New pictures of the iMac G5

[vitruvius]

its been a long time since the last time i created my last mac mock up, well. tonight was kind of inspired so i modeled this based in the "headless" iMac rumors, also looking for a way of not loosing your monitor everytime your Mac gets obsolete.

hope you like it :)

Vitruvius



edit: orthographic problems and lcd image fixed

[ChrisH3677]

I like it!

[Nermal]

I'm not so sure about it, to be honest.

BTW, it's "lose" not "loose".

[imtechr]

I'm all for the idea of keeping the monitor and ditching the obsolete equipment however I'm still a fan of the models that look less "Dellish". Perhaps an aluminum version?

[manitoubalck]

UFO's come to mind.

[jonapete2001]

i love it. I only wish this was out now. I would go buy that this instant. If that was released it would IMO hands down be the best looking mac in the current line up. God that looks cool. ANd i love the headless design.

[MacFan26]

That would be cool if that's what the new ones looked like. Everyone would buy one!

[AmbitiousLemon]

i really like it. you always do great mockups vitruvirus. any chance you could ge on ive's team?

[amnesiac1984]

Why is the desktop back to front?

Nice design though, although i don't know how you'd fit an iMac G5 in that frisbee thing :D

[wdlove]

I like that new design. Like the titanium look, the metal look seems to be the new trend. To me this is preferable over the current design. I really never cared for the white look.

[Dont Hurt Me]

very nice, whats the lifespan of a LCD monitor? anyways nice concept but i have to say when you start talking of 17 wide, 20 inch and bigger screens do they need to be in the air? at this size there is no longer a need to have it on a arm. its time to can the all in one imac and make it a consumer tower. if apple needs a all in one so bad just pull out the crt in Emac and put in a lcd. nice concept but i like the concept that was shown before the new G5s came out. it was a headless mac with a big screen that had ports built into the sides and had a Enya track to go with the flyby of the computer. it also had clear acrlic plastic at its 4 corners and slide out hard drives anyone remember this concept? this would be a good place to post a picture if anyone still has it.

[Dont Hurt Me]

what about this

[Dont Hurt Me]

sorry technical difficulties,

[amnesiac1984]

Originally posted by Dont Hurt Me
very nice, whats the lifespan of a LCD monitor? anyways nice concept but i have to say when you start talking of 17 wide, 20 inch and bigger screens do they need to be in the air? at this size there is no longer a need to have it on a arm. its time to can the all in one imac and make it a consumer tower. if apple needs a all in one so bad just pull out the crt in Emac and put in a lcd. nice concept but i like the concept that was shown before the new G5s came out. it was a headless mac with a big screen that had ports built into the sides and had a Enya track to go with the flyby of the computer. it also had clear acrlic plastic at its 4 corners and slide out hard drives anyone remember this concept? this would be a good place to post a picture if anyone still has it.

yeah but did you see that scale of that one? If oyu look at the size of the hard disks in that model the machine would be huge, i still have the video if anyone wants it.

[strider42]

thats probably the first mock up I've ever seen of any "upcoming" mac that I actually like. Mostly because you didn't just mac the monitor detachable, you made it fully functional if you got rid of the cpu and wanted to go with a tower instead, which is something missing in many people's ideas. I like the idea of still having an all-in-one design but where the monitor is separate. Apple gets a lot out of such a design, they can make things cheaper, as people can still use old monitors or upgrade easily later without having to spend the extra money just to rpelace a perfectly functioning monitor, and maintain the non-upgradeable form factor which makes things cheap and encourages upgrading to a new machine instead of just upgrading piece meal. I'm quite impressed. and apple could easily do something so that the whole monitor line was like this, saving them further costs of not having to have separate designs for monitors for the consumer and pro lines.

[amnesiac1984]

here's a pic

[shadowfax]

an interesting design, but i have a few comments:

the texture is too dark and too shiny, i think, for apple's style. it should be more aluminum and less chrome, IMO.

i don't like the UFO feel very much--i think it should be more domeed and less sharp.

the separable LCD panel is cool, but it kind of counteracts the whole philosophy of the iMac.

[Dont Hurt Me]

Originally posted by amnesiac1984
here's a pic thank you , that was what i was talking about though the picture doesnt do the screen justice. a very cool concept and if the G5 would have been this i would have gone in debt for it.thanks again amnesiac1984

[agreenster]

Originally posted by vitruvius
its been a long time since the last time i created my last mac mock up, well. tonight was kind of inspired so i modeled this based in the "headless" iMac rumors, also looking for a way of not loosing your monitor everytime your Mac gets obsolete.

hope you like it :)

Vitruvius



edit: orthographic problems and lcd image fixed

Awesome design and idea, but theres no way a g5 system can fit in there. (yet)

[agreenster]

Originally posted by amnesiac1984
here's a pic

Thats an very busy design for a computer. Its definitely not something Apple would make; more like what a 15 year old would make with their spare time and a crack version of Lightwave. Its waaaaay too busy, unrealistic, and takes up too much desk-space. It is definitely an example of design before function.

peace

[cubist]

Right, the flat disk is too flat. Remember that a drive, 15 cm wide, 20 cm deep, 2 cm high has to fit in there, plus power supply, cpu, heatsink, fan, RAM...

Can you try a flat cylinder shape with a grating on top and maybe a space underneath for airflow?

[Dont Hurt Me]

maybe so but remember when the new G5 came out people where like that is ugly as hell. cold hard 50's steel doesnt bring out those warm fuzzy emotions like the original crt imac did.

[Dreadnought]

I would immediatly buy such an imac! It's breathtaking! Bring it on!! Ever applied at Apple as an industrial designer Vitruvius? :p

[Dreadnought]

Originally posted by amnesiac1984
here's a pic

What the .... is it?!?! That's really ugly...:( It looks like something from Ghostbusters part 17 or something :D

[x86isslow]

here's a thought for all those people who keep suggesting that apple wants to make all their computers to look the same.

remember in the mid 90s when people began to get confused about what actually differentiated different mac models? well now that apple has established in ppl's minds the metal/pro and the white/i* lines, do you think that they would go back and blur the lines between models? Tiimac? Aluimac? eew. i say just leave the clean white please!

[shadowfax]

i agree. i think the white is elegant and very ascetic in tone. it's not flashy, but it's not plain. it's distinctive, and i don't see any reason to change that aspect of it. metal is for the pro stuff.

[bullrat]

Originally posted by vitruvius
its been a long time since the last time i created my last mac mock up, well. tonight was kind of inspired so i modeled this based in the "headless" iMac rumors, also looking for a way of not loosing your monitor everytime your Mac gets obsolete. hope you like it :) Vitruvius
Beautiful design, vitruvius, thanks for sharing it with us. Nice.

[jap4n]

good job

i dont really like it myself though.. or any imac computers

it looks a bit like that UFO "The Flight of the Navigator" - if anyone remembers...

[Wyrm]

That's cool design; one that starts to follow "form follows function" of which Apple is devoted to.

The current iMac monitor can tilt and pivot - if this is also on one of those arms it brings up a cool point to make a pro monitor that can also tilt and pivot.

=Wyrm

[rainman::|:|]

isn't the point of mock-ups to produce something that Apple would actually make? 'cause this is a long way off. good rendering, and it looks like you put a lot of time into it, but you can't possibly think apple would release anything resembling this. It's metal instead of white plastic (you should know why this is important), the monitor has a large desktop footprint when the computer is removed (which apple hates on their LCDs), the computer itself is boring, the whole thing looks PC-ish... i could go on.

now that G5 cube that was below... that was something that Apple would produce. just a bit of light tweaking and it's almost perfect.

pnw

[blue&whiteman]

I agree with paulwhannel. its not a parctical design at all. apple is obsessed with clean looking practical things and that mockup is neither.

[benixau]

one good reason they would not make it:

it is too much like their current design.

[Dont Hurt Me]

rumor has it it will have a new form function, guessing the detachable screen. the sterile white is nice but there is nothing like colors. Im sure they realize this after comparing sales figures of crt imacs & lcd imacs. wasnt the crt imac the most popular product apple ever made? people like color & style its that simple, im sure a lot of imacs were bought on that alone.

[joshuwa72]

that is awesome! very good idea.

I like the UFO look...it looks very high tech, but primitive at the same time....totally sweet.

wish it were real!

[Moxiemike]

Originally posted by blue&whiteman
I agree with paulwhannel. its not a parctical design at all. apple is obsessed with clean looking practical things and that mockup is neither.

How is this not practical? If apple were to say, sell these 17" monitors at $499, and they were able to cram a G4 in a domed enclosure like that, it would SERIOUSLY sell for $1299 which totals $1800, the same as the current iMac 17".

Then in two years, people could buy a G6 model and keep their 17" monitor. Make it compatible with the towers, make it MATCH the towers, and make stuff like PCI-X, 8gb of ram, etc, available only on the towers, and you have two disntinct, practical product lines.

It would also end ALL of the complaining about "wasting" an LCD when the iMac is obsolete.

Hell, maybe they sell the 17" and the dome in a package for $1599 or some specialized pricing. That would seriously be hot.

I'd be tempted... 1.6 ghz G4 and 1.8.

Fast: 1.6, 512 ram, 60gb $999
Faster: 1.8ghz 512ram 80gb $1199
Fastest: 1.8ghz, 1gb ram, 120gb $1299

Add your choice of monitors:

15" LCD, $299
17" LCD $499 (Widescreen)
20" LCD $999 (Widescreen)
23" LCD $1499 (Widescreen, HD)


I think they'd move a lot more units this way. And it bridges the gap for people that want a "cheap headless box" and the people that like the iMac, it's an extension of the current design, etc etc etc.

I dunno. I wouldn't be surpised it Vitruvius isn't suing apple in a few months. it seems he's onto something, and has a "form follows function" design here....