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Apple Patent Imagines iMac Made From a Single Sheet of Glass
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Sounds basically like a large MacBook.
I would like to see Apple Pencil support. Graphic professionals might find that useful.
Apple isn't going to disclose beautiful designs in a patent application.
The concept is intriguing -- iMac pulling in some of the ideas from iPad Pro's Smart Keyboard. The keyboard and trackpad will most likely attach to the iMac magnetically, and charge themselves that way.
If you need more flexibility, you can pull keyboard and trackpad out.
I also like that the logic board is no longer part of the display. The design should improve airflow and reduce dust build up.
Same exact situation as 65% of all computers sold today. Besides, everybody except Apple delivers primarily through on-site service. Apple cheaps out and makes you drive to a store.
The keyboard looks like it magnetically attaches to the iMac, similar to how Smart Keyboard attaches to iPad.
l can see Apple eventually getting to the point where iOS is mature enough to use your iPhone or iPad as your desktop OS. Just dock it in something like this and it will also serve as your desktop OS. They will just let MacOS die a slow death and stop providing updates. Typical Apple "no comment" on software they no longer plan to invest in long term.
I don’t need my computer to be a shelf. I put my iMac on a riser, so this design would be quite inelegant for my uses.
A nice concept ... CONCEPT.
On a serious note, I could see Apple making this if the company wanted to move into selling computers for kiosks and if everyone at Cupertino lost their minds.
On a serious note, I could see Apple making this if the company wanted to move into selling computers for kiosks and if everyone at Cupertino lost their minds.
Since glass does not conduct heat, I expect this to be so artificially restricted that only toddlers will find it appealing.
Really? A 21.5" or 27" desktop-sized unit is much different than a laptop that slides into a backpack or shoulder bag - consider transporting that computer or the box that holds it on public transit.
Glass is 10x more thermally conductive than the plastic they make most computers out of.
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Good job reading the second half of my comment.
There was an episode of Black Mirror, first series I think, possibly about a woman who's partner died and he was a robot? Something like that. Anyways, in that episode they had some devices that looked similar to this idea and I remember looking at them at the time and thinking, "yep, that looks like a future iMac design". Good to see art and life still playing a game.
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They don’t want to “give away” any features of any new product in the patent filing, so the artwork that accompanies patents is usually chosen specifically because it represents the patent being filed while absolutely not representing the new product.