Thunderbolt is Intel's hardware - it isn't integrated into the boards that the Mac Pro uses in the current iteration.
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Where are the iMacs?
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I especially love the coverage on these sites... oh wait.
I guess they determined their readers absolutely need another 3 articles per day on rubber mock-ups of next gen iphone cases. "Wow, it's slightly longer and the hole in the bottom is smaller! This is just like the last 6 iPhone case we showed you today. Stay tuned for our 34th mockup rendering of the iPad Mini case from Case-Tek!!!"
WOW, BREAKING RUMOR-SITE MATERIAL. AWARD WINNING STUFF. MAYBE YOU COULD ROUND IT OUT WITH ANOTHER PATENT LAWSUIT UPDATE.
Can someone do some investigating to earn the respect of the readers?
I guess they determined their readers absolutely need another 3 articles per day on rubber mock-ups of next gen iphone cases. "Wow, it's slightly longer and the hole in the bottom is smaller! This is just like the last 6 iPhone case we showed you today. Stay tuned for our 34th mockup rendering of the iPad Mini case from Case-Tek!!!"
WOW, BREAKING RUMOR-SITE MATERIAL. AWARD WINNING STUFF. MAYBE YOU COULD ROUND IT OUT WITH ANOTHER PATENT LAWSUIT UPDATE.
Can someone do some investigating to earn the respect of the readers?
Is anybody else getting "Pick up: Not Eligible" for all 4 of the base iMacs (no BTO options)?
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That's exactly how I feel. It's sickening. Sites like Mac rumors and 9to5mac. Have the "Mac" name on their sites yet they only report on effin iPhone news lie rubbing it on our faces for the oerdue iMacs. I'm so sick and tired of it. The sad thing is that is not even gonna end after the iPhone comes out because after that they are going to be talking about the new iPhone battery life and shipping for the rest of the year. I'm so tired of this.
I ordered a rMBP yesterday, pretty much maxed out, $3.3k with accessories even with the student store.
I never want to hear the word "iMac" again. This product can go screw itself. It might not even be out until 2013, and even then without retina, and with a nice 2 year refresh right after. My next purchase will be a Mac Pro which would have been preferable in the first place.
Anyway I don't mean to sound so negative, it's just that waiting for 8 months has really gotten to me. I am hoping, like with almost all of the reviews, I will have zero regrets with rMPB. Bye bye, iMac. After your fail refresh and maybe 2 years later, I will make use of the rMBP resale value and buy a Mac Pro.
I never want to hear the word "iMac" again. This product can go screw itself. It might not even be out until 2013, and even then without retina, and with a nice 2 year refresh right after. My next purchase will be a Mac Pro which would have been preferable in the first place.
Anyway I don't mean to sound so negative, it's just that waiting for 8 months has really gotten to me. I am hoping, like with almost all of the reviews, I will have zero regrets with rMPB. Bye bye, iMac. After your fail refresh and maybe 2 years later, I will make use of the rMBP resale value and buy a Mac Pro.
Doesn't feel right. Feels too soon somehow. (Yes, I'm aware of the irony.) But would make many back-to-schoolers happy.
I guess if the contention of iPhone on Sep 12 and iPad Mini + iPods in Oct is true, they're running out of launch windows.
The day after Labor Day just doesn't fit right with me
Oh well, I guess we'll just have to wait and see!
could be they are nearly out of stock out september and then release them in the end. Then thats following Kuo Mings theories, that stocks diminishes in august and new imacs start shipping from the factories...which we will see end of september. Next tuesdays seems too good to be true to me.
Yeah. Going off of that chart that was with the KGI Securities person's predictions, it seems like end of September would be the soonest, but most likely October. If we are seeing a radical new design, it will probably be briefly mentioned at either this rumored September event (if they come out "sooner"), or the rumored October event. Otherwise, I guess a "New" icon on the Apple Store any Tuesday between now and sometime in October?
Wish there was more rumors and reports for us, but the iPhone 5 is going to be the widely more popular product, as well as the supposed 7" iPad. Oh well
Wish there was more rumors and reports for us, but the iPhone 5 is going to be the widely more popular product, as well as the supposed 7" iPad. Oh well
Is this no BTO deliver at all or just to the store? If it is just to the stores that only points to a logicistical logjam to the stores; not out of the factory.
If the factory isn't impacted impacted it is not particularly indicative of anything to the manufacture of the system.
This is no pickup in store, period, whether BTO or otherwise. You can still get stock models delivered by Aug 31 and BTOs delivered by Sep 6 by standard shipping.
I had been following the local stores, and a couple days ago the "pick up in store" option was open but only 3-4 of the 19 in my 50 mile radius had all 4 models. Now the pick up option is disabled.
Thunderbolt is extremely to be integrated into the core I/O chipset anytime sooner. One, it is relatively immature. Second, the TB controller has to be in close proximity to the physical sockets. If merged the controller into the core I/O chipset then would force that chipsets closer to the edge of systems. Nobody wants that. Even in relatively small devices like MBA. (maybe for something the size of a phone or ipod but those aren't prime TB targets either. )
There is not Intel "reference board" of the Xeon E5 class that has a TB controller on board. So none of the competitors added it either. That's in part because TB implicitly wants a GPU also embedded on the motherboard. At this stage that is generally not the case for workstation class boxes ( and servers typically have old (VGA) and much weaker embedded graphics. )
However, it really isn't Intel's job to do system designers homework for them. If they need a TB controllers it is a matter of hooking it up to x4 PCI-e lanes and one (or two) DisplayPort outputs. The lament that Apple couldn't do it because Intel didn't do the majority of the work is a pretty lame indictment of Apple's skill base.
Similarly a lot of stores near me didn't have pick up available right away and were scheduled to be in around Aug. 31st but a few days ago I had checked and a lot of them were back.
If Apple wanted to clear out space in the store's "inventory area" one reasonable way of doing that would be to stop shipping big bulking items to the store to open up room. That doesn't necessarily mean going to fill that item with the same big bulky items later. The could fill it with lots of much smaller items in greater numbers. Doesn't count out an iMac but doesn't necessarily include it either.
Throw on top that the building expectation that some iMac would appear (and folks delaying purchasing) and the inventory of iMacs may be out of whack and they also need to rebalanced.
The fact they will ship it directly to a house/business points much more to it being a storage logistics issue.
Just checked a MacBook Pro and MacBook Air and those do not have in-store pickup either so this is not iMac specific.
Probably every nook and cranny on the ships from China is crammed with iPhone 5's.
I feel your pain, brother. About the only thing I can do on my MBP is surf the web. I've pretty much worn out the Command + keys on my keyboard because of the constant need to make the text larger in Safari. I have to go to my MP and its big screen if I want to look at the app store. You can't control the font size.
dammit, even the Camera Connection Kit has the Pickup option greyed out
Sorry everyone, false alarm.
Sorry everyone, false alarm.
If there was going to be a refresh, I'd expect a silent introduction into the store after one of these events.
It's not integrated into the other chipsets either. It is possible to add due to the presence of integrated graphics. There's no reason Apple can't release a mac pro due to to this. The problem isn't going anywhere next year. It's just a silly excuse. It's also not an absolute necessity in any board design. Ivy Bridge does not integrate thunderbolt by default even on the non-workstation sockets.
