It's an artists interpretive render and the ports on an iMac would be on the back.
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Apple Developing Redesigned iMac With Slimmer Bezels, Apple Silicon Chips
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It's an artists interpretive render and the ports on an iMac would be on the back.
It will surely look great but...
...get ready for iMac bendgate with users obsessively measuring how precise, even and flat the rear aluminium is. They’ll have a tool belt full of rulers, laser plum lines and various other contraptions to find it’s 0.5mm convex in the middle. It’ll be the end of the world.
...get ready for iMac bendgate with users obsessively measuring how precise, even and flat the rear aluminium is. They’ll have a tool belt full of rulers, laser plum lines and various other contraptions to find it’s 0.5mm convex in the middle. It’ll be the end of the world.
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Apple is making it really difficult to chose between the soon to be released MBPs and these new iMacs.
Wowza!! 😳
Wowza!! 😳
I agree, like everyone who loved Apple in the golden years,
maybe ..are they back?! Yeah 😊
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I've been waiting a long time to get an iMac. I'm holding out for the redesign.
I’m really excited for this. I’m not a laptop person so even though I’m impressed with the M1 MacBooks I have been holding off replacing my mid 2011 21.5in. iMac. I’ve upgraded it rather than replace it with a newer iMac as a stopgap measure because I’ve been waiting for a redesigned iMac.
Can’t wait!
Can’t wait!
Will buy first day available.
2010 imac is pretty much useless. But don’t want to buy an Intel imac with such new Apple tech pending.
2010 imac is pretty much useless. But don’t want to buy an Intel imac with such new Apple tech pending.
I dislike these kinds of sentiments. For laptop, fine. But for desktop? We could accept more thickness for better performance and cooling!
Me too. I'm not feeling much incentive to upgrade if the new iMac has a 27" display like my current iMac has.
I certainly hope this iMac will be easier to take apart without one-time-use adhesive stripes and have replaceable and upgradable components. That should be in line with Apple's commitment to the environment by reducing post-consumer waste and "planned obsolescence".
I still use iMac 27" (Mid-2010) with 2.93-GHz i7 to this day even with macOS 11 Big Sur. No reason to replace it when it runs very well. Of course, I invested in replacing the HDD with SSD (huge difference in performance!) and ATI Radeon 5750 with Nvidia Quadro 5500. Surprisingly, replacing the GPU and flashing it to work in Mac environment was one of easiest things I've done. Why Apple picked this ****** GPU for one year only is beyond me. While replacing the GPU, I also replaced the Bluetooth with LE 4.0, which allowed Handoff, Continuity, etc. to work effectively with iPad and iPhone.
I still use iMac 27" (Mid-2010) with 2.93-GHz i7 to this day even with macOS 11 Big Sur. No reason to replace it when it runs very well. Of course, I invested in replacing the HDD with SSD (huge difference in performance!) and ATI Radeon 5750 with Nvidia Quadro 5500. Surprisingly, replacing the GPU and flashing it to work in Mac environment was one of easiest things I've done. Why Apple picked this ****** GPU for one year only is beyond me. While replacing the GPU, I also replaced the Bluetooth with LE 4.0, which allowed Handoff, Continuity, etc. to work effectively with iPad and iPhone.
Unlikely. You should check out Louis Rossman's youtube channel if repairability is a topic of interest to you.
I just sold my 2012 27" iMac. Really looking forward to this. BUT - I also liked the design of the current iMac. If we get an imac with a super slim bezel there is not really any 'industrial design' to talk about and it will look like any other screen...?
I too am still a big fan of the current design. Sure; slimmer bezels, lighter weight and less thickness are a natural step forward, but not nearly as important factors as on laptops. Retaining a thin chin with apple logo and a bit more rounded form in general would look nice (also to distinguish it from the pro screen).
what "is not really any industrial design" has to do in your context?
industrial design means in general a process of design applied to products that are to be manufactured through techniques of mass production
The new imac will have a redesign...since the chin is removed...the chassis is different flat instead of curved, the inside will be redesign as well, no more hdd or dGpu...now if that redesign is major or not, its another story that we will see after the official product is released
Current imac had some design issues because of the sealed ventilation that went into the screen and for most after some time, made the display has stains on the corners etc
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I don't understand the quest for thinness on a desktop. I mean unless you have a very strange setup, you have space behind your screen. I'd much rather than a nice thick iMac with decent cooling (although maybe with some hotrod apple silicon that will be less critical) because the 27" 5K iMac will sound like a either jet on takeoff when you're doing heave CPU/GPU loads. I guess thin bezels around the edge of the screen would be nice, but hardly a deciding point for me. I want user upgradable RAM (fine I will suffer with soldered storage, but not happy about it). My current MBP I knew I had to go with 64gb/8TB, because I'd never be able to upgrade, and given how long they last I needed a machine that was sufficient for the future. I know apple believes 16gb is "enough" but that depends on enough for what? My current project hauls in data from the database server more than 16 in size. On my 64gb MBP Java is happy, on the 16gb MBP from work it swaps like crazy (yeah swapping to flash is way faster than swap to spinning-rust, but still agonizingly slow compared to RAM. I did upgrade all my Mac minis to 32gb at least (all i7 hexacore models) since one of them serves as a server running the database (once we all went to WFH it was too slow pounding against a distant database via VPN compared to a local computer - and no the database is not on the flash, it's on an external TB3 array from OWC).
face ID???
how modern and futuristic would this iMac look if you have to enter your 12 digit passcode manually as if you were on a cheap 2020 PC?….
who cares if your mac is almost awake when you touch your keyboard if you still have to spent time writing down your passcode as in the early computer gold era…
how modern and futuristic would this iMac look if you have to enter your 12 digit passcode manually as if you were on a cheap 2020 PC?….
who cares if your mac is almost awake when you touch your keyboard if you still have to spent time writing down your passcode as in the early computer gold era…
I hope that this will be my next machine. I’m using a 2013 15” MacBook Pro which has been awesome for 7 / 8 years. But I really want a desktop. I’m hoping for a 27” / 30” 5k M1 or better iMac with lots of memory and storage. I really want lots of graphics power too so it’ll be good for 5 years, so might need to wait for the upgraded version, if they do one. iPad styling would be amazing. Not sure whether to upgrade my lovely LG 4K 27” to a new Apple 27”/30” if it comes out.
Three. And yes I had Apple Care and it shouldn’t matter because the design was defective. It should have been recalled.