Think Secret: New iMacs Coming Feb 3?

macsrgood4u

In a discussion of the delay of the iLife iApps until Jan 31, Think Secret believes it has to do with possible upcoming hardware upgrades.



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fuzz_ball

The logic of their "rumor" is pretty week. If iLife is truly being delayed for new hardware, then what's the point of releasing it 3 days before the new hardware is anounced or 9 days??? This would only make sense if they were holding off releasing iLife the same day as new hardware. I *think* ThinkSecrets is just trying to drum up some web traffic since not much is likely to happen on the rumor front for the next 45-60 days...

xype

[quote]Originally posted by fuzz_ball:

<strong>I *think* ThinkSecrets is just trying to drum up some web traffic</strong><hr></blockquote>



Yeah, I guess ThinkSecret is _the_ rumor site known for spitting out bullshit to increase web traffic.

shawnpatrickjoyce

You must have never been to MOSR.

xype

[quote]Originally posted by ShawnPatrickJoyce:

<strong>You must have never been to MOSR. </strong><hr></blockquote>



Actually that's what I was referring to - since ThinkSecret isn't exactly known to be a MOSR-like site. :cool:

costique

It must be a stretch. If something upcoming is able to delay iLife's release, it's not hardware. iLife may depend on some updated frameworks, but it means a system update, not iMacs with FW800 or another 100 MHz speed bump.

Here I assume that iLife is supposed to run on any PowerPC Mac with Jagwire, rather than only on a certain iMac model.

t'hain esh kelch

[quote]Originally posted by xype:

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Yeah, I guess ThinkSecret is _the_ rumor site known for spitting out bullshit to increase web traffic.</strong><hr></blockquote>

So wrong... Think Secret has hit right on the nail countless times.

What YOU are talking about is MOSR!

msantti

Well, Thinksecret is one of the more reliable rumor sites.



I give the speculation some value.

ast3r3x

sarcasm is so hard to portray over the internet





...i knew what u meant

xype

Hehe! Oh well, at least I didn't go as far as saying crazyapplerumorsite is the one to trust!

pbg4 dude

or Spymac even. There's a site dedicated to increasing traffic by using baseless rumors if I ever saw one . . .

outsider

Well if there is a new iMac, some significant changes will need to be made to the interals of it. One to support Airport Extreme and Bluetooth. I would suggest they make the Airport card the one they need to totally uncrew to install and put 2 full size DIMM slots on the bottom making it much easier to upgrade. Hopefully 867 and 1GHz speeds on 133MHz bus. Upgrade all models to GF4 MX with 64MB and add a Firewire 800 port on the 17" models. Of course this is my opinion on what the iMac should have. Apple's may differ.

othello

[quote]Originally posted by Outsider:

<strong>Of course this is my opinion on what the iMac should have. Apple's may differ.</strong><hr></blockquote>



thats the problem. we all know what apple should do (and how great they would be if they did it...



they just refuse to follow our advice!

xype

No GeForce4 MX, Radeon 9000 instead.

outsider

[quote]Originally posted by othello:

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thats the problem. we all know what apple should do (and how great they would be if they did it...



they just refuse to follow our advice! </strong><hr></blockquote>

I eagerly await the day the exceed our expectations.

sybaritic

LaCie comes out with a Firewire 2 drive in February. The new or refreshed PowerMac line will have this capacity. Perhaps the two coincide.



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macrat

I suspect it has more to do with 10.2.4 than anything else... <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />

rok

honestly, if i were apple, i would leak photos of my next big thing to spymac. NO ONE would believe it, because, hell, it's spymac.

bigc

[quote]Originally posted by Outsider:

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I eagerly await the day the exceed our expectations. </strong><hr></blockquote>





That'll be the day. Apple "Way beyond the Rumour Boards"

apple.otaku

Note that the ship time for the 17" model slipped from 1-2 days a few days ago to 3-5 days. Now it has slipped again to 5-7 days.

idude

I have good reason to believe this. I was at the Apple store yesterday, and all the employees thought it was still coming out today. This indicates that the stores DO have them in stock (Or the staff would we eerie). I also was at the ICE convention yesterday (Indiana Computer Educators), and the computers in the booth had the new iApps, and they were final versions. I believe that this is just a marketing ploy by Apple that should not be done. Delaying software without a reason makes them look bad.