“Apple has managed to launch yet another powerful device that comes complete with the conspicuous stylishness that most of the firm’s products exude. Indeed, the new iMac, with its hardware and other guts tucked behind a flat-panel monitor, looks unmistakably like an iPod, the firm’s dominant digital music player. It was Apple industrial designer Jonathan Ive and his team who designed the new iMac, which ships in September, and might be on the Christmas wish list of new iPod owners,” Matthew Clark reports for ElectricNews.
“Even if the new Apple computers don’t fly off the shelves, it wouldn’t have a crushing impact on Apple’s business, since iMacs now make up just over 10 percent of the firm’s revenues, thanks in part to the wild success of the iPod music player and the relative popularity of the iBook and PowerBook portable computers. In its heyday, around 1999, more than 700,000 iMacs were sold each quarter, a number that has leveled off to around 250,000 currently,” Clark reports.
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Why do we get the inkling that the new iMac G5 is the last consumer desktop from Apple? Once the G5 goes into the consumer laptops, why not just design the hinges to allow you to rotate the screen facing outward when closed and then you can just stick your laptop on an iMac foot or hang it on the arm/mount where you used to hang your iMac G5? There will be a place for the Power Mac G5 on and under desks for years, but there’s certainly not much point of Apple offering another iMac, when all it really has become is an iBook G5 with the screen on backwards. This reversible-screen Mac unit would come in a choice of 12, 15 or 17-inch screens and, if you desire a larger workspace, each model possesses the ability to plug in and span to a larger Apple monitor. Or maybe we’re delirious from lack of sleep – what do you think?
Im a consumer and i know that i need more then crap ass fx5200, how the hell am i to support mac gaming when apple is pushing crap like $16 fx5200 in its consumer line with no option? Apples iMac web site is pushing gaming but this isnt a gaming machine at all with cheapest chip you can buy in it. same old stupid crap from apple.
If you want a gaming machine, get a tower.
Then you can futz with the grafx card, a tone more RAM, more HDDs, FW 800, and PCI slots. This is for a consumer who has no clue what a grafx card is or doesnt care that it wont play Doom 3
I’m thinking of saving up my hard-earned �s for the 20-inch model and sticking more RAM in it.
I’d be very grateful if someone could explain why (in the Apple Store) 1GB RAM – 1 DIMM is more than twice as expensive as 1GB RAM – 2 DIMMs.
I think the point MDN are trying to make is this:
Each of the previous iMac models had a ‘life’ of about 3 years.
Consider how much more compact everything is getting in computer technology ( Look at the iPod).
If this new iMac lasts about three years as well, then it’s not inconcievable that the size-difference in 2007 between a laptop and an iMac will have virtually disappeared.
So an all-purpose model wouldn’t be out of the question.
That should read ‘inconceivable’
If you can afford to stick 2GB of ram, you’d be sitting pretty. But shoot for at least 1GB if you can.
I’d be very grateful if someone could explain why (in the Apple Store) 1GB RAM – 1 DIMM is more than twice as expensive as 1GB RAM – 2 DIMMs.
Two DIMMs are always cheaper than a single DIMM for the same capacity.
transintl.com (for example; I’m only a customer) is already selling 1G DIMMs for the G5 iMac for ~$200. I’ll buy that, then eventually replace the original 256 with another 1G, or maybe pay Apple to replace the 256 with 512 (generally cheaper than buying a separate 512 somewhere else to replace the 256) and be satisfied with 1.5G total. I did the latter for my eMac but in hindsight it may have been more “economical” doing the former, saving ~$70 towards another 1G later (if necessary). Still, having the 512 DIMM seems more valuable/reusable to me than a 256 would have been.
Anyway, those are some strategy games I played when deciding how much eMac RAM to start with and maybe add later, within cost and two-slot limits. YMMV.
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Even with 1.5GB I haven’t found any way to avoid the inevitable creation of swapfiles because of how Panther’s virtual memory works in combination with certain apps that quickly deplete inactive and/or free memory in a way that triggers dynamic_pager to add them. It’s frustrating watching top and predicting when it’ll happen without any obvious way to control it. Still researching…
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