AppleInsider Staff
Apple on Friday revised the estimated shipping times for its newly redesigned 27-inch iMac, with new orders now scheduled to ship in January.
In reality, the updated shipping times are not much of a delay, if at all: Just a week ago, new 27-inch iMac orders were scheduled to ship in three to four weeks. There are three-and-a-half weeks left in the month of December.
Those looking to get an iMac before Christmas can opt for the 21.5-inch model, which is available to ship in 7 to 10 business days from Apple's online store.
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I finally cracked last night and ordered mine.
We're looking at 4th-11th of Jan' as they quoted me. But it was always going to be about a 3-4 weeks/a month-ish as they only became available to order 30th/1st Dec'.
i7.
680MX.
Fusion Drive.
8 gigs of Ram.
That there...is a fast machine. Much faster than my current Core 2 Duo from 2008 with 8800GS.
I would have liked the retina for a 27 inch iMac. Knowing my luck Apple will update the iMac in June with retina. :P But I didn't think waiting for next Intel cpu was worth it with little anticipated performance increase with mainly power savings and more bumps to Integrated crappics.
But...I think i get the vibe we're at least a year away from that...and then...a GPU fast enough to push it in the way a 680MX pushes the current top res'? ...and look at the prices of the retinas for just 13 and 15 inch Macbooks!
I'm sure it will looking stunningly sharp when it arrives. Speaking of 'Sharp', did Marv' or one poster push a link of a 32 inch screen with a 4k res? But again. How much would an iMac with that cost? I'm sure the retina iMac will come in the next 1-3 years.
So, there we have it. I'll have the new sexy thin super powerful iMac.
...and the LED monitor they do have is far punchier with colours and pops with more vibrance. So, it is an improvement too.
It wasn't cheap. I don't like that Apple put the price up by £100, dropped the DVD AND charged me £50+ for an external. That's a £150+ price hike. I don't like that they're basically charging £200 for an £80 128 SSD part. I don't like their ass reaming prices on ram £160(?) for an extra 8 gigs to take it up to 16 gigs? (Seriously...greedy b*stardness...) Can get a stick of '8' gigs for about £30-ish quid?
The top end iMac still sits on i5 cpu (a £1000 'rig' and lower cpu...) It's gone up in price from £1500 to £1800 over the last few years. And you still have to BTO an i7 and the 680MX which should come as standard on the top end iMac in my view.
But compared to the entry level Mac Pro (a joke of a machine...with an outrageous price for an upgradeable machine (Yeah...) the BTO'd iMac is a real heavy weight for value, GPU punch, big beautiful screen and Fusion. I hope 'pro' aspirees have their day in the sun. But I get the feeling at Apple's current rate of going it will be late '13.
I'm looking forward to getting a commercial copy of Photoshop, an A3 scanner, sticking some extra ram to take it to 16 or 24 gigs...and having some fun doing 3D work, some 2D art and the odd game ;) Should perform 4-5 times faster on cpu and the same or more on GPU.
I'll lose the guilt over the price when it arrives, I guess.... :D Can't wait to see how fast it boots.
Ramble over.
Lemon Bon Bon. ;)
Does anybody know when the IMac will be in stores. It looks great and before people complain more about the IMac display. Most computers run at 1080p on the display whether it is 7-30 inch and at 7 inch a steep price. Now if it could have a 5000 pixel res. yet you could hardly notice the difference probably, retina could be on IMac or could not yet it still works great.
Does anybody know when the IMac will be in stores.
That's what I'm wondering, too. No 27" on display in SF yet, just the 21".
[quote name="Lemon Bon Bon."]I'm sure it will looking stunningly sharp when it arrives. Speaking of 'Sharp', did Marv' or one poster push a link of a 32 inch screen with a 4k res? But again. How much would an iMac with that cost? I'm sure the retina iMac will come in the next 1-3 years.[/quote] Yeah, this one here: http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/05/viewsonic-vp3280-led-4k-monitor-hands-on/ It's hard to say how much it would cost with Apple because they're shipping to consumers. As soon as you take things away from being exclusively for the high-price/low volume market, they can drop prices considerably because the volumes go up massively. Apple can sell a $1000 display stuck to a $1000 computer far more easily than a manufacturer can sell a $1000 display on its own. When the 27" iMac launched, they even managed to undercut Dell on 27" IPS displays. One factor will be getting the GPU to drive it. The 680MX probably could but the 660M might struggle. They could have just made a single top of the line model but they wouldn't get the volumes.