iMac Pro coming in October/November?

[richinaus]

Yeah. Very very quiet. I'm wondering why people are confident about the end of the month. If Apple wants to get the holiday sales this year they really need to get going.

No real rumours at all on the imac except 'processor upgrade' from the Chinese guy over on the MBP Skylake thread.
So I am guessing the imac will most likely be an GPU upgrade and ports to USB C and Thunderbolt.

Either Tim really has successfully 'doubled down' on secrecy or the update will be minor. Few days to go...........

 

[idoccurt]

A touch screen desktop would have horrible ergonomics, plus I don't want fingerprints on my screen.

Love my iMac the way it is.....SSD only is the way to go

 

[andreestrazulas]

I think 1TB is too little for me, what's wrong with the 2TB Fusion drive?

 

[EnderBeta]

Other then the 2 and 3 to fusion drives being limited to a 128gb ssd nothing is wrong with them. A 2tb fusion drive is preferable to a 1tb fusion drive now because they gimped the 1tb fusion drives with less then a quarter of the ssd space compared to the 2 and 3 tb variants.

 

[inhalexhale1]

Where would the keyboard and mouse go?

It would plug into the back of your skull. duh.

 

[59Burst]

I was going to go with a 2TB Fusion but decided to go with the 512GB SSD. If I need more storage I can always pickup an inexpensive external drive.

 

[dsfsfsdsdfsdf]

I was going to go with a 2TB Fusion but decided to go with the 512GB SSD. If I need more storage I can always pickup an inexpensive external drive.

To me its too much of a hassle to keep plugging an external drive lol

I just got the 2TB, dont wanna worry about space

 

[danielwsmithee]

To me its too much of a hassle to keep plugging an external drive lol

I just got the 2TB, dont wanna worry about space

I'd agree on a MBP, but an iMac is stationary just leave it plugged in I can understand if you don't like how it looks having an external drive on your desk I guess.

 

[maflynn]

To me its too much of a hassle to keep plugging an external drive lol

I just got the 2TB, dont wanna worry about space

I opted for a 2TB fusion drive, mostly because the 512GB SSD was too small. But with that said, I have external drives plugged into my computer and I rarely remove them.

 

[cptn.nemo]

Fusion is slower and you have absolutely no control over what files go where, or at least that's what I've seen and heard. If apple made the fusion with more control over file management I'd consider it. Otherwise forget it

 

[maflynn]

If apple made the fusion with more control over file management I'd consider it.

Apple is about control, not letting the consumer have control, so we'll never see anything close to giving us power to affect what goes on the hard drive vs. the ssd in fusion drives.

 

[danielwsmithee]

Apple is about control, not letting the consumer have control, so we'll never see anything close to giving us power to affect what goes on the hard drive vs. the ssd in fusion drives.

The entire point of fusion is to not need to control & manage it, so yeah you are right it won't happen.

I think a Fusion drive would be fine if you could separately select the capacities of your SSD and HD to be paired into a Fusion drive. A Fusion between a 512GB or 1TB SSD and 3 or 4 TB Hard Drive would work great. 128GB is too small, that capacity was chosen when flash was a lot more expensive than it is now, and don't get me started on 24GB...

 

[maflynn]

The entire point of fusion is to not need to control & manage it, so yeah you are right it won't happen.

I agree, and also as mentioned, apple's M.O is to remove user options not add them.

 

[59Burst]

I beginning to doubt we'll see any updates to the Mac line this year. It's almost mid-October and not a peep from Apple. If anything the MBP may get a minor upgrade with Skylake.

 

[gian8989]

I beginning to doubt we'll see any updates to the Mac line this year. It's almost mid-October and not a peep from Apple. If anything the MBP may get a minor upgrade with Skylake.

I can only hope you are wrong. I have been trying to update the iMac in last 3 years and I can't wait any longer. Looks like I have to return to windows, something that I never would have thought to do since I start using OSX (Leopard) 9 years ago.

Good job Tim Cook. Mac user will always be grateful to you.

 

[nss_gabriele]

I beginning to doubt we'll see any updates to the Mac line this year. It's almost mid-October and not a peep from Apple.

I can feel your pain, mate. But don't let go right now, just wait a couple of weeks.
I'm using a 2008 iMac with heavy photoshop tasks, it's completely broken, but I'm making it through the desert of glitches and waits and rows and rows of dead pixels... c'mon, Tim!! I'm refreshing the buyer's guide like a mad man, googling "imac 2016" (last 24h) every 10 mins, basically I'm christiantoday most devoted reader.

 

[Civil Engineer]

I have been using the iMac for 10 years and am not at all interested in a touchscreen. Ergonomics would be horrible. I am certainly not going to type on a touchscreen and I am very happy with the touch pad. I agree that the mouse now feels clunky, particularly with gestures. I would appreciate it more if they would just include the touch pad instead of a mouse as the standard configuration. Even better if they made a wireless keyboard with the touch pad. Add a numeric pad and I died and went to heaven.

 

[gian8989]

I can feel your pain, mate. But don't let go right now, just wait a couple of weeks.
I'm using a 2008 iMac with heavy photoshop tasks, it's completely broken, but I'm making it through the desert of glitches and waits and rows and rows of dead pixels... c'mon, Tim!! I'm refreshing the buyer's guide like a mad man, googling "imac 2016" (last 24h) every 10 mins, basically I'm christiantoday most devoted reader.

Since you have a 2008 model you should have started with snow leopard. How do you feel with El Capitan and sierra? I have dual boot Yosemite and snow leopard but all upgrades never felt as good as snow leopard (grid desktop is irreplaceable).

 

[59Burst]

I can feel your pain, mate. But don't let go right now, just wait a couple of weeks.
I'm using a 2008 iMac with heavy photoshop tasks, it's completely broken, but I'm making it through the desert of glitches and waits and rows and rows of dead pixels... c'mon, Tim!! I'm refreshing the buyer's guide like a mad man, googling "imac 2016" (last 24h) every 10 mins, basically I'm christiantoday most devoted reader.

Maybe I'm too skeptical. I would love to see a new, sleek, modern looking iMac 27" 5k with the leading edge hardware. I'm sure not buying an fugly PC running Windows 10. No thanks.

 

[gian8989]

Maybe I'm too skeptical. I would love to see a new, sleek, modern looking iMac 27" 5k with the leading edge hardware. I'm sure not buying an fugly PC running Windows 10. No thanks.

I would love to see a new Mac Pro (new case). The iMac 5k last year was still too hot (amd failed with their GPU, they should just return to nvidia) and I don't want to max rpm of fan to use it. About the design they have done the mistake to make it too thin.

 

[nss_gabriele]

Since you have a 2008 model you should have started with snow leopard. How do you feel with El Capitan and sierra? I have dual boot Yosemite and snow leopard but all upgrades never felt as good as snow leopard (grid desktop is irreplaceable).

I actually began with Tiger it was astonishing at the time.
Now I use the iMac9,1 with Mountain Lion at home and a 5k iMac with El Capitan at work, and system-wise I can't see big differences (thank god). The iOSy stuff it's completely useless for me *
Mountain Lion made my 9,1 really slow, Snow Leopard was waay better.
I just hate the new "green" button on windows.

* i use a Lumia with windows phone, it's dead and with no apps at all but I just like the graphic design and I'll stick with it until the last day of support.

Maybe I'm too skeptical. I would love to see a new, sleek, modern looking iMac 27" 5k with the leading edge hardware. I'm sure not buying an fugly PC running Windows 10. No thanks.

I'm not that optimistic too, I don't think they'll change the design or catch up with high-end PCs, but I'm not spending big money on a iMac until a serious specs upgrade, with at least a modern, decent gpu.

 

[gian8989]

I actually began with Tiger it was astonishing at the time.
The iOSy stuff it's completely useless for me *

This is my main concern with current mac situation. The integration with iOS is too much for me. I want a computer, not a big tablet.
This time around i have to make the correct choice because if I go back to Windows i will invest money in apps there and won't return to mac for a long time or ever again; the same if I stay in MacOS.

The iMac idea is not bad per se, but without a Mac Pro (not the trash one), the iMac is your only choice so if you don't even update the only home/office computer you have you will just lose enthusiast or people that need a powerful computer to work. They could solve a lot of problem with an external GPU with thunderbolt 3 but I don't see them going this way.

 

[EnderBeta]

I can only hope you are wrong. I have been trying to update the iMac in last 3 years and I can't wait any longer. Looks like I have to return to windows, something that I never would have thought to do since I start using OSX (Leopard) 9 years ago.

Good job Tim Cook. Mac user will always be grateful to you.

What is wrong with the current iMac? You can get a 6700K, 32GB of respectable RAM, up to 3TB Fusion or 1TB SSD and up to a 395X. I have a toped out model and it does everything I need.

For instance here is me testing out my interface for my AV system on a X-Panel. I'm running Windows 10 Pro in VMWare Fusion 8.5 on top of MacOS Sierra. The VM is talking to my AV2 as I watch the debugger and operate a test build of the panel.

The colors are crisp. The image is sharp. When not doing work like this I can slide over to the MacOS desktop and use all of my Mac tools including Photoshop on the MacOS side because I prefer the tools on Mac compared to the Windows versions.

I'm very happy with my iMac. I even do some gaming on it with games like KOTOR 1 and 2, jade Empire, Bioshock series, Dragon Age 2, Elder Scrolls Online, WOW, Witcher 1 and 2, Sim City, The Sims 2, 3 and 4.

 

[vyruzreaper]

What is wrong with the current iMac? You can get a 6700K, 32GB of respectable RAM, up to 3TB Fusion or 1TB SSD and up to a 395X. I have a toped out model and it does everything I need.

For instance here is me testing out my interface for my AV system on a X-Panel. I'm running Windows 10 Pro in VMWare Fusion 8.5 on top of MacOS Sierra. The VM is talking to my AV2 as I watch the debugger and operate a test build of the panel.

The colors are crisp. The image is sharp. When not doing work like this I can slide over to the MacOS desktop and use all of my Mac tools including Photoshop on the MacOS side because I prefer the tools on Mac compared to the Windows versions.

I'm very happy with my iMac. I even do some gaming on it with games like KOTOR 1 and 2, jade Empire, Bioshock series, Dragon Age 2, Elder Scrolls Online, WOW, Witcher 1 and 2, Sim City, The Sims 2, 3 and 4.

The price for old silicon is the problem. Drop the price and you will be competitive in the market.

 

[EnderBeta]

The price for old silicon is the problem. Drop the price and you will be competitive in the market.

I'm sure you can go to Best Buy and get one a couple hundred off as they clear the last of the stock out if they have another one coming out.

Does Intel have a new CPU out in the same rated performance slot as the 6700K?. If not I doubt there will be an update or a price reduction nor will there be a competitive machine out there with a processor that doesn't exist yet. What they might do is double the RAM in each trim level for the same price.