“All current signs point to an iMac refresh sometime next week,” Mark Gurman reports for 9 to 5 Mac.
“The rumors started a few weeks ago when an unsourced report claimed that refreshed iMacs are en route to the United States for a late April or early May launch,” Gurman reports. “Then, just last week, our sources across the globe backed up these claims, saying that iMac shipments and components are very constrained.”
Gurman reports, “Yesterday, our colleague Mr. X told us to expect new iMacs the week of May 2nd as Apple will officially stop shipping iMacs to resellers this week (week of April 25th).”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: If so, we’ll be ordering the moment that Apple makes new iMacs available.
I just love my 27″ mid 2010 model but holy POOP Thunderbolt would be AWESOME!
Waiting….
… me, too.
Mr. X? As in X and bacon?
Money burning holes in bank now.
Already burnt my wallet, my bank account has melted..
I need a new iMac soon, else I’ll just buy a Dell 😉
Might as well just set the money on fire right now.
LOL
My 24″ ’08 iMac is still kicking butt. I’ll be in the market in a couple of years but these systems are built and configured so well I only update every 6-7 years!
one imac to go please…
To order next week or wait until September when Apple has their annual Buy a Mac, Get a Free iPod Touch promo?
Maybe they’ll extend the Touch to a iPhone credit this year. Hmmm.
My eMac is finally heading for the exit – yet still able to reach it on it’s own.
Its own!
Curse you, auto spell.
Yes, the added apostrophe by the auto-spell on the possessive pronoun, ‘its’, is one of my biggest pet peeves, too.
Like the way it always makes hell into he’ll. And I write he’ll a he’ll of a lot…
Grrr… empathy.
Drives me nuts on my iPhone too.
1-Do Thunderbolt devices beyond MDP monitors exist- not promised-in stock?
2-Are any Thunderbolt cards available for current generation Mac Pros?
Show me some real world value to Thunderbolt & maybe I’ll buy a card for my MacPro. I spent the $ to get away from desktop storage & an iMac won’t cut it.
It’s future-proof.
It’d be like buying a USB 2.0 capable computer circa 2001. By 2003, you’d be darn glad you did that.
Mr. X? Wasn’t that Homer Simpson?
My boss promised me an iMac for my desk about two months ago. I have been patiently waiting for the new one to come out. I’m starting to feel the itch!
How does Thunderbolt stack up against eSATA?
It pretty much crushes it into paste.
Here is a link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_ATA
Thunderbolt is 10Gbps bi-directional. Later versions using optic fiber rather than copper should be much faster. SATA II is 3.0 Gbps. Most recent version of SATA is 6.0Gbps. All theoretical max bandwidth, less in practice. There are factors other than throughput which may be important to you. For instance, Thunderbolt connects directly to internal PCIe bus.
The way I understand it the optic fiber wont change the speed or anything like that, it will just increase the allowable cable length.
I haven’t seen anything that says it will be faster. Could you link to a source for that?
My sister-in-law recently bought a new iMac – not sure when, just found out a couple of weeks ago. If she had asked, I would have advised her to wait. Oh, well…she still got a great machine.
This’ll be my first new Mac in eight and a half years. I like to milk my Macs!