iMac: Sahara

[MacRumors]

Appleinsider reposted (http://appleinsider.com/articles/0112/imac2002.phtml) their previous story regarding upcoming Flat-panel iMacs:
The new iMac will continue the convenience of the All in One design that the current model holds, but in a significantly sexier manner. Based around a 15” TFT Flat-Panel display, running at a native resolution of 1024x768, the new iMac will closely resemble the current 15” Apple Studio Display from many angles. However, the enclosure will be thicker (so as to accommodate the extra bulk of computer internals), and constructed with more robust, scratchproof materials similar in texture and finish to the iBook.

Submitted by Adolfo

[Falleron]

I dont think there is much scope to have a radically different shape for the new iMac!! How many different ways can you arrange a flat panel + Other computer components!!

[mymemory]

Man, the pot does miracles.

[spikey]

Quite a few different ways actually.

[Simon Liquid]

Since when is the iBook finnish 'scratchproof.' From what I have heard and seen, one of the major complaints is how easy it is to scratch the iceBooks.

[greenplasticcup]

ibook is definitely not scratchproof. I'm pretty careful with mine, and in the right light it looks like it's been in the back seat of my car rattling around.

[eyelikeart]

Possibly the older iBook was scratch-resistant....but I've seen the newer ones on display and I wouldn't buy that it's scratch-resistant....

[SPG]

How many hits does an iMac take on a regular basis? It could be covered in terracota and be fine for all the abuse a stationary machine gets.

[SPG]

SPG, Are you a complete retard? I know you dropped out of school in kindergarten, but the iMac is also supposed to be use in schools.

[Zenith]

SPG, how many persons are you actually? :)

[dantec]

FINALLY!

I used to LOVE Appleinsider for updates on rumors. Ever since they never updated their site regularly for a while, I went on a research of other sites... (this one for example, MOSR).

I really hope it does get launched at Macworld San Francisco! Cause i'll be attending the expo at that time! (I live in Switzerland but is originally american)

[SPG]

Originally posted by Zenith
SPG, how many persons are you actually? :)

One person, multiple personalities.

[MacAztec]

This is a for sure release this MWSF! Apple stores carry few iMacs, not even really on display.

[scalz]

...few iMacs on display at the Apple stores? We display every iMac that is for sale; 4 different models. And they are all in stock. There is no guarantee AT ALL Apple will release a new iMac in January. The only thing that propells this rumor is our desire for something new.

[daveg5]

the nnew imac will simply be the cube reborn, smaller lighter and cooler 800-1000 mhz G3, dvd/dvd-cdrw
999-1299. if this is true ill buy one. know when will the g3-g4 upgraders start selling upgrades faster than the 500Mhz they have been stuck on for the last 3Years!!!! my old PM 7500 wants to play too, its got a lot a life left in it

[makkii]

I think apple should release a G3 Cube insted of a TFT iMac from about $650, and keep selling the old entry iMac at $700.

[oldMac]

The G3 cube is the IDEAL iMac!

Give me a 1Ghz, G3 cube that starts under $700. And make the iMac version(s) of the screen modular and detachable. 15" & 17" available, with a cable available to upgrade to a cinema display.

That machine would hit the iMac spot and fill that missing middle ground that so many of us fit into.

[aris]

This LCD-iMac thread prompted me to register with these guys, plus the frequent use of the word "retard" in some of the posts.

[spikey]

Yes the G3 cube would be nice. But dont price it to compete with a consumer machine like the imac. It lacks any marketing sense.

[porkchop62664]

Awww c'mon SPG... I am a PROFESSIONAL web developer and prgrammer and my machine of choice is the iMac. Sure, occasionally, I whine a little about screen real estate, but the 333mHz G3 is fast enough (even in OSX running classic apps like Fireworks and Dreamweaver) and my desk is tidy because it only needs two wires to the wall.

The iMac is not a Kid's computer!

/porkchop

[deusvede]

Someone (porkchop) telling something I've ever thought. The iMac is a powerfull (with enough memory) machine. Apple doesn't need a speed boost in their processors (only for a marketing thing). The necessary boost is in software and internal architecture (a 66 ATA IDE?! My God!), and maybe the G4 (MacOSX NEEDS it) in every machine, but 200 Mhz aren´t gonna change something.

[Xapplimatic]

At an "ideal" Mac World San Francisco...

1. The G5 PowerMacs are rolled out 1 GHz and up.
2. The G5 Powerbook is hinted, Apollo G4 upgrade meanwhile.
3. All iMacs are revved up to cheaper G4s at existing iMac speeds so all iMacs have Altivec at 500 Mhz or more.
4. iMacs all get LCD screens (except some cheapy closet model kept around for educational institutes who want things dirt cheap).
5. Apple introduces a new Apple Pro Optical Mouse with Scroll Wheel. Simultaneously, Apple Works also has scroll wheel compatibility for once.
6. Adobe shows off the finally completed OS X PhotoShop and offers free upgrade to all existing PhotoShop 6 owners.
7. Apple announces a stand-alone Firewire connected inkwell pad so that Mac users can use handwriting to make notes, order online, or run macros to open programs etc (much like applications on a Palm Pilot) compatible with all FireWire OS X equipped Macs. A new Apple Pro keyboard is rolled out as a BTO option which has the inkwell built in.
8. FireWire II (800 Mbps) is introduced and gigabit ethernet on all models.
9. Airport is ramped up to the 22 Mbps spec.
10. SuperDrive is introduced to the Power Books and newly Alti-vec equipped iMacs as a BTO.

Now, that having been said, if even just 4 out of those 10 things happen, I'll be pretty happy that Apple is making lots of progress. Am I dreaming? Perhaps.. but like all dreams, there's a little truth somewhere.

[spikey]

Thank you xapplishitic, that was a waste.
Yes you are dreaming.

Although some of those things could appear. But no G5s, flat apnel imacs yet.
Firewire 2 is very probable.

[Kela]

Spikey, is it me or has macrumors become boring? I mean, it just seems like yesterday (i.e the months of June-August) where arguments flared and personalities were destroyed(i.e JOhn123). I think we have literally dissolved him.

[spikey]

Unfortunately yes. Im afraid the only thing we have left to celebrate is nostalgia. Sad really.

None of the new characters on here know how to debate, they take what you say out of context, they are too happy, they think words which contain more than 3 syllables makes them sound clever, and they use these words to hide the lack of content in the piles of cum they call posts.
That and the fact that even if you beat them into the ground they just repeat what they have already said.

Its ********** pathetic.

[Edited by spikey on 12-11-2001 at 12:17 PM]

[Kela]

I want John123 and the others back. I WANT MACrumors t oset acontroversial topic!!

[britboy]

Those lambastings were half the reason i started visiting this site in the first place... shame.

[britboy]

sorry, did i just use a three-syllable word just to try and sound clever? how thoughtless of me!

[mischief]

the tyraides or the need for verbal smackdown?

[Kethoticus]

"Spikey, is it me or has macrumors become boring? I mean, it just seems like yesterday (i.e the months of June-August) where arguments flared and personalities were destroyed(i.e JOhn123). I think we have literally dissolved him."

"None of the new characters on here know how to debate, they take what you say out of context, they are too happy, they think words which contain more than 3 syllables makes them sound clever, and they use these words to hide the lack of content in the piles of cum they call posts..."

Flamebait if ever I've seen it guys. These people are totally bored. Ignore them.

[mischief]

As I recall I took a 4 month hiatus after contributing to John123's need for therapy. As for the rest of Y'awl ........ bring it on. I can cook any single one of you at straight debate. (expertise-wars, like rules lawyering is always the loophole tho.....)

[Catfish_Man]

What happened, is that macrumors became a forum instead of a battleground. Personally, I think that's an improvement, not a problem.

To keep this on topic: I think that we will be seeing an LCD iMac (The release of the Sahara, Apple buying up all those 15" LCDs, and the whole thing with Quanta is pretty strong evidence.)

I think we won't be seeing a G5 though. (and if we do it won't be in that stupid dodecahedron case that some people were talking about.)

[spikey]

God damn it cant you people talk about something new?
Im banging my head on the F@*?/! screen out of sheer boredom.

This has got very sad. All you zealots make me sick.

[spikey]

Originally posted by britboy
sorry, did i just use a three-syllable word just to try and sound clever? how thoughtless of me!

No need to panic, noone expects you to think.

Thats really quite sad, even all you other zealots can come up with more than 3 syllables.

[DannyZR2]

that was the best thing about john123.. he would read out a a dictionary and just put down anything that sounded 'smart' on his posts..

bad thing was that he would always analyze every word anyone ever posted and make sure you didn't mispell anything.. i grew weary of this...


oh john 123, where could you be???

come teach us the ways of the dictionary once more!

[Kela]

True trrueee, you guys speak sense. HOnestly, John123 actually must have realized that his constant battery by the rest would only lower his self esteem. But no seriously, what is happening to this forum. THE MOST BORING PERSONALITIES ARE ENTERING AND TRYING TO ARTICULATE their thoughts and hoping to recieve awards!! I mean, all the topics are so lame. Im hangin on a real thin thread here...


P.s: Catfish, ****.

[jefhatfield]

i am from the really old school on macrumors and the site is like the tide, in for a few months and out

either people are "on topic" and things are civil and somewhat boring and predictable or they go way off topic and get into wars which has nothing to do with macs but are much more interesting

i am the only one who has stuck around for two cycles...on topic, flamewar off topic, on topic, and flamewars off topic, and now we are entering the predictable on topic speculations again

i see what you posters who like the flamewars are complaining about but like the tide a whole new cast of warriors will fill the boards with another major flamewar season

chances are very few of you will be around to see it but its worth the wait if you are patient

i especially enjoyed john123, spikey, monkeybusiness, kela, and mymemory from the summer and fall of this year

in the flamewars before that, anonymousposter, anonymous coward, and the pctroll really heated things up in 2000 and early 2001

the new and third installment of flamewar warriors has started with joeyj and others and they will take us into 2002

and like always i will be neutral and be one of the boring ones

[spikey]

NO NO NO NO

Jef open your eyes.
Joeyj and his bumchums dont flame, they just post the same thing over and over even though you verbally destroy what they have said. Then they ask for quotes to prove their ignorance to you.
This isnt flaming this is a sad case of denial.

[spikey]

I just love the way john123s supporters faded into the background as soon as their leader was starting to crumble.
Hehehe makes me laugh.

[jefhatfield]

...were like world war one and world war two where the two sides engaged each other in real time in the context of a common battlefield

i do admit that taking partial qoutes from different times and different arguments might seem unfair and cowardly, but this new round of flamewar is like terrorism

it is a hit and run type of flamewar taking others' comments out of context and using partial quotes and i do believe it is a version of a flamewar

it's not the same as what i have seen here or anywhere else, but somehow with my limited knowledge of macs, i can still learn facts from you vs joeyj

[spikey]

Bah, giving it a name doesnt make it better.

At the end of the day you prove your point and beat them to s*** and yet they still repeat the same sentence. Its tedious and doesnt achieve anything, infact its pathetic. this style isnt flaming because it doesnt achieve a flame, it only shows how stubborn you are, and that you cant prove s***.

There is no hit and run part to this "style", because there is no hit in the first place.