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New iMacs: January or April 2009?

mac.fly

mac.fly

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Apr 8, 2008
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Nov 10 went, Nov 11 went...
My problem:
I would wait until January 2009 for a new (my first!) iMac.
But I would not wait until April 2009 -- in this case I would buy an old one NOW.
What's more likely...?
How can I look into the future...?
:confused:

(Insider who are not allowed to post here please PM me--I will keep the secret, of course!)
 
mac.fly said:
Nov 10 went, Nov 11 went...
My problem:
I would wait until January 2009 for a new (my first!) iMac.
But I would not wait until April 2009 -- in this case I would buy an old one NOW.
What's more likely...?
How can I look into the future...?
:confused:

(Insider who are not allowed to post here please PM me--I will keep the secret, of course!)
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Calm down. Get a new one now if you need it. you're not going to have a piece of junk if a new model comes out in a few months.
 
Get the current ones, you never know they may end up disappointing us heavily like they did with the new MBPs.
 
sam10685 said:
you're not going to have a piece of junk if a new model comes out in a few months.
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I didn't think this. But I wouldn't like to buy now and in 3 months need to sell again losing some hundret £s, because the new one would have these few important features which I would already want to have now.

sam10685 said:
Get a new one now if you need it.
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Well... do I need it? Good question!
Do I need it, because these Windows crashes drive me insane? Not really -- I think I could stand this another 3 month -- bot not another 6 months!!

Still :confused:.
 
I'd say January 09 is more likely, the iMacs would be very overdue for an update if Apple waited until April. I'm in the same situation as you though, its a hard decision, especially because it will be my first Mac ever.
 
OK now I finally decided to buy a 24" 2.8 GHz iMac! :eek:
BUT at my favourite shop, Dixons.co.uk, where it was offered
yesterday for £1049 - £50 (voucher) = £999, it's no longer available!!! :(
Does anyone know where to buy for the same price in the UK?
Thanks!
 
I think the best time to buy is always at an upgrade. If you don't like what the upgrade has, you can get the older tech for much cheaper. If you do like it, you can be one of the first to have it.
 
mac.fly said:
I would wait until January 2009 for a new (my first!) iMac.
But I would not wait until April 2009 -- in this case I would buy an old one NOW.
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If you don't care about anything but the speed, then buy one now.

I'm waiting for an LED-backlit iMac, which my sources tell me will appear in about eight weeks. But if it doesn't, I'll wait. I have until the end of 2009 for the warranty on my piece-of-garbage Acer monitor to expire, so as long as I replace it before then...hey, free monitor.

(And the monitor is connected to an old Pentium 4 machine that crashes all the time - can't wait to throw this thing off the roof)
 
I'm also about to buy my new iMac. I'm waiting till January '09, but if they ain't there then, I think I'll even wait longer (when I've already waited that long).. collect more money for the iMac then..:)

But I still very hope for an update for iMac at MacWorld though..
 
Im really hoping for an update to the graphics cards so it can play a wider range of games
 
I too Iam in the same situation and Iam waiting till macworld fingers crossed they will update the imac, but thinking the macpro might steal the show, would like to see a pretty good graphics card in the highend imac,and led backlit display, I think you should wait, because you will be really kicking yourself if they announce something really good for it, and you never know there might even be a 26inch one released.
 
I was going to wait as well but my Windows Box became corrupt....so I bought a new iMac. I love it, much cleaner all around, from looks to set-up.

you wont be sorry either way.
 
I think I'll still wait for my new imac, hopefully I'll see better graphics card, speed bump and new led LCDs, really hope they fix this gradient issue, has anyone experienced this problem? as iam a graphic designer Iam also concerned about the glossy screen, so colour accuracy could be an issue, but for everything else it will be amazing, the design is so simple and elegant and really love the glass screen as Iam so sick of fingerprints on lcds.
 
Im also a graphic designer, I think as long as you calibrate the screen you should be ok.
 
Ive got Calibration software, so I'll try it out when I get it. Iam going to have too, if I want to do colour critical work.
 
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