“Reliable sources have zeroed in further on the release date for Apple’s revamped iMac since our last report, pointing to an announcement on August 7,” Think Secret reports.
Full article – also with iWork rumors – here.
MacDailyNews Note: This report tracks closely with other iMac rumors we’ve read and heard: 20- and 24-inch models, no 17-inch, more vertical symmetry with screen placement (no large blank space at the bottom of the screen as with today’s models), and topping out with a 2.4GHz Santa Rosa processor. The new iMacs sound like they will be a significant upgrade of an already excellent, highly-regarded desktop.
[UPDATE: 9:15am EDT: Fixed link to correct Think Secret article.]
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “TheReal” for the heads up.]
I only say iMacs are Pieces because they are not upgradeable. Now that the Mac is back I’m considering switching to the god awful XP because I can’t afford the computer I need in Apple Land.
This is ridiculous. Why can’t I buy a headless Mac? Going with Intel should have produced a line of Macs that was powerful AND affordable. I would not even consider an iMac. iMacs are for your parents and kids. If Apple doesn’t put a non-Xeon in a tower soon…
@zerO
Repetition is used in all great propaganda. Examples are Iraq and Leni Riefenstahl and Josef Goebels. It has been used as a tool for centuries. If you repeat a lie especially large one enough times, it becomes the truth in many minds.
As far as the iMacs being POSs – I can’t wait to get REAL computers because the conservative 20% increase in revenue we have obtained in business every year over the last 3 years using POSs seems pretty good. The ease of use translated into time/money savings has been well worth it. Please let me know what computers would help us get say more than 20% revenue increase because I’m switching.
For about the 1000th time people…
Zune Tang is being SARCASTIC. Look it up!
When you beat him up, you just make yourself look like a FOOL.
I fell for the “upgradable” line for years, buying a series of towers that, in hindsight, I really never upgraded that much. $800 for a new processor? $400 for a new video card? I could spend a little more and get a new machine with a faster bus and other new technologies that you just can’t upgrade. I could spend big money on a tower and big money upgrading it, or just buy a new iMac a little more often. Works for me, especially since the iMacs enabled Extended Desktop with a second monitor. To each her own, I guess.
thats the most hilarious word in the world…. Microsh*t and Thier New 4 Years Behind Product Winblows Vista! =D
I really hope Apple makes the disc eject system sturdier than on my G5 iMac. After about a year cds popped out and I had to catch them in my hand instead coming out half-way. After about two years the dvds did the same thing. It’s just a bit of an irritation that the slot system just could have been more robust. Am I the only one experiencing this irritant?
Having made the point I’m really waiting for the new model release. It’s just I’ll have to wait until December (when my classes have finished) to purchase a 20 inch model.
I second ChrissyOne’s opinion. Back when I was building my Doze boxes, I don’t think I ever added anything but a hard drive or two, and one time I replaced a CD drive with a DVD drive and a video card.
I never upgraded the CPU or memory because the motherboards were always obsolete in 6-12 months, max. It was just easier to build a new bleeding edge box from scratch.
Now, of course, having learned the virtues of Apple and OS X, I would never return to the Dark Side.
ChrissyOne, obviously you’re not paying attention to PC component costs. Even a quad core Q6600 2.4GHZ costs $430 before the July 22 price cuts. And a nVidia 8600 GT is < $150.
7300GT. Every PC user laughs at a $2500 computer with a $75 video card.
Jay, even if you never upgraded your tower you could still build another PC for half the cost of buying that Mac Pro.
I know that Macs have better resale value. And Windows SUX.
But I can’t rationalize spending $3,000 on a home computer. Apple please help.
regarding ‘iMacs are POS’..
here’s my situation:
24″ iMac Core Duo 2 2.6Ghz 750GB HD,2.5Gb memory, 256mb video, bluetooth,wifi, Firewire 400/800, USB 2, Digital Audio I/O, built in iSight, DVD dual layer, built in speakers…….attached I have a 23″ HD display for screen span.
I produce on average 20 to 25 videos a month.
I shoot on average 1000 to 2000 photos a month.
I am Pro certified in Motion, Final Cut, Soundtrack, DVD Studio Pro…and they work FLAWLESSLY.
! am a heavy Adobe app user.
my point is …only die hard geeks who don’t know SHIAT, need the “upgradability”…I upgraded my machine the day I bought it. And as the forseeable future can tell, I won’t need anything else…My iMac is a Pro kick ass machine.
god, I hate when people spew FUD.
oh yea, before I came over to the Mac side..my computer was a boxed PEECEE..that I put together….except the POS never worked quite right, I was always missing some driver…so you know, since I am a very busy producer, I have ZERO time to sit and ponder why the “firewire card” didn’t work…
that was fast!
@ Gman
What kinda videos do you produce. I’m a video fanatic currently working on a PC and Premiere but I’m hoping to exit the dark side soon. I had a Mac way back in the days (Mac IIsi 3MB RAM 40MB HDD). I long to get my hands on Final Cut Pro and perhaps an iMac or MacBook Pro.
Dreams…………. they do come true
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