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Will Apple release new iMac in March?

I'm about to pull the trigger on a refurbished 3.3ghz late 2015 from eBay unless somebody can talk me out it. I'm not too excited about the GPU, but for Lightroom & Photoshop I can't imagine a newer model or GPU will make any noticeable difference. I am OK with the ~$600 savings ($800 considering tax) and I figure to get 3 years out of it for photo editing.

I'm kind of spoiled with a pure SSD system on my PC now. I figure I can try the 2tb fusion drive and switch to an external SSD for the system drive later if necessary.
 
InlawBiker said:
I'm about to pull the trigger on a refurbished 3.3ghz late 2015 from eBay unless somebody can talk me out it. I'm not too excited about the GPU, but for Lightroom & Photoshop I can't imagine a newer model or GPU will make any noticeable difference. I am OK with the ~$600 savings ($800 considering tax) and I figure to get 3 years out of it for photo editing.

I'm kind of spoiled with a pure SSD system on my PC now. I figure I can try the 2tb fusion drive and switch to an external SSD for the system drive later if necessary.
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I would not pickup a fusion drive. A pure SSD based system will give you more speed and you will enjoy your computer for a longer period of time. Even if you put an external SSD, the one that Apple sells with the iMac is way faster. I would buy a SSD based (256GB or 512GB) mac and probably add an external cheaper SSD (for non-speed critical data like music and documents) in case you run out of space. Having a mecanical hard drive in the iMac is not that great because it will fail. On my last iMac, it failed after two years.

The 2tb fusion drive scores around 645MB (write) 525MB (read) vs SSD 1500MB (write) 2092MB (read)

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I have a very modern PC (i7-4ghz,32GB, SSD,GTX1080) and Lightroom feels faster on my rMBP! They are not cheap, but man they are good!

I also know I could put a faster SSD in my pc but that's another topic!

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Lankyman said:
I think this would involve a redesign of the iMac if I'm not mistaken.
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The logic board, yes. The chassis, likely not. Let alone that the footprint of the GPUs is more or less the same...

USB-C and TB3, on the other hand, needs a redesigned chassis.
 
Really hoping they upgrade sometime in March! Otherwise I will probably just buy a late 2015 because I can't wait longer than that :(
 
Zwopple said:
Really hoping they upgrade sometime in March! Otherwise I will probably just buy a late 2015 because I can't wait longer than that :(
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Typically gives a 2 week notice in sending out invites and it seems the rumor mill tends to start hearing chatter about a possible media event 3 weeks (or so) before a possible event. Using 2 weeks, that puts in the first week of March, with no chatter going on, its probably safe that nothing will occur before March 17th.

I've been wrong before but so far its been very quiet on the rumor side of things for the iMac. If you recall with the MBP, there was a lot of "chatter" and rumors occurring.
 
I've sort of concluded that an iMac might be in my future as I don't really think the Mac Pro is long for this world (in Apple's eyes anyhow)...

But if they pull a "MBP" and put basically nothing but USB-C ports on the back I will lose my mind (and not buy it).

I know that sounds nuts on a desktop, but I'm about 50% convinced they might do just that.

Anyone else worried about that possibly happening too?
 
Trahearne said:
Well, the audio jack and the Ethernet port would likely still be there. The SD reader though...
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Audio I'd think for sure.... But are we sure they'd include Ethernet (vs just saying..."get a dongle or use wi-fi")?

I just have this feeling they'd like to continue to unify everything to USB-C and tell everyone to "go dongle yourself". :-(

The dongle fest is precisely my concern.
 
I can't see them getting rid of Ethernet because if there's one place to have it, it's a desktop. Many people would never unplug Ethernet. USB-C is about making something thinner and more mobile. That's not a concern with a desktop. So I would be genuinely surprised if they got rid of Ethernet.

As for SD card reader, Apple may view this as a "dinosaur technology", so they may be pushing for its discontinuation across Apple devices in general.
 
ThisBougieLife said:
I can't see them getting rid of Ethernet because if there's one place to have it, it's a desktop. Many people would never unplug Ethernet. USB-C is about making something thinner and more mobile. That's not a concern with a desktop. So I would be genuinely surprised if they got rid of Ethernet.

As for SD card reader, Apple may view this as a "dinosaur technology", so they may be pushing for its discontinuation across Apple devices in general.
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Hmm - I hope you're right, but I worry that Apple may find ethernet to also be a "dinosaur technology" honestly. I don't agree with them at all on that of course..
 
turbineseaplane said:
Hmm - I hope you're right, but I worry that Apple may find ethernet to also be a "dinosaur technology" honestly. I don't agree with them at all on that of course..
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It is not really a dinosaur when you consider iMac also sells into businesses, studios and schools, and many of them require stable and speedy LAN. It has been a dinosaur when it comes to laptops, but definitely not desktops.

At worse case though, they should at least include a dongle. LOL.
 
richinaus said:
its the Polaris GPU that is wanted. I don't think that many here are too bothered about kabylake.
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Agreed. Kabylake is not on my most-wanted list. More storage ( 2 TB+ flash ), TB3 and better GPU are top of my wishlist.
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maflynn said:
I've been wrong before but so far its been very quiet on the rumor side of things for the iMac
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Yep, I've given up hope on a new Mac Pro( Apple might yet deliver but it seems the iMac is more likely to arrive earlier ) and was thinking ( like many here ) March would bring us a new iMac.
 
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turbineseaplane said:
Hmm - I hope you're right, but I worry that Apple may find ethernet to also be a "dinosaur technology" honestly. I don't agree with them at all on that of course..
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The biggest "dinosaur" is Apples' attitude towards desktops in general.
 
turbineseaplane said:
More to I than that I think. It would fit the continuing ethos of simplification if they put 6-8 USB-C's on the back and not much else.
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IMO, Apple's current view on portable devices is that they should only connect wirelessly. That is now even extending to headphones with AirPods and Beats X. So dropping the RJ-45 port from the MacBook Pro (as well as never offering it on the MacBook Air or MacBook) is consistent with this philosophy as a laptop is a portable device in Apple's view.

However, their desktop line are not portable so I don't see them forcing that belief down our throats. And as Trahearne noted up-thread, those machines are installed in environments where "hardwired connectivity" is at least expected, if not required. So I fully expect the Mac Mini (if it continues), Mac Pro (ditto) and iMac all to retain the RJ-45 port for at least the near term.
 
ahostmadsen said:
Perhaps they will announce slightly updated iMacs at the end of the event?
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I gave up waiting after today's rumour: Just ordered a refurbished, 27" i7, 16gig, 2tb & 395X graphics.

Save myself a bit cash too for a new 2017 iPad to replace my retina iPad 3!
 
CWallace said:
IMO, Apple's current view on portable devices is that they should only connect wirelessly.
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If that's the case, why did they include any USB-C ports beyond a single one to connect power?


CWallace said:
However, their desktop line are not portable ....
...those machines are installed in environments where "hardwired connectivity" is at least expected, if not required.
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A dongle into a USB-C port is hardwired.

I don't think they're going totally wireless on desktops.

That said, I won't be surprised if they envision a future of wired connections as "USB-C only" across all their devices and users will simply use dongles, docks and adapters to get the exact end point they need.

(I'm not at all hoping to be right about this by the way...)
 
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