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Welcome to 2010, Apple iMac!
Apple has indeed updated its iMac line, as anticipated, beefing up the line's speeds'n'feeds and adding support for the new SDXC memory card format. The new models sport a selection of Intel Core i3, i5 and i7 processors and come with 4GB of 1333MHz DDR 3 as standard. Apple iMac summer 2010 And Apple has dropped Nvidia …
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But all the work's going into iOS instead of Mac OS X. The newest updates are mostly updates to the latest versions of the free stuff in it (Samba, CUPS, etc...) and bug fixes.
We've only just got APIs to get graphics card hardware acceleration in 10.6.3 (and then 10.6.4 borked it for nVidia cards).
I'm confused?
"iMac owners can now use processors that have only been out for a few years :D Congratulations."
The 3.2 GHz dual core i3 used in the 27" iMac was released end of May.[1], the quad 2.8GHz i5 they're using in the high end 27" iMac looks to have been released on July 18th[2].
1 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Core_i3_microprocessors#Dual-Core_Desktop_processors
2 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Core_i5_microprocessors#.22Lynnfield.22_.2845_nm.29
Wow. It looks like Apple have finally launched something resembling a replacement to one of the TouchWorks products they killed off after buying up the company back in 2005, in the form of the new Magic Trackpad. What's the betting that everyone will see this as some kind of amazing Apple innovation, rather than a shiner but more limited version of hardware invented elsewhere and Borged by them?
Having recently bought a 27" monitor, the fact it's 16:9 and not 16:10 is a non-issue when the screen's almost 34cm high and you've got a vertical resolution of 1440 pixels. A 16:10 27" is less than 3cm higher.
And no, I can't see 2.35:1 aspect screens (presumably the "cinema aspect" to which you refer, although a monitor whose aspect ratio is an approximation of pi might be worthy of geek cred) becoming mainstream. The MSOffice ribbon would take up have of the screen.
Those massive CRTs of yours probably cost more than a 27" IPS LCD does today...