Why? Lynnfields are much slower than Arrandales. Also Lynnfields are for desktops and Apple haven't used desktop parts in alu iMacs and they draw too much power (45W at least)
Q1 2010, but Apple won't use them
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Why? Lynnfields are much slower than Arrandales. Also Lynnfields are for desktops and Apple haven't used desktop parts in alu iMacs and they draw too much power (45W at least)
Q1 2010, but Apple won't use them
They will not use Lynnfield because it is a desktop CPU and it is too hot for the iMac. There are cooler (65 W) Lynnfields coming at about the same time as Arrandale but evidently they are still too hot since Apple didn't use 65 W quad-core desktop Penryns.
As for quad-core, Apple didn't use quad-core, even mobile quad-core, in this revision of the iMacs, and the dual-core/quad-core division won't move much with Nehalem, so I don't expect quad-core next year either.
I'm guessing minor upgrades in August, being limited to video and memory. I can't see much more than that, but it seems to make sense to me. Newer nvidia GPUs, which are twice are fast as the current video options.
Yes, Mike, that makes absolutely sense, cause most iMacs today are bought for gaming (PC games).
You are aware that lots of strides are being made to push work off on the GPU, right? Basically, having the GPU share some of the work the CPU does.
apparently those GPU's wont be used as they are not part of nvidias new chipset. When nvidia releases there new chipset is when we will see the new gpu's
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/723962/
Info on that particular series of GPU's..The 200M series.
Info on that particular series of GPU's..The 200M series.
Now that we know that new iMacs will be released, will they come before, with or after SnowLeopard ("coming September")?
They will be released on December 24, 2012. Lol, but I think they would be released after Snow Leopard.