New Imacs soon? (Before Macworld)
We've seen reved up models of almost all of the hardware around except for the imac and the power mac. Personally i'd expect a new encloser for the power mac which would imply macworld. As for the imac would they introduce it now, so it doesn't steal the spotlight from the powermac and not worry about the speeds of the imac catching up with that of the powermac? or will they wait and update both at the same time?
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If it's a little bump could be at the end of the keynote. If not it might merit a day in the sun all to itself.
Course it's all blind speculation.
clearly, apple doesn't have enough faith in their customers or products to release them prior to a show.
I guess that explains why Apple updated every machine other than the iMac outside of a major show, right?
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On topic: The iMac wasn't widely available until around March. Apple likes to give their machines a good six month (or so) run, so I don't think we'll see an updated iMac until September or so.
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And since that's likely not going to happen before MWNY, I'd say no iMac bump before MWNY.
Just guessing,
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I am both troubled and buoyed by the intro of the eMac for consumers. They have used a low price config, which is good. But does that mean that iMac prices will creep upward or that, at least on the higher models, prices may drop back to their pre-bump levels, with more room on top for an iMacSE.
The eternal optimist in me says that Apple will price the machines back to their original prices, sometime later drop the eMac to the magical 999 level, drop the iMacG3 to 699-799 (though it should be 499 in it's current config). Now factor in the falling cost of drives (particularly the superdrive) and you have about $200 to play with on the top end before you hit the 2000 ceiling. I'd look for an iMac SE with the same spec as the again, (hopefully) 1799 (maybe 1749, dreaming) superdrive iMac, but with the addition of a 17" LCD display.
FP iMac 15" Superdrive model $1749/1799.
FP iMacSE 17" Superdrive Model $1999.
Granted this moves the iMac deep into mid PowerMac territory. But the iMac would do so with features (the 17" display) while hopefully the PowerMac will do it with power and expandibility (uberG4/G5, true DDR bus, PCI/AGP expansion, dual display support)
I think they could do a 17" SE model, and provided it stayed around 2000USD, people would buy it.
The big price driver here is the LCD screen as is evidenced by the much lower cost of the eMac.
I love the new iMac, and I really want to be able to burn my own DVDs, but the iMac makes you buy a flat panel display to get at the DVD burning capabilities. All this really ends up doing (at least in my case) is it makes me wait a year or so until the price eventually comes down or they release an eMac with a superdrive at a lower price. This hurts Apple's present earnings.
I'm not threatening to leave the apple platform, I'm not even considering it at all, but I'm upgrading far less frequently because of price.
My actual point here is that slapping a larger (and more expensive) LCD on the iMac will not be a successful move for Apple in the consumer desktop market. I actually believe that putting a superdrive in an eMac would be far more successful.
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<strong>because macs are widely considered toys, apple releases their new toys/computers at big 'shows'.
clearly, apple doesn't have enough faith in their customers or products to release them prior to a show.</strong><hr></blockquote>
MacWorld is basically a large advertising campaign for Apple, so releasing big news at their trade shows is common sense. It has nothing to do with Faith in their customers, it has to do with exposure, budgets, and marketing. If they didnt use MacWorlds for this, then we would be lucky if we saw Apple sponsering these events...