New 2014 iMacs referenced in OS X 10.9.4 - June 2014 release?

[S3trio64v2]

Looking forward to these iMac ann. If the price is right I'll probably buy one - first Mac too.

 

[jaydee]

They released a "new" 21.5" iMac for MSRP $1,100. Unless the street price drops under $1k (and price be an extreme factor), you'd have to be insane to buy this. It's dual-core, 1.4GHz (same CPU as MBA I assume), 500GB HD, and HD 5000 graphics.

The standard 21.5" iMac is quad-core 2.7-3.2 GHz, 1TB HD, Iris graphics, MSRP is $1300, but street price is $1,150. $50 price diff (4%) for half the CPU, half the HD, half the GPU.

 

[Eug]

Those are some pretty horrible specs. I guess it's aimed at edu though.

I'm convinced there will be new 21.5" and 27" mainstream models relatively soon though.

 

[manly]

God, how many times can they roll out the eduMac All-in-One with horrible value?

 

[fr]

Apple has been unloading 2-3 year old models to schools for a small discount for a very long time. This isn't much different.

 

[Kadarin]

I was hoping for something better on the top end. Still waiting...

 

[jpiniero]

Strange.. it's not like the Core i5 4260U is cheap at all (Ark's price is over $300). Maybe Apple isn't selling enough Macbook Airs and had to get rid of them?

 

[Eug]

On this new low end crappy iMac, memory is soldered on, non-upgradable.

http://blog.macsales.com/25084-teardown-of-lower-cost-2014-imac-reveals-memory-not-user-upgradable

 

[jaydee]

Strange.. it's not like the Core i5 4260U is cheap at all (Ark's price is over $300). Maybe Apple isn't selling enough Macbook Airs and had to get rid of them?

Intel: "Fire sale, Haswell i5 ULV chips, normally $315, on sale for $100 each if you buy 10k or more"
Apple: "We can't sell that many more MBA's..."
Intel: "Who says you have to put them in a MBA?"

 

[Stable]

This is not a good value at all. For 1100 you should at least get a fusion drive or standard SSD with the option to add a HDD.

 

[Koing]

Intel: "Fire sale, Haswell i5 ULV chips, normally $315, on sale for $100 each if you buy 10k or more"
Apple: "We can't sell that many more MBA's..."
Intel: "Who says you have to put them in a MBA?"

haha

Koing

 

[Qwertilot]

Well that or the thing about Apple wanting at least the level of iGP that these ones have. They must have tons of leverage with Intel so discounts probably not hard to get

Not sure if this is bad value in an absolute sense though. In the end, once upgrade the storage - which yes should surely be fusion as standard even if that upped their base prices a little - the only thing really cut back is the CPU. That's hardly terrible.

The monitor/KB/Mouse /overall design etc all definitely have good value for most people. Far from bad vs the mini too - <300 premium vs the 'cheapest' fusion drive mini. The mini is of course in quite bad need of attention sometime.

 

[Eug]

Those are some pretty horrible specs. I guess it's aimed at edu though.

I'm convinced there will be new 21.5" and 27" mainstream models relatively soon though.

Interestingly, Dell has just announced a 27" Retina 5120x2880 screen

It's roughly the same pixel density as the 15" MacBook Pro Retina, and it's almost 15 megapixels. It also happens to be EXACTLY quadruple the resolution of the 27" iMac.

Shipping likely this year, but unfortunately, probably ~US$2500.