Margaret Kane writes for CNET News, “The recent confirmation from Apple Computer that it’s planning to redesign the iMac prompted CNET News.com to wonder: So what will it look like? And who better to ask than our readers?”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Here we go with the iMac G5 speculation season. Enjoy! One hint from us: if the new iMac G5 doesn’t accept, somehow interact with, or include a built-in VESA Mount Adapter, we’ll switch to Windows XP (just kidding). You heard it here first.
All in one flat screen.
Well let’s face it. The iMacs have been getting smaller and small – as most personal computers have been. And since, clearly, we can’t have an infinitely small computer (at least not yet) – the next logical step would be to make it invisible. Like the last bond car.
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Hopefully the Apple legal department will not require MDN to remove this image.
someone had the balls to mention that apple should spend more money on quality? oy. i have never used a machine of any kind that goes through the abuse of my computer (dual 2ghz G5 running Maya, Shake, FCP HD, 4 GIG RAM, dual 20″ cinema displays), that takes it in stride and impresses me daily. Can’t say the same thing of any other computer, and especially those morons building cars in Detroit. (acura driver, here!)
The CPU will be about 3 inches high by 14 inches wide and 10 inches deep. There will be a LCD screen that will mount on the CPU or you’ll be able to use your current one (LCD) with an adapter. YES, the iMac goes two piece!
sorry, had to dig at American car quality, i often compared my previous dodge ram 2500 truck to a dell.
I rekon it with have an ipod connector/dock built-in and therefore just plug your ipod in and auto sync – no cables!
I also think the price should be around �499 for the bottom line model going up to �1,100 for the top model and that Apple should throw in 100 songs itunes certificate with all new models (and maybe �99 off a new 40gb ipod).
“And who better to ask than our readers?”
Oh Margaret, sweetie. I wouldn’t even ask your readers to walk my poodles – let alone trust them to come up with an iMac design.
AS SEEN ON TV, the new iMac will sport a BikiniTouch.
Hey MDN what’s with that banner? couldn’t get any Computer related advertizing? what’s next, X-rated sites?
Personally, i would not mind. but since i am surfing from work, i kinda have to think twice about surfing over to MDN.
I think it will carry a LOT of design references to the iPod – after all, this will be the focal ‘switching’ machine for all those millions of Wintel ‘podders’ who’ve recently discovered the wonders of Apple. Perhaps simply an enlarged ‘landscape’ iPod shape (white surface) with an LCD screen filling out one side and a brushed metal stand centred on the other?
Maybe even an iPod click wheel built into the keyboard (they’re very proud of that one!)?
>AS SEEN ON TV, the new iMac will sport a BikiniTouch
Very funny Me. I don’t think we get the BikiniTouch banner here in UK (sadly).
BUT… up until very recently there was a well known hair removal product here – aimed at all those bikini lines – called ‘Immac’. This pre-dated Apple’s cuddly computer by decades – though recently it’s changed its name to ‘Veet’ Depilatory Cream (!)
iVeet anyone?
I agree about the seamless integration of the iPod and iMac. I think that Apple needs to find cool new features that the windows iPod users just can’t have. For example, what if the iPod once docked to the iMac becomes context sensitive. If you’re browsing in Safari, you could scroll the page with the iPod wheel. In iMovie, scroll through the footage precisely, etc…
make the iPod the perfect bait to lure windows user to the iMac.
new imac: flat and late.
“Apple needs to compete. Enough of this laid back, whatever type attitude. If they are going to remain a computer company (Which I’m starting to question what with Apple seriously focusing on Music and the iPod.) they need to kick some butt,” writes a reader identified as John Doe.
We’re supposed to take seriously what “John Doe” says? Bwahahaha!
Why do these PC writers even care what Apple’s doing? Who cares what they think?
Hmmmm. Could this VESA mount adaptor be the beginning of iMacs offered without a display?????
Hope it has optional displays; but I doubt it. I say look for a power supply and port base for a screen with motherboard behind and a DVDR drive on the edge supported from a single arm. I would like options for a video card and 1 exp. slot with two drive bays. Again, I think it’s not likely. Give me a mini box with features and chip alternatives that span the price range below the current G5s. Oh well, maybe next year.
Hope it has optional displays; but I doubt it. I say look for a power supply and port base for a screen with motherboard behind and a DVDR drive on the edge supported from a single arm. I would like options for a video card and 1 exp. slot with two drive bays. Again, I think it’s not likely. Give me a mini box with features and chip alternatives that span the price range below the current G5s. Oh well, maybe next year.
Actually, nobody outside of Apple knows what it will look like except the folks at Quanta who are manufacturing the iMacs. Supposedly pre-production models are being made to send to Paris with full ramp up in a few weeks. I think we’ll all be surpised by the form factor…. a good guess since it’s happened ever since the first iMac.
I do not think that an iPod dock will be part of the new iMac because all iPods are different. The iPod Mini for example cannot use the same dock as the 20 GB iPod which cannot in turn use the same dock as the 40 GB dock. So long as there is FireWire on the iMac there will not be a need for a built-in dock.
The new iMac will be 3D!!!
It’ll have an open box as a screen. You get up, lean forward and stick your whole head inside to look around, resting your chin in the VESA mount while protecting your rear from surprise intrusions with your free hand.
SuperDrive access is from inside the screen — look ma, no hands! — insert or retrieve a disk with your teeth.
The rest will be the usual Apple form factor — ultra compact … very tight … so tight, in fact, that RAM cards plug in externally and literally just hang their ass out.
The Apple logo will be a cutout — look through it to admire the G5 chip subtly lit by two LEDs. The LEDs will be colored pink, blue green or white — your choice — not gold.
No fan … the chip rotates on an assymetrical axis, blowing air out through the logo cutout so you can catch a whiff of silicon, thus warning you of an impending meltdown.
It will come with blueteeth inside the screen box. If you post a complaint about Shanghai artifacts in your 4G iPod’s casing on any public site, the teeth will clamp down on your neck, biting your head off.
Visit a Thurrot site and the SuperDrive will momentarily slip the disk out and back in (sort of like sticking its tongue out). A silencer algorithm will be trigered if you are Thurrot — the disk spits out with enough force to sever your windpipe.
Finally, it will come with a manual — a postcard, telling you where the on/off button is.
Oh … and one last thing. It WILL play REAL aac’s. But the sound output will invariably be inaggadadavida.
The iMac G5 will have a revolutionary touchscreen!
That would be cool…
ROFL!!! But, what about the price?
>>OFL!!! But, what about the price?
The BikiniTouch is only $14.99.
The price is the best part — $999 for one; 2 for $999 [the market share thing, you know] plus bundling specials: $9.99 for Microshaft Orifice [plastic chair and desk] and $0.99 for Internet Expleter — the XV version. But wait, there’s more … trade in any Dell product and get a rebate of $5.00 for one or $ 2.50 each for two — limit two per customer. Offer excludes the Dell DJ — “we can’t give that shit away.”