I'm with you completely, save for the fact I'd put a gpu upgrade in my "minimum" wishes.
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What to expect from iMac 2012 - Discussion
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I'm with you completely, save for the fact I'd put a gpu upgrade in my "minimum" wishes.
There's that patent floating around, and some people's strange wishes to cripple the iMac into nothing more than a consumer pad.
Ha, yeah. My expectations lower with time. Eventually it will just be for the same iMac, but in a new box.
A backlit wireless keyboard would be HOT.
it would go well with the rest of there products that are warm.
My annoyance level will spike if we get to the end of August, but so long as my 2007 doesn't outright die, there's no way I'm buying a 2011.
I just hope that it comes out before the back-to-school promo ends, at least i'd be able to save some money. And im not about to wait an entire year for the next promo...
clarification
Forgive my ignorance in the mac world. I am a photographer who was waiting for the refresh to switch to mac from pc. I am confused. Do I understand it righ that are to be no new imacs this year? I cannt wait until next year and now I wonder which machine the 2011 imac or the macbook pro.
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My pc laptop is on its last leg. Keyboard is also fading as you can tell from my last post.
Forgive my ignorance in the mac world. I am a photographer who was waiting for the refresh to switch to mac from pc. I am confused. Do I understand it righ that are to be no new imacs this year? I cannt wait until next year and now I wonder which machine the 2011 imac or the macbook pro.
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My pc laptop is on its last leg. Keyboard is also fading as you can tell from my last post.
Honestly, no one knows whether the iMac will come out later this year or not. If you want a laptop to replace your current laptop, then the new MacBook Pro should be more than enough for your needs.
Were forgetting that part number list must of the new products match the autrastralian apple website the laptops,the new cases, the no updated Mac pro, the airport express,and cables....they all correspond with the list also price...the iMac part number is there on the leaked list so it must be coming sometime as I stated before...I'm am frustrated to but I'm wanting cuz this iMac are for the same price and that defiantly not right....
still hope:
Update: Apple PR has reached out and clarified that only the Mac Pro is expected to be next updated in 2013. The company had no comment about the iMac, which perhaps means that the iMac could see updates earlier than next year. It has been 406 days since the iMac last received an update, significantly longer than the traditional iMac update interval.
Update: Apple PR has reached out and clarified that only the Mac Pro is expected to be next updated in 2013. The company had no comment about the iMac, which perhaps means that the iMac could see updates earlier than next year. It has been 406 days since the iMac last received an update, significantly longer than the traditional iMac update interval.
wait... what? same price? leaked list? I thought all the part numbers were accounted for with all the new MBP's and MBA's
Edit: not "thought", all the part numbers were indeed all accounted for. I just checked.
Yeah see and the iMac must soon to be coming I hope...they probably didnt wanna do It the same time...the leaked part number list seem legit if most matched with it and the prices also....seem quite strange...??????
All the prices for the 6 Macbook Pros, 4 Macbook Airs, 3 Mac Pros, as well as the airport express and magsafe adapter/etc were all matched from the list.
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It's not that easy. Now that the Retina MBP is available, we know how OS X will handle the Retina resolutions. Remember, Retina is not just a higher pixel count, but a considerably higher pixel count per inch.
For Retina to work on the current 27" iMac, the screen would need a resolution of 5120x2880, or it would actually lose screen real estate. Anything less and the Retina display would be crisp, but it would be less screen real estate to work with. Not good enough.
A 27" panel with this resolution is unprecedented. Now that by itself is not something impossible for Apple (and would fit my jaw-dropping product expectation for 2013). But it's more than just extrapolating the price of the Retina MBP screen. Larger panel means smaller yield and less fault tolerance. This would add so much to the price, I believe it will be an option, not standard.
Either way - don't wait for it anytime soon. Will not happen. Retina is for portable devices, not desktops.
I think they would have Retina models and non-Retina models like the MBPs. Although I still don't believe it will be "Retina", not yet anyway.
So what do we make of the unusual step of the Apple PR representative issuing a clarification. Legit or bogus?
If it's legit, it shows Apple still takes the iMac very seriously which is good news. Nobody wants to invest in technology that is going the way of the iPod Classic.
I'm going to wait to mid-July and re-appraise. If there's no signs of an iMac update, then I will probably buy a short term solution with a mid-range i7 mac mini and wait it out.
Anyway, if you haven't seen already, there's a couple of polls trying to take the temperature on new hardware releases (iMac and mac mini respectively). Let's see what you think
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1384568/
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1384177/
If it's legit, it shows Apple still takes the iMac very seriously which is good news. Nobody wants to invest in technology that is going the way of the iPod Classic.
I'm going to wait to mid-July and re-appraise. If there's no signs of an iMac update, then I will probably buy a short term solution with a mid-range i7 mac mini and wait it out.
Anyway, if you haven't seen already, there's a couple of polls trying to take the temperature on new hardware releases (iMac and mac mini respectively). Let's see what you think
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1384568/
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1384177/
If it shipped with Lion, then you're legally allowed to sell it with lion. You can use the recovery partition to wipe the main partition same deal.
If it didn't ship with Lion, you should have a flash drive with snow leopard on it? Use that to wipe the whole drive.
Buy an 8GB Thumb Drive, download Lion from the Mac App Store. Exit the installer app, find the app in your Applications folder, right-click and show package contents. Go to the Shared Support folder and copy the InstallESD.dmg file to somewhere else. Now go into disk utility, format that thumb drive with a GUID partition scheme and a Mac OS Extended Journaled File System and then image that thumb drive with your InstallESD.dmg file. Ignore the error that you will get in verifying. That's a known problem with the 10.7.4/current version of this file. Boot from this thumb drive, do your secure erase. Done.