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Jul 27, 10 - 08:34 am Comment from: John Gee

Aw mannnn, no gorilla arm?

Jul 27, 10 - 08:44 am Comment from: Daner

Been waiting for this for a while now. Looking forward to ordering 2 tonight.

No USB3? Top model only with 1 TB? Meeh - I stick with my 24in for a while longer

Jul 27, 10 - 08:52 am Comment from: Mac4lfe

A wonderful small addition to the store and a must have for me is the new Apple rechargeable batteries http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC500?mco=MTg1ODA4NzQ

You get six batteries that last up to ten years.

Jul 27, 10 - 08:56 am Comment from: Grigori

FINALLY, an external trackpad. . . been wanting one since '06.

Wow, finally some of my  wish list items are becoming reality.

I called for a bluetooth input device 3 years ago, but I called it a TouchPad. Anyone know if it can be used in conjunction with a Magic Mouse - one on either side of the keyboard?

Also asked for two internal HDs in the iMac. The solid-state HD isn't exactly what I envisioned when I called for an internal Raid, but I'll take it.

Only disappointment is the lack of USB 3.0, Firewire 1600(?), HDMI, eSATA or other modern inputs. For that reason alone, I may wait for the next revision to upgrade my 24" iMac.

Also still waiting for the ambient-backlit keyboard with black keys like the MacBook Pro.

And Apple, please update Mail to include a standard widescreen preview without the need for flaky 3rd party plug-ins. The iPhone, iPad and MobileMe have updated apps, what about the desktop?!

Jul 27, 10 - 09:06 am Comment from: RicMac

Hey R2 ... The Mac is dead right???

Well this sucks. I was really hoping for a model in the 23"-24" range. The 27" is just too durned big and I'd like something a bit larger than the 21.5". Oh well.

HDMI inor out port to play my PS3 on the screen - no.

Jul 27, 10 - 09:11 am Comment from: breeze

MultiTouch just became inseparable and universal on the entire Apple and Mac product line.

@Fat Bastard

The new 27" isn't much larger than the previous 24" iMac. i have the old 24" at home and the new 27" at work and since the 27" is 16:9 the difference in overall size is very minor.

Jul 27, 10 - 09:16 am Comment from: breeze

Xmas in July!

Jul 27, 10 - 09:22 am Comment from: TheMacAdvocate

What? No squawking about no matte screens? Is it possible we've...MOVED ON?

@TheMacAdvocate

Magic Trackpad is a matte surface and not glossy like Magic Mouse.

What are the odds that then track pad will work on the iPad? I hope it will play nice- if so, I will get one.

I am so exhausted with mice. I would like to use my iPad as a track pad or I guess pony up the extra for the new trackpad.

Jul 27, 10 - 09:33 am Comment from: critic

Now we know why Apple was so aggressive with their sales forecast for this quarter.

A Dual Hard Drive iMac Yessss!

Jul 27, 10 - 09:53 am Comment from: Original Jake

Too many whiners on this thread--these are GREAT updates!

Jul 27, 10 - 10:00 am Comment from: Geo B

@Fat Basterd (great name BTW) - what are you working on that the 21 is too small? Got one for the kids last year, it's an awesome machine. The 27 was too big for our desk, but the wide screen 21 is a lot of real estate.

"Magic TrackPad" really? I love Apple Kit, but that name is just plain unimaginative and LAME. Cool device, LAME name..And no, I do not know what they should call it, but Magic? c'mon...

"what are you working on that the 21 is too small ... The 27 was too big for our desk"

LOL, my desk has two 30-inch Apple monitors and a 37-inch Pioneer Kuro on it.

What am I working on? Work!

I, too, will wait for the next generation. This is a good step but missing key items as mentioned by several above.

"Magic Trackpad??? There no evidence that shows people want to use these things."

Jul 27, 10 - 10:38 am Comment from: Steve516

logitech offers an app that allows you to use the iPhone as a track pad on your imac or perhaps macbook - it might work with the ipad too. not sure.

I like this trackpad way better than using an iPad or iPhone as the input device since it actually has a physical click. quite important when you need to click and move things in Illustrator or Photoshop.

Jul 27, 10 - 11:02 am Comment from: emmayche

Yesterday I saw a video about how Apple has influenced Disney/ABC.

Obviously, with all the "Magic" going on at Apple, there's been influence in the other direction as well.

I'm just waiting for them to merge Apple R&D and Disney Imagineering - after all, the slogan of Imagineering is "We Make the Magic!"

-- from a former Imagineer

Magic Trackpad. Do I see touch screen programs from the ipad coming to the imac?

Jul 27, 10 - 11:16 am Comment from: aka Christian

@Dave from Canada -

That's what I was thinking, too. Shouldn't be long before we'll be able to use iOS apps on our Macs. Nice.

I conjecture this Magic Trackpad owes part of its reason for being to the fact that a touch pad is important for iPhone and iPad development testing, and heretofore that wasn't possible except by first tediously downloading an app to an actual device at each iteration of development (except on the later MBP models). This should make app development on a desktop Mac a little more snappy.

Jul 27, 10 - 11:36 am Comment from: justme2

This makes my Core Duo iMac really look old now -- and $1199 is doable though I'd prefer the $1499 model just for the larger HD. Now I've got to start working on the funding source, aka my husband...

Jul 27, 10 - 11:40 am Comment from: jcw3rd

I'm not buying until they bring back matte screens. Period.

I think we forget that no other company offers the tech spec combined with design and ease of use like Apple. I don't see or hear of any other pc company updating their kit in a time of recession !

Jul 27, 10 - 12:15 pm Comment from: qka

$29 for the battery charger is rather steep.

iOS apps will definitely be a part of the desktop experience before long -- maybe invoked in a similar way as Dashboard (maybe even replacing Dashboard).

Need an easy way to limit swipes and gestures to particular apps. Right now it's impossible to use the Magic Mouse in Photoshop without changing fields inadvertently. The slightest touch shifts values all over the place.

Any recommendations on Magic Prefs, Better Touch Tool or another app to solve this?

Jul 27, 10 - 01:00 pm Comment from: HughB

@qka
So don't buy it. We don't mind.

So, I just purchased a new iMac for my work on July 7th. Can I upgrade to the new iMac for free?

Jul 27, 10 - 01:44 pm Comment from: feral

magic trackpad and photoshop....

There are people whining about this on AppleInsider, believe it or not.

I made a comparison between the $1999 27" iMac and a Dell XPS Studio 9000.

The results are quite awesome.

http://forums.appleinsider.com/showpost.php?p=1684541&postcount=128

Jul 27, 10 - 01:50 pm Comment from: Jamie

My oh my, that Magic TrackPad is AWESOME!

I've just ordered one, can't wait for delivery tomorrow!!!!!

Someone commented yesterday asking Apple to allow Dashboard to be a runtime environment for iOS Apps. I reckon this is a dead-cert now...

Jul 27, 10 - 02:17 pm Comment from: Romeodawg

Why in the world do I have an HD camera on my iPhone, but STILL a low rez camera built into the iMac? This many years and no improvement? What if this YouTube thing takes off?

Jul 27, 10 - 02:36 pm Comment from: Derek Currie

I remember a time, back in the bad old Marketing-As-Management days of Apple when they'd release the new Macs just AT or even AFTER the beginning of the new school year. NOT intelligent.

It's good to see Apple releasing new products of interest to schools and students at the RIGHT TIME. Bravo. All gears properly meshed and in motion.

Jul 27, 10 - 03:50 pm Comment from: ken1w

Re: The "official" Apple rechargeable batteries and charger.

http://www.apple.com/battery-charger/

I'll bet a set of charged batteries lasts longer in that wireless Magic Trackpad, compared to any Apple wireless mouse. Nothing needs to light up for tracking.

The Magic Trackpad is a nice addition. Over the next two iMac revisions, I'll bet it goes on to being an optional "replacement" for a mouse (instead of being an optional $69 "addition" currently) to the default choice (provided "instead" of a mouse unless the customer chooses otherwise).

This is a cool angle

http://images.apple.com/magictrackpad/images/companion_20100727.jpg

Apple needs to create and sell a separate wireless numeric keypad with the same profile as the keyboard and this new trackpad. They would look cool all lined up in a row. Or perhaps some enterprising third-party can create software and an overlay for the Magic Trackpad that turns it into a touch-based numeric keypad, on command. There are some interesting possibilities for the Magic Trackpad, now that it's a separate input device.

I have the latest and greatest iMac 27" and most recent MBP 17"--both with i7 chips and upgraded RAM, HD, etc. I would have instantly purchased a new one of each, if ONLY they had USB 3.0, FW 1600, or eSata 6. I wonder how many sales Apple lost due to a $15 - $30 part? NOT SMART! USB 3.0 IS the new standard; not WILL be.

Jul 27, 10 - 04:26 pm Comment from: KingMel

@Fat Basterd
MacinScott is right. The 21.5" (1920x1080) is basically the old 24" with 120 pixels removed from the vertical direction (1920x1200). I like the extra vertical real estate on the 24" display, and I don't mind the fact that 16:9 video is letterboxed. That's why I cannot understand the complaints regarding the aspect ratio of the iPad display. Sure you have black bars when you watch 16:9 video. But do you actually want Apple to delete those pixels when they are so useful for other applications, such as ebooks?

Nice new kit, but I am surprised about no USB 3.0. Maybe they want to bring it on board closer to when they add it to the iPhone.

Do you think we will see Intel's Lightstream (or whatever it's called) come to the Mac next year? There are a lot of tech connectivity advances coming over the next few years, e.g. the replacement for HDMI that uses CAT5 cable; gigabit wireless, etc...

I really am surprised by no USB 3 though...

I've used Chinese character input from OSX 10.6 on a laptop and it's incredible. I think the magic trackpad will find a huge audience for Japanese, Chinese character input & those who can't input that type of text thru a keyboard. Apple really needs to showcase that on the magic trackpad pages.

Never fails! I bought the previous latest and greatest iMac 27" 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7 processor w/ 12 GB ram in Feb 2010.

Just ask me when I'm going to buy a new Mac and then wait a few months to get the new upgrade.

Anyone interested in my OLD iMac?

No blu-ray burner, no sale.

But I am starting to get weak. So, let me see if I understand. Apple has NOTHING to burn blu-rays for imacs, only Mac Pros.
FCP HAS blu-ray burning SOFTWARE for the Mac pros.
Apple has NO software for i-macs. (i-life)
What about FCE? Does FCE let you burn blu-ray?
So do I ONLY get blu-ray editing/burning with the Mac Pro/FCP, which gives me editing/burning software, but has NO blu-ray?
This sucks ! I may add one (burner) to a new i-mac, but then there's NO support from i-life/FCP?

What good is 2560 x 1440 res for watching a movie? I want to watch the movie AT 2560 x 1440 !!! Does Apple have something up, we don't know about yet? Will we be DOWNLOADING movies at that res, or higher?

CW,
Think outside the box. There are hundreds of ways to use that space. Just opening a standard 3MPixel photo already takes up most of this space if you're photoshopping without having to zoom or pan around:
"a camera with an array of 2048×1536 sensor elements is commonly said to have "3.1 megapixels" (2048 × 1536 = 3,145,728" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel).
Then like in my company, traders have thousands of realtime price feeds on dual 30" LCDs blinking all the time.
Of course, most consumers won't necessarily want to have 15 pages of Word documents or webpages open side-by-side, but that's possible too.