As we all know, the Swedes have been a bountiful source of Apple rumors over the past decades.... given that with the fact that the two iMac models listed both have the same price.... I have no choice but to believe em....
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How cute!
The price says in english: 1000 SEK less then todays price. That would be about $100 less then todays pris.
To help you translate that further would it mean that both models will get a price cut of proberly $100. Sounds ok to me.
Just a bump up to the next processor speed in the list certainly isn't a large speed bump in my opinion. If this is going to be a new design, it needs to wow us. 2GB RAM, nVidia 8600GT etc. I'm not in the market for an iMac, I'm in the MacPro demographic, but I do think it's time Apple took the iMac up a notch to appeal to entry level Pro users. Either that of provide them with the mini tower they have been asking for.
I agree 100%. I'm a PC person who has been looking for an "in" to get a good Mac. In August 2006 I built a 2.6 Core2Duo PC with 7950 GX2 SLI video card and 2 gig 800MHz ram for about $2000. As much as I'd like to try a Mac, I'm hesitant about paying more, 1 year later, for an older, slower machine than I've already had for a year. Apple isn't making it easy for me to switch! My only upgrade is a $4600 Mac Pro which is more cores but no faster on most software because the slower Ram counteracts the faster processor, and most software can't utilize multicores yet. I'd like to see a mini pro with a 3.0 gig quad Core2 in it, an 8800 GPU, and faster Ram so I'm not slowing down.
Same that Mac Pro, you order CTO machine if you want cheaper mac. $1399 is basic imac 20". You buy 2GHz prosessor, combo drive and you dont need BT and Airport = price is $999
Same that Mac Pro, you order CTO machine if you want cheaper mac. $1399 is basic imac 20". You buy 2GHz prosessor, combo drive and you dont need BT and Airport = price is $999
Not really. I would expect them to have the C2D 2.6GHz in the 24"er and possibly a choice of either the 2.6GHz or the 2.4GHz in the 20" model.
Just a bump up to the next processor speed in the list certainly isn't a large speed bump in my opinion. If this is going to be a new design, it needs to wow us. 2GB RAM, nVidia 8600GT etc. I'm not in the market for an iMac, I'm in the MacPro demographic, but I do think it's time Apple took the iMac up a notch to appeal to entry level Pro users. Either that of provide them with the mini tower they have been asking for.
The 2.6ghz chip is a extreme model that costs $300 more than the 2.4ghz model. You'd be looking at one expensive iMac. I agree anyone who isn't either a basic user or a super pro isn't served very well by Apple right now.
So far (regarding the iMac) was the Swedish source correct (been unable to check what the new price will be though).
"The new iMac is being offered in three basic configurations: An $1,199 model with 20-inch display, 2.0GHz processor, 250GB hard disk; a $1,499 model clocked at 2.4GHz with a 320GB drive for4 $1,499, and a 24-inch model for $1,799."
Now are we only waiting to see if the claim about the Mac mini was correct as well.
Anyone who dare to tell what the new ATI Radeon HD 2400XT card could be compared with?
Is it correct to assume it is DirectX10 competable (when using BootCamp)? The 2600XT card is according to ATi.
Bootcamp being a MBR loader has nothing to do with whether or not DirectX 10 is on. That would be a deal with the motherboard firmware/bios and the device driver from AMD/ATi for whatever Windows version you're running.
Anyone who dare to tell what the new ATI Radeon HD 2400XT card could be compared with?
Is it correct to assume it is DirectX10 competable (when using BootCamp)? The 2600XT card is according to ATi.
All Radeon X2000 series and Geforce 8000 series and up will be DX10 compatible. The 2400XT should be better than the GF 7400, and maybe roughly equivalent to the x1600 in the CD iMacs and MBPs. It's not going to beat a top-end x1600, and a x1900 will slaughter it.
The first number tells you what generation it is. ATi chips are on X2--- generation. Any chip called X2-whatever will have certain features (unified shader, DX 10, some sort of video decode thing). Ditto the GF 8--- series.
Generally, anything with a 3 or a 4 as the second number (7300, 2400, etc.) is low-end or low-mid-range. Something with a 6 in that spot (like a x1600) is a mid-range chip, and anything with a 8 or 9 (like the X1900 in the Mac Pros) is high end.
All Radeon X2000 series and Geforce 8000 series and up will be DX10 compatible. The 2400XT should be better than the GF 7400, and maybe roughly equivalent to the x1600 in the CD iMacs and MBPs. It's not going to beat a top-end x1600, and a x1900 will slaughter it.
The first number tells you what generation it is. ATi chips are on X2--- generation. Any chip called X2-whatever will have certain features (unified shader, DX 10, some sort of video decode thing). Ditto the GF 8--- series.
Generally, anything with a 3 or a 4 as the second number (7300, 2400, etc.) is low-end or low-mid-range. Something with a 6 in that spot (like a x1600) is a mid-range chip, and anything with a 8 or 9 (like the X1900 in the Mac Pros) is high end.
Great answer. That was the type of answer and even more I wanted to see.
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As we all know, the Swedes have been a bountiful source of Apple rumors over the past decades.... given that with the fact that the two iMac models listed both have the same price.... I have no choice but to believe em....
D
How cute!
The price says in english: 1000 SEK less then todays price. That would be about $100 less then todays pris.
To help you translate that further would it mean that both models will get a price cut of proberly $100. Sounds ok to me.
Just a bump up to the next processor speed in the list certainly isn't a large speed bump in my opinion. If this is going to be a new design, it needs to wow us. 2GB RAM, nVidia 8600GT etc. I'm not in the market for an iMac, I'm in the MacPro demographic, but I do think it's time Apple took the iMac up a notch to appeal to entry level Pro users. Either that of provide them with the mini tower they have been asking for.
I agree 100%. I'm a PC person who has been looking for an "in" to get a good Mac. In August 2006 I built a 2.6 Core2Duo PC with 7950 GX2 SLI video card and 2 gig 800MHz ram for about $2000. As much as I'd like to try a Mac, I'm hesitant about paying more, 1 year later, for an older, slower machine than I've already had for a year. Apple isn't making it easy for me to switch! My only upgrade is a $4600 Mac Pro which is more cores but no faster on most software because the slower Ram counteracts the faster processor, and most software can't utilize multicores yet. I'd like to see a mini pro with a 3.0 gig quad Core2 in it, an 8800 GPU, and faster Ram so I'm not slowing down.
400 more from entry model today? (999)
fAKE!
price starts at $1399???
400 more from entry model today? (999)
fAKE!
about 3 hours
Not really. I would expect them to have the C2D 2.6GHz in the 24"er and possibly a choice of either the 2.6GHz or the 2.4GHz in the 20" model.
If you're referring to the mobile cpu 2.6 ghz ( I assume you are), that's a $900 part. Not likely to make it into a consumer machine.
Frankly this is what I expect. Since the transition to Intel, the iMac and MBP have had similar specs and performance. I don't see this changing.
price starts at $1399???
400 more from entry model today? (999)
fAKE!
entry model (CTO) is about $999 ....
Same that Mac Pro, you order CTO machine if you want cheaper mac. $1399 is basic imac 20". You buy 2GHz prosessor, combo drive and you dont need BT and Airport = price is $999
entry model (CTO) is about $999 ....
Same that Mac Pro, you order CTO machine if you want cheaper mac. $1399 is basic imac 20". You buy 2GHz prosessor, combo drive and you dont need BT and Airport = price is $999
got it.
2 hours and 30 mins to go.
Not really. I would expect them to have the C2D 2.6GHz in the 24"er and possibly a choice of either the 2.6GHz or the 2.4GHz in the 20" model.
Just a bump up to the next processor speed in the list certainly isn't a large speed bump in my opinion. If this is going to be a new design, it needs to wow us. 2GB RAM, nVidia 8600GT etc. I'm not in the market for an iMac, I'm in the MacPro demographic, but I do think it's time Apple took the iMac up a notch to appeal to entry level Pro users. Either that of provide them with the mini tower they have been asking for.
The 2.6ghz chip is a extreme model that costs $300 more than the 2.4ghz model. You'd be looking at one expensive iMac. I agree anyone who isn't either a basic user or a super pro isn't served very well by Apple right now.
According to the Swedish MacWorld have they recieved the new specifications of the new iMac and the Mac mini
IMAC 20/2.4/1GB/320GB/SD/AP/BT-SWE MA877S/A
20 tum
2,4 Ghz (2,16 GHz)
1 GB minne (1 GB)
320 GB hårddisk (250 GB)
Pris: Cirka 1000 kronor mindre än idag.
IMAC 24/2.4/1GB/320GB/SD/AP/BT-SWE MA878S/A
24 tum
2,4 Ghz (2,16 GHz)
1 GB minne (1 GB)
320 GB hårddisk (250 GB)
Pris: Cirka 1000 kronor mindre än idag.
MMINI 2.0C2D/120/SD-SWE MB139S/A
2.0 GhZ (1,66 resp. 1,83 GHz)
Core2duo
120 GB
Pris: 6500-7000 kronor (6000-8000 kr)
17-tums-iMacen verkar försvinna helt ur sortimentet.
The figures within the brackets is the current specifications before upgrading.
The last comment says that it seems like the 17" will be removed from the list.
It seems the price for the iMacs will be cut with $100, and $50-100 for the Mac mini.
Link:http://macworld.idg.se/2.1038/1.115587
So far (regarding the iMac) was the Swedish source correct (been unable to check what the new price will be though).
"The new iMac is being offered in three basic configurations: An $1,199 model with 20-inch display, 2.0GHz processor, 250GB hard disk; a $1,499 model clocked at 2.4GHz with a 320GB drive for4 $1,499, and a 24-inch model for $1,799."
Now are we only waiting to see if the claim about the Mac mini was correct as well.
Is it correct to assume it is DirectX10 competable (when using BootCamp)? The 2600XT card is according to ATi.
Anyone who dare to tell what the new ATI Radeon HD 2400XT card could be compared with?
Is it correct to assume it is DirectX10 competable (when using BootCamp)? The 2600XT card is according to ATi.
ATI Radeon™ HD 2400 Series - GPU Specifications
ATI Radeon™ HD 2400 Feature Summary
180 million transistors on 65nm fabrication process
64-bit DDR2/GDDR3 memory interface
Unified Superscalar Shader Architecture
40 stream processing units
Dynamic load balancing and resource allocation for vertex, geometry, and pixel shaders
Common instruction set and texture unit access supported for all types of shaders
Dedicated branch execution units and texture address processors
128-bit floating point precision for all operations
Command processor for reduced CPU overhead
Shader instruction and constant caches
Up to 16 texture fetches per clock cycle
Up to 128 textures per pixel
Fully associative vertex/texture cache design
DXTC and 3Dc+ texture compression
High resolution texture support (up to 8192 x 8192)
Fully associative texture & Z/stencil cache designs
Early Z test, Re-Z, Z Range optimization, and Fast Z Clear
Lossless Z & stencil compression
8 render targets (MRTs) with anti-aliasing support
Physics processing support
Full support for Microsoft® DirectX® 10
Shader Model 4.0
Geometry Shaders
Stream Output
Integer and Bitwise Operations
Alpha to Coverage
Constant Buffers
State Objects
Texture Arrays
Dynamic Geometry Acceleration
Programmable tessellation unit
Accelerated geometry shader path for geometry amplification
Memory read/write cache for improved stream output performance
Anti-aliasing features
Multi-sample anti-aliasing (up to 4 samples per pixel)
Custom Filter Anti-Aliasing (CFAA) for improved quality
Adaptive super-sampling and multi-sampling
Temporal anti-aliasing
Gamma correct
Super AA (CrossFire configurations only)
All anti-aliasing features compatible with HDR rendering
Texture filtering features
2x/4x/8x/16x high quality adaptive anisotropic filtering modes (up to 128 taps per pixel)
128-bit floating point HDR texture filtering
Bicubic filtering
sRGB filtering (gamma/degamma)
Percentage Closer Filtering (PCF)
Depth & stencil texture (DST) format support
Shared exponent HDR (RGBE 9:9:9:5) texture format support
CrossFire™ Multi-GPU Technology
Scale up rendering performance and image quality with 2 or more GPUs
Integrated compositing engine
High performance dual channel interconnect
ATI Avivo™ HD Video and Display Platform
Dedicated unified video decoder (UVD) for H.264/AVC and VC-1 video formats
High definition (HD) playback of both Blu-ray and HD DVD formats
Hardware MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4/DivX video decode acceleration
Motion compensation and iDCT (inverse discrete cosine transform)
Avivo Video Post Processor
Color space conversion
Chroma subsampling format conversion
Horizontal and vertical scaling
Gamma correction
High Quality Video Post Processing
Advanced vector adaptive per-pixel de-interlacing
De-blocking and noise reduction filtering \\
Detail enhancement
Inverse telecine (2:2 and 3:2 pull-down correction)
Bad edit correction
Two independent display controllers
Drive two displays simultaneously with independent resolutions, refresh rates, color controls and video overlays for each display
Full 30-bit display processing
Programmable piecewise linear gamma correction, color correction, and color space conversion
Spatial/temporal dithering provides 30-bit color quality on 24-bit and 18-bit displays
High quality pre- and post-scaling engines, with underscan support for all display outputs
Content-adaptive de-flicker filtering for interlaced displays
Fast, glitch-free mode switching
Hardware cursor
Two integrated DVI display outputs
Primary supports 18-, 24-, and 30-bit digital displays at all resolutions up to 1920x1200 (single-link DVI) or 2560x1600 (dual-link DVI)1
Secondary supports 18-, 24-, and 30-bit digital displays at all resolutions up to 1920x1200 (single-link DVI only)1
Each includes a dual-link HDCP encoder with on-chip key storage for high resolution playback of protected content2
Two integrated 400 MHz 30-bit RAMDACs
Each supports analog displays connected by VGA at all resolutions up to 2048x15361
HDMI output support
Supports all display resolutions up to 1920x10801
Integrated HD audio controller with multi-channel (5.1) AC3 support, enabling a plug-and-play cable-less audio solution
Integrated AMD Xilleon™ HDTV encoder
Provides high quality analog TV output (component/S-video/composite)
Supports SDTV and HDTV resolutions
Underscan and overscan compensation
MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, WMV9, VC-1, and H.264/AVC encoding and transcoding
Seamless integration of pixel shaders with video in real time
VGA mode support on all display outputs
PCI Express x16 bus interface
OpenGL 2.0 support
Anyone who dare to tell what the new ATI Radeon HD 2400XT card could be compared with?
Is it correct to assume it is DirectX10 competable (when using BootCamp)? The 2600XT card is according to ATi.
Bootcamp being a MBR loader has nothing to do with whether or not DirectX 10 is on. That would be a deal with the motherboard firmware/bios and the device driver from AMD/ATi for whatever Windows version you're running.
"10:14AM: Note that the Mac mini is still pictured as part of Apple's product line."
Tim Cook, Apple COO confirms that "We're refreshing the Mac mini today."
The Swedish source was right on the money.
Anyone who dare to tell what the new ATI Radeon HD 2400XT card could be compared with?
Is it correct to assume it is DirectX10 competable (when using BootCamp)? The 2600XT card is according to ATi.
All Radeon X2000 series and Geforce 8000 series and up will be DX10 compatible. The 2400XT should be better than the GF 7400, and maybe roughly equivalent to the x1600 in the CD iMacs and MBPs. It's not going to beat a top-end x1600, and a x1900 will slaughter it.
The first number tells you what generation it is. ATi chips are on X2--- generation. Any chip called X2-whatever will have certain features (unified shader, DX 10, some sort of video decode thing). Ditto the GF 8--- series.
Generally, anything with a 3 or a 4 as the second number (7300, 2400, etc.) is low-end or low-mid-range. Something with a 6 in that spot (like a x1600) is a mid-range chip, and anything with a 8 or 9 (like the X1900 in the Mac Pros) is high end.
All Radeon X2000 series and Geforce 8000 series and up will be DX10 compatible. The 2400XT should be better than the GF 7400, and maybe roughly equivalent to the x1600 in the CD iMacs and MBPs. It's not going to beat a top-end x1600, and a x1900 will slaughter it.
The first number tells you what generation it is. ATi chips are on X2--- generation. Any chip called X2-whatever will have certain features (unified shader, DX 10, some sort of video decode thing). Ditto the GF 8--- series.
Generally, anything with a 3 or a 4 as the second number (7300, 2400, etc.) is low-end or low-mid-range. Something with a 6 in that spot (like a x1600) is a mid-range chip, and anything with a 8 or 9 (like the X1900 in the Mac Pros) is high end.
Great answer. That was the type of answer and even more I wanted to see.
Thanks alot.