{"id":24369,"date":"2019-02-20T17:13:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T22:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=24369"},"modified":"2019-02-20T17:13:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T22:13:00","slug":"waiting-for-a-new-imac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/20\/waiting-for-a-new-imac\/","title":{"rendered":"Waiting for a New iMac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/19\/02\/20\/apple-is-making-us-wait-for-a-new-imac-for-no-good-reason\">William Gallagher<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/19\/02\/20\/apple-is-making-us-wait-for-a-new-imac-for-no-good-reason\">\n<p>The last update was in June 2017 which is long enough ago that the smart money would&rsquo;ve bet on at least a speed-bumped iMac being released at October 2018&rsquo;s Apple event. It didn&rsquo;t come then and current rumors most strongly suggest that neither it nor any Mac hardware at all is coming with the expected March 25 event.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>So while Apple didn&rsquo;t mind treading on the iMac&rsquo;s time in the spotlight with a sneak peek of the iMac Pro, it has avoided doing the opposite. Which means that this year, Apple may also avoid sharing that spotlight between a hypothetical new iMac and the guaranteed new Mac Pro.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>For instance, not long after the iMac&rsquo;s last update, <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/17\/08\/21\/intel-details-8th-generation-core-i7-i5-processors-suitable-for-macbook-dual-core-macbook-pro-refresh\">Intel announced eighth-generation Core i7, i5 processors<\/a> which were pitched as being for Apple portables but versions of them ended up in the 2018 Mac mini.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/18\/daring-fireball-2018-apple-report-card\/\">Daring Fireball 2018 Apple Report Card<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/27\/bug-in-skylake-and-kaby-lake-hyper-threading\/\">Bug in Skylake and Kaby Lake Hyper-threading<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Gallagher: The last update was in June 2017 which is long enough ago that the smart money would&rsquo;ve bet on at least a speed-bumped iMac being released at October 2018&rsquo;s Apple event. It didn&rsquo;t come then and current rumors most strongly suggest that neither it nor any Mac hardware at all is coming with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2019-02-20T22:13:02Z","apple_news_api_id":"ce45ed69-79b2-43d1-9477-af83030376f8","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2019-02-20T22:13:04Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AzkXtaXmyQ9GUd6-DAwN2-A","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1297,1586,30,1609],"class_list":["post-24369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-imac","tag-imac-pro","tag-mac","tag-macos-10-14"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24370,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24369\/revisions\/24370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}