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GUTTED! New iMac out and I only bought mine in March!

iBlue said:
The switch to intel (and new iMacs accordingly) happened maybe a month after I bought a PPC iSight iMac. I needed it right then and there though so I couldn't wait around just in case an update came. When it did, you bet I was gutted but these things happen.
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I got a newly updated G5 iMac about 6 weeks before the keynote announcing the Intel switch. IIRC, the general consensus on this forum was that it was a "sweet spot" good price-to-feature buy.

We've all gotten burned at some point. Like the poster says, it happens.
 
FINAL WORD.... (From Me anyway!)

I have had my faith in Apple maintained! (Note I didnt say restored because I never lost faith!)

Due to my situation, work away from home, the weekend was my first chance to return to Apple and discuss my situation with a manager face to face.

I didnt go in to the store with the Mac as I didnt want to be 'in their face'

I calmly explained my story, discussed my transition and MBP purchase also. I even gave them the email I had sent as soon as news broke about the Mac release.

Long story short... the manager swapped my Mac for me! How good is that?! YAY Apple!!! Expectation met and exceeded :eek:)

As I started.... faith in Apple Maintained!

Wonder if its too late to discuss my wifes iPad purchase in December? (JOKE!)
 
EdRooney said:
I have had my faith in Apple maintained! (Note I didnt say restored because I never lost faith!)

Due to my situation, work away from home, the weekend was my first chance to return to Apple and discuss my situation with a manager face to face.

I didnt go in to the store with the Mac as I didnt want to be 'in their face'

I calmly explained my story, discussed my transition and MBP purchase also. I even gave them the email I had sent as soon as news broke about the Mac release.

Long story short... the manager swapped my Mac for me! How good is that?! YAY Apple!!! Expectation met and exceeded :eek:)

As I started.... faith in Apple Maintained!

Wonder if its too late to discuss my wifes iPad purchase in December? (JOKE!)
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Awesome. I'm glad they replaced it for you.
Mind you, ask yourself honestly, were you happy with your original purchase?
I hope you don't try to pull that off when you buy a new car in January to find out that the new car model year is released.
 
EdRooney said:
I have had my faith in Apple maintained! (Note I didnt say restored because I never lost faith!)

Due to my situation, work away from home, the weekend was my first chance to return to Apple and discuss my situation with a manager face to face.

I didnt go in to the store with the Mac as I didnt want to be 'in their face'

I calmly explained my story, discussed my transition and MBP purchase also. I even gave them the email I had sent as soon as news broke about the Mac release.

Long story short... the manager swapped my Mac for me! How good is that?! YAY Apple!!! Expectation met and exceeded :eek:)

As I started.... faith in Apple Maintained!

Wonder if its too late to discuss my wifes iPad purchase in December? (JOKE!)
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Great to see you back! in July I'll be a Mac convert as well. So looking forward to getting mine. Wish you the best of luck with yours!

Don't be a stranger there is so much to be learned from these forums! Lord knows I'm soaking it all in
 
iBlue said:
The switch to intel (and new iMacs accordingly) happened maybe a month after I bought a PPC iSight iMac. I needed it right then and there though so I couldn't wait around just in case an update came. When it did, you bet I was gutted but these things happen.
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I bought a G5 Mac Pro, knowing that the Intel Mac Pro's were soon to be released. It was almost one year after I made the switch to Apple, the year before I bought my first Apple, a G4 Powerbook. ( well ok it was my second Apple pe se, my first was a brand new Apple II )

I wasn't 'gutted' when the Intel's came out, I mean it wasn't like they could do anything mine could not do at that time.

Both my Mac Pro G5 and Powerbook G4 are running and in use TODAY.
 
harcosparky said:
I bought a G5 Mac Pro, knowing that the Intel Mac Pro's were soon to be released. It was almost one year after I made the switch to Apple, the year before I bought my first Apple, a G4 Powerbook. ( well ok it was my second Apple pe se, my first was a brand new Apple II )

I wasn't 'gutted' when the Intel's came out, I mean it wasn't like they could do anything mine could not do at that time.

Both my Mac Pro G5 and Powerbook G4 are running and in use TODAY.
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My friend had a G5 Quad that he purchased a few months before the Mac Pro was introduced. He was choked, especially since the Mac Pro cost less and was faster. He was choked.

About a year ago, his cooling system in the G5 started leaking. Apple replaced it for him with a new Mac Pro, even though it had been out of AppleCare for over a year. That made him really happy (and myself pretty jealous, I had been holding out for an Intel Mac, and took the plunge with the first 20" Intel iMac.)

Mind you, having to use a PowerPC for 4 years with Intel chips being touted left right and center wouldn't have been worth it.
 
I bought an iMac G3 a few weeks before the iMac G4 was introduced, that was a major mistake ...
I wasn't aware of Macrumors forums and buyers guide at that time.
 
so you got a new one now , but just think about it

that this new iMac will be outdated too in 11 month, as next year at around the same time a new one comes out like every year , and that will be definitely faster and with a better GPU and maybe even bigger
so you now have only the pleasure of having a new iMac for 11 month how sad is that , then its a old one too ..and outdated

teleromeo
i have now 4 of those cute little iMac G3's 2x 600mhz and 2x700mhz and 4 eMac G4 1.42ghz and they are still better and more reliable then any intel iMac ever was and i would not swap one of them for a brandnew intel iMac
....never
 
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Got mine last year, always expect yearly update so I'm not surprised. Thunderbolt is nice but mine is fine for what I used it for.
 
You could either:

a) put up a fairly good detailed posting on CL and explain in detail what you're selling and how its a bargain. With any luck, you may only lose a few hundred selling it, or;

b) love the one you're with. I jumped on the 2011 bandwagon because I needed something a little peppier than my c2d white imac for my office, and am trying to switch over to NBM (nuthin but macs) there. Thunderbolt is nice, but it'll probably be a year or two before a complete line of accessories are available that take full advantage of its promises. By that time, you can get an imac with a i25 or whatever processor intel will be making and possibly better graphics cards at that time, and still get full use out of your '10 model in the meanwhile.

Is it just me, or have macs gone to the same faster, better, gottahaveitnow upgrade cycle that wintels have been on since the switch from powerpc's?
 
If the update was a refresh then it a no biggie, they are usually speed bumps and slight increases in HDD etc. THis one was a move to Sandy Bridge, so that is a nice performance gain, so yeah I feel for you. To all those going on about it still works etc etc, it all depends if time if an issue for you, say if you encode videos, the performance difference really ads up, I for one used to use my iMac (2010) to encode videos, and my 2009 17 MBP when I was on the road, it took too much time, I had to buy a PC OC it, and I get my videos encoded in less then 50% that the imac took, its a big difference when you can encode twice as much in the same time. Now I will be replaceing my 2009 MBP cause the new Sandy bridge MBP blow it out of water when it comes to processing power.
 
clyde2801 said:
Is it just me, or have macs gone to the same faster, better, gottahaveitnow upgrade cycle that wintels have been on since the switch from powerpc's?
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I'll take the constant wunderlust for new Macs over the stagnant and slow ramp up that Moto/IBM was providing.

I think Apple's switch to Intel has been one of the biggest boons to the PC industry, not just for Apple and Intel, but everyone. Intel gained a huge customer, therefore more revenue. They've been pushing along with their tick tock strategy since Conroe/Pennryn, and as such, their CPUs are getting more power efficient, and as one of their rules is that a new CPU has to outperform the previous generation while consuming less power. More for less. I can't complain with that.

Think of it like this. In 2008 I purchased a 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro. You can now get a 2.2GHz Core i7 MacBook Pro. 2 cores vs 4 cores (8 hyperthreaded.) Basically the new MBP is about 4-5x faster. All in the span of under 3 years.

It's all the other technologies that comes with the Intel chip as well. AES-NI (if Apple ever implements a use for FileVault to use it,) Turbo Boost, HW accelerated virtualization, and consistent die shrinks, allowing for faster processors at the same/lower power envelope. Main side benefit I'm looking forward to is Quick Sync, if Apple can implement something to use it. Imagine HandBrake encodes taking 1/2 to 1/3 of the time they do now.

All in the name of progress. These last few years have been amazing. Wonder what the next few will hold.
 
MH01 said:
If the update was a refresh then it a no biggie, they are usually speed bumps and slight increases in HDD etc. THis one was a move to Sandy Bridge, so that is a nice performance gain, so yeah I feel for you.
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Intel has it right, right now. They been aggressive with their die shrinks and adding new features. I guess that's why the new Macs are always so compelling.

Consider this. Going from the Nehalem (09/10 iMac chips) to Sandy Bridge was about a 17% performance increase, as per Intel. That's nuts. We never got this kind of jump in the old PowerPC days, unless you went from a single CPU machine to a dualie.

Of Intel's future chips, Haswell is the big one for me. The "essentially let's double cache across the entire CPU" makes me squee with delight.

Current
Sandy Bridge - 32nm shrink, adds AES-NI across the board

Upcoming
2012
Ivy Bridge - 22nm, tri-gate transistors, PCIe 3.0 support, Intel says about 20% performance boost compared to Sandy Bridge (yikes, that's stonking great)

2013
Haswell - 22nm, FMA3 (think of Altivec/Velocity Engine, but on crack,) up to 8 physical cores per processor, double the instruction/L2/L3 cache

Broadwell - 14nm variant of Haswell
 
Get your $$ worth. Rumors are that Apple will be releasing a new iMAC in the next 12 to 18 months.
 
I bought my Mac Pro 4 months before the new 2010 models. I knew they were coming out but needed the Mac then. For me, i was glad i bought it then as the new models were more expensive for the same specs.

Just think.... your new Macs a lot better than your previouse PC isnt it?
 
clyde2801 said:
Is it just me, or have macs gone to the same faster, better, gottahaveitnow upgrade cycle that wintels have been on since the switch from powerpc's?
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no it's not just you who thinks so , it is not even limited to the intel generation of Mac's , it was since the first iMac appeared in 1997 , that every year you could get a upgraded version of any Mac really ..some ghz more ,some mb vram graphics more , bigger hdd's ... and the high resale value of Mac's makes it easy to upgrade for pennies really after a year , a mate from me does just that every year , he only bought his very first iMac G3 233mhz for the full price in 1997 , after that he every year got a new model , he says its all about selling at the right time and used Mac buyers pay any price you ask for to get their hands on a Mac regardless of spec's
...he payed after selling his 2010 iMac i5 2.8 ghz 27" only £250 to get the top of the range 27" 2011 model with i7 3.4 ghz and 2 gb GPU and 8 gb ram ssd +hdd option
yes indeed he got more money for his 2010 iMac i5 then a refurbished iMac i7 at the apple store would have cost , thats why he loves Mac users so much, they pay anything you ask for and dont haggle like pc users
 
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tsugaru said:
Intel has it right, right now. They been aggressive with their die shrinks and adding new features. I guess that's why the new Macs are always so compelling.

Consider this. Going from the Nehalem (09/10 iMac chips) to Sandy Bridge was about a 17% performance increase, as per Intel. That's nuts. We never got this kind of jump in the old PowerPC days, unless you went from a single CPU machine to a dualie.

Of Intel's future chips, Haswell is the big one for me. The "essentially let's double cache across the entire CPU" makes me squee with delight.

Current
Sandy Bridge - 32nm shrink, adds AES-NI across the board

Upcoming
2012
Ivy Bridge - 22nm, tri-gate transistors, PCIe 3.0 support, Intel says about 20% performance boost compared to Sandy Bridge (yikes, that's stonking great)

2013
Haswell - 22nm, FMA3 (think of Altivec/Velocity Engine, but on crack,) up to 8 physical cores per processor, double the instruction/L2/L3 cache

Broadwell - 14nm variant of Haswell
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So you're saying we should hold out until 2014 to buy a new iMac? ROFLMAO

I'M JOKING!!! :D :D

Thanks for that info !!!
 
but just think about it that this new iMac will be outdated too in 11 month....

Youre kidding me? Oh No... I need to go back and get a refund again! HA HA !

In answer to an earlier post.... Yes I was VERY happy with my original purchase too.

Now I am aware of this forum I will use it wisely :eek:)

Now... think I need to get my ZX81 replaced by Sinclair.....
 
Newest technology usually only applied on highest end iMac ... and it's even has to be the BTO

See i7 now, it's been around for some time .. but you want i7 iMac? You dont get it by standard, you have to order it online, or you still can get it from Apple retailers, but not written as standard version on Apple's website.

I bet the 2012 iMac will include intel i7 as standard in all models .. and they will include 6-core Ivy Bridge as BTO .. I'll bet my money on that :D

But the redesign can bring something radical, I dont know .. maybe they'll dump SuperDrive on next iMac design, thinner chassis or new screen size.

That would be my prediction, but to hell with that .. I want to enjoy my Thunderbolt iMac for now :)
 
iSayuSay said:
Newest technology usually only applied on highest end iMac ... and it's even has to be the BTO

See i7 now, it's been around for some time .. but you want i7 iMac? You dont get it by standard, you have to order it online, or you still can get it from Apple retailers, but not written as standard version on Apple's website.

I bet the 2012 iMac will include intel i7 as standard in all models .. and they will include 6-core Ivy Bridge as BTO .. I'll bet my money on that :D

But the redesign can bring something radical, I dont know .. maybe they'll dump SuperDrive on next iMac design, thinner chassis or new screen size.

That would be my prediction, but to hell with that .. I want to enjoy my Thunderbolt iMac for now :)
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i hope not ,for 2012 i hope for a AMD FX8 ..8core based iMac with a proper desktop ATI GPU and away with that thin thinner thinnest ....or should i say hot hotter hottest and this thunderbold thingy from intel is hmm better forget about it it is not future proof , remember my words , it will disappear again as to proprietary
 
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