Seriously it's looking great ! Except this battery in the System Preference ... Damn ... They totally missed it.
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Will there ever be a new large iMac (Pro)?
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Seriously it's looking great ! Except this battery in the System Preference ... Damn ... They totally missed it.
I hated Big Sur preview. I was all cool at first, but then...Most incompatible OS I have ever used, yeah beta and all, but still... only downside to buying a new imac after BS is out is youre likley stuck on BS.. Never thought I'd be downgrading back to catalina..
Well, I don't know. That's the thing, nobody knows how the transition will play out — it could end up being that there's such a significant power gap between the first "pro" AS-based Macs and current Intel Macs that not upgrading incurs a significant cost. This seems particularly likely for developers depending on the Apple dev toolchain (Xcode, LLVM, etc) where Apple can and probably will optimize the whole chain to take advantage of Apple Silicon exclusive features, making them work in ways that wouldn't have been practical on Intel CPUs.
Additionally, I can see it being a real boon for a mobile developer to have their dev machine be the same architecture as the platforms they're targeting. In the future, Xcode will likely be able to run and debug iOS apps under development without even needing the simulator (they just launch the same way Mac apps do). Android development could benefit too, if macOS' virtualization support is leveraged.
Very few pro grade apps have hard dependencies on x86. They all have optimizations for it, but those vary even between Intel and AMD and as such can be switched off. Getting an acceptably performing ARM port running will not be difficult in most cases… even the more complicated cases are like a month's worth of work for 2-3 engineers.
It might take longer for AS-optimized builds of these apps to appear, but then again maybe not, because any app that links against macOS' Accelerate.framework (which abstracts these things between archs) will get a lot of that for free.
3 Aug - 10 Aug - (this year...)
Is the date for a 'last year so 2019' iMac. Based upon a 'mock' order I put together (don't worry, I'm not crazy enough to order that overpriced piece of 'last year.')
So an order would be a month out for BTO.
Seems like a July update to me. But we've been saying 'this is the month' for a while now.
Azrael.
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Yes. They've copped a bit of noise over the lime pie battery icon.
Azrael.
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I think you've nailed it there. It's not just about 'raw' speed of AS. But it will be about co-processors. The optimisation of the software stack against the AS hardware.
Indirect speed boosts that will add up. Software stack efficiency. Software threads for Hardware 'threads' (co-processors) which will give an overall much smoother product.
Even on consumer level 'Macs.'
Azrael.
Is the date for a 'last year so 2019' iMac. Based upon a 'mock' order I put together (don't worry, I'm not crazy enough to order that overpriced piece of 'last year.')
So an order would be a month out for BTO.
Seems like a July update to me. But we've been saying 'this is the month' for a while now.
Azrael.
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Yes. They've copped a bit of noise over the lime pie battery icon.
Azrael.
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I think you've nailed it there. It's not just about 'raw' speed of AS. But it will be about co-processors. The optimisation of the software stack against the AS hardware.
Indirect speed boosts that will add up. Software stack efficiency. Software threads for Hardware 'threads' (co-processors) which will give an overall much smoother product.
Even on consumer level 'Macs.'
Azrael.
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Have you tried Affinity Photo? Was recently in a 'lock down' sale at £28. Currently £54 or something like that.
Still a bargain though. Loads of tutorials for it.
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The only thing I know in GIMP is to remove the background on figures to make it transparent.
0% doesn’t worth it 🤪😂
0% doesn’t worth it 🤪😂
Apple iMac 27-inch (2020) review
The Apple iMac 27-inch (2020) makes one of the best all-in-ones even better
For anyone who wants a 'summation' guide to the iMac rumours so far.
Azrael.
The SKUs that take an order into September are only when a 2TB or 3TB HDD are part of the build. If the highest end 5K is selected and then upgrade the 2TB HDD to any SSD, it takes delivery forward to 5th Aug. So, somethings up with the stock of HDD... either they can't get them in on time, or perhaps they no longer want them ordered in bulk and the next 5K iMac really is all SSD?
This is a nice reflexion. Hope it’s really because of this !!!!
Actually, in Canada, stock models are September but ANY change will take it to August. Its just super weird.
Even when you change they keyboard it will switch.
So basically, any BTO will arrive faster than the stock one
Even when you change they keyboard it will switch.
So basically, any BTO will arrive faster than the stock one
oh wow you aren't kidding...Literally yesterday it was August 18th-25th, and now it's September 9th-16th.....
That big of an increase in one day?
Is Covid slowing it that bad, or does that mean the announcement is coming in August?
I'm inclined to believe it is COVID. Someone in another thread noted their iMac (US delivery) just shipped from the Ireland factory, which I believe is normally dedicated to UK and EU.
There is an ireland factory? I thought they just abuse the ireland warehouse to pay no taxes for EU shipments. Probably they are just sending whatever is left from wherever it is to people.
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The thing is, even if there are issues with the production, wich we have no proof of because everything else apple builds is shipping just fine.... why don't they just flip to the new machine, say supply is limited... but at least let us order. It's not that this did not happen prominently with iPhone or even some computers in the past.
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The thing is, even if there are issues with the production, wich we have no proof of because everything else apple builds is shipping just fine.... why don't they just flip to the new machine, say supply is limited... but at least let us order. It's not that this did not happen prominently with iPhone or even some computers in the past.
Alright, if there's a release this week - it'd most likely be today right? Tuesday and it's also 2 weeks after WWDC (as per their biweekly-ish, inofficial announcement/release schedule. If not today, I won't get my hopes up for atleast another 2 weeks
Did see a few comments today around twitter saying that Apple is having production issues and no new Macs until September. Dunno if that applies to Intel stuff though.
I bring you the first ARM Apple Product with Desktop OS. It's running Windows.
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There was just one leaker that by now admitted he is just as clueless as us.
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There was just one leaker that by now admitted he is just as clueless as us.
Every time someone talked about delivery times, I checked the ones here in the Netherlands, but they were always about 2-4 weeks.
Not this time though. Also saying 2 - 9 september now, BTO = 4 - 11 august. So there's definitely something up.
Edit: Oh lol this was on the front page yesterday:
www.macrumors.com
Not this time though. Also saying 2 - 9 september now, BTO = 4 - 11 august. So there's definitely something up.
Edit: Oh lol this was on the front page yesterday:
Shipping Estimates for 27-Inch iMac Continue to Slip, Now Into September
Amid rumors and hints of a forthcoming update for the iMac, supplies of Apple's current 27-inch iMac continue to dwindle with mid- and high-end...
www.macrumors.com
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How hard is it for Apple to give its customers a heads up of upcoming products, not vague "it's in the pipeline". I've been with Apple a long time and this crap is starting to getting annoying. The customer is constantly performing guess work when they want to buy a new product.