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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Why wait.
If it's products that 'make sense.'
It's a 95 w cpu from Intel (not release yet?)
It's a gpu from AMD (not released yet.)
In terms of low power 10 cores and a lower power 5700. (The latter is my presumption. CWallance points to the 'Pro' variations that may drop.) Both the 'Geek' CPU and the 'Pro' GPU variations leaked as a spec. So, a 10 core with a 5300 gpu is maybe one of the options that is coming. One of the combinations possible. Maybe. (The word of the moment.)
We've seen Apple launch their 'new' tech' right before PC launches its 'new' tech'.
And if Apple drops the iMac Intel in August. That would track with their past behaviour.
I'd like an RDNA2 in this. But what is Apple's past iMac gpu behaviour? Have they included the latest gpu tech' in an iMac short of £4999? Ever? (The only time I remember having top ten gpu performance was in my 2012 iMac which had the 680MX, which is now fried.)
The current iMac has low end gpu. It's BTO is also out. of. Date.
Nv' is about to lap Apple's current gpu options for the 3rd time?
The good news is on the horizon. But August is very early for any of that.
But that doesn't mean we won't get an iMac in August. Just that Apple will shepherd iMac buyers away from RDNA2 in an Intel Mac because they want to herd iMac buyers to their own gpus in AS Macs.
Why would an Intel iMac owner with an RDNA2 inside look at the AS other than design? You could afford to wait, right?
Apple are going to pressure Intel Mac buyers right after they gauge them.
Azrael.
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Soooooo tempted to just build a pc.
...and new AMD processors are imminent. So is RDNA2. So is Ampere.
The waiting is on both sides of the fence for a reason.
Big tech' cusp coming this Fall.
Azrael.
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Nice. Three weeks of calm.
Yup.
Azrael.
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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.
Wouldn't your Macboo Pro 2017 just work fine with a 32 inch BenQ 4k monitor?
You could sit out and wait until the real deal drops?
Azrael.
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I feel like this is going to be a HUGE iMac update.
Reasons:
- It's been too long without a major redesign. From the front, the current iMac looks exactly the same as my 2010 one. TEN YEARS of a computer looking the same!!
- After 20 years, the OS is going from X (10) to 11. That feels like it warrants recognition in the machines' redesigns across the board.
- With Apple silicon and Big Sur allowing native iOS and iPadOS apps, *most* of the applications on Macs will be touch first applications.
- Tied into the previous point, Big Sur looks like it's meant for touch.
- Apple won't likely want to put touch screens on Macs without a good story about why it's no longer an ergonomics issue as they'd argued previously. That means they'll likely do something like the Surface Studio form factor.
- This is less likely to factor in as the COVID pandemic is relatively new, but I believe desktop computers will have a resurgence as fewer people are carrying their computers back and forth to workplaces and desktops offer more bang for the buck.
Way too long doesn't mean a great deal.
Look at the Mac Mini apology update.
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That can be covered with the 24" Apple Silicon model with pricing as such:
- $1499 for 8GB and 256GB storage
- $1999 for 16GB and 512GB storage
- $2499 for 32GB and 1TB storage
And for the record, I do not believe Apple will move the Intel iMac 5K to the iMac Pro chassis. I'm not sure they will drop Fusion for the Intel iMac 5K, for that matter.
But if they do both, to believe the base iMac 5K will still be $1799-1999 is, frankly, laughable.
You can't get the bigger MBPro for less than £2k now.
I'm expecting a similar move with iMac. With scant justification for this outrageous idea. (8 gigs of extra ram and dropping nickle and dime old drive tech'?)
Azrael.
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What's the point of releasing a new iMac without it being redesigned..mind as well just wait for ARM and a complete redesign
Because Apple will goose Intel buyers who 'need' Intel.
Then they'll bury them with a sexy new iMac24 release that will psychologically remorse their buying decision.
It's old sales 101.
Azrael.
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All leakers will 'crash and burn' as Apple are doubling down on secrecy (for the Intel iMac...why bother...we know it's out of date...
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And yanking them around will be Apple's operandi.
Leakers got taken behind the cow shed for the iMac at WWDC. *shrugs.
Stock outs of iMac tell us that a new model is imminent. Translation? Days. Weeks. Likely August now.
I'd love to say Sep with RDNA2. But does Apple ever release iMacs in Sep?
Fall...? By then. RDNA2 will have launched? But what is Apple's track record of using the latest GPU tech' in the iMac? Will they really market the Intel iMac alongside the reveal of the AS laptop?
August seems to make most sense. Doesn't clash with the iphone or using the latest gpu tech'.
Azrael.
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