“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.
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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?