iMac 2013 - Haswell Refresh Released

kitkat9933 said:
I'm thinking they will announce the rMBP with the next gen iPads. I'm assuming it will just be a spec bump and price drop with the removal of the non retina mbps from the lineup. As they want to promote it as the flagship Mac it will get some stage time.
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I'm thinking they might incorporate the finger scan tech into a new power button on the rMBP which is why they might wait for the iPad release
 
sbi5ar said:
I'm thinking they might incorporate the finger scan tech into a new power button on the rMBP which is why they might wait for the iPad release
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But on the rMBP the power button is on the keyboard with all the other keys (replaces eject key), so unless they moved it back of the keyboard, I'm not sure how they would achieve this.
 
Prophet said:
If you use it, it's not daft stuff. I guess you could use external drives and cut down to 8GB in most cases.
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Or just upgrade it yourself rather than pay Apple the extortionate upgrade costs. Same with the HDD.

On the other hand £1700 for the i5 4670 is very expensive in it's own right. I was tempted until I saw the prices. I'm sure they didn't used to be that expensive!
 
Amp34 said:
Or just upgrade it yourself rather than pay Apple the extortionate upgrade costs. Same with the HDD.

On the other hand £1700 for the i5 4670 is very expensive in it's own right. I was tempted until I saw the prices. I'm sure they didn't used to be that expensive!
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Yeah they do seem to be creeping up! I managed to get my 2012 27" on the education pricing with 680mx for 1600, with the 3 years warranty I was happy with the price.

I then ripped it open and exchanged the 1tb hdd for a 500gb samsung 840pro. Still running 8gb but I will upgrade to 16 soon as I will be running multiple VMs on it
 
kitkat9933 said:
But on the rMBP the power button is on the keyboard with all the other keys (replaces eject key), so unless they moved it back of the keyboard, I'm not sure how they would achieve this.
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Having just been into an Apple store and seen the way it looks on a black iPhone I think they could change the eject/power button for it... Obviously it wont stick out like the other keys, but aesthetically it wont look out of place (that is if they change it form being round to being rectangular)
 
Dr House said:
So will you be able to add an extra SSD drive at a later date?

It would be cool if you could RAID 2 ssd drives :D
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No, the HDD/SSD part is as ordered, to upgrade that would mean voiding the warranty as you need to pull out the glass/LCD at the front with suction pads. It's harder this model because the way they made the glass and LCD compare to the previous one.

So get top spec GFX, CPU and HDD/SSD as you can, with 8G of RAM and upgrade Ram yourself.

Prophet said:
Best part of £3.5K for a top spec 27"er!

:(
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I got it through HE last December for a top spec at the time (1TB Fusion over SSD), 32G Ram in it too separately, and the whole thing cost me about £2100.
 
Amp34 said:
You do know how much "4k" screens are right? I think there are currently only one or two out and they are both around £4k alone! The panels the 27" iMac uses can be had in monitors for anything from around £350 (rubbish ones) to around £600.

That'll be why they haven't released a "retina" iMac...;)
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Apple led the way for afforable uber high res phone, tablet and laptop screens (probably down to economy of scale compared to a much smaller pro market). I don't expect the iMacs to be any different. 4K TV prices are dropping by £1-2k already.
 
Raymond Lin said:
No, the HDD/SSD part is as ordered, to upgrade that would mean voiding the warranty as you need to pull out the glass/LCD at the front with suction pads. It's harder this model because the way they made the glass and LCD compare to the previous one.

So get top spec GFX, CPU and HDD/SSD as you can, with 8G of RAM and upgrade Ram yourself.



I got it through HE last December for a top spec at the time (1TB Fusion over SSD), 32G Ram in it too separately, and the whole thing cost me about £2100.
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The ram is still user upgradable then?
 
Somnambulist said:
Apple led the way for afforable uber high res phone, tablet and laptop screens (probably down to economy of scale compared to a much sm pro market). I don't expect the iMacs to be any different. 4K TV prices are dropping by £1-2k already.
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I'd disagree there, iPhone 4 screens were not much higher resolution than screens on other smartphones at the time (and there was another phone with that res at the time IIRC). The big difference was that it was a massive jump from the iPhone 3 screens, which were much lower than other smartphones at the time. The screen on the iPad was the first but there were companies advertising consumer tablet screens at the time.

The difference with a "retina" iMac is companies ars already selling screens of that sort of resolution and they are only viable at around £3.5k. I can see it happening in the refresh after next but probably not even the next refresh.
 
There used to be these medical balance boards that cost thousands of pounds for hospitals/rehab places etc. They got made obsolete overnight by the first Nintendo Wii's balance board, which was more or less identical, but cost a fraction of the price.

Mavericks already has 27" Retina wallpapers

I'd imagine when the Mac Pro comes out, they'll start with a Retina Thunderbolt Display to go with it.
 
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