“Apple’s iSight has quietly been missing from action these last few weeks as dealer stock has dried up with no further units are expected until September. Reliable sources indicate that ‘iSight 2’ is in production, but internal documents provided to Think Secret indicate that the camera’s feature set remains unchanged,” Ryan Katz reports for ThinkSecret.com.
According to ThinkSecret, the new iSight model simply contains updated mounting hardware to attach magnetically to Apple’s new displays and there are some reports of customers already receiving the new iSight models.
Full article here.
The new displays are aluminum!! They are not magnetic!
loL!
I wonder how such an obvious fact (aluminum is not magnetic) get past ThinkSecret AND MDN. I can’t believe that our society is becoming THAT ignorant about the world around them.
Perhaps Apple has put a magnet or a piece of steel in the new displays already�
Indeed. They can’t attach magnetically to the new displays. Not unless Apple snuck a lodestone in under that bezel somewhere.
if you will reference http://www.apple.com/displays/design.html
APPLE not THINKSECRET references the magnetic attachment.
I ordered a G5,20inch,APE,iSight 3 weeks ago now .. on the order sheet it had the new model number of iSight. I bet thats why I aint got my order yet >_<
Arygaetu: Please explain this from the Apple site;
“iSight Accessory Kit
The iSight Accessory Kit is for the mobile lifestyle of the iSight user. You can keep iSight mounts and cable adapters permanently connected to your multiple work stations, put them in your travel bags, or have spares around just in case.
The kit includes four multipurpose mounts: a magnetic mount for new Anodized Aluminum flat-panel displays, a flat-panel iMac mount, eMac and desktop mount, PowerBook and iBook mount, along with three FireWire cable adapters and one FireWire 6-6 pin, 1.8m cable.”
Wow! It’s true that Apple states that there is a magnetis mount for the iSight. Perhaps the Apple logo on the back (see http://www.apple.com/displays/specs.html ) is an iron-based insert.
Time for a trip to the Apple store.
Keep the magnets away from your Monitors or hard drives or you are looking for trouble. NOT a good design decision.
Since when did LCDs need protection from magnets? I’ll personally laugh at anyone who waves a deguassing ring in front of their Cinema Display after attaching their iSight magnetically.
Aryugaetu,
SUCKER!
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Read the text, dude.
Why are we having a problem with the idea that Apple are smart enough to incorporate a steel patch for a magnetic mount in the aluminum enclosure?
It’s and LCD display. no problem with sticking a magnet in there.
Magnets can be shielded anyway, as they would be in an iMac or eMac’s internal speakers.
But the point is worth making that it’s not going to stick to the aluminium, it’s going to stick to a magnet inside the case.
(Just in case people now think that they can stick little novelty magnets all over the display).
It’s reasurring to me that people needed an explanation of how this was going to work, knowing that aluminium is not magnetic.
Hywel,
Thanks for the correct spelling of ” aluminium”. Sorry folks, I’m celebrating National Pedantry Week.
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i like aluminium… and goldium, and silverium…
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The iSight is the same but the software will be BOTH PC & Mac just like iTunes. Apple likes selling iPods (and Music) to PeeCee users, why not sell them a few iSight cameras with iSight AV for Windows?
Um, hondo, so what was the US to do when the ant made slaves of the grasshoppers?
It was Alumium first, the Aluminum, then Aluminium. So Aluminum is an older spelling. But seeing as all the names were thunk [sic] up but Humprhey Davy, perhaps Aluminium is the correct spelling. The
Some spellings that we think are wrong are simply older spellings taken over by migrants hunders of years ago. We’ve since standardised on different spellings. Typically I can’t think of one right now !
I don’t mind dropping U’s (color vs colour), or have any rational objection to the use of Z’s in place of S’s (-ized versus -ised), but it’s always single l’s that bug me (traveled versus travelled). That one just looks like a mistake to me, and usually interrupts the flow if I’m reading an American book. It would be nice if they could correct them for the British market.
I used to work on some US projects, and we had to use US spelling, so perhaps I grew more tolerant than some of the differences.
I’m always fascinated by the use of ‘oftentimes’ by Americans. It sounds like such an archaic word to me, and not something that would be used any more in the UK. But it’s just something that stuck around in the US and dies out over here.
Ah. I see some non-deliberate mistakes in that post about spelling. Doh!
jadis,
the US outlawed slavery a long time ago. Not so in many parts of the world jack ass!
once again, and I wish thinksecret had this, but I posted the iSight 2 info from my friend at apple three weeks ago, but no one listened, it never fails and either source never credicts me
http://mypersonalgetaway.com
If there are no feature differences and you can already but the magnetic mounting system, is it really a version 2? a 1.1 I could understand