iMac refresh is imminent, according to reseller sources
By Vlad Savov 
posted July 23rd 2010 5:05AM
posted July 23rd 2010 5:05AM
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@MicrosoftOwns jeeeeze sounds like youve had a bad day..... Macs are a thing of true beauty i happen to own the current imac and i never want to go back to pc but each to their own i suppose maybe thats something you need to learn
@machazna
Lets hope these ones don't have that Yellow tinting and DOA issue. They do replace the DOA ones but it's a waste of time tbh.
@machazna
They do look nice, however my only quarrel is that apple have to make everything hard when you try to do something "outside the box". At work somebody brought a presentation in on his macbook, we must of been there a good 20-30 minutes trying to connect and upload it to our server. In the end I had to bring in a dell and transfer it via a USB stick. He quoted "I wish I never bought it".
@machazna
my comment was deleted again. i didnt post anything against the rules, so stop deleting it. obviously a mac owner is pissed about the truth. truth hurts.
macs are stupid, no games. no right click. osx is ugly. dock takes up 20% of the screen at all times making maximizing a windows never fully maximized.
@DougieBear Just coz people don't know how to use a product doesn't mean it's bad :-)
@MicrosoftOwns Haha what rock have you been sleeping under for the last 20 years? Every statement you made is wrong, good job :P
Mac have games, they have had right (alternative) click for the last 20 years, the dock can be hidden, programs can be maximised!
@DougieBear
Funny, since my experience is the complete opposite. From my Macs I can connect to Windows, Linux and OS X and back without a hitch using either SMB, AFS, NFS, SSH, no problems whatsoever. On the other hand, I always get into loads of problems trying to connect Windows PC's to other Windows PC's. It gets even worse if they are different generations of Windows, e.g. XP to Vista/W7, and it becomes hellish if you dare to bring a Windows laptop that's not configured for the corporate network and need to authenticate over LDAP. Of course it's a whole different story if you only use just Windows machines prepared by your IT department, then bring in a random OS X machine that doesn't fit this one-size-fits-all network configuration. But that's not a limitation or problem specific to OS X, you'd get similar problems bringing in a random Windows machine to a Mac-only network, a Windows machine with a completely different network etc.
@drange You obviously don't have much experience with Win7. Personally, I do. And I find it much easier to connect securely to Win7 than Mac. Oh yeah, I own both at home and work with both at work.
@JesperA
yea the dock can be hidden, but you would think that the default design is the BEST. the mac best requires oversized icons taking up half the effing screen. macs do not have games. 10 year old games on steam and wow do not count as "games"
Definition of troll (see above ----------^ )
Oh how people would settle for less than they paid for. Hi, I'm a Mac and I overpaid.
@wickywills Dont call a man a troll for speaking the truth. I dont call people trolls for trashing on windows phone 7 for not having C&P..
@MicrosoftOwns
you really, really have no idea what you are talking about.
@crescentdavid
My experience with W7 is in fact pretty limited, and I'm not arguing it is hard to connect W7 to W7 or something like that. Similarly I think it's ridiculously easy to connect OS X to whatever you like. It's all there, you have SSH, NFS, AFS, SMB, LDAP, 4 different flavors of VPN, RDP, VNC, it's all there. The original poster I was reacting to stated that 'OS X is restricted if you do anything outside the box'. That either implies that on OS X the box is just so large you never have to go outside of it, or that the box is so small on Windows that it is great as long as you don't want to connect to something else. Ie: the complete opposite to what the he was saying.
I find it hard to believe anyone would be surprised that it's easier to connect Windows to Windows or OS X to OS X, but in terms of supported protocols and connection options, OS X objectively much more flexible than Windows, no point arguing that, just lookup the list of supported protocols and find the ones that are shared between other systems.
@machazna Money is freedom, so im not gonna waste 600 dollars I couldve saved on a PC to buy "Beauty". PC's have done it one important thing right, and that is CHOICE. I could find beautiful hardware in PC form to for a lot cheaper thanks to competition between hardware devs. What I hate about Apple is if they really wanted to they could ship you a case made of bricks, and there would be noone else to go to to get the same OS experience. In my opinion that is way to much control in a company.
@briguy266
...and which one of his previous statements was "the truth"??
Also, what does Windows phone 7 have ANYTHING to do with this post?
@briguy266 well im 16 and i didnt pay for mine so i dont care about money but mac is a choice its just a shame that no other company has arrived at the same level that they are at
@machazna
Doesn't matter if you don't pay for it, right?
Grown-ups are talking, sssh.
@MicrosoftOwns
I think your comment gets deleted if it is marked negative so many times.
@briguy266
1. So, what if my 'choice' is exactly the kind of machine that Apple builds, and that I can't find somewhere else cheaper? For example a dead-silent all-in-one with a 27" screen and reasonably fast hardware? Or a PC the size of a stack of CD's? In what way is Apple 'restricting' my choice by providing me with the choice to buy a machine that none of their competitor builds? That's even without considering the fact that I choose to prefer OS X over Windows. Note: Macs run Windows too.
2. Do you really, _really_ believe that people would keep buying Apple hardware if it actually sucked? Apple also makes products that fail and disappear completely every now and then, or sell only very small numbers. Think AppleTV, eMac, Newton, etc. If you really think they have a free ride and don't have to compete on quality, innovation or added value, you are fooling yourself. I know it's popular to think like that if *your* choice is something else than Apple hardware, but that doesn't make it true for people who *do* prefer their products over generic hardware that might be cheaper and have all kinds of nice properties that Apple does not have, but fails on the properties I care about.
@drange
> From my Macs I can connect to Windows, Linux and OS X
> and back without a hitch using either SMB, AFS, NFS, SSH,
> no problems whatsoever.
I setup AFS specifically for my Macs because they have a nasty habit of losing samba connections and the only way to reset things seems to restart the box entirely.
Linux can connect to Macs very smoothly with SSH using FUSE but the reverse is not true at all.
Also, connecting to a Mac through VNC gives you a new found appreciation for X as a Mac VNC connection is too slow to be usable and the Apple style server control panel doesn't give you nearly enough options to help speed things up.
@drange
> Or a PC the size of a stack of CD's?
PCs did this first actually. The Apple iteration of this idea came along much later. The nice thing about PCs is that there is someone to cater to any niche even if that someone isn't as prominent as Dell.
@MicrosoftOwns : you know, your username confirms your trollness. Msoft's 360 and WP7 were really good, but Windoze? People LIKE it? And I thought it was just cost effective.......
Anyways, I hope they get rid of the 21.5 in model and go 27 in all the way.... or 24 or something bigger than 21.5... that's too small.
@blenderman345
I plan on buying a 21.5 sometime this year because it's going to be the size I need for my desk. And I like the price point better. If they would offer a bigger screen at the same price as the 21.5 I might agree with you, but until then I will have to disagree and say I hope that they don't end that line.
@machazna A 16 year old riding the "individual" Apple bandwagon, because thats whats cool in high school right?
@MicrosoftOwns
Most gadget freaks on this site know that macs have right click, resizable dock and many other features.
Open your mind and keep your comments relevant.
http://www.macyourself.com/2010/03/21/11-common-myths-that-keep-people-from-switching-to-macs/
@YamanNZ Uh, well when it comes to consumer-oriented products it does. Pretty basic product marketing: the easier it is to use your product the more people will use, like, buy it.
@YamanNZ
I thought that was the entire selling point of apple. It just works?
@Wharoll The funny thing is most Apple fanboys dont even know how computers work which is why they turn to Apple, and I have no problem with that. But what gets me is when they try to shout that their iMac is superior over all other computer system.
Someone who dosnt know how something works has no right trying to say its better then the competition.. Especially when in most cases they havnt even tried the latest from the competition.
I saw it all the time in my tech school. The AV kids would try and brag that their systems were superior, then all the we could do in our I.T. course was laugh while we ran a much more capable ubuntu system at half the cost.
@MicrosoftOwns yes thats why newly made games are being made for mac such as splinter cell, assasins creed 2, starcraft 2, rage, the new old republic game.. not a BILLION games but the mac JUST got steam. just stop complaining and face the facts.
@JesperA Thank you! That guy's a dumbass.
@EpicBlob I think he means the old Old Republic game. lol. The only games Mac will ever get are crappy ports with horrible graphics, yes I just said game such as Assassins Creed 2 and Splinter Cell have dull and bad graphics, if you dont believe me, try a real computer game like BFBC2 with Dx11 enabled. Macs arent meant for real gaming, they are putting mobile cards in those things for crying out loud...
@MicrosoftOwns Fool! The Icons can be any size you want.
@wickywills Trolls make the world go 'round, Mac users, don't.
No right click eh? Maybe that's because your a fully pledged Microsoft fanboy who's never used a magic mouse, oh wait, Microsoft never had one!!! Mac= FTW. Face it.
@MicrosoftOwns Listen to me dumb ass, your comment is completely WRONG go you get that iHater. There is Right Click, dock has a hiding option, OS is much more beautiful, powerful, user friendly, and amazingly crash proof and virus free. Obviously you have not used OS X so keep your pie hole shut. BTW please stay away from macs and keep suffering in your PC ( Piece of Crap ) world.
@Raytem Windows 7 = better looking than osx but thats a personal opinion I guess. As for crashes or viruses, I havnt had either since my install of 7. When and more importantly if OSX becomes popular enough for hackers to pay attention to it, you can get ready to see the flood gates open for viruses on the mac. As for crashes, when macs crash and they do, the only thing you can do about it is send it back and wait for a new one.
I'm prepared for this to become downranked, because you noobs will downrank anything on this topic that seems as if to even sneeze in apples direction.
@MicrosoftOwns All of the facts you posted were pulled straight from your anus. No joke.
@MicrosoftOwns what the FUCK are you talking about??? YOU are the mac owner? then, my friend, i'm saddened to tell you, you are a n00b at computers, any kind of them, hell even calculators.
no games? i'll pick up my starcraft II copy tomorrow to play on osx, or on windows 7 (both installed on my 15" i5 macbook pro) whenever i want. no right click? WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU SAYING? when was the last time you actually used a mac? 10000B.C.??? following your stupid arguments, then i suppose you BSODed your way to the comments page, while freezing on your internet explorer and trying to fix everything with ctr+alt+delete, amirite?
if you had half a rat's fart worth of brain mass, you would know that you can actually change the size of the dock on the pref pane, even more so if you put all the icons organized into folders.
asshole.
in b4 too much apple news
your too late once you came to www.engadget.com
@Protato you’d rather have more news about self exploding Droids X? OR news telling how open Android is (which is a lie)?
Delusional fanboiis will always be delusional.
@Protato
Comment's are getting nasty again.
Just wanted to say that over time, the i at the front of this computer has become somewhat of a misnomer. i now seems to stand for mobile: iPod, iPad, iPhone, iOS...iMac? Time for a name change.
@Luke the "i" used to actually stand for "internet" but, meh.
I know one of the specs - it will be overpriced.
@savagemike Do I bet there just going to Add a blue-ray player and tell people that they revolutionized the way to watch movies on your desktop.
@liftedngifted1
nope. Apple stated no "revolution" (=BD-Drives) for now and thus no bluray in these iMacs
@liftedngifted1
Blue what? The fruit company products are way too revolutionary to have such an inferior tech inside... .o)
Besides it would only drive up the prices which would prevent all the good folks out there from adopting such a wonderful, revolutionary pricey product!
@savagemike
Did you figure that out all by yourself?
@liftedngifted1 No their going to invent their own iRay disc format. And let me tell you it will be MAGICAL.