iMac in Paris?

[MacRumors]

ThinkSecret provides notes that despite Apple's (unusual) announcement that a new iMac line will be announced and released in September, that Apple Expo Paris (August 31st) will act as the launching ground for the new iMac.

Ship dates aren't expected until September 15th, however.

ThinkSecret provides no new details on the revision to Apple's consumer line, though previous hints have suggested dramatic changes (G5, new case design).

[letterbox]

i think this is to be expected, however, this is still good news. whee, i'm new in the market for an imac (new g5) but hey it would be nice to see a revised ibook or pb line, however i don't think that will happen as there were just updates.

first stab at first post.

jay

[BWhaler]

Let's hope Apple delivers on this and has demo units at schools so they can salvage the 2004 Back to School buying season.

[mactarkus]

Let's just hope they keep the familiar iMac name and don't go with "Le Mac" or "Mac Royale"!

[letterbox]

I thought this was common knowledge anyway, because when Steve did a search for Paris using spotlight at WWDC, then iMac and then everybodies birthday for the month of September, he was hinting at something, thats the impression i got?

Yes, I thought it was quite funny... Paris>iMac>Birthday... Apple doesn't intentionally leak or anything of the sort to create hype

[danieluk]

[Windowlicker]

Originally Posted by mactarkus

Let's just hope they keep the familiar iMac name and don't go with "Le Mac" or "Mac Royale"!

guess you didn't go to burger king..

[JGowan]

Originally Posted by mactarkus

Let's just hope they keep the familiar iMac name and don't go with "Le Mac" or "Mac Royale"!

Well how about: "Mac Royale with Cheese?"

[Roller]

Originally Posted by BWhaler

Let's hope Apple delivers on this and has demo units at schools so they can salvage the 2004 Back to School buying season.

Unfortunately, I think they've already missed this one, at least insofar as potential switchers goes. I doubt if the average back-to-school buyer who never used a Mac before will put off their purchase into mid-September. And institutional school purchases will have been complete well before then.

The best thing Apple could do this time around would be to come up with a cheap (well under $1,000 - not $999) rugged iMac that doesn't have a built-in monitor.

[LimeiBook86]

Originally Posted by Roller

Unfortunately, I think they've already missed this one, at least insofar as potential switchers goes. I doubt if the average back-to-school buyer who never used a Mac before will put off their purchase into mid-September. And institutional school purchases will have been complete well before then.

The best thing Apple could do this time around would be to come up with a cheap (well under $1,000 - not $999) rugged iMac that doesn't have a built-in monitor.

My classroom (Commercial Art and Graphics design) has been using Gateway 333mhz Pentium II's for the last 6 years or so. These machines are horrible and my teacher was about to order 10-20 iMacs for the classroom. I happened to e-mail her just in time and she is going to wait and tell the school about these new iMacs. Luckily she has proof that new ones are coming, thanks to Apple's web site.

Hope these new ones are good

[The Bartender]

Originally Posted by LimeiBook86

My classroom (Commercial Art and Graphics design) has been using Gateway 333mhz Pentium II's for the last 6 years or so. These machines are horrible and my teacher was about to order 10-20 iMacs for the classroom. I happened to e-mail her just in time and she is going to wait and tell the school about these new iMacs. Luckily she has proof that new ones are coming, thanks to Apple's web site.

Hope these new ones are good

Congratulations to you... my graphics class will also be getting new Macs this year... fortunately they are Powermacs and not iMacs!

[DGFan]

Originally Posted by LimeiBook86

My classroom (Commercial Art and Graphics design) has been using Gateway 333mhz Pentium II's for the last 6 years or so. These machines are horrible and my teacher was about to order 10-20 iMacs for the classroom. I happened to e-mail her just in time and she is going to wait and tell the school about these new iMacs. Luckily she has proof that new ones are coming, thanks to Apple's web site.

Hope these new ones are good

For a class full of students I think the iMacs are a waste of money. Schools around me are shedding teachers because they have no budget yet your school is prepared to overspend on computers. What gives?

[Krizoitz]

Originally Posted by Roller

Unfortunately, I think they've already missed this one, at least insofar as potential switchers goes. I doubt if the average back-to-school buyer who never used a Mac before will put off their purchase into mid-September. And institutional school purchases will have been complete well before then.

The best thing Apple could do this time around would be to come up with a cheap (well under $1,000 - not $999) rugged iMac that doesn't have a built-in monitor.

I really need to find a "beating a dead horse" smiley. Ok we get it, some people think there needs to be a monitor less mid-low end mac. Enough allready.

[Sun Baked]

Originally Posted by Krizoitz

I really need to find a "beating a dead horse" smiley. Ok we get it, some people think there needs to be a monitor less mid-low end mac. Enough allready.

We may end up with something like that if Apple follows the PowerBook path and uses the low-end model as the bridge between the consumer/Power series.

But that's at MWSF that we'll be finding out what Apple is really up to -- the 90nm delays seem to have pushed the 3.0GHz machine from now to then, or a little after.

And it does increasingly look like it was going to be a Power5 variant -- though we may still not hit 3.0GHz. The performace gain at the same clock should be another 30-45% with the next generation CPU.

[daveg5]

Originally Posted by Roller

Unfortunately, I think they've already missed this one, at least insofar as potential switchers goes. I doubt if the average back-to-school buyer who never used a Mac before will put off their purchase into mid-September. And institutional school purchases will have been complete well before then.

The best thing Apple could do this time around would be to come up with a cheap (well under $1,000 - not $999) rugged iMac that doesn't have a built-in monitor.

Prepare to be flamed, everyone who points to a screen-less imac always are. but I admit, there are a lot of users and possible switchers, that already have nice LCDS or CRT's and dont want a all in one emac, Powermac G4, too slow or a big dual G5 too big $$$, and more power than needed, they also dont want an all in one Imac, cause they already have a great 17"+ LCD or CRT. And they also want at least 1 count them 1 PCcard or PCI slot, and 1 upgradable AGp slot or at least the ability to upgrade the graphics at ordering time and a multi button scrolling mouse by Apple that also works with PC's Apple could challenge Logitech and Microsoft in the mouse area if they introduced a great BT mouse, after all they were one of the first.. JMT
This market is not served at present by Apple at all.

[MacsRgr8]

I knew it.

I have been to MacWorld Paris for the last couple of years..... them not being the most exciting ones.

This one will be gr8! And I won't be able to make it.

Still... Let Steve bring 'em on!

[CrackedButter]

I thought this was common knowledge anyway, because when Steve did a search for Paris using spotlight at WWDC, then iMac and then everybodies birthday for the month of September, he was hinting at something, thats the impression i got?

[mpw]

Originally Posted by CrackedButter

I thought this was common knowledge anyway, because when Steve did a search for Paris using spotlight at WWDC, then iMac and then everybodies birthday for the month of September, he was hinting at something, thats the impression i got?

He also did a search for 'half dome' and made a big deal that the only half dome noted was a map reference? Is he trying to make a point about the ability of Spotlight or should we read more into there being no other 'half dome' and expect a new case design at the 'imac' 'birthday' in 'paris'??

[SillyWillyBob]

Originally Posted by mpw

He also did a search for 'half dome' and made a big deal that the only half dome noted was a map reference? Is he trying to make a point about the ability of Spotlight or should we read more into there being no other 'half dome' and expect a new case design at the 'imac' 'birthday' in 'paris'??

He also did a search for Yosemite... does this mean the new iMac will headless? and blue and white?

[whooleytoo]

Originally Posted by SillyWillyBob

He also did a search for Yosemite... does this mean the new iMac will headless? and blue and white?

Maybe he meant it'll be shipping in the (water)Fall?

[nagromme]

I can think of a million cool things Apple could do, and I'm 100% convinced of the value of an All-in-One iMac. And of a headless iMac. And of a really cheap low-end G4 iMac Mac... and of a new sub-PowerMac prosumer G5 iMac So who knows WHAT might be coming!

I'll settle on a general prediction:

Simplicity AND flexibility.

Look at the new pro displays to see that trend The iMac has always had simplicity. Flexibility could become part of the new hardware design, or it could be done by offering more different models (like G4 AND G5 iMacs, or iMacs AND some new line altogether).

[dizastor]

New iMac Paris... redesigned to look like a wine glass instead of a luxo lamp?

[dizastor]

lets hope they allow you to put at least 4 gigs of ram into the new iMacs.
If they do... i might be in the market for one...

[mac128k]

It's PARIS baby!!!! France. Not Hilton. G5 iMac's announced in gay Pa-REE!!! here's how it'll go down...

Stevie is introduced as "STEPHAN" as he takes the stage in Paris Aug 31st. Clad in trademark black shirt (but with thick ribbed turtleneck that the Parisians go ga-ga over) and Jeans. A look that Derrick Zoolander would call "Derelicte".

Lights dim...

He launches into 20 minutes of boring rehash of progress we all already know the company has made (OS X adoption, iPod's installed base and last quarter's sales, yada, yada, yada)...

Get's heckled in French ("TROIS point OHH", "TROIS point OHH", "TROIS point OHH") when he comments on recent PowerMac upgrades...plus heckling in English by a few "Freedom Fry" loving "stinking Amehri-cahns" i.e. "Yanks".

And then he pops the question...

"What do Quentin Taratino, France, and McDonald's have in common?"
"Answer: Le Royale with Cheese"

"Now after today, what does APPLE, France, and the rest of the world have in common?"
"No it's not the iTumes Music Store. It's...

LeMac Royale. But there's no cheese here!" (cue sly Jobsian grin)

(Cue the music "Stuck in the middle with you". Out pops a LeMac Royale (redesigned G5 iMac replacement) from a rising pedestal in the floor as Ive and the design team come on stage and dance to the music (all of them still having both ears however)).

Ive presents the new LeMac Royale design, explaining that the previous iMac Sunflower design, while good looking, was "gimpy" due to the now woefully underpowered G4 and the lack of expansion. And he explained how he motivated his design team, suggesting that if they didn't come up with something "insanely great" that he'd "get medieval on their a%%es."

After some Ivesian spieling, Jobs takes over again, thanking Ives for his "bloody good" work while secretly fantasizing again about Sheryl Crow. (didn't anybody think there was something going on there?)

Jobs goes on to introduce some new, cool, yet underwhleming peripheral products all priced from $79-99. And he introduces Michael Moore as the next board member of Apple Computer, replacing Al Gore -- whose 15 minutes have already expired. (Justification: all of Farenheit 9/11 was produced on Mac hardware and software. Go FCP!!!)

And then as Jobs heads out and the lights dim, a larger than life face-shot of Samuel L Jackson fills the screen behind him. Jobs strikes his "Magnum" pose and begins to quote Ezekiel 25:17 ..."The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. (cough--Bill Gates--cough) Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of the darkness. (Meeeee!) For he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers."

...and for those who stay for the credits, a special clip of "The Invicibles" plays for those still in their seat/logged on - featuring Bill Gates as the evil villain, taking a licking from...you guessed it...Samuel L Jackson's "Frozone".

And GOODNIGHT from Paris!

[sorryiwasdreami]

Originally Posted by SillyWillyBob

He also did a search for Yosemite... does this mean the new iMac will headless? and blue and white?

Please do explain.