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What to expect from iMac 2012 - Discussion

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Yebubbleman said:
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.
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Confuzzzed said:
A bit out of date but if you press CMD R then should take you to the partition and from there on in all the advice in this article should be pertinent

http://www.tuaw.com/2010/09/24/mac-101-preparing-your-old-mac-for-sale-or-recycling/

Don't forget to change security settings to 7-time pass
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Thankyou guys. I am copying all this to a word doc for when I come to do it. Help much appreciated.
 
cambi said:
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.
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If you'd prefer a desktop, I'd wait 4-5 weeks if I were you rather than rush to buy a laptop which may or may not meet all your needs. We'll have a better idea by mid-July if a 2012 iMac is imminent. The signs are improving. In general though, the 15" MacBook Pros should be enough computer for photography.

The community seems divided on the exact timing of the 2012 iMac

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1384568/
 
druid153 said:
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.
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Can you give out the link?I'm not able to find it,thanks.
 
Waiting is difficult for all of us but at least we have a forum where we can share our thoughts. All this waiting would have been so much more difficult without this forum. Thank you all for being here :eek:
 
nagareru said:
Waiting is difficult for all of us but at least we have a forum where we can share our thoughts. All this waiting would have been so much more difficult without this forum. Thank you all for being here :eek:
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Awww, lets do a grouphug :D.
 
one thing I'm sure of, we're expecting a radically redesigned iMac. If they can't just have a spec bump of iMac, I'm thinking they're preparing for a slimmer iMac, with SSD configuration as well.
 
Looks like they inked a deal with nvidia for gpu's so the delay is most likley A, to not take steam away from the mbp and B, to gain access to the 680M in the quantities needed. This is at least my hope...

Redesign next year....
 
druid153 said:
Looks like they inked a deal with nvidia for gpu's so the delay is most likley A, to not take steam away from the mbp and B, to gain access to the 680M in the quantities needed. This is at least my hope...

Redesign next year....
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I think this is the most logical answer. We should know by the time mountain lion is released.
 
druid153 said:
Looks like they inked a deal with nvidia for gpu's so the delay is most likley A, to not take steam away from the mbp and B, to gain access to the 680M in the quantities needed. This is at least my hope...

Redesign next year....
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My hope as well. Although, someone pointed out that the price difference between the 680m and the 7970m is large, while the performance increase is not that significant. I'm sure Apple has the leverage to get good pricing on the 680m - especially if they're going with Nvidia across the board, but it puts a niggling of doubt in the back of my mind.
 
Personally I don't think the iMacs need a redesign. The form and design of the computer itself is perfect. They do need an update to the internal components.

Ivy Bridge, USB 3.0, better graphics card should be a given.

If they can make a retina display big enough - that would be great to throw in, too.
 
Maybe we'll see a 21" with retina next year, just not a 27". But definitely not this year if there is a spec bump.

Honestly, I really hope that 680m is the only reason for the lack of new iMac thus far, since it wouldn't make sense for Apple to use nvidia for the MBP's and then AMD for the iMacs.

If the 680m was just released recently, does anyone have any idea on how soon Apple would be able to push out the new iMacs? (if they are coming out)
 
Shane1905 said:
No worries, I've been doing the same, been on this thread for so many months now I'd forgotten the rest of the Internet existed for a while haha
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I only use the web for this site and apple's. I just wish I could use an iMac to view it on rather than my iPhone or iPad. Hope it's with ML in a month. If not I'm gonna hunt down a refurb.
 
Apple fanboy said:
I only use the web for this site and apple's. I just wish I could use an iMac to view it on rather than my iPhone or iPad. Hope it's with ML in a month. If not I'm gonna hunt down a refurb.
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FWIW, I actually prefer using these forums in Tapatalk than in the browser. :p
 
jlblodgett said:
Personally I don't think the iMacs need a redesign. The form and design of the computer itself is perfect. They do need an update to the internal components.

Ivy Bridge, USB 3.0, better graphics card should be a given.

If they can make a retina display big enough - that would be great to throw in, too.
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I wholeheartedly agree. The existing one is great, and all "slimmer" would do is create heat. Ivy Bridge, better graphics, and a standard SSD and I would be all over it. It would be nice if they had a separate display that matched it, for dual display, though.
 
And so it begins....two days of disappointment after WWDC, now the inevitable "news story" that a new iMac will come out soon (did anyone really imagine waiting until 2013?). Next stage is fervent speculation of what the new iMac will offer leading to over ambitious predictions of technical specification. Finally new iMac is released with more realistic and predictable technical bump (nothing that spectacular this year, wait until 2013) followed by widespread disappointment that the new iMac doesn't have Warp control and the ability to teleport it's user through the space time continuum as was inevitably predicted within this thread.

Fun times ;);););););););)
 
lucasfunkt said:
But the theory is the iMacs are waiting for a new GPU isn't it? Would they do a benchmark test without that new gpu or does that not make any difference to the testing?
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It was a CPU benchmark, not so relevant to the GPU

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spcdust said:
And so it begins....two days of disappointment after WWDC, now the inevitable "news story" that a new iMac will come out soon (did anyone really imagine waiting until 2013?). Next stage is fervent speculation of what the new iMac will offer leading to over ambitious predictions of technical specification. Finally new iMac is released with more realistic and predictable technical bump (nothing that spectacular this year, wait until 2013) followed by widespread disappointment that the new iMac doesn't have Warp control and the ability to teleport it's user through the space time continuum as was inevitably predicted within this thread.

Fun times ;);););););););)
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Just because you bought the Sandy-Bridge iMac...
 
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