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<blockquote data-quote="chas_m" data-source="post: 1524180">One last thing: as you've pointed out, the Haswell's big advantage is power savings, which is only really meaningful for portables. As such, it's QUITE possible that Apple will be in NO rush to put these chips in iMacs for a long time, since from a desktop perspective you don't gain much of anything (and OS X Mavericks, which has other power-saving features, isn't coming out until fall anyway).Bottom line: I could of course be wrong, but I think the iMac would logically be the last unit to get the Haswell and other bumps (802.11ac for example), not the second. So I'm guessing that we'll get Haswell MacBook Pros before that happens.Really it depends on what you're doing with the computer, but unless your needs are very different than most people's, the iMac that's selling right now today is going to utterly wow you for years to come. Get the refurbished or a new one, but I wouldn't wait around when there's no obvious benefit in doing so.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="chas_m, post: 1524180"] One last thing: as you've pointed out, the Haswell's big advantage is power savings, which is only really meaningful for portables. As such, it's QUITE possible that Apple will be in NO rush to put these chips in iMacs for a long time, since from a desktop perspective you don't gain much of anything (and OS X Mavericks, which has other power-saving features, isn't coming out until fall anyway). Bottom line: I could of course be wrong, but I think the iMac would logically be the last unit to get the Haswell and other bumps (802.11ac for example), not the second. So I'm guessing that we'll get Haswell MacBook Pros before that happens. Really it depends on what you're doing with the computer, but unless your needs are very different than most people's, the iMac that's selling right now today is going to utterly wow you for years to come. Get the refurbished or a new one, but I wouldn't wait around when there's no obvious benefit in doing so. [/QUOTE]

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