24 Inch Core 2 iMacs Released!

Danny Futuro · Post by **Danny Futuro** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 6:02 pm

http://www.apple.com/imac/

robtronik · Post by **robtronik** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 6:05 pm

and, they are the merom chips too!

rob.

tokyojoe69 · Post by **tokyojoe69** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 6:11 pm

I think those are damn impressive, but what's more impressive to me is the price of the 17", around £700 dead cheap!

Digi V · Post by **Digi V** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 6:19 pm

thats serious speed right there.

the 17inch is a very good buy .

adi · Post by **adi** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 7:35 pm

it's cute and all, but to spec out the 24" iMac costs $3000 -- for that price i'd just get a quad core mac pro with a dell monitor.

gomi · Post by **gomi** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 7:39 pm

adi wrote:it's cute and all, but to spec out the 24" iMac costs $3000 -- for that price i'd just get a quad core mac pro with a dell monitor.

but you can't mount the mac pro on your wall and watch HDTV on it.

AdamJay · Post by **AdamJay** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 7:58 pm

ah yes, they brought back the vesa mountability for the 24" iMac.

but to play devils advocate, you could mount the dell monitor on the wall though...

subterFUSE · Post by **subterFUSE** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 8:17 pm

gomi wrote:
adi wrote:it's cute and all, but to spec out the 24" iMac costs $3000 -- for that price i'd just get a quad core mac pro with a dell monitor.
but you can't mount the mac pro on your wall and watch HDTV on it.

No. Maybe you wouldn't mount the computer itself on the wall. But you could mount the monitor, which would look better anyway..... since it would be thinner than an iMac.

Oops.... LOL nevermind.

Is there an echo in here?

capta1nA · Post by **capta1nA** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 8:41 pm

the 24" model has firewire 800. good to see that they're sticking with it

FORMAT · Post by **FORMAT** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 9:38 pm

adi wrote:it's cute and all, but to spec out the 24" iMac costs $3000 -- for that price i'd just get a quad core mac pro with a dell monitor.

Aren't the Mac Pros significantly faster, too?

robtronik · Post by **robtronik** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 10:18 pm

aside from the fact that they are quad, the internal bus is significantly faster as well.

But I'm using a macbook pro, and this machine feels pretty smoking. I feel like the dual core 2.33 mghz iMac is the way to go given its price point. If you buy the quad you still have to get a monitor (if you don't have one already) and that can run you $4k easily.

rob.

FORMAT · Post by **FORMAT** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 10:32 pm

robtronik wrote:aside from the fact that they are quad, the internal bus is significantly faster as well.

But I'm using a macbook pro, and this machine feels pretty smoking. I feel like the dual core 2.33 mghz iMac is the way to go given its price point. If you buy the quad you still have to get a monitor (if you don't have one already) and that can run you $4k easily.

rob.

Too bad I just got a 24" screen--- otherwise I might well have bought the iMac.

rbmonosylabik · Post by **rbmonosylabik** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 10:34 pm

any idea of when are the macbooks with core 2 duo coming out?

noisetonepause · Post by **noisetonepause** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 10:40 pm

rbmonosylabik wrote:any idea of when are the macbooks with core 2 duo coming out?

Nobody knows if they are. Power consumption, heat, etc.

glu · Post by **glu** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 10:41 pm

nope, but I am guessing we will see it on the macbook pros for a longer period of time prior to the macbooks to help justify the price difference.

Hope that's not the case, but could be. There's an Expo next week, some video ipods, maybe a quad macmini, or macbook pro with the new meroms might come out of the apple veil, I guess we wait and see....