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

[sjinsjca]

iMyHumps?

 

[MoreAwesomeDanU]

I think another poster in one of the other threads summed up this upgrade pretty well - Laptop on a stick. The thing is Apple aren't on their own here as Windows OEM AIO computers seem to be popping up everywhere at present, with towers now an endangered species.

As I said in another thread, I don't hate the new iMac but I do prefer my mid 2011 model and TBH if this is the way Apple are taking the iMac then I'm tempted to go with a Mini next time around. I consider the latest Mini is starting to make the brand a quite attractive option. The latest bench tests show the new Mini matching the 2010 Mac Pro - now who would have thought you could put those two things in the same sentence?

people are over-reacting so much its not even funny. If the 12 models are laptop on a stick, then when was the imac NOT a laptop on a stick (besides the colored boxes from way back then)? 2012 is just a refreshed 2011 model but thinner on the edges, you do know that right??

 

[unfrostedpoptar]

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.

And they did this by removing the optical drive and moving the SD slot. So, if you need to read/write disks, you need to buy their external (and very slow) drive and figure out some place to put it. And, every time you want to read a memory card from a camera, you have to reach in back. It's annoying enough that the power button was already in the back.

All to give the illusion that it's thinner.

 

[The-Pro]

Totally agreed. I prefer the old design.

 

[dndlnx]

I've been looking at the pics constantly over the past couple days, I actually think I'm warming up to the looks. Would help to see it in person, however...

 

[Rizzm]

Didn't realize people cared so much about the thickness of just the edge of their iMacs. At least they're giving the people what they want.

 

[Lankyman]

people are over-reacting so much its not even funny. If the 12 models are laptop on a stick, then when was the imac NOT a laptop on a stick (besides the colored boxes from way back then)? 2012 is just a refreshed 2011 model but thinner on the edges, you do know that right??

Well I tell you what I do know and this is dead genuine. A women at our office has been waiting since January for this upgrade. She is so underwhelmed by the release that she has today ordered not one but two new 2011 model iMac's the 21.5" base and a higher spec 27" for hubby. She is not impressed with losing the optical drive or the SD card slot being on the back and given our climate in the UK dust behind the screen really isn't an issue here. Like she said, she can live with the Sandy Bridge versus Ivy Bridge CPU bump and she is also saving money.

Let's face it prices in the LCD market have collapsed over the last twelve months, memory is dirt cheap, HD prices have fallen again as have most other PC parts but all these price cuts don't appear to make it to the Apple consumer with prices going up not down?

Speaking for myself I buy what's right for me, irrespective of whether it has an Apple label or Heinz.

 

[MBPiPTiMiP4S]

I prefer the 2011 design over the 2012.
The 2012 have great specs though.

 

[comatory]

in 1-2 years everyone will like this look, it'll become standard, maybe they even cut off some volume on the bulge.
you all gonna like it, you know you do.

 

[Tucson Allen]

The design depends on convection cooling

Without convection cooling the design wouldn’t work. Heat drives the convection engine. It’s all very well to have heat sinks and fan(s) for local hot-spot control, but the heat has be moved outside. The old iMac had vents at the top. It was rather like a chimney working up from the intakes at the bottom. Because of the thin edges of the new iMac this wouldn’t work. But the thin edges here are worked into a design that forces the heated air to expand and move to the hump, where it vents because of the expansion/pressure that heating generates. Even air under the edge at the top is forced down as it expands. You see, under the hump the hot air can expand, and this is the mechanism which forces the flow. Fresh air is drawn in at the inlets at the bottom. It is a brilliant design.

 

[smoking monkey]

I think it's a brilliant design. Superdrive be damned I say! Although I do use one, almost every day, I use my external and not my internal.

Where was the SD card reader on the last iMac? It wasn't on the front, I know that. Was it on the side? I'll admit, that seems a bit silly to put it at the back, but considering I never use it, I'm all good.

Can't you just plug the camera in via USB to DL the photos? Isn't that easier than taking the SD card out of the camera? Or it that another unwanted cable?

The solution will come - I'd imagine that most cameras will change over to wifi syncing in the very near future and you won't need an SD card reader then.