Will Apple disappoint again?

[Nightarchaon]

What you meant is "Will i be disappointed because i was the child who sat in the back seat shouting ARE WE NEARLY THERE YET"

If apple is not creating an iMac specifically for you, fast enough, there are these wonderful things called PCs, you can assemble them, to your own specifications, much like lego, and that way get EXACTLY what you want, when you want, and even, shock of shocks, upgrade them as you go along.



Break the Brainwashing, just because apple are telling you your year old iMac/Phone/Notebook is out of date and useless, doesn't mean it actually is.

I for one could have done without thunderbolt on my iMac, heck, the only use ive found for firewire is as a simple highspeed network connection between my iMac and Macbook Pro for file transfers, so i dont need another over-priced, under supported port on the mac as well.

And Retina, in a desktop, only when they start shipping with SLI video cards, If they can fit two Nvida 680s into an iMac then fine, go retina, till then, don't give me an epic screen and a video card that struggles to push that many pixels smoothly

 

[Occamsrazr]

Tell me, how will a pc give anyone the osx experience? Oh that's right, it won't.... You were just trolling

 

[Scythe5]

Tell me, how will a pc give anyone the osx experience? Oh that's right, it won't.... You were just trolling

A hackintosh will give you "the os x experience".

Is there an OS X experience anymore? ML is nothing special in my eyes - more of iOS merged into OS X which IMHO changes "the OS X experience", and changes it for the worse.

Honestly, I built a PC earlier this month and I still do everything I could do before and MORE (Games, better compiler options, more software options, etc.). Win 7 is not a bad OS at all (Yes, I long time mac user just said there's nothing wrong with windows).

There was nothing wrong with what he said. Just because you don't like what he said doesn't mean it wasn't a valid point.

 

[Rebel Hedgehog]

To be honest, I don't think it was trolling at all. The poster actually talks a lot of sense. Forgetting building the PC bit, in reality, for the average user, is the new iMac really going to be in a different league to the one currently available. Let's face it, if they do release a retina model then your going to pay through the roof for that one.

That leaves the probable usb3 and potential mat screen as notable improvements. However, if like me you are not bothered about a new screen as the current one is perfectly ok, then are we only talking about simply the inclusion of usb3. Maybe worth it for those intensive users or those who are continually transferring data, but again I would ask, is it something that the everyday average user requires?

There was more sense spoke in that last post than in a lot of posts I have read to be honest.

It's like buying a fancy camera and only ever using the basic functions. Yes they are nice to have but are they really worth having?

 

[jollino]

However, if like me you are not bothered about a new screen as the current one is perfectly ok, then are we only talking about simply the inclusion of usb3. Maybe worth it for those intensive users or those who are continually transferring data, but again I would ask, is it something that the everyday average user requires?

Honestly, USB3 is the thing I'm personally looking for, even though I don't have any USB3 device at the moment. However, considering that I'm typing this on a 2006 iMac, I expect to squeeze at least 3-4 years out of the new machine, ie. until 2015-2016. By then I expect USB3 to be way more common...
Of course, it may be that Thunderbolt takes over (keep in mind how it went for Firewire, though), or at least takes over enough that TB-USB3 adapters are closer to the current price of USB hubs so it may become a non-issue. Just for safety, however, I'd rather have USB3 on board, pun intended.

 

[Occamsrazr]

Comparing an Apple computer to a PC is like comparing a resort hotel in Vegas to the Motel 6 down the road from grandma's house.

I mean, they're both for sleeping in right?

 

[Scythe5]

Comparing an Apple computer to a PC is like comparing a resort hotel in Vegas to the Motel 6 down the road from grandma's house.

I mean, they're both for sleeping in right?

Maybe you should stop drinking the Kool-aid.

 

[davidcmc]

Comparing an Apple computer to a PC is like comparing a resort hotel in Vegas to the Motel 6 down the road from grandma's house.

I mean, they're both for sleeping in right?

This is why people make jokes about appletards.

 

[iSayuSay]

Comparing an Apple computer to a PC is like comparing a resort hotel in Vegas to the Motel 6 down the road from grandma's house.

I mean, they're both for sleeping in right?

Still, I'd rather sleeping in a nice clean fresh motel (which components has constant refresh and upgrades) than staying in a resort which bed's cover and furnitures has never been changed/refreshed for 2 years (like MacPro).

Ewww .. Didn't think anyone would love that kind of resort more.

Apparently someone did.

 

[Occamsrazr]

lol