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Apple Updates iMac
- Shivetya 13y agoas was known when these new thin models launched, always wait for the second iteration. They are significantly better performance wise.
- _pius 13y ago... always wait for the second iteration. They are significantly better performance wise. In fairness, you could give the same advice about practically any technology purchase one will ever make.
- nikolakirev 13y agoVery "quiet" update. I hope this means, that Apple will have too much other stuff to show off at their October event (expected to be announced soon).
- eugeneross 13y agoGood point, sir.
- smith7018 13y agoIt's not even on one of the 5 views on the homepage! :O
- bbrks 13y agoHere's hoping. I've been waiting for a Retina Macbook Pro for about 8 months now.
- statusgraph 13y agoDo you mean MacBook Air? The Pros have been retina for a while :)
- bradleyland 13y agoSpec bump updates rarely make waves at Apple. Part of Apple's retail strategy is avoiding the spec rat race, so it doesn't make sense for them to draw too much attention to spec updates.
- porsupah 13y agoI expect it'll focus on a single product line, possibly with some updates on how the company's faring, particularly the iPhone 5s & 5c's launches. I'd guess it'll be the iPad's turn in the spotlight, though it's possible Cupertino's decided it's time to fully launch the new Mac Pro. (And with a zero probability: the return of the 17" MBP, much as I'd love to see that size rejoin the rest of the family - ideally with a 3840x2400 display, but the last version's 1920x1200 would be fine too)
- JetSetWilly 13y agoCould there be an AppleTV update of some sort? An A7, and some sort of app store would be nice.
- eugeneross 13y agoOh you Apple. You sneaky bastards. I still love you though...
- MattBearman 13y agoSomewhat related: Anyone know if they're going updating the displays soon? I'm about to buy a 27" Thunderbolt display, but I don't wanna drop £900 on a screen only for a better one to be released one month later...
- ChikkaChiChi 13y agoDepends on what feature you are looking for. For laptop users, the displays still require you to use a dongle for Magsafe2. I consider this unacceptable. If you are waiting for a Retina screen, you're screwed. IMO this soft launch indicates no Retina iMac is forthcoming in the near future.
- MattBearman 13y agoI've got a late 2011 (non-retina) MBP, so old style magsafe connector suits me. There's been a lot of hints at a 4k screen to match the new Mac Pro. Not looking for any features in particular, I've just got a bad habbit of buying something just before it gets updated :s
- jpmatz 13y agoCould you please buy it now?
- MattBearman 13y agoCare to elaborate? Edit: no wait, just got it! I'm having a slow day today :)
- ChikkaChiChi 13y agoI would have guffawed at the hint of a 4K screen being cost prohibitive in the past, but the Retina Macbook is proof that Apple still has aspirations of setting the tone when it comes to displays. You might be right to make your decision after the official launch of the Mac Pro. You could be on to something.
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- ChikkaChiChi 13y agoIs Apple getting gunshy about iterative releases? Back in Steve's day this would have been tacked on to at least the launch of something like the new Mac Pro.
- jonknee 13y agoIt has been common for step releases to just happen on a random Tuesday. If there were a new case design or radical change it would have been part of an event. Here's one they did for laptops: http://appleinsider.com/articles/10/04/13/apple_releases_new_macbook_pros_with_intel_core_i7_i5_processors http://appleinsider.com/articles/10/04/13/apple_releases_new... And one for iMacs: http://appleinsider.com/articles/10/07/27/apple_updates_imac_line_with_intel_core_i3_i5_and_i7_processors http://appleinsider.com/articles/10/07/27/apple_updates_imac...
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- coldtea 13y ago"Back in Steve's day" they frequently updated all kinds of Macs with no announcement whatsoever, if it was an incremental update and not a redesign.
- vvhn 13y agoThat's quite a selective "Back in Steve's day" memory. A lot of spec bumps like this one for Macs and Macbooks happened exactly through press releases like these.
- rickdale 13y agoI own and love my 27inch iMac. It exemplifies the quote from Apple's senior vice president: “iMac continues to be the example that proves how beautiful, fast and fun a desktop computer can be,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing. " But as someone that doesn't like to mess with hardware too often, I am very disappointed at how difficult it is to change a simple hard drive on this machine, and that they don't figure out how to make it easier. My computer is beautiful, but I have to suction off the glass display to change the hard drive. The other day I upgraded my PS3 to an ssd with almost zero knowledge of what I was doing. There was a tab, a screw, and a lever. Unplug tab, unscrew screw, pull lever, replace hard drive. Took < 5 minutes. I understand aesthetic beautiful designs, but something about the way inside my iMac makes me feel like its a big design flaw. I knew what I was getting into when I bought this computer, but I was hoping in the future, updates to the iMac would make it much easier. I guess in the end, the beauty of the design is in the eye of the beholder. Tough to make everyone happy...
- acomjean 13y agoI never understood why they would make a bulky machine hard to upgarde. I have a 1.1 mac pro tower. So easy to open/add memory and hard drives. Even my polycarb (white) macbook was easy to update the hard drive. Harddrives will fail... It shouldn't be hard to replace them.
- johndevor 13y agoWhat percentage of users upgrade their machines?
- terabytest 13y agoThey want you to buy a new one.
- numbsafari 13y agoThis will sound pedantic, but... It isn't hard to replace them. You pull out your iPhone, use the Apple Store App to schedule an appointment, drop off your iMac at the store, go have lunch at Sbarro and then pick it up and go home. If you are buying an iMac, you are buying a sealed solution. If you are the kind of user who wants to replace HDD or upgrade components, the iMac is not the computer you should buy. Bad buyer! A lot has been made of Steve Jobs comments about cars and trucks and the future of computers. I think that is very much how Apple views what they do. The iMac is a family-friendly, automatic sedan or wagon for the kind of person who gets his oil changes done at the dealership because they have a nice waiting room there.
- chmars 13y agoI ordered an iMac three days ago, it has not been shipped. Is there any change that I will get an updated model? (No, I do of course not demand an updated model for me, I am happy if I get what I ordered and paid.)
- jstsch 13y agoNormally you get a new Mac if you ask for it, it it has been updated in the last 15 days. Or a big discount on your existing purchase.
- mjschultz 13y agoI think their policy is typically to update to the latest model if the order hasn't shipped yet. The same thing happened to be when I ordered a MacBook back in 2007, where a few days later they announced better specs and I got a notification saying they updated my order to reflect the changes. It's one of the reasons my next laptop will probably still be Apple.
- cygwin98 13y agoIf I were you, I would cancel that order and re-purchase the new model.
- chmars 13y agoThanks, I had not thought of doing that. I have just cancelled my order and re-purchased the new model, the delivery is scheduled only one day later than the original order. On the downside, the price went slightly up … Apple might have delivered the updated model anyway but following your suggestion was probably the easiest way.
- CraigJPerry 13y agoIf you don't get the new model, Apple do let you exchange like for like. There is a restocking fee involved. I exchanged for a newly released one almost a month after buying it (outside the 14 days return policy) and they were really friendly & helpful about it all.
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- Pxtl 13y agoI'm mostly disappointed in how poor the Win32-based hardware vendors are at following Apple's lead. Apple is narrowing the cost gap in their hardware, and their quality is still leaps and bounds ahead of the competitors. If I want to buy a solid all-in-one device with a minimally usable on-board videocard so I could fire up the occasional game (not a hardcore gaming rig but keeping lighter fare an option) then the competitors are quite close to Apple in cost. It's the same in laptops - while geeks argue about performance, Apple's devices have build-quality that blows everything else out of the water. If you start looking at similarly-constructed competitors, Apple's prices don't seem crazy at all.
- eli 13y agoAgreed. Apple is still expensive but if you want build quality, I think it's the clear winner. And I think a whole lot of people care more about build quality than gaming performance.
- bsimpson 13y agoThe Chromebook Pixel has better hardware features than the MacBook line. (The touchscreen and LTE are both fantastic options.) But, pricewise, it's not far off from Apple's either.
- tomp 13y agoIt has a really poor harddrive (32GB) - I realize it's not meant to be used offline, but the world is not yet fully online. Also, what system is it running? For me, one of the main advantages of owning a mac is the OS - nice, slick, fast, *NIX (hence good for developers), without all the configuration hassle of Linux.
- fortepianissimo 13y agoIt might be wiser to wait until Mavericks is shipped.
- tuananh 13y agoCommand+F -> "Retina" -> 0 of 0 ಠ╭╮ಠ
- joemaller1 13y agosame thought. Another year I guess.
- kalleboo 13y agoI'm hoping for a timeline of: Winter 2013: Mac Pro for sale, announced together with 30" 4K retina display Spring 2014: MacBook Pro Retina updated to support 4K output Fall 2014: High end iMac gets retina option
- baddox 13y agoWhen any Apple product gets upgraded to the Retina display, there will be no subtlety, and you won't have to carefully search Hacker News to find out about it.
- gxespino 13y agoThey make it hard to upgrade because they want you to bring it in and get it done = added revenue.
- jsvaughan 13y agoIt is me, or is Haswell taking a very long time to become available everywhere? The Haswell Mac Air came out 3 months ago, (June 10th), but you still can't get it in a MBP or a Thinkpad, and can only now get it in an iMac.
- ChikkaChiChi 13y agoUptake on next gen processors is unbelievably slow. You can find them if you look hard enough, but manufacturers seem to have more backstock than they can clear out.
- chiph 13y agoThe yields from the fab are probably still pretty low despite the 22nm process being carried over.
- tedunangst 13y agoHaswell is more different than ivy bridge. More changes, more verification. Apple and thinkpad lines are also the slowest updating, IMO. They keep existing models around for a lot longer than the two weeks it seems acer or asus do.
- johnbellone 13y agoThere is yet a solid date on 10.9 release (sometime in October?) and Apple is updating the iMac line. From the article it says they are shipping with Mountain Lion - I hope that the machines that ship have a free upgrade path to 10.9 because I would hate to have to put out another $20.
- grecy 13y agoThey will. Apple always do that when they release new hardware within ~2 months of a new major MAC OS X
- Samuel_Michon 13y ago> I hope that the machines that ship have a free upgrade path to 10.9 They will, Apple takes care of that via their Up-to-Date program. When Mountain Lion was announced Apple gave free upgrades for people who bought a computer in the 45 days preceding the release: http://www.macrumors.com/2012/07/25/apples-os-x-mountain-lion-up-to-date-program-experiencing-early-hiccups/ http://www.macrumors.com/2012/07/25/apples-os-x-mountain-lio...
- jokoon 13y agoI love how those iMac can run windows. the hardware is nice, and it runs windows, since laptop PC hardware is not that good.