[/COLOR]So, I guess what I'm seeing is that most likely to come out in the next couple weeks but if they are waiting for WWDC In June it will be worth the wait. (retina display or something HUGE. Otherwise it should be a quiet refresh in the coming days.
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What to expect from iMac 2012 - Discussion
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iMacs just don't sell like the iPads and iPhones. They do well, but when macs amount to 13% of Apples total revenue (and the MBP is over half of that), there isn't as much interest.
I am hoping that this is why we haven't seen the supply constraints by this point, but I suspect that is wishful thinking on my part more than anything else.
Be patient it will come. I have been waiting like most but its all good. Just keep saving that $/£ and you can go for top of the line when they do hit. End of May will be the absolute latest. As I have said before just look how slow the I just got a new iMac thread is. Apple can see the sales have dropped off and will be desperate to get new kit out there. It might only be 13% of total revenue, but for a company the size of Apple that's a lot of cash.
From their most recently reported financials mac sales were already slow, so they've got to realize the reason for that is because of a SERIOUS lack of updates on their end. It may be a small part of their revenue, but it's growing and at a very good rate. Either way though, I'm EXTREMELY frustrated by lack of updates as I'm out of hard disk space on my mini; not to mention it's slow and sucks at games (sc2 on lowest graphic settings still slows down during major battles). I've threatened to go back to PC before, although I'm sure that's just an empty threat. That being said, I'm desperate for some updates. PLEASE APPLE?!
Hard to be patient when i dont have my own computer due to selling old one / not much info is coming out & were over due. Please within 2 weeks
Same boat here. Sold the macbook in my sig now that i've finished school and have been fiending this update ever since. I love my ipad but, damnit, i want a computer
I really hope the 7970m goes into this thing, it would be such a massive upgrade from my mbp.
Same boat here. Sold the macbook in my sig now that i've finished school and have been fiending this update ever since. I love my ipad but, damnit, i want a computer
I really hope the 7970m goes into this thing, it would be such a massive upgrade from my mbp.
Same here I sold my 2010 macbook pro back in february. i've been fending with my iPad, school computers and my dad's computer when possible.
Because of the reasons listed by Confuzzzed, I think the earliest we will see the iMacs is May 8th / 15th.
Hope I am wrong and we see iMacs this Tuesday.
Though I doubt (4) is applicable to an iMac release unless it is a major overhaul (which I don't expect this time around either way).
Hope I am wrong and we see iMacs this Tuesday.
Though I doubt (4) is applicable to an iMac release unless it is a major overhaul (which I don't expect this time around either way).
Depending on your needs of the computer, most applications don't even support hyper-threading yet, I would definitely recommend getting the i5 with SSD vs i7 and no SSD. I know that's a no-brainer for me because none of the applications I use support hyper-threading (MatLab, Autocad, Visual Basic, games etc). I realize in 3 years, most software will support it but that's in 3 years and you can see the difference in SSD vs HDD today (today as in if the iMac was released...)
Have the system run on it? Also works as a cache. Make the system ssd baseline on all macs?
I am debating about that but X-Plane flight sim is very cpu/gpu demeaning. but loading is so slow with hdd
It's not really big enough for the system to run on and speed up anything but the boot time really.
And as for using it for a cache, from what I've seen in performance tests for the Momentus XT, a 24GB SSD is not really big enough for a cache buffer for a large hard drive.
Sweet spot for what? For a cache for a hard drive, that might (nothing definite) be big enough to be reasonable. As the system disk for an iMac, I don't think so. My /Applications by itself is over 46GB and I have a few applications I will be getting that will noticeably increase that. And don't forget the space that OS X itself uses.
SSD and USB 3.0
With SSDs in mind, people are forgetting something...
If the rumours are true that the Mac range is getting USB 3.0 (Ivy Bridge support and all that) then there's no reason why we can't just get a cheap enclosure and boot off that. It's at least better than tearing off the glass, getting SATA adapters and generally faffing about.
An example of a usb 3.0 enclosure.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tsunami-D-2...1_2?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1335643597&sr=1-2
You heard it from me first folk!
With SSDs in mind, people are forgetting something...
If the rumours are true that the Mac range is getting USB 3.0 (Ivy Bridge support and all that) then there's no reason why we can't just get a cheap enclosure and boot off that. It's at least better than tearing off the glass, getting SATA adapters and generally faffing about.
An example of a usb 3.0 enclosure.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tsunami-D-2...1_2?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1335643597&sr=1-2
You heard it from me first folk!
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And create a support headache for Apple for the people who don't understand how to split data between 2 drives? Remember you get some rather non technical people buying iMacs.
An interesting point, but of course you could do that today with a ThunderBolt enclosure on the current Mac models.
The exception being that the USB 3.0 enclosure without a hard drive/SSD actually exists. Plus if any Thunderbolt enclosures came along they would cost an arm, a leg, my soul and my first born with a deposit of ONE MILLION DOLLARS!!!
But that's just my 2 cent.
You may have a point on the Thunderbolt enclsures, but right now you could get a LaCie eSATA Hub for Thunderbolt with one or 2 eSATA capable disk enclosures which are available.
Remember USB is still a CPU-sucking parasite of an I/O standard. You won't get anywhere near the peak speed, so it's probably horrid to use for regular booting. I'd definitely be interested to see some benchmarks of internal HDD vs external USB 3 SSD though.