed that it's very laggy when I'm running some heavier processing programs (video editing, rich gaming, etc.), I'm still getting by with it. I just recently decided to purchase an iMac, so waiting a few months won't be the end of the world for me. Although a July release would be fantastic!

 

[Mike Valmike]

So if it is October will you wait?

Yes. I will not pay 2012 CurrentMoney for a 2011 YearOldComputer, no matter what, hell or high water. I would sooner switch back to Windows.

 

[marcelmfa]

Yes. I will not pay 2012 CurrentMoney for a 2011 YearOldComputer, no matter what, hell or high water. I would sooner switch back to Windows.

Probably +1 going to Windows

 

[Vandefilm]

With the new rumors that the new imac will come in october, i think im going to buy a 2012 MBA now. I´ve waited since march and was already thinking about buying a MBA next year (imac this year) so ill probably switch it around. It's going to be my first mac and the waiting is killing me.

 

[Kronie]

I will not pay 2012 Money for a 2011 Year Computer, no matter what, hell or high water. I would sooner switch back to Windows.

Oh please, this is a ridiculous argument for waiting. Your not going to get a re-design just a minor spec bump and probably USB 3.0. I just bought a top end iMac and if we both sat down next to each other. Me with my old and tired 2011 and you (eventually, maybe) with your 2012...(or will it be 2013)? New iMac in real world use you wouldn't be able to tell the difference between the two.

But you win because your Geekbench score will be slightly higher....

 

[marzer]

Are the "I can't wait another month or else..." over mission critical needs? I can under stand making the purchase ASAP if you have a business/commercial need for it, but for liesure/home use what's the big deal in waiting however long to get the new release?

 

[sukai]

Are the "I can't wait another month or else..." over mission critical needs? I can under stand making the purchase ASAP if you have a business/commercial need for it, but for liesure/home use what's the big deal in waiting however long to get the new release?

Personally i am computerless right now. Classes start and i have been holding off a few projects i wanted to get started on.
Retina is not an issue for me, i just want what is being offered out there that in some years from now i would still benefit from.(Usb3.0)

Not going to wait till october though ahaha am sorrry but thats too much for me currently.


I wonder if these october rumours are pressuring people who dont or cannot wait to help clear stocks

 

[Mike Valmike]

Oh please, this is a ridiculous argument for waiting. Your not going to get a re-design just a minor spec bump and probably USB 3.0. I just bought a top end iMac and if we both sat down next to each other. Me with my old and tired 2011 and you (eventually, maybe) with your 2012...(or will it be 2013)? New iMac in real world use you wouldn't be able to tell the difference between the two.

But you win because your Geekbench score will be slightly higher....

You have made poor assumptions. I couldn't care less what anyone else is running. My metric is whether the purchase is economically prudent at all, full stop. I would take a 2011 iMac just fine... at 70% of its current price. Or else a 2012 iMac, even if it's just a spec bump, at full ticket. If I had been up for an upgrade last year I would have bought the 2011 model, but I wasn't. Sometimes the refresh cycle works out well, sometimes it's an absolute calamity like this time around. Such is the gamble you take with Apple.

EDIT: To clarify. I mean economically prudent NO MATTER WHAT ELSE you happen to be doing or your usage pattern. A May 2011 computer at full ticket is not an economically prudent purchase in 2012, period. It could be argued that any time after Thanksgiving 2011, when the Thailand flooding crippled the HDD market and the prices of SSDs plummeted, the iMac became a poor value for its price. Due to the uncertainty over market fallout from the floods, I would even go so far as to say a 2011 iMac purchased up to around March of this year is still justifiable on the grounds that immediate need maybe overrides the marginal loss on value. But any time April or later, it's a bad buy, and anyone who bought a 2011 iMac within the last 90 days did not get fair value for their money. I refuse to reward Apple for dragging their feet on this refresh when what they are offering is not economically acceptable. If the rMBP had suited my needs I would have grabbed one last month but it didn't. I will wait or bail, but I will not buy a rotting melon on the grounds that I had better eat it before it rots even further. Better to stay hungry.

 

[HurryKayne]

I couldn't say better,there's a limit in what is acceptable or not,
Apple is eroding its Pro base every time,the question is,
without any attention to pro users,is Apple still Apple?
By now,not for my wallet,even if i'll decide to take a 2011 Imac
i will go for refurbished where the real value is.

 

[Apple fanboy]

Are the "I can't wait another month or else..." over mission critical needs? I can under stand making the purchase ASAP if you have a business/commercial need for it, but for liesure/home use what's the big deal in waiting however long to get the new release?

Because nobody likes waiting. After working on PC's for the last 20 years I decided to go Mac. I didn't want a mini or a laptop and I like the idea of an all in one. However I don't like buying last years tech at this years price. I made the decision to switch in February and the current advice (largely on this forum) was wait. Now if October turns out to be true that's 8 months of waiting. Not happy about it but I will hang it out.

 

[Scythe5]

When you've budgeted to get a new iMac and expect a spring release (based on nothing but previous release cycles), it does become frustrating. I think the rumor mill is just adding to the angst.

After WWDC I was still confident of a July release, but didn't care for a lot of what they were showing in ML. Now I believe it will probably be an Oct release.

The more I waited, and the I thought about it, the more I didn't like what Apple is doing.

For example, Apple sold 100 million iPhones, 40 million iPads, 2.8 million lap tops, and 1.2 million desktops. (anyone see a trend here?)

They are integrating iOS into OS X with Mountain Lion. I appears they are killing the optical disk in many of their products, pushing physical software products out the door and forcing people to use the app store. (Still trending towards portables)

I wouldn't be surprised if OS X becomes iOS X at some point in the future. When that point comes I wouldn't be a customer anyway. Apple has always been a hardware company at heart, and gadgets appear to be where they are heading. I'm not really a gadget kind of guy, I guess.

As I mentioned earlier, I've already ordered the parts for my new PC, so I no longer have a pony in the race. I'm still hoping you folks get a July release, but would say be prepared for an Oct. Hope it works out for everyone that's waited.

 

[jmhart]

So if it is October will you wait?

I previously said that if it doesn't come by the end of this month and there aren't any rumours of an imminent release, then I won't wait any more. But is 3 months more really that much longer to wait..... yes it is but can I hack it.......probably, just. How about you?

Nope, my iMac wait ends at the end of this month. My gaming PC plans are shaping up nicely, then I will wait for an Ivy Bridge / USB 3.0 Mac Mini to supplement it for my day to day can't be bothered to fool with Windows needs.

Honestly my Mac usage is not really heavy duty enough to require an iMac, I just liked the idea of having one machine instead of two...but I've been planning this upgrade since last fall and I'm simply starting to feel a bit of angst against Apple for holding back the tech upgrade for their desktop machines.

Clearly their priority is shifting further and further from the desktop, and that's ok...it just doesn't look like it's going to work for my upgrade timeline this time around.

None of this matters of course, they don't need their desktop market anyway. I already own an iPad and an iPhone, so they're already getting enough of my money anyway I guess.

 

[TVreporter]

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This frustrates me to no end. I don't want to pay full price for a year old computer yet am not waiting until October.

Apple might be losing itself a new Mac follower. Why wouldn't they at least reduce the 2011 price a bit to remain on par with available PCs today or even reduce stock more. Are Apple Stores still touting this at the best specs for a computer today?

I waited so long to make the move to Mac and there's no way I'm hanging on until October. And this retina talk doesn't impress me one bit either.

 

[DisMyMac]

Why wouldn't they at least reduce the 2011 price a bit to remain on par with available PCs today or even reduce stock more. Are Apple Stores still touting this at the best specs for a computer today?

Hypnotic marketing and patent-trolling lawsuits have given Apple a virtual monopoly. Hopefully Jobs' exit revives competition.

 

[MagicThief83]

With the new rumors that the new imac will come in october, i think im going to buy a 2012 MBA now. I´ve waited since march and was already thinking about buying a MBA next year (imac this year) so ill probably switch it around. It's going to be my first mac and the waiting is killing me.

This.

i can't bear the waiting any longer. i have been waiting since February for refreshed iMacs. This will be my first mac purchase. i will be ordering the higher end 2012 11" MBA and bump up the RAM to 8GB and SSD to prob 256GB. Was playing with them in the apple store today and loved em! Do you think i should get the i5 or bump up to the i7?

 

[Gaelic2]

I will wait until when ever Apple updates. I have an iMac '24 and it works very well for what I wan't. I will upgrade so I can give this fantastic computer to my daughter and it should serve her well for the next 5 years or more!

 

[turtlez]

I'll wait until 2013 if I have to lol. Sure I am annoyed it is not released yet but I would rather wait another 2 years for an update before going back to Windows.

I am starting to think about just spending mega dollars on 2008 MacPro ram, getting the 5870 card and a 27" TB display. It would only be a bit cheaper than the proposed 2012 imac and I have to deal with the 2x 2.8 xeon. Hmmmm....

 

[Lance-AR]

I'll swap the 2011 mini for the 2012 I'm hoping will come out this month. At this point I've stopped waiting for the iMac and am now waiting for a Thunderbolt Mac Pro.

 

[John Adams]

Not confident Apple cares a lot of what users think neither i think Cook and the others are any scared by any flame at all,look at the controversy on Ipad name in China,first they fought,then they paid 60millions,but with 28 billions in their house it was just a scratch of their nose.
I think the most threat they have to look very closely is Windows 8,Surface and Xbox720,that would fire up some good competition.
Am i wronging?

What?

 

[MSM Hobbes]

Been limping along for about a year on this ~6 year old version, that we use on a daily basis for all of the family's computing / school / video / photo / music needs... this is our "hub" computer, and it is getting slower, and slower. Am looking at a 2011-12 used models, as we will need a stronger machine come this August.

Regarding Apple's business model(s) - I understand their marketing, creating and selling and supporting devices that people will buy like candy [we've a few of these awesome tools too],,, but what is frustrating is that the thought process in the beginning of all this was that those profits from those "iDevices" would be used to help grow the main computer side of the company too. Sadly, that more than appears to be incorrect.

 

[Fodkoen]

Well im currently a windows 7 user (and pretty happy one).
For a while now Ive been eyeing the iMac. Its a really nice "all in one" and I really want to try out OSX (heard a lot of good things). I was looking forward to the 2012 models with Ivy Bridge and hopefully a nice GPU - love to see the upcomming Nvidia 660 in the 21.5 inch iMac. Retina, USB 3 and a thinner chasis would be great, but its not at dealbreaker for me.
The dealbreaker is the current GPU - AMD 6770M. Im a casual gamer, so the current "top of the line" GPU in the 21.5 incher wont cut it. 27" is to big (talk to my wife ).

Well anywhoo if august comes without at spec.bumped iMac I'll pass this year and build a small windows gaming machine (with win 8 when it arrives).

 

[jmhart]

Well im currently a windows 7 user (and pretty happy one).
For a while now Ive been eyeing the iMac. Its a really nice "all in one" and I really want to try out OSX (heard a lot of good things). I was looking forward to the 2012 models with Ivy Bridge and hopefully a nice GPU - love to see the upcomming Nvidia 660 in the 21.5 inch iMac. Retina, USB 3 and a thinner chasis would be great, but its not at dealbreaker for me.
The dealbreaker is the current GPU - AMD 6770M. Im a casual gamer, so the current "top of the line" GPU in the 21.5 incher wont cut it. 27" is to big (talk to my wife ).

Well anywhoo if august comes without at spec.bumped iMac I'll pass this year and build a small windows gaming machine (with win 8 when it arrives).

Seems like lots of folks like us with the same plan...you could consider picking up a Mac Mini if we don't get an iMac, that way you get to experience OS X.

 

[Lankyman]

Oh please, this is a ridiculous argument for waiting. Your not going to get a re-design just a minor spec bump and probably USB 3.0. I just bought a top end iMac and if we both sat down next to each other. Me with my old and tired 2011 and you (eventually, maybe) with your 2012...(or will it be 2013)? New iMac in real world use you wouldn't be able to tell the difference between the two.

But you win because your Geekbench score will be slightly higher....

Just about the only sensible post I've read throughout this whinging thread to date - well done sir.

 

[12dylan34]

Oh please, this is a ridiculous argument for waiting. Your not going to get a re-design just a minor spec bump and probably USB 3.0. I just bought a top end iMac and if we both sat down next to each other. Me with my old and tired 2011 and you (eventually, maybe) with your 2012...(or will it be 2013)? New iMac in real world use you wouldn't be able to tell the difference between the two.

But you win because your Geekbench score will be slightly higher....

While I would agree with this for the average user, the 15% increase for me means that renders finish just that much faster. For a 24 hour render, about 4 hours quicker, which could mean 4 hours of extra work on the next part of my project. The graphics are supposed to be about 50% better, which is invaluable for viewport (scene editor) performance in Cinema 4D. Just that many more polygons before I start getting sub-30 fps playback speeds and have to render a motion preview out to a file. I guess that my point is that some people have good reasons other than value for waiting.

This being said, if I wasn't doing this stuff (and I wish that I could get a 12 core Mac Pro, but I'm a poor college student), I probably would have bought a current iMac back in early May.

 

[kuhtang]

Oh please, this is a ridiculous argument for waiting. Your not going to get a re-design just a minor spec bump and probably USB 3.0. I just bought a top end iMac and if we both sat down next to each other. Me with my old and tired 2011 and you (eventually, maybe) with your 2012...(or will it be 2013)? New iMac in real world use you wouldn't be able to tell the difference between the two.

But you win because your Geekbench score will be slightly higher....

Another thing is that getting a 2011 refurb 27" with the 6970 1GB vram would probably be around the same price as the base 2012 27". This is what I've been mulling over in my head and I'm leaning towards the refurb 2011.