Apple Unveils Hardware Specs. Updates for iMacs, Mac Pro, and a New Cinema Display

Easy Rhino · Jul 29, 2010

AsRock said:
Whats the warranty if your Mac pro breaks down ?. Just curious as with DELL they send some one to your house.

not sure actually. i believe there is the standard 1 year warranty on all issues and then you can buy more years sort of like insurance.

ToTTenTranz · Jul 29, 2010

AsRock said:
Whats the warranty if your Mac pro breaks down ?. Just curious as with DELL they send some one to your house.

Acer too, at least in my country.

Hard drive failed in my Ferrari One (the cheapest subnotebook available - 350€), called tech support in the afternoon, the next morning someone was at my place to pick the laptop.
8 days later I had my laptop delivered back home with a new hard drive. Plus, every electronic equipment has at least 2 years warranty in the E.U.

Let's not forget that all those Apple-loving tech support comparisons are made in the U.S.A., and unfortunately that infects the general opinion throughout the whole world.

kevikev · Jul 29, 2010

kevikev said:
$999 for the 27" LED Cinema Display with 90% of the pixels of the 2560x1600 30" display.

Hopefully this means either an LED version of the 30" is coming or will drive the price of the 30" down.

Just read a disappointing blurb re: what the 27" LED means to the existing 24" and 30" models:

For the record, the 27-inch display announcement marks the end of the 24- and 30-inch models. That's official, straight from Apple execs.

djisas · Jul 29, 2010

AsRock said:
Whats the warranty if your Mac pro breaks down ?. Just curious as with DELL they send some one to your house.

And even if it has warranty, chances are steve jobs will tell you it your own fault for misusing your hardware and charge you for fixing you machine, he has done it oh so many times, just like in ip4, its not their fault the device is crappy is the users fault for not using it has they want you too...

In an answer to someone questioning the choice between a 40" 1080 screen and a 27" with higher rz, why would i care for that extra rz if movies all come in 1080 or less, and you would also need a kick ass gc to power it, when the 40 gives you near twice the area and lowers your hardware requirements, not mention its actually a tv with many video inputs and decent speakers, and probably an image near as good...

It seems to me apple isnt getting much love these days...

TheMailMan78 · Jul 29, 2010

Easy Rhino said:
not sure actually. i believe there is the standard 1 year warranty on all issues and then you can buy more years sort of like insurance.

The build quality is good. However their support SUCKS and the OS is unstable as hell. Photoshop and Illustrator unexpectedly quit on me like CRAZY no matter what machine I'm on. Honestly I would buy a Mac Pro with windows 7 on it for a studio. That I wont argue. They have great build quality but the OS just plain sucks.

Oh and if Apple care is so great then why does the state of Florida not recognize their warranty program? I had to register my old laptop with a Georgia address!

Disparia · Jul 29, 2010

^ Yeah, bootcamping 7 on my Mac Pro at work. Finally getting some work done now.

btarunr · Jul 29, 2010

Jizzler said:
^ Yeah, bootcamping 7 on my Mac Pro at work. Finally getting some work done now.

Disparia · Jul 29, 2010

Heh, tried for two months with OSX (10.5.x I think) but I just couldn't "get it".

Could have something to do with being a Windows user for 16 years, and only using the Mac Pro at my previous job for Folding, but still, 2 months! On top of that, felt slow and crashed about once/day.

mdm-adph · Jul 29, 2010

Jizzler said:
Heh, tried for two months with OSX (10.5.x I think) but I just couldn't "get it".

Could have something to do with being a Windows user for 16 years, and only using the Mac Pro at my previous job for Folding, but still, 2 months! On top of that, felt slow and crashed about once/day.

I question whatever the hell you were doing to your Mac to make it crash about once/day. I've had an iMac for about a year now and can't remember the last time it crashed. :wtf:

Disparia · Jul 29, 2010

Adobe products (Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver), iTunes, browser with a dozen tabs open, VM (Linux x 1, XP x 1), handful of terminal windows, a little MS office, etc.

I do that now in bootcamped 7 with the exceptions: PuTTy instead of Terminal, VMware Server instead of VirtualBox, Media Player instead of iTunes, Outlook instead of in a browser tab. In addition, also have WCG going 24/7 on 50% cores (4 cores). Didn't have any distributed computing running in OSX.

But even if OSX ran smoothly 24/7 -and maybe it can, I'm not the first user on this machine- that's not my biggest problem with it. It's just not for me

Meizuman · Jul 29, 2010

Easy Rhino said:
lol at all the mac haters trying to come up with a reason to hate this lineup. face it, you want one!

I would like to have one only to smash it to pieces. I have Tried to use an iMac and I just can't stand it. Its irritating. :banghead:

EDIT: In fact I'm FORCED to use those things at school.

TheMailMan78 · Jul 29, 2010

mdm-adph said:
I question whatever the hell you were doing to your Mac to make it crash about once/day. I've had an iMac for about a year now and can't remember the last time it crashed.

I crash mine a minimum of 3 times a day.

Wile E · Jul 30, 2010

TheMailMan78 said:
The build quality is good. However their support SUCKS and the OS is unstable as hell. Photoshop and Illustrator unexpectedly quit on me like CRAZY no matter what machine I'm on. Honestly I would buy a Mac Pro with windows 7 on it for a studio. That I wont argue. They have great build quality but the OS just plain sucks.

Oh and if Apple care is so great then why does the state of Florida not recognize their warranty program? I had to register my old laptop with a Georgia address!

The OS most certainly is not unstable. Photoshop and Illustrator crashing is Adobe's shitty coding, not OS X's. You were probably using the old PowerPC only version of Adobe on Intel macs, weren't you? I still have Leopard on my iMac, and it's the same install from when Leopard first released, and it runs perfectly stable, even in Adobe CS4. The only time I ever have to reboot is after an update that requires it.

As far as their service, I don't know. Never had to use it.

As for people comparing to self built, you can't do that. This is an OEM computer, you have to compare it to other OEMs. iMac is simply the best all-in-one out there, thanks to having a real screen.

kid41212003 · Jul 30, 2010

Isn't Apple hating Adobe atm?

All graphic designer should switch to Windows!

Meizuman · Jul 30, 2010

Wile E said:
The OS most certainly is not unstable. Photoshop and Illustrator crashing is Adobe's shitty coding, not OS X's. You were probably using the old PowerPC only version of Adobe on Intel macs, weren't you? I still have Leopard on my iMac, and it's the same install from when Leopard first released, and it runs perfectly stable, even in Adobe CS4. The only time I ever have to reboot is after an update that requires it.

As far as their service, I don't know. Never had to use it.

As for people comparing to self built, you can't do that. This is an OEM computer, you have to compare it to other OEMs. iMac is simply the best all-in-one out there, thanks to having a real screen.

CS4 in snow leopard = crash

Steevo · Jul 30, 2010

Mac VS PC

Now upgrade the video card and DVD to Blu-ray

Yeah, plus that service call, as mac users "don't plug things in" they just don't do that".

wahdangun · Jul 30, 2010

Easy Rhino said:
of course, because you can build your own. but you are still willing to spend the same amount of money. so the price is not an issue. if you are talking value, well the Mac build quality is excellent, their tech support is superb and their software is fantastic. so price goes beyond simply the hardware.

well i hope its not a sarcasm, because if my memory retain, i'm still remember than iMAC plagued with yellow screen defect, overheating, and OSX is ship with outdated flash player that have huge security hole.

and i think Apple is no better than dell, HP, acer. so its no where excellent.
(except for its IPS display but they ruined it with glossy finish).

oh and i forget to add, led backlight is crap, CCFL FTW

TheMailMan78 · Jul 30, 2010

Meizuman said:
CS4 in snow leopard = crash

Correction. CONSTANT crash.

Wile E · Jul 31, 2010

So if Adobe is constantly crashing, but other apps aren't, how is it Apple's fault? Has Adobe tried to address the issue, or are they just trying to get people to upgrade to 5 and stopping updates on 4?

TheGuruStud · Jul 31, 2010

I have an update on apple's awesome quality on the new macbook pro. The ethernet does not work AT ALL. DHCP fails, static IP fails, it just doesn't work. The wireless works if you don't stress it. Under load you can not even browse the internet. And if you load it too long (a few mins) it crashes the connection. You have to restart airport and connect again, which takes 30 secs just to connect to the AP.

Easy Rhino · Jul 31, 2010

TheGuruStud said:
I have an update on apple's awesome quality on the new macbook pro. The ethernet does not work AT ALL. DHCP fails, static IP fails, it just doesn't work. The wireless works if you don't stress it. Under load you can not even browse the internet. And if you load it too long (a few mins) it crashes the connection. You have to restart airport and connect again, which takes 30 secs just to connect to the AP.

you probably want to send that one back...

TheMailMan78 · Jul 31, 2010

TheGuruStud said:
I have an update on apple's awesome quality on the new macbook pro. The ethernet does not work AT ALL. DHCP fails, static IP fails, it just doesn't work. The wireless works if you don't stress it. Under load you can not even browse the internet. And if you load it too long (a few mins) it crashes the connection. You have to restart airport and connect again, which takes 30 secs just to connect to the AP.

I had a 1.33 12" Powerbook that did the same thing.

Wile E · Aug 1, 2010

TheGuruStud said:
I have an update on apple's awesome quality on the new macbook pro. The ethernet does not work AT ALL. DHCP fails, static IP fails, it just doesn't work. The wireless works if you don't stress it. Under load you can not even browse the internet. And if you load it too long (a few mins) it crashes the connection. You have to restart airport and connect again, which takes 30 secs just to connect to the AP.

ZOMG! You mean it's possible to get a defective product from a manufacturer? Surely you jest. :eek:

Even the best manufacturers of any product have defects. Your single experience doesn't account for the entire brand.

HillBeast · Aug 1, 2010

Wile E said:
ZOMG! You mean it's possible to get a defective product from a manufacturer? Surely you jest.

Even the best manufacturers of any product have defects. Your single experience doesn't account for the entire brand.

Yeah but I have seen alot of Macs where the Ethernet craps out in them. The most annoying thing is because they have no ethernet LEDs, you can't tell if it's a hardware fault or not.

Wile E · Aug 1, 2010

And I've seen a lot of Dells or HPs or acers, etc., etc. that had ethernet crap out on them.

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