Mac store is currently down.

Rumours suggest an iMac update is due today.

We shall see.

Bah! Annoying! I want to spend money, damnit!

I think that it will be an iMac upgrade. No it was for the white iPhone 4. Correction the store is still down.

The Register or someone was predicting Sandy bridge iMacs with Thunderbolt...

http://www.apple.com/uk/imac/specs.html

iMac upgrade.

All to Quad core i5 with an upgrade to i7.

Bah, they haven't finished the new style pages yet - if you actually try to buy one you get an error.

Edit : Temporary, fixed now. You can get a 27" iMac with the 3.4Ghz i7 for less than a mac pro with roughly equivalent horsepower sans monitor. And you get a better video card in the iMac too. And Thunderbolt. Mac pros are looking seriously in need of an update all of a sudden...

Jon

Try fully speccing an iMac - I think it tops out around the £3000 mark (hardware only, not including additional software and peripherals). That's 3.4GHz Quad-Core i7, 16GB RAM, a 2TB Serial ATA Drive and a 256GB Solid State Drive, the AMD Radeon HD 6970M 2GB GDDR5, not mention a lovely display.
The Pro that comes in around the same price:
Two 2.4GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon “Westmere” processors, 6GB RAM, 1TB hard drive, ATI Radeon HD 5770 with 1GB GDDR5.
And no display.

Yep, I definitely think they are moving it out.

I read somewhere about a new server platform for OSX...

I'll try find it.

OK, it was a possible new Mac Pro rack mountable format...

http://www.macrumors.com/2011/04/21/app ... rototypes/

I think the Mac Pro needs a rethink and a server format would definitely be a rethink.

As for the new iMacs, seriously awesome.

Want! (and hopefully this time will get)

The 6970M 1GB (AFAIK roughly equivalent to a desktop 6850) would be pretty good for the odd game too.

Better speak to the boss.

The one that bugs be about the new iMacs I'd that after the base model, you can't downgrade the hdd to less than 1TB.
I have a server with >2TB of space because it's easier to keep data in one place and distribute it out, plus my data is safer thanks to raid'ing and snapshotting.

I don't want anything above 500GB, and don't really need anything above 250GB...

Don't they offer the 128MB SSD on the base system? Ah no, I see you have to go to the next one up. TBF, these days SATA HDD's tend to start at about 30 quid for anything under 1TB regardless of actual capacity, so there probably isn't much price gain in using smaller drives, nor in fact that much demand either. A 500GB SATA Drive takes up exactly as much space as a 1TB one, and as far as I know the extra sectors don't go moldy if you don't use them or anything.

Jon

I'd love the 256GB SSD option but it's blooming expensive!

Yes last year when I bought these iMacs it was very expensive so was not considered. Looks like that has not improved much.

Can one be installed yourself? A Vertex 2E 120GB is £170 which would be far more affordable and give space enough for the OS and apps I should think.