That seems way too small for an external display. I hope they don't put any effort into that.
There's a market for it.
Yep, as much as I wish it were otherwise, I expect WWDC is the far more likely event for any new major Mac launches. A 24" iMac refresh with the current M1 proc does seem like a possibility though.
Anybody who buys the base model will immediately regret it then...
I don't know, it just doesn't make any sense to me. We are too close to WWDC. It's now or never.
I think there will be 27" (or whatever the new "big" size will be) replacements too.
Well, yes. We should expect that later in the year.
What I would really love to see though, is a 24” stand alone display to go along with the iMac. But I doubt it’ll happen.
There are rumors of such a product, soo...
Lest we forget, the iMac Pro replaced the Mac Pro until a new version could be released. It was never intended to be a recurring model. Hence, it being discontinued outright by Apple. The ship has sailed.
iMacs tomorrow? Chances are a little less than nil. If they do introduce one, it's going to be equal to the M1's previously released, only in an all-on-on form factor. I highly doubt they would redesign the enclosure any more than they did with the other M1's... which was minuscule at best.
I'd predict the first non-lobotomized M1 no sooner than late fall at the earliest. With the pandemic throwing everything off... next year seems more likely.
I don't know. There's just a plethora of evidence suggesting that we will see some sort of refresh tomorrow. I cannot see it
not happening, especially after all of the rumors and leaks.
Both new iMacs (24" and 32") will be revealed tomorrow.
Apple is not going to reveal a cheaper 24" model if a 32" is a few more weeks or months away. If we don't see a 32" model tomorrow, that means it is at least a year (or more) away (or not being made at all).
Most of the potential customers for the 32" model will end up buying a 24" (and spending less money) because it is the only Apple Silicon iMac available. Apple tries to avoid this scenario at all costs.
You don't think they'll only refresh the lowest base model of the 24" iMac? I hope you're correct regardless of whether or not your speculation is accurate or not...
LOL. "Lumped in with other stuff"....like, I dunno...the first Mac designed completely from the ground up for Apple Silicon? Lol.
But what if they reveal the redesign tomorrow?
It will be a pretty lackluster launch if that is all Apple has to offer:
- The redesign itself is a big deal and would be wasted if the only model offered is low end.
- It has been 6 months, to not see any iterating on the M1 processor would be pretty lame.
- This is the first completely new Mac chassis designed from the ground up for Apple Silicon. Surely they would tailor a chip to it, not just plug in the same M1 from 6 months ago.
Maybe M1 in the lowest base model, but M1X in the rest of the 24" iMac configurations?
We are almost halfway through the Apple Silicon transition (hell, maybe it'll even end early). Apple can't just sit around and wait until the last day of the transition to refresh everything.
Me?
For the 24" model I don't see it being that aggressive at all.
M1X with 12 CPU cores, 12 GPU cores, 8 GB standard, and upgradeable to 16 GB.
For 32"
M1Z with 16 CPU cores, 16 GPU cores, 16 GB standard, and upgradeable to 32 GB.
The "Z" version is for minor increments. I think it'll be M1X across the board.
So that all the iMac customers can spend their wad now on a cheaper model? Yeah, no. If a 32" is coming any time this year, its coming tomorrow alongside the 24".
Yeah, unless the refresh all of the 21.5" iMac configurations tomorrow.
Not for the 24" iMac? I still think that Apple has a discrete GPU in the works...
Supply chain sources claim that Apple is to make a new desktop processor, the "A14T," plus its own GPU, for forthcoming Apple Silicon Macs, both of which are to be 5nm processors.
appleinsider.com
“Lumped in” with iPads Pro, Pencils, AirPods, AirTags. I think they'll want to showcase the next-gen Apple Silicon chip with a separate event, or in the WWDC keynote.
Lumped in with all sorts of big software announcements? Hmmm...
Nope, iMacs are coming tomorrow.
And no, the logic was literally the exact same. The entry level Pro, which is in a category unto itself, was updated because it was getting the same M1 chip and the other Pros were a year away. You're not going to see M-series MBP's until the fall.
You don't think we could see the M-series MBP's at WWDC (hell, even tomorrow if some sort of baseless magical miracle happens)?
that's not the market for that model.
Ummm... what about
pros that want a smaller display? That's a market...
And I don't think it'll be tomorrow.
Repost...
I don't know. There's just a plethora of evidence suggesting that we will see some sort of refresh tomorrow. I cannot see it not happening, especially after all of the rumors and leaks.
Idk, in the context of Apple, 6 months is really not that long. It took them 4 years to take 2013 Mac Pro class hardware and put it into an existing form factor with the 2017 iMac Pro. And that was a stop-gap for 2 years until they completed the 2019 Mac Pro. None of which required developing their own CPU/GPU. 6 months of Apple time doesn't necessarily buy you a new M1 chip, especially with the production constraints of the COVID-era.
But you have to remember that Apple said that the
Apple Silicon transition would take two years or less.
