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$499 Headless iMac?

I see you spotted the time...what can I say, I have totally screwed up my sleeping plan! Going to bed at this time of morning then getting up at 4pm.. :(

I'm pretty sure I have now read the entire internet..I've been online for so long today! :p

PS. I knew you weren't American..(this'll probably freak you out a little) I've just read through a lot of your old posts to find out where you were from and what else you've been posting about!
 
cheekyspanky said:
I guess this one has already been posted before? http://dms.tecknohost.com/macrumors/i/ihome/ it looks okay to me, but I can't see the monitor connection port on it?

I like the iPod mini-esque one I think it's really nice!
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OK

It look a bit too much of a DVD player with an HDD, it does not look like a computer that people are going tol but becsaue it is an Apple and has OS X and will be faster than thier wintel
 
rendezvouscp said:
It is amazing, and at that price, almost irresistible. One might buy one just to have another Mac available. It could be "revolutionary."
-Chase
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it's only revolutionary if the price is as rumored
 
cheekyspanky said:
I guess this one has already been posted before? http://dms.tecknohost.com/macrumors/i/ihome/ it looks okay to me, but I can't see the monitor connection port on it?

I like the iPod mini-esque one I think it's really nice!
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If it's a mock up, it's a pretty good one. Much better than the "iMac in the elevator" one. There is a monitor connector. From left to right we have power, modem, ethernet, 2x FW 400, 2x USB, video out (via Mini-VGA connector) and audio in.

Someone said, they wouldn't use the British spelling of center/centre. I guess normally they wouldn't but if this thing was really called "iHome-Media Centre" it would make sense not use the American spelling in order to differentiate it from Windows Media Center computers. Apple is company that does pay attention to such details.

If the concept of a cheap monitorless Mac is real (but the pictures are fake), I'm sure it's still pretty close to real.

EDIT: I guess I was still a bit sleepy and to impressed when I looked at it for the first time. After having a second look, I agree it must be fake. Still, if such a concept exists, it will look something like that.
 
suddenly i am reminded of the "apple would never simple slap a computer on the back of a lcd screen" posts in fake-in-the-elevator-story ;) (and of course the "everybody will be copying apple with slapping pcs on the back of LCDs in a few months" posts)

seriously even with it's being fake it might be pretty close (i doubt a vertically placed pc it justs wastes additional spae and might confuse people with placements of cds (slot drives)

horizontal is the way to go(if the rumour is true)
 
Looks very real to me. If it's fake it's a very good one. Strange with the Center/Centre thing. I don't think the styrofoam looks used and the packing makes sense.

Edit: maybe it's fake after all

If it is a mock-up then some of the things must exist for real. An Apple card board box with the same size and handles. (iBook?). And now that I look at it more closely, the iHome box itself just looks like a white card board box with a sheet of paper with iHome and the Apple logo glued on. Look at the bottom right corner of the back side, it looks like a fold in the card board.
 
Some black print in the top left corner? A fold in the bottom right corner?
 

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sunilraman said:
hello fellow iWorld citizen... why are you still spelling iWorld wrongly???? :confused:

...............
our Father who art in Cupertino
Steve Jobs be thy name
give us today our daily iLife
...............
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Thank you very much for that "typo" did it in a hurry. had not yet seen it. thank you very much :D
 
1.
No worries platform :D

2.
This is the "iMac in elevator" pictures that the previous several posts have been referring to
http://www.macbidouille.com/niouzcontenu.php?date=2004-08-27#9376

3.
What is UP with the blue guys in the MacBidouille website header??
It's all very french - and reminds me of that dance group.... you know the one, that vocoded... *gkshh*** AroundTheWorld Around The World, AroundTheWorld.... :rolleyes:

4.
Forgive my unculturedness (no I am not American ;)
how do you even pronounce Bidouille ??????
 
Zaty said:
If it's a mock up, it's a pretty good one. Much better than the "iMac in the elevator" one. There is a monitor connector. From left to right we have power, modem, ethernet, 2x FW 400, 2x USB, video out (via Mini-VGA connector) and audio in.

Someone said, they wouldn't use the British spelling of center/centre. I guess normally they wouldn't but if this thing was really called "iHome-Media Centre" it would make sense not use the American spelling in order to differentiate it from Windows Media Center computers. Apple is company that does pay attention to such details.
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I don't even believe that's a real elevator!

But on the "centre" thing:
1. Could be localized packaging (also works in French and who knows what else).
2. Could be a variant for trademark/branding purposes to distinguish from Microsoft.
3. Could be just trying to be fancy, like spelling "theater" as "theatre."
 
sunilraman said:
1.
No worries platform :D

2.
This is the "iMac in elevator" pictures that the previous several posts have been referring to
http://www.macbidouille.com/niouzcontenu.php?date=2004-08-27#9376

3.
What is UP with the blue guys in the MacBidouille website header??
It's all very french - and reminds me of that dance group.... you know the one, that vocoded... *gkshh*** AroundTheWorld Around The World, AroundTheWorld.... :rolleyes:

4.
Forgive my unculturedness (no I am not American ;)
how do you even pronounce Bidouille ??????
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Bid - oo - ee
 
mowogg said:
Also, the ports are a straight lift from an iBook.
Notice how light it appears in the video and the poor (and re-used look) of the inner packaging.
fakefakefakefake.
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That's how the ports would be if the headless is based on an iBook board.
 
mowogg said:
Chrysler never bought Renault. Renault bought American Motors Corporation (AMC- remember the Gremlin & Pacer?) and put out a couple of cars while the company slowly sank into further red ink.
Renault then pulled out of the American market and put the assets that were remaining up on the block.
Chrysler picked up the assets and created a new brand out of the orphan vehicles (Eagle) and even added a Mistubishi product to the fold (Eagle Talon)
Chrysler fell on hard times once again and finally killed off the Eagle brand in the late '80s.
That's the scoop.
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Thanks for the correction. I do believe that the deal with the assets required that Chrysler sell x number of the Renault units, otherwise pay a penalty.
 
gekko513 said:
Looks very real to me. If it's fake it's a very good one. Strange with the Center/Centre thing. I don't think the styrofoam looks used and the packing makes sense.

Edit: maybe it's fake after all

If it is a mock-up then some of the things must exist for real. An Apple card board box with the same size and handles. (iBook?). And now that I look at it more closely, the iHome box itself just looks like a white card board box with a sheet of paper with iHome and the Apple logo glued on. Look at the bottom right corner of the back side, it looks like a fold in the card board.
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The most telling evidence revealing it's a phony is in the video, and it's not about the packaging. The man picks up and supports the unit for the camera to see by holding the lower left corner alone, as if it is [1] feather-light, and [2] not a piece of refined technology. I don't care how light it is or how dextrous the man's hand is, NO ONE ON THIS PLANET with access to an Apple pre-release product would support the computer so flippantly as he does in that video. At the very least, he would centre/center [pun intended] his hand in the middle underneath.
 
"Chrysler fell on hard times once again and finally killed off the Eagle brand in the late '80s.
That's the scoop"

I bought, and drove for several years, a 1997 Eagle Vision TSi. The first car advertised with AutoStick. A few years later is when Eagle was folded in with Plymouth and Dodge.
 
mowogg said:
Chrysler never bought Renault. Renault bought American Motors Corporation (AMC- remember the Gremlin & Pacer?) and put out a couple of cars while the company slowly sank into further red ink.
Renault then pulled out of the American market and put the assets that were remaining up on the block.
Chrysler picked up the assets and created a new brand out of the orphan vehicles (Eagle) and even added a Mistubishi product to the fold (Eagle Talon)
Chrysler fell on hard times once again and finally killed off the Eagle brand in the late '80s.
That's the scoop.
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Entirely off topic, but the Eagle brand lasted well into the 90's, with the Talon (Eclipse) and Vision (Intrepid)
 
BillHarrison said:
Entirely off topic, but the Eagle brand lasted well into the 90's, with the Talon (Eclipse) and Vision (Intrepid)
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If we're finished talking about old Plymouths, can we discuss our crappy IT departments some more?
 
That is an impressive mock-up. Not quite as I imagined it - I saw it as more iPod like - more rounded, but it is the right colour. iHome | Media centre seems a slightly surprising name unless they are planning a media centre version of OS X, which I can't really see, but you never know. Steve might change his mind on that.

Personally, having seen how crap XP home media center is, I don't really want Apple to go in that direction with OS X , but knowing that Apple are infinately better as interface and implementation of good ideas, then maybe they'll bring something to the area. I'd be happy with it being a good cheap mac.

If it works out at £300-£350 I might buy one as a spare. I managed to justify buying a 40Gb HD (iPod) for £300, so a computer - how can I complain...

One question- where are those pictures supposed to be from? If from reseller, then wasn't the rumour that there wasn't going to be enough to start with and that they'll ship them direct from source. If from Expo, then would they mark up the box so that it attracts attention?
 
jcroft said:
Here's what else you get from Dell:

- Viruses
- Adware
- Spyware
- Windows
- Ginormous, ugly case


Here's what else you get from Apple:

- Mac OS X
- Piece of mind
- Security
- Sleek, sexy small case
- iLife

All of the sudden it doesn't look so bad. I totally agree that there should be at least 512MB of RAM and an 80GB HD, but the processor comparission is pretty silly -- we all know that the two are much closer than the numbers make it seem. A printer is a nice freebie, but people don't need one, and if the idea is to get switchers, they probably already have one, anyway.
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Applestore DOES give a free printer with any Mac.

But I don't think this headless is going to be called a Mac. I think it's like an iPod for TV.
 
Montserrat said:
If from reseller, then wasn't the rumour that there wasn't going to be enough to start with and that they'll ship them direct from source. If from Expo, then would they mark up the box so that it attracts attention?
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I don't think it's a reseller, seems more fanatical to me.
 
Not everything is American

cornboy said:
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PS Cornboy is NOT american
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I'm guessing Deutscher based on the use of the "sCh" (plus the word itself) in Britischer... :D

on the Eagle note... it was a 90's thing. I had a 95 Talon. They stopped when the reciprocating deal ended with Mitsubishi. Also, if you mean shiftronic/tiptronic (manually shift gears by mobving the automatic shifter)with "Autostick", The Talon was far form the first car with it. It was invented by Porsche many years before that (late 80's as I recall). :confused:
 
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