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2017 iMac refresh wish list [merged]

Yeah, there are a few things wrong with this alleged insider.
Why would someone at foxconn know about Apple projects that are now cancelled, and future Apple designs? Does Foxconn also manufacture early prototypes? I don't think anyone at Foxconn has to know before Apple orders the assembly of a particular device.
This "source" appears to know a lot, form AR glass prototypes to iMacs, including iPhones and Apple watches. So they cannot be a low-level employee. I don't see someone at the top compromising themselves like this. Unless they have just been fired and seek revenge.
 
the best way to find if this is true is tomorrow, so based on what he told, tomorrow 12" macbook internal update, 13" MBP internal update and 15" with the possibility 32 gb ram,siri speaker without any display and 2 ipads pro..if any of these will come wrong that mean he is not so trusty (im looking at you 15" MBP with 32gb ram)
 
And these rumours were already in the air before the reddit discussion, so confirmation wouldn't tell much.
 
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the rumours about 15" MBP with 32 gb ram, was for late 2017 along side with the imac "pro"
 
There have been many rumours about updated laptops (MB and MBP) at WWDC. It doesn't take an insider to predict that the new MBP will fix the 16 GB ram limit of the current ones, which has attracted lots of criticism.
I haven't read all this insider's replies, but it seems that only few are specific enough be verified. We would never know about canceled products. We've heard about the return of the glowing Apple logo on laptops before. Everything related to the iPhone has been predicted one way or another. Maybe the e-ink keyboard can be considered new information (though there may already be a published Apple patent on that), as well as the black finish for the iMac (or is it predicted for the Macbook?)
 
since the kaby lake doesnt still support LPDDR3 up to 32 gb , the rumours about CL 32 gb ram 15" MBP late 2017 makes sense, but he talks about it for WWDC...so if this will not come out true, here he made a mistake and its just a liar when he told us he is an insider
 
fokmik said:
the rumours about 15" MBP with 32 gb ram, was for late 2017 along side with the imac "pro"
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Doing so will require using higher-power RAM chips so that will mean less space for batteries and higher drain - together a recipe for possibly fairly poorer battery life. Not sure Apple will want to go that route just to satisfy a small percentage of the market while negatively impacting the vast majority.


fokmik said:
since the kaby lake doesnt still support LPDDR3 up to 32 gb , the rumours about CL 32 gb ram 15" MBP late 2017 makes sense, but he talks about it for WWDC...so if this will not come out true, here he made a mistake and its just a liar when he told us he is an insider
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Neither Kaby Lake nor Coffee Lake will support LPDDR over 16GB of capacity. Canonnlake will, but the first set of CPUs will be the U series for the MacBook in early 2018 so it will likely be mid-to-late 2018 before Intel has Canon Lake CPUs appropriate for the MacBook Pro line.
 
i was talking about that source guy who pretend that a 15" MBO will come tomorrow with 32 gb ram. And like i said before, if this is not true, then this guy is just a troller and he predicts based on rumours
 
Wayne H said:
iMacs are not manufactured at foxxcon (To my knowledge), they are manufactured by quanta computers, and also in a factory in ireland, one of the reasons why there are very little leaks of the imac.
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I believe current iMacs are assembled by Quanta Computers in Asia, California and Ireland. However, Foxconn was making the unibody iMac's aluminum chassis back in 2009 so maybe they still are and that is how this fellow knows about the new design.

Foxconn also built a new R&D facility next to their iPhone factory in Shenzhen to assist Apple in prototyping new products. No word on if this is iOS devices only or if they are also helping with Mac and Siri-related products. But if they are and this fellow works there, it could explain how he knows about so many different products.
 
I would love if they talk about the "pro" imac variant Schiller was talking about earlier this year. I'm Asking for a dedicated (non-mobile) video card, faster 6 core processor, and whisper quite or at least very quite cooling. I render a lot of timelapse footage and when I load the cpu up at 100% I can barely do any other task as the computer becomes very laggy (maxed 2015 5k version). Also, it's like a jet is taking off too...
 
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^You want a desktop-class GPU in an all-in-one and also want it to be whisper-quiet during heavy loads? :confused:

Reminds me of what Agnes Skinner said to the bag boy on The Simpsons: "I want everything in one bag! But I don't want the bag to be heavy!"
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whats the problem to have a quiet device, when is not in heavy load?
 
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Pretty cool.. no thinner bezels as I suspected, but still a nice bump.
 
This is exactly what I was hoping for! My MBP died 6 months ago. TB3 is what I was holding out for!

Can we assume DDR4 in the 27"?
 
5.5 TFLOPS sounds like a lot, that's between 1060 and 1070 in Nvidia terms right? Gee. Well done Apple!
 
ship today..cool.. wonder BTO dates?
[doublepost=1496685263][/doublepost]Space gray imac pro.. nice..
 
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