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New iMac (i3) and already out of date
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Win7 was being talked about as long ago as late 2006, it wasn't RTM until July '09 which means finished product but didn't hit retail shelves until Oct. 09.
That's almost 3 full years from leaked alphas to release, we're talking about maybe 8 months. You can wait buddy.
That's almost 3 full years from leaked alphas to release, we're talking about maybe 8 months. You can wait buddy.
Not necessarily. It has twice the cores, turbo boost and hyperthreading. It's a decent bit more potent.
Pretty much. Lion will be out Summer 11, so still a little ways to go, and who knows what it will even change?
We should be thoroughly gratified by the fact that an Apple operating system upgrade costs NOTHING compared to what a Microsoft operating system upgrade costs.
Remember how little Snow Leopard cost to buy? I think I recall seeing it was just $30 or something like that.
This is part of what makes Apple so appealing, if you ask me.
Normally Apple charges around the same as Microsoft, Snow Leopard, as obvious by the name, was just a refined version of Leopard. Next operating system will most likely cost about what a Microsoft operating system costs
question for the OP. You have the most current version of the iMac and the next version of mac OS wont be out until next summer at the earliest, how is your machine now obsolete?
There are alot of people out there perfectly happy with an older mac, much older than your own. im sure your i3 iMac will be perfectly usable for years if you look after it. you can easily upgrade it to OS 10.7 next year too.
There are alot of people out there perfectly happy with an older mac, much older than your own. im sure your i3 iMac will be perfectly usable for years if you look after it. you can easily upgrade it to OS 10.7 next year too.
next iMac will be on its way with touchscreen ,i guess october 2011 why else would Lion get these features that shout out "we are made for a touch screen"
so yes your iMac i3 you bought in august 2010 ?
will then be absolute useless and obsolete and only good for the garbage bin
come on i still use my iMac G3 and still dont think its obsolete and thats a iMac from 2001 !! so its 9 years old , and runs osx TIGER and is in daily use as my office computer , its running office 2004 and itunes most of the time and sometimes even photoshop!!!
its simple people like to just declare something as obsolete or useless or outdated because they cant find a use for it any longer after they bough the successor , but as long as you can find a use for your iMac i3 then fine , you dont have to care about software upgrades, if you are happy with snow leopard , snow leopard will still be updated (just click the little apple on the top left and click on software update from time to time ) you dont have to upgrade to osx Lion in 2011 and i am sure apple will update snow leopard until 2013 , and in 2013 they bring out a entire new desktop based on a entire different processor and declare everything prior as eol, but even that does not make your iMac useless from that day
so yes your iMac i3 you bought in august 2010 ?
will then be absolute useless and obsolete and only good for the garbage bin
come on i still use my iMac G3 and still dont think its obsolete and thats a iMac from 2001 !! so its 9 years old , and runs osx TIGER and is in daily use as my office computer , its running office 2004 and itunes most of the time and sometimes even photoshop!!!
its simple people like to just declare something as obsolete or useless or outdated because they cant find a use for it any longer after they bough the successor , but as long as you can find a use for your iMac i3 then fine , you dont have to care about software upgrades, if you are happy with snow leopard , snow leopard will still be updated (just click the little apple on the top left and click on software update from time to time ) you dont have to upgrade to osx Lion in 2011 and i am sure apple will update snow leopard until 2013 , and in 2013 they bring out a entire new desktop based on a entire different processor and declare everything prior as eol, but even that does not make your iMac useless from that day
This is one of the most pointless threads I've read in a while. Please stop pandering to the OP who chooses to completely ignore reality and instead live in some fantasy world about how his machine is obsolete. I have a suspicion that the OP is probably some anti-Apple troll.