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iMac intel: now or later?

The Mad Kiwi said:
Nobody really knows how fast the Merom chips'll be until they're actually available, I doubt they'll stick it in the iMac anyway.
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They're saying 20% faster at the same voltage.

Mckenas said:
2. Mac OS X 10.5 3.
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That's a good reason, but I doubt we'll even have 10.5.0 in January.

Thunderbird said:
That's interesting, thanks. The extra cache could be nice. I'm not sure I understand what you mean by the added performance by Merom "wouldn't matter" in the iMac?

Will 64-bit be important in, say, 3-4 years when I might still have the iMac (Yonah) that I buy now?
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It will probably get Conroe (Intel's new desktop equivalent). So Merom is kind of irrelevant. After a while, no one will want a laptop chip in their iMac.

64-bit will be important when you're ready to upgrade, not before. :) By then we'll have a true 64-bit OS.
 
dferrara said:
It will probably get Conroe (Intel's new desktop equivalent). So Merom is kind of irrelevant. After a while, no one will want a laptop chip in their iMac.
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Huh? Talk about a U-turn!

dferrara said:
The iMacs are getting thinner with every revision, so I think Conroe is unlikely.
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At this point in time I think the current revision iMacs are still a good choice.

If you are intending to hold out for a Mac Pro perhaps you should just get a Mini, surprisingly powerful :D
 
Thunderbird said:
So, after three months, are there any hardware bugs anyone knows of?
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Apart from the wireless I suppose it is as good as any other PPC revision.

Do bear in mind that the Intel architecture is more standard than Apple's previous homebrewed releases, and hence it is actually easier for Apple to get a greater supply of engineers etc to work over with their designs.
 
Just thought of another question (hope it's not a stupid one):

If I buy now, with Tiger installed, when I upgrade to Leopard, will that affect the drivers of my current printers and other peripherals? How does the transition in Mac usually work, is there any time lag between the arrival of an upgraded O/S and driver updates?

Thanks
 
You should wait 5 to 6 years. Then they will have all new machines and the bugs will be worked out.
 
Seriously unlucky

Hi,

If I where you I would wait until the revision if you where thinkin' about getting any upgrades to the current iMac (ie. more graphics memory) that is.

I'm now on my fifth Intel iMac, the problems haven't been with the internal hardware on my machines but on the outside instead.
All the macs I've been getting was costum with 256 MB Vram, 1 gig ram, and 500 gig harddrive. But apperently apple has a really hard time taking appart the iMac's to install extras without scratching it all over, on the last one I recieved the backend of the cabinet sticks out in one side and you can't push it into place.. :mad: And no I haven't been picky.. But I'm getting a refund now.. Then I'll wait a little to se if they upgrade the graphics on the next ones so I won't have to order costum.

Ohh yeah the last two ones also had pixel flaws... :mad:

But I guess I'm just REALLY UNLUCKY!! :confused:

Edit: (pardon my english..)
 
Again it all depends of what you want to do with it, if you want to use general sofware, bootcamp for windows games and so on then its safe to buy now. If you want to use the pro apps then i saw wait till they get writen fr intel chips.
 
Yes, buy a new Intel mac and run the apps through emulator (Rosetta)....you would get a slow computer for much money....since not all apps are native.

I don´t have money to burn and therefore I´m sticking to my current computer until all apps I use are native on Intel Macs.

Ps. the iMac screens are the cheapest available and not suited e.g. for photo editing, at least not the 17". Apple is not telling what kind of panels it uses for the iMacs, but the poor viewing angles suggest Apple is using TN panels, which are the cheapest and with the worst quality available....unlike their ACDs which all have great S-IPS panels...
 
Willy S said:
Ps. the iMac screens are the cheapest available and not suited e.g. for photo editing, at least not the 17". Apple is not telling what kind of panels it uses for the iMacs, but the poor viewing angles suggest Apple is using TN panels, which are the cheapest and with the worst quality available....unlike their ACDs which all have great S-IPS panels...
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Ironic then that until recently the 20" iMac display was brighter and had a superior contrast ratio to its ACD counterpart. :p :cool:
 
All these wait, wait, wait posts on a perfectly acceptable machine! There's no bugs that I know of with the iMac. It's a great buy if you need one now. :)
 
~Shard~ said:
Ironic then that until recently the 20" iMac display was brighter and had a superior contrast ratio to its ACD counterpart. :p :cool:
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Contrast ratio is just on of these parameters and more brightness isn´t necessarily better since most LCDs are too bright anyway.

The ACDs are quite good quality wise and currently are one of the best wide screen displays available for photo editing and other work that requires accurate colors, brightness etc.

To my surprise, gamers also appreciate many high end S-IPS panel LCDs, so I guess they aren´t just good for the graphics pros.
 
Willy S said:
Contrast ratio is just on of these parameters and more brightness isn´t necessarily better since most LCDs are too bright anyway.

The ACDs are quite good quality wise and currently are one of the best wide screen displays available for photo editing and other work that requires accurate colors, brightness etc.

To my surprise, gamers also appreciate many high end S-IPS panel LCDs, so I guess they aren´t just good for the graphics pros.
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Not disagreeing at all, just saying... ;)
 
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