Apple Store goes down, get your credit cards ready

It's looking very much like yesterday's hypotheticals about Apple refreshing its hardware are about to bear fruit. The online store has been put on temporary hiatus -- presumably to get all those delicious new specs and pictures in -- and we can probably expect it to churn back into action around the company's typical 8.30AM timeslot.

[akbc Posted Jul 27th 2010 6:30AM]

Wooooohooooo!
New iMacs and MP's PLEASE!

[SarnGate Posted Jul 27th 2010 6:31AM]

@akbc And the magic trackpad ! My HTPC dreams come true.

[Raytem Posted Jul 27th 2010 6:35AM]

@akbc Awesome. Can't wait ti see what's new. I hope there are not too much changes in iMac since my wife just bought one iMac 27" a month ago with 8GB RAM and Quad Core i7 processor. It has more RAM then my Mac Pro.

[SolidSnake Posted Jul 27th 2010 6:35AM]

@akbc updated Mac Pros FTFW

[QUiTOS Posted Jul 27th 2010 6:35AM]

@akbc Hopefully we'll get usb3

[QUiTOS Posted Jul 27th 2010 6:36AM]

@SarnGate AND USB 3… hopefully

[akbc Posted Jul 27th 2010 6:37AM]

@akbc
Mac Pros really need an update...
Minor speedbump for the iMac will be enough, though.

And the magic trackpad sounds so freakin' awesome! I love my MBP's trackpad!

[drange Posted Jul 27th 2010 6:38AM]

@QUiTOS
USB 3.0 would be nice and all, but seriously, what would you use it for right now? For HDD's we have eSata and FireWire, and for anything else, USB2.0 is plenty fast. There's not really any USB3.0 hardware out there anyway.

[igeekonee Posted Jul 27th 2010 6:41AM]

@Raytem I want a lot of changes. USB 3.0, FW 3200, i5 and i7, 1GB video cards (Open GL 4.1) etc.

[briguy266 Posted Jul 27th 2010 6:41AM]

@drange If everyone had that mentality 3 would never get successfully adopted as it should.

[irmeli Posted Jul 27th 2010 6:43AM]

@akbc wooooooooooot! and new cheap ram! faulk! wrong store

[akbc Posted Jul 27th 2010 6:49AM]

@briguy266
True. And what's wrong with wanting USB3? It's going to be futureproof!
I'd love to see major companies like Apple, Dell and HP to push USB3.0 adoption as fast as they can.

[Michael Scrip Posted Jul 27th 2010 6:50AM]

@drange -- "USB 3.0 would be nice and all, but seriously, what would you use it for right now? For HDD's we have eSata and FireWire..."

It's gotta start somewhere. Plus, the likelihood of USB 3.0 devices gaining acceptance is much higher considering that 95% of the computers in the world will never use Firewire... and eSATA is not really an ideal solution for Flash drives. (no power, some hot-swap issues)

In other words... USB 3.0 will be the successor to the wildly popular USB 2.0. It's coming...

[Ethan Posted Jul 27th 2010 6:54AM]

@drange Apple could make their portable devices USB-3 compatible, syncing could always be faster. So they could take a lead on that, but yeah, until say, external hard drives with the port get cheaper it's probably not worth the faster backup.

[d3sc3nd3ncy Posted Jul 27th 2010 7:02AM]

@Michael Scrip

It'll be dead in under 3 years when Light Peak launches at the end of this year.

[QUiTOS Posted Jul 27th 2010 7:13AM]

@drange If they come out with a product that had USB 3 that means that the mb and the mb pro will end up getting it sometime next year. That's the reason I'm hopping for it.

[BrandonHarris Posted Jul 27th 2010 7:17AM]

@akbc

*hides credit card from himself...

[plwh888 Posted Jul 27th 2010 7:25AM]

@akbc its probably for the upcoming 17 countries iPhone 4 launch this Friday.

[gargle Posted Jul 27th 2010 7:28AM]

Why do they have to take down the whole store to add a few items in the database?

[tan92 Posted Jul 27th 2010 7:54AM]

@Raytem
when i applied for a job at apple, they sed that if u just recently brought an apple product which then gets updated u can trade it in for the new one. which i thought was really good!! lol

[EpicBlob Posted Jul 27th 2010 8:04AM]

@gargle get everyone crazy excited. and its working!!! [:D]-)-

[ZIXTO Posted Jul 27th 2010 8:17AM]

@Raytem Trust me apple will return if u bought it a month ago they will help you out just tell them the u work very hard to save for ur computer and apple come out with a new one a month later trust me

[Siryj Posted Jul 27th 2010 8:25AM]

Oh boy, I can't wait to 0 out my bank account! *sarcasm, yet slightly true*

[RIMJOBBED Posted Jul 27th 2010 8:32AM]

@akbc if u use the apple store app, you will see that the imac isnt showing up, but everything else pretty much is.

[wbeardell Posted Jul 27th 2010 8:47AM]

@Raytem you can always return it for the new one

[doc69 Posted Jul 27th 2010 1:49PM]

@akbc Wooooohooooo!
New iMacs and MP's PLEASE!

Woooooohoooooo! "Bumpers" .........................................

[Ignoramus Posted Jul 27th 2010 7:03PM]

@SarnGate fucking 70 dollars - they made billions with this new iPhone 4, why cant they charge 50, or 40, or have two sizes, damnit.

[pizzaman Posted Jul 27th 2010 6:30AM]

I'm not buying anything until i know more about the foxconn india shutdown

[Barguast Posted Jul 27th 2010 6:30AM]

News just in: News - coming soon!

[R2 D2 Posted Jul 27th 2010 6:45AM]

@Barguast

...maybe!

[RincewindWiz Posted Jul 27th 2010 6:47AM]

@Barguast The fact that Apple have to take down their store to sell new products is insanely amusing - imagine Amazon doing something similar! That said, it's now turned into part of the marketing machine with blogs like Engadget posting articles about it :-/

[Pickaxe Posted Jul 27th 2010 6:58AM]

@Barguast Sigh... I'm just tired of this ridiculous ceremony.

- "Could Apple be releasing new stuff tomorrow?! That's what rumors say!" (Well MAYBE it's a controlled leak considering HALF THE TECH BLOGS IN MY RSS READER REPOSTED IT)
- "Another source claims (insert minor feature update) is coming!" (reality: some important-sounding person posted a short and cryptic message on his Twitter account which could be interpreted as "New iPhone 5 tommorow!" if you cover one eye and squint)
- "The Apple store is down! Oh my GOD! Look at that gorgeous post-it note!"
- New MacBook Pro 13" with 2.6Ghz C2D introduced! That's 2 MILLION HERTZ!

[DefPoet Posted Jul 27th 2010 6:58AM]

@RincewindWiz
if Amazon did it every time they add/updated a product than the website would be down 24/7 7/356 356/4ever

[Pickaxe Posted Jul 27th 2010 7:02AM]

@Pickaxe 2 hundred even.

[Outsider Posted Jul 27th 2010 7:19AM]

@Barguast

I hate you. I was brushing my teeth and I ended up snorting toothbrush and spitting it all over my MacBook Pro keyboard and screen.

[Mikeserena Posted Jul 27th 2010 7:39AM]

@Pickaxe If you don't like Apple, don't read about it. The fact that you read the story is another "hit", And that's what web sites want, more hits, you just added fuel to the fire. I'm reading it BC I like some of Apples products, So I'm gonna keep "hitting" these stories.

[Barguast Posted Jul 27th 2010 7:42AM]

@Mikeserena
What story? I see no story.

[Blaque14K Posted Jul 27th 2010 8:13AM]

@Barguast Exactly. All they said was that the store was down. I like all types Id products in including Apples laptops. That doesn't mean I need a story everytime the store is down. I'm wondering if Lenovo or Sony take their sites down to refresh.

[VAVA Mk 2 Posted Jul 27th 2010 9:13AM]

@Barguast
Can we get a counter on the home page dedicated to the number articles about Apple each day? We should have a betting pool. I am guessing 8 articles today around the refreshes and initial thoughts.

[Ignoramus Posted Jul 27th 2010 7:05PM]

@RincewindWiz its not amusing its stupid publicity stunt bullshit they should be smacked in the face with 19 quadrillion newtons of force.

[Ignoramus Posted Jul 27th 2010 7:07PM]

@DefPoet do you not know how many days there are?

[montymintypie Posted Jul 27th 2010 6:30AM]

Here we go again...

[SolidSnake Posted Jul 27th 2010 7:12AM]

Engadget's picture= win

[andyusa Posted Jul 27th 2010 6:31AM]

i wonder how much are they gonna charge for the 27" LED Cinema Display...

[pizzle Posted Jul 27th 2010 6:38AM]

@andyusa well.. the 24" is priced 300 under the 22" iMac (21.6") model.. so i guess the 27" will be 300 dollars under the 27" iMac.. something that ridiculous I'm afraid..

[salamander Posted Jul 27th 2010 6:40AM]

@andyusa
I'vr never been to a cinema with a 27" screen. Surely it needs to be 27' before you can call it cinema

[Keyster109 Posted Jul 27th 2010 6:40AM]

@andyusa

I hope it's affordable!!! Oh who am I kidding!

[redmamoth Posted Jul 27th 2010 6:49AM]

@andyusa Surely it will follow the normal "How much are the competition charging... ok, lets double it!" ethos that Apple's pricing model normally follows!

[andyusa Posted Jul 27th 2010 6:50AM]

@pizzle
If that's the case, forget about it! I wonder why they charge so much on their Cinema Displays. You can buy 2-3 of the same size monitors depending on the brand. I'm actually in the market looking for a 27 incher to replace my stone age 19" TFT LCD. Maybe I should wait for Samsung if I want a 27" LED Display...

[Andr Posted Jul 27th 2010 6:59AM]

@andyusa It has mostly to do with the use of a higher quality (hence more expensive) panel like an IPS panel and not some shoddy TFT or other inferior panel.