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Anyone prefer not to have the edge thin due to the fat bulge?

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Kendo

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I feel it was better to have that inch or so of thickness like the previous gen iMac since it minimized the bulge factor. Now the bulge is exponentially bigger because the edge is so thin. What's the point?

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http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/apples-new-imac-thicker-than-it-seems
 
That looks a little like me in profile. I have a little bulge factor going on myself.

If I can do it, I guess the new iMacs can too. :D
 
Wow, the bulge looks so much bigger in this photo than in the other photos I've seen. Perhaps the angle is exaggerating it a bit? Apple's own photos sure know how to capture the right angles to make this thing look razor thin. I want to see it in person. If the bulge is as bad as it looks in this photo, we have an even bigger problem then we already do!

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goodlittlesquid said:
Completely agree. Was hoping the new iMac form factor would basically be a TB display with a very small chin.
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YES!!! I'm glad someone else agrees! Or no chin at all, preferably.
 
the above pic makes it look worse for some reason, here it looks better:

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also in person it should look way better too
 
The camera isn't perpendicular to the edge of the screen, so we're seeing a lot more of the bulge.
 
is it just me... or unless you stand at a very particular angle facing towards the new imac, it doesn't look very impressive, at all...
 
It doesn't look great for me, I don't understand the need to constantly make a desktop machine thinner and thinner. I have a 2010 21" on my desk right now and think thickness wise its about right, it looks pretty tiny but the bulge is nowhere near as pronounced.

Obviously it's going to look great from the front, it only really looks crap when you view from behind or behind and to the side, most people will never see the computer from that angle.
 
It may look bigger to some eyes, but don't forget: it's still 40% less volume and a whopping 8 lbs lighter than the last model, so the specs speak for themselves.

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washburn said:
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Good photos. I think the second shot showcases more of how thinner it is than last generation.
 
I think most will see the computer from behind/that angle when you will start to get those things on desks where you have your customer on the other side of the table or somewhere close to you but in an angle to the screen
 
SlickShoes said:
Obviously it's going to look great from the front, it only really looks crap when you view from behind or behind and to the side, most people will never see the computer from that angle.
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Well, you'll have to swivel it around to that angle every time you want to insert an SD card. :/
 
Kendo said:
I feel it was better to have that inch or so of thickness like the previous gen iMac since it minimized the bulge factor. Now the bulge is exponentially bigger because the edge is so thin. What's the point?

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I agree completely. Now, instead of the bulge just making the computer maybe 50% thicker in the middle, it makes it about 6-7 TIMES thicker. To me this looks ridiculous. What's the point of a "thinner" iMac if it's going to still have a standard 3.5" hard drive and therefore be more or less as thick as the old iMac?

Apple is making such a big deal about how thick the edges are. Why didn't they extend the edges a little bit and taper them down so they were just 1mm thick? Surely that would be 5 times better, right?
 
Icaras said:
It may look bigger to some eyes, but don't forget: it's still 40% less volume and a whopping 8 lbs lighter than the last model, so the specs speak for themselves.
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Wow. That will be great for the ONE TIME I will need to move it (from the shop to my house). ;)

Seriously, making it thinner AT THE EXPENSE of other features is incredibly dumb. Even forgetting the ODD, the low end users will be neglected of user-upgradeable memory. For no other reason than to make it thinner.

And...it's thinner on the edges, but that bulge looks bad...
 
When I saw the title of this thread I thought it was about a couple of people I know. :)

Seriously, I don't much care how my iMac looks from the rear or side, as I typically look at it face on. I do like that you see less of the aluminum case on the new iMac compared to the current one. There's none around the edge, and the "chin" seems smaller.
 
Who the hell cares are we gonna look at the back or the front and sides of the computer??? I think we mostly look at the sides and front don't care too much about the back being kinda fat they needed to fit the computer somewhere.
 
edry.hilario said:
Who the hell cares are we gonna look at the back or the front and sides of the computer??? I think we mostly look at the sides and front don't care too much about the back being kinda fat they needed to fit the computer somewhere.
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I care that I can't stick my SD card into the side anymore and instead have to dig around in the back. They could have left the thickness the same, remove the ODD if they wanted to maybe add one of the usb 3 ports to side as well. The depth of the iMac doesn't look much different so it's not saving people space building it that way. You aren't going to mount it on a wall like a new thin TV.
 
NunoBerny said:
Wow. That will be great for the ONE TIME I will need to move it (from the shop to my house). ;)

Seriously, making it thinner AT THE EXPENSE of other features is incredibly dumb. Even forgetting the ODD, the low end users will be neglected of user-upgradeable memory. For no other reason than to make it thinner.

And...it's thinner on the edges, but that bulge looks bad...
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The ODD is not a feature for many, myself included, so I'm very happy Apple removed it.

The vast majority of low end users will never attempt to upgrade their machine, and most likely will never need to go beyond 8 GB of RAM of the lifetime of their machine, which mind you, is already an upgrade from last year's 4GB.
 
Don't care much for the edges being thin anyway. Did Apple do this just so they can say it's a new design?

And I don't really mind the chin either, which I can see many do.

The 2011 design was perfect the way it was. No need to fix something that wasn't broken.

This reminds of the ME TOO types of new drugs that are being churned out every year that don't necessarily perform any better and sometimes worse!
 
Everything looks better than "Molar Mac".

Yeah it's a little show off but still a great feat of engineering. Apple does what they always do, something crazy and it takes two years for competition to catch them up. At that time they usually do some another crazy thing. Brilliant marketing.
 
comatory said:
Everything looks better than "Molar Mac".

Yeah it's a little show off but still a great feat of engineering. Apple does what they always do, something crazy and it takes two years for competition to catch them up. At that time they usually do some another crazy thing. Brilliant marketing.
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No, it's not a great feat of engineering AT ALL.

People forget that MacBooks have been been less than 1" thick for 5+ years and don't have bulges, and that 1" includes a screen and keyboard too.

If Apple really wanted to make a thin iMac, they could have made it 1" thick at all points with no bulges and IMO that would have been pretty cool and maybe a little impressive.

But instead they are charging us extra for fake-thin.
 
motrek said:
But instead they are charging us extra for fake-thin.
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Relax, nobody was complaining about thickness when 2011 iMacs were around. Hey, I'm not happy about the prices either but you have to admit that there is nothing on the market like this right now.

And please, tell me how they'd stuff those internal components into 1" board. ?
 
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