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What to expect from iMac 2012 - Discussion
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Keeping in mind Tim's words concerning 2012 - could Apple be planning a single event for a complete Mac refresh? When looking at the models, all Macs, in fact ALL products are overdue but the iPad. It would cause a great stir if they present Minis, Pros, Airs, MBP's and iMacs at the same time! All of them, save the Pro, could sport suitable Ivy CPU's, and the increased 3D performance in the Intel 4000 embedded graphics could eliminate the need for dedicated GPU's for most entry models, including the 21" iMac.
As for the 2012 iMac, I predict specs for the 21" starting at i5 3550 with 4 GB RAM, 128 GB SSD with 1 TB drive. I believe the optical drive will stay. USB 3.0 could well be included. Retina displays - I don't think so. I'll be surprised. Very.
Top 27" specs would likely be the i7 3770 (as seen in the Geekbench benchmarks), max 32 GB RAM (4 x 8 GB), Radeon HD 7970M (which is insanely powerful for a mobile GPU) and a 512 GB SSD with a 2 or even 3 TB HDD.
Apple sell premium products, so expect premium specs! And I'm looking forward to replacing my 2007 20" iMac. It'll make a great gift for my old folks.
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I hope we're in for a big event, and the more I think about it everything is over due a refresh, even the iPods will need one if the rumours of a new connector on the iphone are true. It'd be pretty pointless to refresh everything except the iMac and the mac pro's. Only 4 or so months until the iPhone refresh so not much time left for a summer treat making WWDC the main candidate. Only one week to go and we'll know for sure.
My aunt's iMac G5's GPU just died yesterday and she is without a computer. I really hope new iMacs are announced at WWDC or I will be in trouble for telling her to wait!
I hope and wish Apple could inform their customers a bit of their future plans, despite their doubling down on secrecy. A lot of people are dependent on Macs for their daily business. With nearly no care for desktop computers lately its making it more difficult to consider an Apple computer as a professional choice for the future of a company. I for sure would stick around if I knew that these immense delays have just been a bad incident.
If Apple plan on cutting down the entire desktop business, go all mobility (which it may seem like)... I think this it not something best kept in secrecy - it´s not part of a popularity contest the same way as pads and phones imo. I doubt the sales on iMacs and Mac Pro´s are very good these days, and no wonder. You´re truly stupid if you chose to buy a custom setup i7 256 SSD iMac at todays price tag - or the Mac Pro for that matter, its a complete rip off. And it would seem Apple won´t try very hard to get the sales numbers up either.
Anyway, what I´m saying is that I wish Apple would stop keeping their customers in dark on this. If the Mac Pro´s are just gonna stay on Apple site the same way as iPod Classic - forever until current units are all gone from storage, I would be very sad if this is one of their internal secrets - it doesn´t benefit sale or the customers in any way and competitors hardly look at apple anymore on these products as they are getting out of date...it just makes people anxious and tired of waiting.
Dunno why I write this, just have a hunch we won´t see much iMac or Desktop stuff at WWDC...though I really hope I´m wrong. But 99% of what is rumors these days close before WWDC is iphone blueprints, apple tv rumors, itv rumors, ios 6 updates, macbook pros...etc etc...I´m willing to bet there won´t be a Mac Pro at least. The Pro will almost certainly dwindle out as the xserver did a year back, without any information from Apple. It´s a sad development for those who don´t only want stuff to be mobile and small.
Prove me wrong Apple!
If Apple plan on cutting down the entire desktop business, go all mobility (which it may seem like)... I think this it not something best kept in secrecy - it´s not part of a popularity contest the same way as pads and phones imo. I doubt the sales on iMacs and Mac Pro´s are very good these days, and no wonder. You´re truly stupid if you chose to buy a custom setup i7 256 SSD iMac at todays price tag - or the Mac Pro for that matter, its a complete rip off. And it would seem Apple won´t try very hard to get the sales numbers up either.
Anyway, what I´m saying is that I wish Apple would stop keeping their customers in dark on this. If the Mac Pro´s are just gonna stay on Apple site the same way as iPod Classic - forever until current units are all gone from storage, I would be very sad if this is one of their internal secrets - it doesn´t benefit sale or the customers in any way and competitors hardly look at apple anymore on these products as they are getting out of date...it just makes people anxious and tired of waiting.
Dunno why I write this, just have a hunch we won´t see much iMac or Desktop stuff at WWDC...though I really hope I´m wrong. But 99% of what is rumors these days close before WWDC is iphone blueprints, apple tv rumors, itv rumors, ios 6 updates, macbook pros...etc etc...I´m willing to bet there won´t be a Mac Pro at least. The Pro will almost certainly dwindle out as the xserver did a year back, without any information from Apple. It´s a sad development for those who don´t only want stuff to be mobile and small.
Prove me wrong Apple!
i doubt a mac pro at wwdc but who knows they may revive it, doubt it.
imac, well thats a strong computer and a liked one. Apple can't and won't get rid of every machine their in love with, besides a stupid iPad and low spec mba can not do what an iMac does. Besides, iMac ship times all slipped to 4days for most BTO's globally its time.
Intel ivy bridge Natively supports USB 3.0. If ivy bridge is included so is USB 3.0
Because I'm sure none of the current macs are powerful enough for your aunt.
Assuming that the new iMac 2012 is going to be presented in June, do you guys think it will be available immediately or what ? Does anybody know how Apple does usually when they come out with a new machine ? Will they say something like "available in July" or maybe even later ???
Sometimes product is released the same day. In the case of very popular products (iPhone/iPad) they start with a preorder and ship the following week.
AFAIK Apple hasn't shown of a hardware product and said it would be available in a few months. I'd think once they announce product at WWDC it will be available within a week.
You're in trouble. Of course, I would totallly love to eat my words and be wrong, but I don't see this happening.
You're in trouble. Of course, I would totallly love to eat my words and be wrong, but I don't see this happening.
so your an apple representative? imacs are NOT going to be announced?
Yeah, as soon as they announce the new iMac they will make it available straight away. Mac sales are low enough as it is, announcing a new iMac and continuing to sell the current model would be a bad move.
1. read what he said again.
2. Apple doesn't contribute this kind of information to MR, or even any information...
I have read alot of these predictions here and I can't understand why people predict lower standard ssd then 256gb becous when I look at Apple store on any models the lowest and ongly choise of ssd is 256gb and I can't see why Apple shuld go lower. Is it me that is stupid or...?
All nice. You forgot something in that speech
Apple workers in Cupertino... You know that they work on imacs and pro...
You can't be a professional developer and program on notebook...
So as along as apple exist the iMac will continue....
Apple currently offers the 256gb SSD at an additional cost. To keep cost down, Apple could offer a smaller SSD option as a boot drive with a HDD for data.
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Lame joke of the day:
Rumours are, the new Fleetwood iMac comes complete with Everyware.
Lame joke of the day:
Rumours are, the new Fleetwood iMac comes complete with Everyware.
The new iMac will have a collapsable stand, somewhat similar to the higher end HP All-In-Ones or the Dell ST2220T. It may or may not have USB 3.0. Steve said he didn't like USB 3.0, so probably not. Remember, he wanted everyone to adopt Thunderbolt of course. The screen will have some sort of increased anti-glare coating, but whether it's actually matte, or whether there'll be a matte option, I don't know.
This is what I learned through a recent psychic reading.
This is what I learned through a recent psychic reading.
What to expect?
After having seen this videos on Engadget about new Acer Windows8 touch panels with collapsable display...
http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/03/acer-announces-windows-8-all-in-one-u-series-at-computex-2012/
http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/03/acer-aspire-s7-ultrabook/
and many others from Asus this morning,i was wondering if Apple,having known all this new products coming out so close to WWDC(the new Aspire S7 really seems a new Air)
decided to smash the competitors raising the bar again..next WWDC.
As you can see Thunderbolt is spreading too and if i'm not wrong Intel is pushing both Usb3 and Thunderbolt,so see what's next?
Windows8 looks really nice to me but a Mac its another thing for my experience ,i only just hope that Apple won't be so conservative this time,for example givin us (for our money!!!)a collapsable Imac stand,with touch input and that drawing aptic pen i saw,a 7970 and Cactus Ridge..this machine will blow away anything..and if you consider that Thunderbolt will start spreading from September ,or 2013( this is just a sensation or a wish you decide)( or Intel does),giving Sonnet,MAGMA,Vidock the chance to sit beside my Mac an external Gpu..well future look very good,not to mention what Leap Motion could add to our experience isn't it? (then i'm also curious to see if Playstation 4 or Xbox Next/720 would add a thunderbolt output..but this is another story).
ps.Good Morning you all.
After having seen this videos on Engadget about new Acer Windows8 touch panels with collapsable display...
http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/03/acer-announces-windows-8-all-in-one-u-series-at-computex-2012/
http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/03/acer-aspire-s7-ultrabook/
and many others from Asus this morning,i was wondering if Apple,having known all this new products coming out so close to WWDC(the new Aspire S7 really seems a new Air)
decided to smash the competitors raising the bar again..next WWDC.
As you can see Thunderbolt is spreading too and if i'm not wrong Intel is pushing both Usb3 and Thunderbolt,so see what's next
?Windows8 looks really nice to me but a Mac its another thing for my experience ,i only just hope that Apple won't be so conservative this time,for example givin us (for our money!!!)a collapsable Imac stand,with touch input and that drawing aptic pen i saw,a 7970 and Cactus Ridge..this machine will blow away anything..and if you consider that Thunderbolt will start spreading from September ,or 2013( this is just a sensation or a wish you decide)( or Intel does),giving Sonnet,MAGMA,Vidock the chance to sit beside my Mac an external Gpu..well future look very good,not to mention what Leap Motion could add to our experience isn't it? (then i'm also curious to see if Playstation 4 or Xbox Next/720 would add a thunderbolt output..but this is another story).
ps.Good Morning you all.
it would be a very bad business move to not bring out any imac's before August