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What to expect from iMac 2012 - Discussion
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Well, since there's no 680M yet, and the 675M has been getting absolutely trounced in the benchmarks by the 7970M, I'm really hoping for the AMD.
My only issue with AMD has been with their OpenCL implementation. Long story short, it currently doesn't work with blender's new GPU renderer. Fortunately, there's good signs that this should be fixed by Mountain Lion, or shortly after.
The iMac is coming... And it's going to be very powerful and glorious. What model is everyone planning on getting? I'm definitly going with the 27 inch i7. 2gb dedicated graphics I'll assume and I'll be upgrading the ram myself. Not sure on the logic behind paying that insane amount to have apple upgrade the ram. Not sure if I'll go with the magic mouse or trackpad or just say f-- it and get both.
Either way, I'm ready for the refresh so I can throw my pc off my roof.
Either way, I'm ready for the refresh so I can throw my pc off my roof.
The lower end nvidia cards cited above are likely for mbp and maybe 21" imac
Still hoping for 802.11ac. I think there's a good chance, now that several consumer routers have been announced.
I will. Nvidia drivers are historically terrible, so the cards ultimately far underperform their benchmarks.
I am still gunning for 22nd or 29th May although my probabilities have now changed to 10% tomorrow, 50% 22nd, 20% 29th May, 10% June 12th, 5% June 19th, 5% June 26th
Theres no reason to not use 7970 in high end 27" imac
Change back to nvidia was only light chatter regarding notebooks
Change back to nvidia was only light chatter regarding notebooks
They NEED to offer an NVIDIA option at the very least.
Adobe have powered everything in the new Creative Suite on the NVIDIA architectures and CUDA support.
If the new iMacs don't offer an NVIDIA GPU option then I cannot buy one.
I have a MacVidCards GPU in my Mac Pro and it FLYS compared to using the AMD GPU in After Effects CS6. I am hoping to add a new iMac to my inventory as the Mac Pro is my fly away kit and I need a machine to be based at home while the Pro is out of the office. I neither want or need a second Mac Pro and the iMac should be my alternative... but I may have to rethink (possibly even jump to a PC, something that as a creative have NEVER owned) if they leave NVIDIA out of the BTO options, as will a lot of other professionals.
I hope this isn't another FCP X debacle....
Adobe have powered everything in the new Creative Suite on the NVIDIA architectures and CUDA support.
If the new iMacs don't offer an NVIDIA GPU option then I cannot buy one.
I have a MacVidCards GPU in my Mac Pro and it FLYS compared to using the AMD GPU in After Effects CS6. I am hoping to add a new iMac to my inventory as the Mac Pro is my fly away kit and I need a machine to be based at home while the Pro is out of the office. I neither want or need a second Mac Pro and the iMac should be my alternative... but I may have to rethink (possibly even jump to a PC, something that as a creative have NEVER owned) if they leave NVIDIA out of the BTO options, as will a lot of other professionals.
I hope this isn't another FCP X debacle....
The loss of optical disk on the iMac will hurt me in the future upgrade as I always watch tv shows on DVD who cares about the slimness of a desktop it's not like a MacBook that you will pickup and see all dimensions.
Hey there, fellow C2D owner. I'm planning on the top 27" stock model (current $1999). Should be plenty for years to come. Also looking to upgrade RAM, really hope the OS is on its own SSD to snap this thing up a notch or two.
Apple, if you're listening:
4GB. Not. Enough.
Nvidia drivers on Windows are far better and more stable than anything AMD has ever produced. In fact, AMD's biggest enemy is their drivers.
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I thought CS6 is moving towards OpenCL and away from Cuda?
I hope they reintroduce cassette drives, because I always listen to Cyndi Lauper on cassette.
For some things yes... but not enough in this iteration to beat what the Nvidia GPUs currently offer.
I use After Effects CS6 and tested some rendering on my AMD card and my NVIDIA card... the NVIDIA beat the AMD hands down, to the point where i felt that using the AMD would make working unbearable!
I'm a bit more keen on a slot-loading 78RPM Victrola drive so I can rip "Yes, We Have No Bananas" to my iTunes library.
Who cares when it's stupidly easy and cheap to upgrade the RAM yourself? You can have 32 GB in the 2011 iMac.
Yep. I prefer Apple scrimping on RAM if it means other features for the money they'd charge and I can upgrade RAM more cheaply myself.
The Nvidia drivers that you can download right now to use the 5xx series on the Mac Pro seem pretty stable judging by the relevant threads in the Mac Pro sub-forum.
Roger that, but I don't typically make large purchases with the mindset of incurring immediate extra expense to get what I really want.
It's just that the iMac has been stuck at 4GB for so long it's beginning to feel "640K-ish".
But yeah, if 4GB is still the 'minimum', for less than $50 it can be tripled to 12GB.
Buy an external drive. It's 2012, most of us don't use or need the ODD. It's a waste of space that could go towards a) a slimmer iMac b) more usable components
When Macs start shipping with Windows, i'll care. Until then, Windows stability means nothing to me.