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Will there ever be a new large iMac (Pro)?

When do you expect an iMac redesign?

  • 4rd quarter 2019

    Votes: 34 4.1%

  • 1st quarter 2020

    Votes: 23 2.8%

  • 2nd quarter 2020

    Votes: 119 14.5%

  • 3rd quarter 2020

    Votes: 131 15.9%

  • 4rd quarter 2020

    Votes: 172 20.9%

  • 2021 or later

    Votes: 343 41.7%
  • Total voters
    822
  • Poll closed .
CWallace said:
Apple moving the iMac to the iMac Pro chassis and cooling is almost certainly going to result in a not-insignificant price increase, you all realize. Probably minimum $500 when you factor in the price of the cooling system plus the new systemboard they will need to design to work around it. You will almost certainly also lose user-upgradeable RAM and of course SSD-only storage options.

So you all ready for the entry level iMac to run $2999 with 10th Gen i5, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD and Radeon Pro 5300?

And probably at or abover $4999 for a 10th Gen i9, 64GB RAM, 2TB SSD and Radeon Pro 5600/5700?
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Here is the thing, as someone with the i9 iMac and is extremely frustrated with the poor cooling. The 10th gen i9 is hotter, requires 30 more TDP than the 9th gen i9. You do not need to do anything intense to have the i9 iMac get LOUD. The cooling on the current iMac is such a poor design.

I have never regretted a computer purchase before as much as I regret this iMac. Apple should have never put an i9 chip in the iMac. And I only regret this purchase due to the lack of cooling and fan noise.

Would I gladly pay more for the better cooling? Absolutely. Because the base iMac Pro is still $1,300+ more than the i9 iMac. I didn't think the price difference was worth it, but geez this i9 iMac is ridiculous. Its fast, but the cooling is not up to par.

At this point, I am looking at getting a Mac Pro just for actually having a proper cooling in a powerful mac. Even if I do not need the power of the Mac Pro and an iMac is sufficient. This has been way out of hand for way too long now. None of the macs have proper cooling except the iMac Pro and Mac Pro.
 
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xWhiplash said:
Here is the thing, as someone with the i9 iMac and is extremely frustrated with the poor cooling. The 10th gen i9 is hotter, requires 30 more TDP than the 9th gen i9. You do not need to do anything intense to have the i9 iMac get LOUD. The cooling on the current iMac is such a poor design.

I have never regretted a computer purchase before as much as I regret this iMac. Apple should have never put an i9 chip in the iMac. And I only regret this purchase due to the lack of cooling and fan noise.

Would I gladly pay more for the better cooling? Absolutely. Because the base iMac Pro is still $1,300+ more than the i9 iMac. I didn't think the price difference was worth it, but geez this i9 iMac is ridiculous. Its fast, but the cooling is not up to par.

At this point, I am looking at getting a Mac Pro just for actually having a proper cooling in a powerful mac. Even if I do not need the power of the Mac Pro and an iMac is sufficient. This has been way out of hand for way too long now. None of the macs have proper cooling except the iMac Pro and Mac Pro.
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I've been thinking the same thing.
 
Makes total sense to have air power in a non mobile devices event.
Kjs100 said:
Komiya claiming iMac to be updated on website around 19 August.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1287387642619817986

After claiming this days ago-

https://twitter.com/x/status/1286073406060814336
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They seem to have pretty high level access instead of just supply chain access when they can get pretty much every change of date apple apparently dos on Sunday's in their office.

19th of august would be 29 days after the climate goal announcement. (Monday would be 17. so only 27 days)
While the September date would only be 20 days after that.
Very unapple.

Also, that September date has been up for debate among the leakers in the past days.
First week of September is an easy guess because thats were the event has been in the past two years. Apple probably even wanted it there. But will covid allow? And if covid dos not, will it just be two weeks later like someone claimed?

All of this is very fishy.

I´ll stick with l0vetodream for now. His percentage is great. Products are ready to ship.
I´ll stick with Prosser for now. His percentage is great. He said long ago iMac and "some version of Headphones" are ready to Ship.

Maybe it's this week... the Monday after 30 days of concluding WWDC.
Maybe it's next week... a month before the iPhone Event in September.
I doubt it's the 19th unless there is no, or a later, September Event.

Just let me order the darn thing already. I want to watch some unboxing and tests while i wait and after just unplug of this entire tech leaks scene and get back to fully geeking out on contend creation.
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All of this said.

There are some changes on the german store again.

The 27 inch iMac is now not listed as "unavailable" in apple stores anymore but as "available on".
Dates for available on vary.
The two Low tier 27 inchers are listed as available on 18 or 19th of august.
ALL Apple stores in Germany list these two Dates.

The high tier 27 inch is listed as available on September 30th or October first.
ALL Apple stores in Germany list these two Dates. Except for Dresden were the current model is still in stock.

So it's an easy guess to push the news of "something is happening around the 19th of august" around that.


I will probably throw up and cry in a corner if the highest tier is delayed till first of october. But at least freida can come in now and droll about possible RDNA2 GPUs.
 
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Yep.

I think this is it.

Checking UK right now.
Both Low and Mid Tier iMac Available in store starting (only) on August 18th.
Hige Tier avalible in store starting (only) on 30th of September.

Will look at US next.
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US still says "unavailable for Pickup" on everything not in stock. If this switches over to 18th of August and 30th of September anytime soon i think we got out Dates locked in.
 
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DrRadon said:
Yep.

I think this is it.

Checking UK right now.
Both Low and Mid Tier iMac Available in store starting (only) on August 18th.
Hige Tier avalible in store starting (only) on 30th of September.

Will look at US next.
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US still says "unavailable for Pickup" on everything not in stock. If this switches over to 18th of August and 30th of September anytime soon i think we got out Dates locked in.
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Meaning these updates would be announced soon but not available until those respective dates?
 
DrRadon said:
Makes total sense to have air power in a non mobile devices event.


They seem to have pretty high level access instead of just supply chain access when they can get pretty much every change of date apple apparently dos on Sunday's in their office.

19th of august would be 29 days after the climate goal announcement. (Monday would be 17. so only 27 days)
While the September date would only be 20 days after that.
Very unapple.

Also, that September date has been up for debate among the leakers in the past days.
First week of September is an easy guess because thats were the event has been in the past two years. Apple probably even wanted it there. But will covid allow? And if covid dos not, will it just be two weeks later like someone claimed?

All of this is very fishy.

I´ll stick with l0vetodream for now. His percentage is great. Products are ready to ship.
I´ll stick with Prosser for now. His percentage is great. He said long ago iMac and "some version of Headphones" are ready to Ship.

Maybe it's this week... the Monday after 30 days of concluding WWDC.
Maybe it's next week... a month before the iPhone Event in September.
I doubt it's the 19th unless there is no, or a later, September Event.

Just let me order the darn thing already. I want to watch some unboxing and tests while i wait and after just unplug of this entire tech leaks scene and get back to fully geeking out on contend creation.
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All of this said.

There are some changes on the german store again.

The 27 inch iMac is now not listed as "unavailable" in apple stores anymore but as "available on".
Dates for available on vary.
The two Low tier 27 inchers are listed as available on 18 or 19th of august.
ALL Apple stores in Germany list these two Dates.

The high tier 27 inch is listed as available on September 30th or October first.
ALL Apple stores in Germany list these two Dates. Except for Dresden were the current model is still in stock.

So it's an easy guess to push the news of "something is happening around the 19th of august" around that.


I will probably throw up and cry in a corner if the highest tier is delayed till first of october. But at least freida can come in now and droll about possible RDNA2 GPUs.
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That "Leaker" keeps on mentioning an october 27th event, iPad Pro..yet when I ask him about it he says nothing..is that guy legit or just talking out of his butt
 
anthony13 said:
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Meaning these updates would be announced soon but not available until those respective dates?
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I don't know. Plenty of stuff has just been announced and showed up in Store the next day.
All i see is a very strict line of two dates that that has not been there before. And that feels like important news.

The thought of the highest Tier 27 inch being delayed till the end of October is terrifying since i assume that would mean a BTO machine won't sit on my desk till mid or even late October.
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lakerchick4life said:
That "Leaker" keeps on mentioning an october 27th event, iPad Pro..yet when I ask him about it he says nothing..is that guy legit or just talking out of his butt
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How would i know?

All i know at this second is that the Apple Website fits his date of "circa 19th of august" and since he dos not mention the highest tier iMac being late i ASSUME he has a different source than the Apple websites i looked at.
 
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DrRadon said:
I don't know. Plenty of stuff has just been announced and showed up in Store the next day.
All i see is a very strict line of two dates that that has not been there before. And that feels like important news.

The thought of the highest Tier 27 inch being delayed till the end of October is terrifying since i assume that would mean a BTO machine won't sit on my desk till mid or even late October.
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How would i know?

All i know at this second is that the Apple Website fits his date of "circa 19th of august" and since he dos not mention the highest tier iMac being late i ASSUME he has a different source than the Apple websites i looked at.
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Yeah that's true, just gotta wait and see what happens..everything else is just a guess..just hoping for some good releases this year
 
I feel like the flip flop on this week to mid august may have occurred because of the house judiciary hearing having been rescheduled to this Wednesday. I don't think Apple wants to release products the same week their CEO is on TV testifying before Congress, potentially getting lambasted. I feel like this iMac has been politically thwarted at least 3 times now by world events, but the 10th gen refresh has to have been ready for quite a while.
 
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I am wondering how this works out.

Maybe all of the low tier models don't get a redesign and thats why that one leaker said "no redesign till after ARM".
But if you put the high tier 27 inch to the end of September... would that mean no redesign again? Just new Parts? Or dos it need the redesign for better cooling? But in that case it won't be ahead of ARM, unless 24 inch ARM iMac actually hits in September. But that dos not work out with all the October = ARM MacBook event talk.

Something aint quiet right yet.

I would love if they have a video package on iMac and you can at least preorder the highest tier... but i suppose something might be missing? Maybe it gets 11th gen processing... but in that case why late september with intels event on 5th of September?
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https://twitter.com/x/status/1287507132661878784
 
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DrRadon said:
I am wondering how this works out.

Maybe all of the low tier models don't get a redesign and thats why that one leaker said "no redesign till after ARM".
But if you put the high tier 27 inch to the end of September... would that mean no redesign again? Just new Parts? Or dos it need the redesign for better cooling? But in that case it won't be ahead of ARM, unless 24 inch ARM iMac actually hits in September. But that dos not work out with all the October = ARM MacBook event talk.

Something aint quiet right yet.

I would love if they have a video package on iMac and you can at least preorder the highest tier... but i suppose something might be missing? Maybe it gets 11th gen processing... but in that case why late september with intels event on 5th of September?
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Prosser isn't much better than the other new twitter leakers. Best to ignore all leakers except love to dream, Gurman or Kuo.
 
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God crap it. Hope is dashed again. I was so pumped to throw my wallet with reckless abandon at my screen tomorrow.
 
Jon Prosser failed so much for WWDC and has been talking about „the upcoming iMac“ since at least April, if not earlier (nothing happened). If tier 1 leakers are people like Ming-Chi Kuo, then Prosser is tier 3 at best.

@jon I know you and your family/friends visit this forum in order to defend your „reputation“, but pls stop, k?
 
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So if you want a redesigned 27" iMac you are in for a long wait. This will boost Apples 24" ARM sales. I'm certainly not touching that old overheating banger of a pc.
 
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