“The iMac G4 product line, which was last refreshed over 6 months ago, is quickly nearing the end of its life cycle. Some Apple resellers have recently sold through their allotment of 20-inch and 17-inch iMac G4s and were told by Apple not to expect a restock, while other merchants have been put on a 3 week waiting list for new orders of 15-inch and 17-inch iMacs. iMac G4 inventory is nearly depleted, and it appears that manufacturing of the entire line has halted,” Katie Marsal reports for AppleInsider.
“Rumors that Apple has been preparing a completely redesigned iMac, wrapped around a G5 processor, date back almost 6 months. Few details surrounding the future offering have been made available, though one source claimed to have toyed with a 1.6GHz G5 iMac dressed in generic prototype plastics, back in March,” Marsal reports.
More information about iMac G5, new Power Mac G5s and the wait for Apple Cinema Displays that match the Power Mac G5’s aluminum skin here.
MacDailyNews Take: Steve Jobs will kick off its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) with a keynote on Monday, June 28, 2004, beginning at 10:00 a.m. at San Francisco’s Moscone West and if his “one more thing” is an iMac G5, it can’t come soon enough for Apple. With Mac OS X 10.4 ‘Tiger’ to be previewed and rumors of new iPods, Power Mac G5s, Cinema Displays, and iMac G5s swirling about with gathering intensity, this WWDC could pack of heck of a punch. Last year’s WWDC bought us the introduction of the Power Mac G5 after the Mac OS X 10.3 ‘Panther’ preview. Less than 24 days to go… We’ll keep our eyes focused on Time Canada’s webiste so you don’t have to.
Some moron is going around posting with Sputnik’s nickname.
Get a life!
I wish the “one more thing” were speedy Windows emulation… so one can run PC games almost as quickly as PCs.
Not going to happen
1: Microsoft owns Virtual PC
2: Emulators are never as fast as native code
3: Less and less people are buying a highend PC or Mac just for games, when a playstation will do.
4: Halo and UT2004 are the best first person shooters and they are available for the Mac.
My hopes: 2. Updated PowerBook to G5
The Powerbooks were just updated, the G5 chip is still a hot little bugger.
Apple has been toying with liquid cooling with the new G5’s, getting it into a Powerbook is the next challenge.
I think we may see a liquid cooled G5, hopefully Dual 3 Ghz.
A updated iMac G5 lineup, perhaps with liquid cooling as well?
Color iPod with 60 GB hard drive
Tiger of course and it should be a free upgrade, Panther has plenty of security holes.
the new imac G5 needs to again make the kind of impact that the original imac did. it needs to be cheap and fast. i think it should start at $1199 or $999 if at all possible. and i think it would help apple a lot if they enticed PC users by offering discounted MS office with a mac purchase. that’s software that everyone needs and that adds to the cost of switching to mac.
i think the LCD is actually holding the imac back. the extra cost of the LCD makes is a more high end option and therefore more cant be put in to making it a performance machine, which is the price range it is in (compared to intel and amd boxes)
Remove the LCD from the iMac and sell it headless. I agree with above. New iMac sales are weak.
I agree with most people here that the LCD iMac should be upgraded to a G5 processor. Having said that, my ultimate one-more-thing would be a Cube-like G4 mac that would cost me less than the eMac does today. I do not care if this Cube 2.0 does not have the latest and greatest processor, so long as it can run OS X 10.4 and maybe connect to a television. I am sure that such a Mac would be the perfect compliment to the iPod for those people who do not use Macs all-ready.
“One more thing” should be from the iPod Division. By the time that comes, someone will have peed their pants and Thurdott will be wrigglin’ over melted chocolate — I hope.
“One More Thing” will not be from the iPod devision, Toshiba is not ready with the 60 gig HDDs yet (unless its iTunes Europe).
It’ll boost iMac sales but hurt G5 tower sales..
Because consumers look at MHZ, but don’t quite grasp all the fine points of Bus Speed, or the relevance of a Backside Cache.
I also agree that we need another CUBE. A CRT monitor built into an all-in-one, like an eMac, doesn’t seem all that wasteful. And lots of people love that old, one piece, iMac form.
But a sexy LCD screen forever tethered to an iMac can seem like a waste of money to a lot of people. (Is there NO WAY to make that LCD screen pullable and plug it into a NEW iMac base?).
So I say, bring back the CUBE (this post is being written on a 450 G4 CUBE, and i LOVE IT).
DV
No more cube computers! I’ve had my fill of not being able to expand graphics cards and hard drives and monitors. I think Apple should only be making towers.