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A new report has emerged suggesting that the brand new iMac unveiled at the most recent Apple event is experiencing a few issues in mass production and that these issues could translate to a later public launch than first expected. The report comes from French site Macbidouille who are saying that some of the welding techniques used in the new iMac mean that yields of the new design are lower than expected and that some models may not launch until after Christmas.

The report follows on from comments by Tim Cook during the recent Apple quarterly earnings call which suggested that while demand for the new iMac is expected to be high, there will be constraints on supplies for the first few months of release, although the Apple CEO did not elaborate on this further. Apple had announced that the 21 inch models would ship in November with the 27 inch model expected in December but it’s still unclear as to what models the report is referring.
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The next generation iMac and Mac mini will reportedly be priced at the same rate as the previous models, according to a new report from 9to5Mac. According to the report, the new models will be no more expensive than their predecessors with the new 2012 Mac mini starting out at $599 for the base model. In addition, the iMac will also be priced at a similar rate, despite recent rumors that it would be receiving a brand new design and upgraded display. This therefore pegs the base model iMac at $1199 for the 21.5 inch model.

The site also suggests that the new Mac mini and the new iMac will accomodate new 8GB RAM modules meaning that the Mac mini could offer options of up to 16GB, and the iMac can be shipped with up to 32GB RAM. This is a massive bump from the previous models which were only available with 8GB in the Mac mini and 16GB in the iMac. Of course, users could previously upgrade with third party RAM, but this is the first time that Apple has offered these capacities.
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Two reports have emerged suggesting that Apple will be announcing some updated iMac models at the iPad mini launch event next week. The first report is pretty brief, coming from AppleInsider, simply stating that Apple would offer upgraded iMac models starting the day after the media event i.e. October 24. The second report comes from 9to5Mac, who give a little more detail on what could be expected next Thursday.

According to the report, there will be four new models, likely corresponding to 21 inch and 27 inch screen sizes in base model and higher configurations. However, it’s not as simple as these models launching on the day after the iPad mini event as this report suggests that at least some models of the new iMac will not begin shipping straight away.
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A picture which is reportedly portraying the internal components of a new and as yet unreleased iMac has surfaced on Chinese website WeiPhone.com (via MacRumors). The photo is thought to detail the internal components of a 2012 iMac which is said to adopt an entirely new, and thinner, form factor, although the picture doesn’t offer any details on what the thinner iMac might looks like. According to the report, the new iMac will have a highly curved rear panel with much softer rounded edges that the current design.

The report also suggests that the screen quality of the new iMac will also receive a large upgrade, although there is no note in the report regarding the presence of a Retina Display in the new models. The 21 inch version of the iMac is said to be the first model to receive the update with the 27 inch update following later down the line as the production volumes of the new screen are optimized.
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Backing up our report last week which indicated that new model iMacs would be arriving within the coming weeks, Clayton Morris of FoxNews.com (via MacRumors) is suggesting that an update to the iMac line-up is imminent. According to Morris, multiple sources have revealed to him that an update to the iMac is on the cards and that it will be arriving imminently. This aligns with what we were told last week, indicating that the iMac would be receiving a refresh very soon.

The iMac has been experiencing shortages in a number of retailers and our sources tell us that third party retailers such as Amazon are extremely short of stock and are expecting a new line within two weeks. The pricing of the new updated models is not expected to change dramatically, which tends to indicate that Apple will not be including a Retina Display with the new iMac models, a feature which would be expected to increase the price substantially, going by the recent Retina-enabled MacBook Pro release.
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Following on from our report yesterday regarding possible new iMac models in the coming weeks, a new, and unreleased iMac has appeared in Geekbench benchmarks. The new iMac, with the model designated as iMac13,2 appeared yesterday showing a Geekbench score of 12,405. The new model appeared to be equipped with a quad core Intel i7-3770K clocked at 3.5 GHz, which is one of the latest Intel Ivy Bridge processors.

A similar model of iMac with more memory also showed up in late July with a score of 13,405, but this model was equipped with 16GB RAM, whereas the model that was tested yesterday had 8GB RAM. The new iMac13,2 benchmark was also conducted on an iMac running OS X 10.8.1, the latest public release of Mountain Lion, whereas the previous benchmark was conducted on a machine running OS X Lion 10.7.4. One other difference was the memory clock speed, with the memory on the latest benchmark running at 1333MHz compared to the previous benchmark which showed memory at 1600 MHz.
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Last week, we reported that some third party retailers were experiencing significant stock shortages of some iMac models and that this was a rather interesting time to be experiencing them, particularly on the run-up to an Apple event. Now, with other models going out of stock, we’ve done a little more digging and, according to one of of sources, Amazon is not expecting any more stock of the 27 inch iMac for approximately two weeks.  This falls right into the time period of the Apple Event that is expected to be held on September 12 to introduce the new iPhone.

Our source was careful to say that they had not heard anything detailed about a new iMac, just that new stock wasn’t anticipated until at least the second week in September, and that it would be devices with new model designators, rather than the October 2011 versions of the iMac. We tried to confirm this with other retailers who were suffering iMac stock shortages, such as Best Buy, who aren’t selling the 27 inch model of the iMac online at the moment, and J&R who are also experiencing major shortages, but they weren’t able to tell us when they were expecting a new delivery.
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A new report has noted that the 27 inch versions of the iMac are showing some significant shortages in third party re-sellers. According to AppleInsider, the resellers that are showing shortages are Best Buy, Amazon, MacMall and J&R. The timing is interesting given the recent introduction of the Intel Ivy Bridge processors and their inclusion in the revised MacBook Pro and new Retina Display enabled MacBook Pro, as well as the latest edition of the MacBook Air.
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