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Due next from Apple: refreshed 20- and 24-inch iMacs
Assuming last minute snags are avoided, the coming weeks should bring new iMacs, rounding out Apple's 2008 hardware introductions as the company enters the holiday shopping season with one of its strongest product portfolios ever.
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New Apple iMacs still rumored for 2008
I4U News — ... of for the Holiday shopping season. What is missing are new updated iMacs. The new iMac all-in-one computers are rumored to get performance updates. There are still a couple weeks time for new products to be announced in time for the holidays. Possibly Apple still is going to release more new products. How about a new Mac mini or new Apple TV? More details on Apple Insider . Posted on Sat, 18 Oct 2008 09:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

New iMacs in November
CrunchGearAppleInsider is saying there will be “refreshed 20- and 24-inch” iMacs next month. Sucks if you just bought one, right? People familiar with the company’s plans have said changes to the iMac family will largely consist of performance improvements and technology refreshes. And while there’s admittedly been few concrete details to go by since the August report, this week’s notebook overhauls offer a window into the future of the iMac line, which sports an architectural resemblance to the MacBook lines. ...

iMacs deverão receber recursos dos novos MacBooks nas próximas semanas
BLOG.MACMAGAZINE — ... Segundo o AppleInsider, o iMac deverá ser o próximo a ser atualizado. Como não há motivos para ele receber mudanças no seu design, é provável que receba atualizações internas e novidades apresentadas pela Apple nessa semana. ...

Linkpost | 10.18.2008
TechBlog — ... - Newest BlackBerry finally gets an AT&T release date. • Due Next From Apple: Refreshed 20- And 24-Inch iMacs - Updated processors likely to come in November. • ...

Apple refreshing iMacs next month?
Boy Genius Report — Apple’s notebook event has come and gone and while people are pretty polarized as far as Apple’s revamped MacBooks and MacBook Pros are concerned, it’s time to move on. So what’s next? It’s clearly time for a fresh crop of rumors to start making their way across the net. AI dug back to its hardware roadmap from a few months ago and decided to revisit the last stop on the tour, a refresh of Apple’s iMac line. Among the speculation is a likely processor upgrade, the addition of a DisplayPort (as El Jobso ...

Rumor: Refreshed, Faster iMacs in a Few Weeks [Rumor]
Gizmodo — ... If you're not interested new Macbooks, but are eyeballing zoomier iMacs, it looks like you'll get your wish sometime in the next four weeks, barring any problems, says AppleInsider. It'll be new guts though, not a new house. ...

Apple Expected To Release New iMacs Next Month
Pulse2 - Technology News And Reviews — ... AppleInsider also points out that Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) is working on quad-core mobile chips and will eventually be added in iMacs as they get ready to introduce Snow Leopard next year.  New iMacs will probably have DisplayPort built in too. ...

Apple refreshes 20- and 24″ iMacs
D' Technology Weblog — ... send the company into the holiday shopping season with one of its strongest product portfolios ever. Apple currently offers an ATI Radeon HD 2400 or 2600 paired with an Intel chipset as the baseline offering in existing iMacs.  An NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT is listed as a $150 build-to-order option. It’s possible Apple could use the same or a related NVIDIA controller in the iMac that it enthusiastically demonstrated in the new MacBook lines. Source:→ AppleInsider ...

Apple Reportedly Set to Upgrade iMac All-in-One Desktops
X-bit labs — ... some other improvements, but keeping in mind Apple s policy to be extremely tight-lipped over introductions of new products, it is hard to project anything until the novelties are released. Apple recently introduced the new iMac with 24 screen and Intel Core 2 Duo 3.06GHz microprocessors, however, the new unit still shares the old design and there are at least two more systems with 20 screen that sport older microprocessors, graphics adapter and other internal devices. According to AppleInsider as well as ...

Apple to Release new iMacs Soon?
HardMac.com — As expected following the introduction of new MacBook models, Apple should release new iMac models as reported by Apple Insider. It should not feature big surprises but rather unify the architecture between iMac and MacBook Pro. So, we should have Centrino 2 Core 2 Duo, running on a 1066 MHz bus, coupled to DDR3 memory, and most likely to a NVidia chipset for entry level model, and a dual GPUs for the high end model, even though its current interest to save battery life time is useless on such desktop models. ...

RUMOR: Apple soon to release updated iMacs with DisplayPort and more
MacDailyNews — ... largely consist of performance improvements and technology refreshes," AppleInsider reports. "And while there's admittedly been few concrete details to go by since the August report, this week's notebook overhauls offer a window into the future of the iMac line, which sports an architectural resemblance to the MacBook lines." More details about the upcoming iMacs — including CPU upgrades, the addition of DisplayPort, and perhaps a move to faster NVIDIA graphics — in the full article here .

New iMacs Coming?
Alice Hill's Real Tech News - Independent Tech — ... Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews So far this year, we’ve seen refreshes to the iPhone, iPod and MacBook lines. What’s left? Well, the next round of speculation was started by a report that coming in the next few weeks will be a refresh of the iMac line. Based purely on the seasonal shopping trends, you’d expect this to happen well before Thanksgiving. It hasn’t been that long since Apple ...

New iMacs Before The Holidays? [TheAppleBlog]
GigaOM Network — ... Apparently not content with an entirely revamped notebook line, rumors are circulating that Apple will also introduce refreshed 20 and 24-inch iMacs before year’s end. If true, new iMacs would be in keeping with earlier rumors that they would see spec bumps alongside the introduction of the new MacBooks. ...

Up next for Apple: New iMacs?
Yahoo! Tech Advisors — ... . The editors at AppleInsider (which has done a solid job this year of predicting Apple's 2008 product "road map") clearly think the time for new iMacs is nigh . They don't have any predictions for when—or indeed, if—another Apple event might take place (indeed, Apple may well skip a formal unveiling this time), but the site does have some educated guesses on CPU upgrades (likely moving to Intel's Montevina platform), new I/O ports (think ...

What Will Jobs Announce at MacWorld 2009?
TechCrunch — ... . Looking at the buyer’s guide, it is clear that almost all of Apple’s consumer facing products have been refreshed, with the exception of the iMac, Mac Mini, Apple’s Cinema displays, and Mac Pros. Both the iMac and Mac Mini lines are likely to be refreshed any day now, whereas Apple’s monitors have been partially refreshed with the introduction of a 24″ LED Cinema Display monitor equipped with a DisplayPort. So, three obvious things that Jobs is likely to introduce in January are new Mac Pros, the 17″ MacBook Pro, and additional LED displays. ...

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