Can we expect a Redesigned iMac or a Limited Edition because of this year's Anniversary?

[Cookie18]

Exactly, its not always about whether the machine is simply 'enough'. These products arent cheap and will last an average consumer 5-8 years so why wouldnt you want the latest and greatest especially when the 8th gen CPUs are the biggest updates for apple hardware since 2012... it can literally be a 50% performance increase.

So my question is why would you buy old hardware... for many it wont be a new purchase it will be replacing an older piece of apple hardware, unless its bricked or has died then most can probably wait, if you cant then I suppose the iMac pro is an option. iMacs are more niche than Macbook pros I would speculate the majority of people purchasing would be upgrading not buying for the first time.

I think you’re missing the part about work that the previous poster mentioned. For some it really isn’t an option to wait. My 4K iMac arrived today, I had waited and waited for a new model and I can’t afford to wait any longer because my job is 100% home based and I work solely through my computer.

For a regular consumer, sure no rush just wait for the next one.

For me and many others it is different. I bought the 4K iMac this week because I can’t wait any longer. At the same time, because it is my work machine I may just buy the latest one whenever it does release too. It’s just a different set of needs.

Edit: Also, from the work perspective it is a little tedious when searching threads and seeing a slew of “Wait for the new one” instead of actual advice. I’ve been seeing that a lot this week while researching mine lol

 

[AnonMac50]

If that is what we are getting, I will take a hard pass. Might appeal to some, but I do not see the point? Maybe someone can explain its purpose to me. Backlit keys would be nice, but I doubt even that. They have had that technology in MacBooks/MacBook Pros for years and never brought it to the external keyboard.

Actually, I might buy something like that, I type with a lot of languages and my keyboards only have one or two, so I tend to buy keyboard "protectors" with different languages on them. I just hope it would not be the ANSI layout; I prefer ISO

 

[cwanja]

It does look like they dropped the "new" icon from the iMac pages. So suspect the next time that you see it - it will be truly new.

 

[enc0re]

TBH is there a case to keep the 21 around? Its base config is probably the worst experience in the mac ecosystem because it runs purely on a spinning disk. The only mac product with one and HS isnt designed to run on a HDD. The performance is woeful. Once you add some upgrades your at the base 27 with all it offers over the 21 its a far better buy for 90% of people.

Do people with that budget even buy iMacs anymore? Would they buy a laptop instead?

Mac Mini. Which means all "non pro" Macs currently start with an HDD in the base model.

If for nothing else, the 21" iMac needs to be around for the education market. It's the cheapest Mac appropriate for a computer lab or faculty office. And at $1,049 (plus support contract for Apple's substandard education support) it is already a budget stretch.