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My Philosophy
Here's my philosophy...
Unless you need it immediately, wait until the next release. If you buy it when it is just updated it will be newer longer. If they update it and you don't like the update, you can usually find the older version refurbished or at a reduced price and you should get that. This way you win either way. You get the newest for longer or you get the older for cheaper.
I wouldn't get an iMac now unless I really needed it (or I could afford it). I'd wait, even if the next update is in June. If I think the update isn't worth the price, I'd get the iMacs they have now for a cheaper price hopefully.
Here's my philosophy...
Unless you need it immediately, wait until the next release. If you buy it when it is just updated it will be newer longer. If they update it and you don't like the update, you can usually find the older version refurbished or at a reduced price and you should get that. This way you win either way. You get the newest for longer or you get the older for cheaper.
I wouldn't get an iMac now unless I really needed it (or I could afford it). I'd wait, even if the next update is in June. If I think the update isn't worth the price, I'd get the iMacs they have now for a cheaper price hopefully.
That or end of February. I'm hoping for the 65 W quad-core CPUs, although the worst case is that we'll have a 133/267 MHz speed bump.
I'm more interested in getting DDR3 & the Nvidia chipsets than a speed bump. The 3.06 is more than enough power.
What do people think of the posability of a hardware update announced by mid March??
I'd be really surprised and disappointed if they didn't. Would seem more likely a quiet revision than a big media presentation though. Even if they added Blue-ray across the range it would be embarrassingly late to make a big deal of it.
No, you're wrong, a 9800 in the iMac would be a vast improvement for gamers.
I'm holding out on buying this generation for that exact reason.
Maybe PC is where to stay
Following this and other Mac site rumors accompanied by inaction on the part of Apple has given me pause in my inclination to give Mac a try.
As this is a Mac site I must state (confess?) that I have been a PC type since they came into existence (I am older than many on this site I suspect). In fact I have purchased millions of dollars (no lie) worth of PC's on behalf of my employer. I am not a propeller head (no offence intended), just a mid level manager.
Blah, blah, blah...in any event...just my two bits...I very accidently ended up getting sold on the iPhone last summer, then an iPod. I liked them so much that I started researching other Mac products (personal, not for work), however if Apple is reading this my opinion means dollars. I liked what I saw and spoke to a few friends who echoed the much stated phrase..."once you go Mac you never go back".
Sooooo....being moderately tech savvy and interested in new tech experiences...I started monitoring the Apple site as well as related sites such as this. All looked good and I put away few $ for a venture into the world of Mac (My current PC is at outer edge of its lifecycle).
Since then I have experienced the same agony as many others I have read on this site and others. I speak of those interested in either switching from PC or upgrading with another Mac. Most seemed to wonder what is taking so long as most PC vendors upgrade with great fluidity, ie: far more market responsive.
I don't have any questions, or answers for that matter...Just wanted to state for the record, somewhere, that what Apple is not doing may cost them interested and potentially lucrative clients in the future.
Regards....W
Following this and other Mac site rumors accompanied by inaction on the part of Apple has given me pause in my inclination to give Mac a try.
As this is a Mac site I must state (confess?) that I have been a PC type since they came into existence (I am older than many on this site I suspect). In fact I have purchased millions of dollars (no lie) worth of PC's on behalf of my employer. I am not a propeller head (no offence intended), just a mid level manager.
Blah, blah, blah...in any event...just my two bits...I very accidently ended up getting sold on the iPhone last summer, then an iPod. I liked them so much that I started researching other Mac products (personal, not for work), however if Apple is reading this my opinion means dollars. I liked what I saw and spoke to a few friends who echoed the much stated phrase..."once you go Mac you never go back".
Sooooo....being moderately tech savvy and interested in new tech experiences...I started monitoring the Apple site as well as related sites such as this. All looked good and I put away few $ for a venture into the world of Mac (My current PC is at outer edge of its lifecycle).
Since then I have experienced the same agony as many others I have read on this site and others. I speak of those interested in either switching from PC or upgrading with another Mac. Most seemed to wonder what is taking so long as most PC vendors upgrade with great fluidity, ie: far more market responsive.
I don't have any questions, or answers for that matter...Just wanted to state for the record, somewhere, that what Apple is not doing may cost them interested and potentially lucrative clients in the future.
Regards....W
It does appear that many of the Apple computers are on a longer life cycle than their PC counterparts. But do the constant upgrades that the PC makers put out really amount to a better user experience? Or are they just jamming 10 pounds of computer crap into a 5 lb. bucket? Apple on the other hand not just updates the processors, but also tries to make design improvements in their upgrades.
The way that the PC makers keep one-upping each other smacks of the megapixel wars that the camera manufacturers are fighting. Putting 10+ megapixels into a point and shoot is ridiculous, as you can't hardly get a noise free image above ISO 400. Trying to convince the public that you need a 24 megapixel full frame sensor in a DLSR is just as bad, yet Canon, Nikon and Sony are doing just that.
I decided last August to stop waiting and just get the iMac, even though at that time the rumor mill suggested that there would be a silent upgrade in September. Here is is January and still nothing has happened. But I have had 5 months of bliss with my new iMac and have loved moving away from PC over these past 5 months. I shoot and process 12 megapixel RAW images, shoot and process mpeg files from a HDD camcorder, and game. The 24" 2.8 iMac has been a gem, and doesn't hold me back at all.
god. no offense but newbies need to be on here for a while, not allowed to post and read read read.
That's fairly rude to be honest. A large number of posts on here is in no way correlated to knowledge.
sorry i didnt mean it towards knowledge.
just the fact that most of the time their questions and new threads can be found through previous threads.
sorry if it came of rude. but its true . youll see if you stick around!
just the fact that most of the time their questions and new threads can be found through previous threads.
sorry if it came of rude. but its true . youll see if you stick around!
sorry i didnt mean it towards knowledge.
just the fact that most of the time their questions and new threads can be found through previous threads.
sorry if it came of rude. but its true . youll see if you stick around!
no dramas..fair point. I agree on the searching...
I'm assuming you mean you have a G4/1.5 with 256MB of RAM..? If that's the case, you might want to bump it up to at least 768MB or more (might as well max it out -- I think you can go up to 2GB in the 15", 1.25GB in the 12"). The performance improvement should be fairly dramatic. It would buy you some real breathing room while waiting for the new iMacs.
Apple doesn't, but Dell does.
http://www.dell.com/content/product...ktop-xps-a2420?c=us&cs=19&l=en&ref=dthp&s=dhs
Sure it does. Just like Blu-ray in desktops and laptops puts pressure on Apple to give OS X HDCP support.
Just like good graphics cards in i7 gaming rigs puts pressure on Apple to release current GPUs in the Gainestown (NOT Core i7) Mac Pro...
Just like FireWire in digital cameras puts pressure on Apple to have FireWire ports on their computers.
Just like eSATA ports on a lot of better computers puts pressure on Apple to add eSATA to the Mac Pro.
Ok, so even though Tallest Skil keeps being quite the sarcasm bastard (really its annoying), he has a point. F*ck the whole idea of anybody putting any pressure on Apple any time at all. Netbooks; Apple chills. Monteniva? Apple just gives a semi update. And you know what, its working out just fine, 'caus, you can say whatever you like about their strategy, everybody is still buying their stuff.
By your logic I would still be using my first Apple II+ from 1983....
OH WAIT! I AM!
I assume apple doesn't like to leak when bumps are coming because it would slow current stock sales. regardless of the rumors it would seem likely for some sort of bump soon and therefore warrant a bit more waiting if you are in the market and can hold off a bit longer.
eh, generally I hate to agree with Tallest Skil just because of how confrontational he is, but he's pretty right in this respect.
While it's true Apple cannot straightup ignore external pressures from those perceived as competitors, it's nowhere near the sort you'd expect between say, Dell and Acer, Apple are pretty free to follow their own schedule.
Obviously this would be nullified if they left their technology behind 10 years, but all you need to do is look at their history to recognise 6 or even 12 months is really nothing.
Nobody would buy a Dell Desktop for £1500 if it had a C2D, 2GB of DDR2667 and an 8800 which are also essentially laptop components, yet current gen iMac's sell like ****ing hotcakes at the same price. The customer base is quite different.