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Apple Planning 22-Inch Touchscreen iMac for Later This Year?
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Yo digitimes, I'm really happy for you, I'ma Let you finish, but a multitouch iMac is the one of the stupidest rumors all time!
I don't know... waving one's arms like a fool hasn't stopped people from doing it since the telephone was invented.
Base stand accessory?
I don't see why everyone thinks this so unbelievable. I assume shortly after the slate comes out, some iMac like base stands are released that you can rest the iSlate on, making it something like a desktop Mac. Of course, that depends on what OS it will be running in the end.
So maybe this is just an iSlate accessory or Apple is planning on releasing an iMac that can be used as either a slate or a desktop resting on a stand (and hooked up to a keyboard and mouse).
I don't see why everyone thinks this so unbelievable. I assume shortly after the slate comes out, some iMac like base stands are released that you can rest the iSlate on, making it something like a desktop Mac. Of course, that depends on what OS it will be running in the end.
So maybe this is just an iSlate accessory or Apple is planning on releasing an iMac that can be used as either a slate or a desktop resting on a stand (and hooked up to a keyboard and mouse).
How would apple be differentiating itself when HP and Sony already have touchscreen all in ones?
Sounds like they'll be joining the pack to a certain degree
Sounds like they'll be joining the pack to a certain degree
You saw it here first.
....And now you can have your brand new 27" touchscreen iMac complete with it's very own .......wait for it.........wait for it......................iWiper
cant see the point of a tochscreen
and as many are complaining a want to get ther iMacs fixed cleand or even exchanged because of some dust on the screen or glass
what will they do if this nice screen is covered with fingerprints all over the screen , a relative bougth a touchsmart , it was nice looking but , it it covered in fingerprints and as often as he cleans it ,as soon as he's touching it there are fingerprints again
i would certainly know better things to do then screen cleaning every half hour
and its a unavoidable thing as its the nature of your skin to get greasy
also like hellhammer pointed out your arms will be aching while touching the 27 inch screen .. ok you certainly will get exercise
i would also favor a touch keyboard like the optimus tactus as it would even make a mouse obsolete
http://www.ubergizmo.com/zoom.php?dir=2007/12/optimus-tactus/&page=1
and as many are complaining a want to get ther iMacs fixed cleand or even exchanged because of some dust on the screen or glass
what will they do if this nice screen is covered with fingerprints all over the screen , a relative bougth a touchsmart , it was nice looking but , it it covered in fingerprints and as often as he cleans it ,as soon as he's touching it there are fingerprints again
i would certainly know better things to do then screen cleaning every half hour
and its a unavoidable thing as its the nature of your skin to get greasy
also like hellhammer pointed out your arms will be aching while touching the 27 inch screen .. ok you certainly will get exercise
i would also favor a touch keyboard like the optimus tactus as it would even make a mouse obsolete
http://www.ubergizmo.com/zoom.php?dir=2007/12/optimus-tactus/&page=1
Wouldn't they have to make it matte to avoid fingerprints showing?
If so, I'm all for this rumour regardless of any silly touchscreen interface.
If so, I'm all for this rumour regardless of any silly touchscreen interface.
think table. not tablet
i agree that with the current form factor of the imac, touch would be kinda awkward.
im remembering those early demos of multitouch with the fellow standing if front of a very large table that was essentially a screen. photo manipulation, mapping, fun animated graphics.
could be great for a more upward facing imac. like a small table-top table.
i might be interested in such an interface. photo processing, graphic design, and audio design.
-kyle
i agree that with the current form factor of the imac, touch would be kinda awkward.
im remembering those early demos of multitouch with the fellow standing if front of a very large table that was essentially a screen. photo manipulation, mapping, fun animated graphics.
could be great for a more upward facing imac. like a small table-top table.
i might be interested in such an interface. photo processing, graphic design, and audio design.
-kyle
Same way Apple differentiated itself with the iPhone, iPod, etc.
It all comes down to implemenation.
Stop! This type of design in an ergonomic disaster!!!
The only way I can envision it working is if the iMac is actually laying flat (or almost flat) on its back. ( i.e. something akin to MS Surface).
I just thought a curved surface might be nice. Not vertically like in Avatar but horizontally, so that the lower edge of your screen has an angle of about 5 degrees (similar to a keyboard) and the upper edge is at maybe a bit more than 45 degrees.
Is that doable?
But again (as with the tablet) the big question is the input paradigm. General navigation, text input and precision input are very different requirements. That's one reason why we have a mouse and a keyboard. Current touchscreens (including the iPhone's) don't handle the latter two too well.
The tablet will show us the way. I expect a stylus will take care of precision input as in graphics applications. Handwriting recognition might then allow for text input - although other threads have shown that quite a few people prefer typing over writing. In a stationary computer also speech recognition might make more sense than in a tablet.
In the end I think a new kind of chord or gesture typing would be best to replace the keyboard. You could achieve speeds at least as high as on a traditional QWERTY using only one hand - but considering the steep learning curve, I doubt Apple will go for that.
I dont get it. Five pages re touchscreen desktops, and NOBODY has mentioned Popeye?
("Later this year" is about when HP will pull the plug on their touchscreen all-in-one line. A fun feature, but one thats little more than a toy to tire of quicklyin more ways than one. If it didnt cost anything, then its OK that nobody will use a feature for long. But this feature does cost.)
("Later this year" is about when HP will pull the plug on their touchscreen all-in-one line. A fun feature, but one thats little more than a toy to tire of quicklyin more ways than one. If it didnt cost anything, then its OK that nobody will use a feature for long. But this feature does cost.)
horrible ...i would go mad cleaning after i had used the screen ..not to imagine if more people are touching it
... you need a good supplier for cleaning wipes then .. delivered daily ...cost more for cleaning wipes then a new iMac then
... you need a good supplier for cleaning wipes then .. delivered daily ...cost more for cleaning wipes then a new iMac then
This is weird. I was just talking to my buddy about uses for touchscreen computers, and he mentioned how Jason @ OCC uses one.
I guess it's officially posted now...thanks for the link MacDawg.
Just want to add that I'm guessing Apple might be utilizing a non-smudging lcd much like the iPhone 3GS's. I'm sure they thought of the smudges already. They might even make it a non-glossy lcd hehehe...
Can't wait for the announcement on the 27th. From how the invite looks like, a touch screen iMac might really be popping up along with the tablet.
Long before there was even OSX a subset of Macphiles were seeking and requesting OS support for touch screens. It was not forthcoming. There were some third party applications and vertical market applications that employed both MacOS (8 and 9) and a touch screen, mainly for kiosks.
By simply having OS level support and a manufacturer and ecosystem supported GUI, IO and system, many of those applications will emerge again. Many years later.
I think we could see different form factor uses of the device such as a canted desktop, a coffeee table, a bartop surface, slot machine like (iMac like) workstations.
The current implementation is handtop computing, but as the visual surface gets larger, it will be a fixed position use. By having remote gesture capture devices, such as an iPhone as a gesture remote for a 52" screen, there is less of a need for touch sensitivity on larger screens. So it will be interesting to see why now.
The "new" screen is not only a display, but a gesture capture device from touch and motion, as well as a visual capture device. The screen itself simply does more things now (well, soon anyway).
Rocketman
It's a Cintiq. I have a broken one. It weighs a ton and cost me £2.5k
Great for artists, not useful for anything else, not even viewing movies (the screen is corrugated for stylus traction, thus the image is dimmed slightly).
The Touch iMac, like the tablet will run iPhone OS extended. You heard it here first.
Just kidding mostly.
(I doubt this rumor.)
Thanks for the clarification. Good thing I did not emphatically claim it was a Wacom, LOL.
Good looking out!I was just trying to point out that if there was a touch iMac it could be made to tilt out when needed.