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Configuration of new iMac 2011 leaked !!

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300D said:
Yes. Half of the i7's offered for sandy bridge are dual core too.
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300D said:
Did I mention desktop or mobile i7's? No. I said "Half of the i7's offered for sandy bridge are dual core too"
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300D said:
In fact I did, the iMacs use mobile parts.
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300D said:
Prove it.
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What a funny guy!

archer75 said:
Does anyone know if the imacs use a mobility GPU? It seems they do. Benchmarks seem to indicate it but I can't remember for sure.
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Yeah they still use mobility cards. The 5670 is mobility 5730 and 5750 is mobility 5850. If they naturally upgrade the mobiltiy 5850, the next gpu we can expect in top end iMac is mobility 6950, which will probably be marketed as 6850.
 
archer75 said:
Even if it was, that resolution is way too much to drive for any video card(in terms of gaming)
Even the 27" resolution is too much for the card it ships with(in my opinion). However the thought of a Radeon 6990 makes me feel funny things ;)
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5120x2880 at 60Hz would require a bandwidth of 31.5Gb/s, which is a lot more than any current interface protocol can provide. You wouldn't even be able to run the desktop at that resolution.

Does anyone know if the imacs use a mobility GPU? It seems they do. Benchmarks seem to indicate it but I can't remember for sure.
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Yes.
 
Hellhammer said:
5120x2880 at 60Hz would require a bandwidth of 31.5Gb/s, which is a lot more than any current interface protocol can provide. You wouldn't even be able to run the desktop at that resolution.



Yes.
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Hey Finnish guy, you do seem to have your facts together :)

Any predictions for the iMac 2012 on your behalf :cool:

I predict and hope it will feature the upcoming Ivy Bridge X68 LGA 2011 CPU :p
 
Top End iMac

If anything the new 27" high end iMac will have:

Core i5 2500 (with available upgrade to Core i7 2600)
(hopefully with those they enable Quick Sync somehow, even with the discrete graphics onboard, Handbrake and other video apps would be insane)
Thunderbolt (hopefully 2 ports)
32GB RAM support (as per Intel H67/P67/Z68 chipsets)

I'm a bit shaky on the GPU, but given that, at least on the desktop side, that the 6000 series is pound for pound slower than the 5000 series at the same model (ie 6850 vs 5850) I'm hoping Apple does the right thing and actually puts at least a 6870 in the high end i5/i7. Since the GPU link is most likely only going to be an x8 vs x16 (x4 for the Thunderbolt controller,) they should beef up the GPU a bit to compensate (yes ~1-3% performance loss, eh.)

And whoever put that retina display high end iMac, that would be nice. In a perfect world. Don't tease me like that. :(
 
CHSeifert said:
Hey Finnish guy, you do seem to have your facts together :)

Any predictions for the iMac 2012 on your behalf :cool:

I predict and hope it will feature the upcoming Ivy Bridge X68 LGA 2011 CPU :p
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It's hard to say much about the 2012 iMac as it is so far away. Probably Ivy Bridge CPUs for LGA 1155 socket (LGA 2011 = high-end = Mac Pro) and 6-core CPUs in at least high-end iMac. Either current chipsets or hopefully Intel 7-series chipsets (H77, P77 ?). Most likely AMD 7000M-series graphics.

I have already posted my 2011 iMac predictions awhile ago:

Code: 
1199$ 21.5" iMac

Intel Core i3-2100 (3.1GHz)
AMD 6490M with 256MB GDDR5
500GB HD
2x2GB RAM; option for 4x2GB

1499$ 21.5" iMac

Intel Core i5-2400S (2.5/3.3GHz); option for Core i5-2500S (2.7/3.7GHz)
AMD 6750M with 512MB GDDR5
1TB HD; option for 2TB
2x2GB RAM: option for 4x2GB

1699$ 27" iMac

Intel Core i5-2400 (3.1/3.4GHz)
AMD 6750M with 512MB GDDR5; option for AMD 6950M with 1024MB GDDR5
1TB HD; option for 2TB
2x2GB RAM; options for 4x2GB, 2x4GB and 4x4GB

1999$ 27" iMac

Intel Core i7-2600 (3.4/3.8GHz)
AMD 6950M with 1024MB GDDR5
1TB HD; option for 2TB
2x4GB RAM; option for 4x4GB

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/943495/

tsugaru said:
I'm a bit shaky on the GPU, but given that, at least on the desktop side, that the 6000 series is pound for pound slower than the 5000 series at the same model (ie 6850 vs 5850) I'm hoping Apple does the right thing and actually puts at least a 6870 in the high end i5/i7. Since the GPU link is most likely only going to be an x8 vs x16 (x4 for the Thunderbolt controller,) they should beef up the GPU a bit to compensate (yes ~1-3% performance loss, eh.)
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AMD changed their naming scheme. 69xx is the successor of 58xx. Thus 6950M would be the most logical move. 6850M is essentially just a renamed 5850M.
 
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jav6454 said:
That doesn't mean the CPU doesn't exist or that all iMacs are getting the Sandy Bridge treatment.
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Pretty sure since there are no heat or size restrictions akin to the MacBook Air and 13" MacBook Pro, I'm pretty confident all the iMacs will get the Sandy Bridge treatment.

Mind you when the 2009 iMacs came out, only the high end 27"s got the Nehalem treatment.

Would still strike me as odd if they went part Sandy Bridge part Nehalem.
 
as for the core i5 with 3.2Ghz and 3.6 Ghz they do exist

and it would be possible even likely that only the top i7 and maybe i5 iMac 27" model gets sandy bridge , next year then the 21.5 inch will get sandy bridge too , apple wants to give you something to look forward too not everything at once

was the same on the older ones they did not get all the " i " processor treatment from start , even the processors had been available at time , but apple keeps always something in its sleeve for next years iMac's ...and people dont stop buying and wait for 2012 , they all want one now ok maybe not all but the majority will buy one now even if they knew for sure next year they could get the sandy bridge in the i3 21.5" too
 
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this thread started the morning so well but then we all found out these pictures were all fake.. oh well :rolleyes:
 
There was no dual core nehalem processor for the lower end iMacs when apple first introduced the lynnfield iMac in late 09 (unless we're talking about low clocked dual core bloomfields meant for servers). Clarkdale, which would have been the obvious predecessor to wolfdale grade core2duos, didn't come out until 2010, in which apple incorporated into their design. So it made sense for apple to only include nehalem cpus in the upper end iMacs in late '09.

Now, there's little reason for apple to include half nehalem/half sandybridge for their new iMacs.
 
Have you guys seen the actual FULL IMage from the first post of this thread? i dont see how they could have faked it. :confused: I mean at least if this is a fake then its a better fake than the second image posted in this thread which says the imac will have a 5000 pixel retina display lol


imac_2011-conf_photo_by_iphone_4_by_mojipod.jpg


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lamonsas said:
Have you guys seen the actual FULL IMage from the first post of this thread? i dont see how they could have faked it. :confused: I mean at least if this is a fake then its a better fake than the second image posted in this thread which says the imac will have a 5000 pixel retina display lol


imac_2011-conf_photo_by_iphone_4_by_mojipod.jpg


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Make an image file of how you want it to look.
Open it (in this case, he used Google Chrome.)
Change the file://blahblahblah.jpg to whatever link you want (in his case, an Apple copied site.)
 
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lamonsas said:
Have you guys seen the actual FULL IMage from the first post of this thread? i dont see how they could have faked it. :confused: I mean at least if this is a fake then its a better fake than the second image posted in this thread which says the imac will have a 5000 pixel retina display lol


imac_2011-conf_photo_by_iphone_4_by_mojipod.jpg


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it's really easy to fake - a bit of photoshopping, then take a pic of the screen to so it's harder to spot mistakes.
 
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yeah taking a pic of the screen instead of printscreening seems to be a nice and convenient work around to hiding mistakes in a possible photoshopped image, because you know some guy out there's gonna take it and compare it pixel by pixel at 1600% zoom on photoshop to see if the slightest thing is off. And besides, apple does not market their mobility 5850 as 5850, they market it as 5750.
 
oh well i guess its fake then :rolleyes:

What does that idiot get out of it for posting fake specs, getting people's hopes up or what? :confused:
 
TMRaven said:
yeah taking a pic of the screen instead of printscreening seems to be a nice and convenient work around to hiding mistakes in a possible photoshopped image, because you know some guy out there's gonna take it and compare it pixel by pixel at 1600% zoom on photoshop to see if the slightest thing is off. And besides, apple does not market their mobility 5850 as 5850, they market it as 5750.
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I don't why fakers just don't the easiest thing of all - copy the webpage to your drive, edit the text and images, take a screenshot.

No photoshopping, no people crying foul because it's a photo of a screen.

I did that once on the Mac Mini tech specs pages - added HDMI and Blu-ray (this was three or four years ago) plus some other bumped specs ... nothing too spectacular. I was going to put it up here to troll but thought better of it in the end.

I mean, here's one I mocked up in five minutes - I got bored when I got to the CPU specs and didn't bother making them consistent.
 

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to those wondering how this could have been faked on the full screenshot:

install firebug
edit text on the fly
take a photo
post it on a website

tada
 
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