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Crap I want to shove those processors into my (aging) laptop!

Very nice, and quite a nice package even for professionals, although there are reports that the screen can't be calibrated as well as one would expect. Even so, I plan to pick up an i7 as a backup production machine.

I wonder what this means for the pro boxes?

Any idea whether Apple is going to release these or similar processors in their MacBook Pro line?

Do the Core i5 and Core i7 iMacs run cool?

Did they heat up when running these tests?

Also, how quiet are they compared to the Core 2 Duos?

Awesome! I didn't need that much power, so I went ahead with the base 27" and I luverz it, but that i7 would be awesome to have.

How well do these machines run PC in boot-camp mode for times when I have to play a game that only run on a PC? That will be the deciding factor so I can toss my PC tower and forever be Mac....

bigh, on 19 November 2009 - 04:51 PM, said:

I suspect it means an upgrade sooner vs later as you are probably hinting at.

My i7 is supposed to arrive Tuesday - I can't wait!

Pretty weird to be buying one of these or anything for that matter to "play games.." but, that's just not my thing. I don't consider the iPod Touch a gaming device, either...

I don't know if a laptop could handle this, but for me, the next step is decide whether to go all the way to the i7 or just get an i5 with more RAM.

Given how superior the quad-core iMacs are it is hard to imagine that Apple won't be offering the same CPUs in a MacBook Pro in the near future. This appears to be way more than the usual incremental upgrade. Likewise, in the new year, the Mac Pros should be do for an overhaul to restore their standing as the top-of-the-line heavy iron. At the moment, though, the i5 and i7 iMacs look every bit the heavy iron they are. Considering the 16GB of RAM they can support, the high-end video card, the 2TB hard drive option and that awesome 27" display, I expect it will be hard indeed for the Mac Pro to regain its standing. It may eventually do so, but the niche for it will have shrunken considerably.

Apple has finally allowed you to sufficiently dim the screen to bring it within the range of calibrating for commercial print. In fact you can dim it almost the point of turning it off.

This reveals the double edged sword of these glossy displays, as you dim them to the point of accurate calibration, the glaring reflection off the glass kicks in to ruin your attempts to work on images.

btw The Apple forum on screen problems with this model is now into its 21st page.

This post has been edited by Biallystock: 19 November 2009 - 07:18 PM

Shocker, Another 4.5 or 4 out of 5 review from Macworld. I know you guys work covering Apple products, so you generally like what you see, but I've only seen a few products that Apple makes that have gotten less than a 4. Might as well just remove the mouse rating all together (it seems pointless) and just list pros and cons.

Ordered an I7 today, going to drag it to work and try out some very heavy signal processing - but - Apple has never gotten the message that an engineering market exists. Engineering class computers need more interfaces than SOHO computers, such as multiple ethernet ports and possibly a slot of some sort to expand to RS-232 and other unvanquished legacy interfaces. No one in the scientific or engineering community is going to run and beat a path to Apple's door - there really isn't very much there. I love Apple's consumer class hardware but I truly wish that Apple wasn't so narrowly focused on just this type of market. FWIW, if Apple seeded some funds to a few of the major Windoze application firms to port programs like AutoCad or Solid Works to the Mac, a lot of resistance from the cross-over market would magically disappear.