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Brushed Aluminum iMacs in August?

Along with how they are going to handle the fact that 10.5 might come right after this iMac is released, I wonder what will happen to the lower end of the Mac line.

I guess it's pretty much confirmed at this point that the 17 inch model is going away. Looks like Mac Mini may also be cut.

Is it possible that Apple has something up their sleeve about pricing of this new iMac?

The education market will require to have a lower priced model available, however Macs are becoming a rarity in many school districts around the country. With tight budgets they seem to think the PC solution is the way to go, but in the end it seems to cost them more.
 
my 2 inches

... brushed alu... maybe...
but i would not be surprised if it is even thinner than 2". i mean, how muh volume does one even need? it could even taper down to almos nothing on the edges of the screens is so wanted.
:)
 
Apple doesn't add a lot of drivers to their old OSes to support new hardware. If this is hardware that was supposed to hit after leopard, and uses any new devices then they would have the increased overhead of getting 10.4 drivers in place for it, which would probably mean diverting more resources from leopard. Given that, I'm really not expecting these machines until October, unlesss they are really really close to the mac book pros.
 
They will absolutely NOT be brushed aluminum. I will bet my MacRumors password on that (street value US$.07 and a graham cracker).

Apple has never used brushed aluminum for any hardware. They have used a brushed look for textured metal windows, but never on physical products.

Many apple products are aluminum, and the new iMacs may well be aluminum too. But no Apple products are BRUSHED aluminum.

Brushing creates a distinctive linear texture... like a brush :) See Safari 2 for instance. Like this. There is no such linear texture on Apple's aluminum hardware. Someone posted that that fine texture Apple uses is called bead-blasted. I wouldn't know. But brushed is a very distinctive look and very different from what Apple uses.

Next week on Ranting With Uncle Nagromme: "Revision B" means the second REVISED version... which is the third release of the product! The first release is not revised at all, and Revision A is the second release.
 
Hmmm, sounds like it's gonna be closer to the current cinema displays. Aluminum has been exclusive for long but the iPod nano, shuffle and iPhone might be indicators that it's coming to the consumer line now.

Actually, aluminum is probably better than what is used for current iMacs. Notice most external HD cases are made of aluminum for better heat dissipation: the whole case gets warm and has a lot of surface to get cooled by the outside airflow. If the innards are placed in a manner that air flow works well, it's totally possible to get the whole thing more compact. The great thing is that heat isn't really an issue for a desktop, besides maybe burning your desk down or melting off your children's hands.

2 hard drive would be great, but don't expect that to happen. It would be great to have 2 drives in RAID for better performance or redundancy, or one as time machine drive, or one for OSX, one for windows, or as one volume using ZFS...

Or how about updated cinema display with a sort of docking connector. You could then piggyback the "computation unit" on the display. When the computation unit is not mounted to the display, the innards like RAM and hard drive(s) are exposed so you can easily upgrade. Again this won't happen.

Maybe black front, silver ring, aluminum back? Think iPhone, just larger. iSight where iPhone's speaker is, Apple logo where iPhone home button is. Done. Remove the black bottom cap to access RAM and hard drive. Proximity sensor powers off the screen when you're too close... scratch that, that would be annoying. :eek:
 
Please don't let it look like a prosaic screen that people walk by and say "nice screen where's the real computer gear"!

Please have - "a certain somthing" as the French say!

A chin! Lord let it have a chinny chin chin! Show the world that you're not just a display but a whole!

I think it will suprise!:)
 
nagromme said:
Next week on Ranting With Uncle Nagromme: "Revision B" means the second REVISED version... which is the third release of the product! The first release is not revised at all, and Revision A is the second release.
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Haha. Where do I subscribe to your podcast? :cool:

And shouldn't released 1.0 software be called gamma versions?
 
MrCrowbar said:
Aluminum has been exclusive for long but the iPod nano, shuffle and iPhone might be indicators that it's coming to the consumer line now.
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Well, the Mac Mini brought aluminum to the consumer line long ago, so the old patterns are gone.

MrCrowbar said:
Maybe black front, silver ring, aluminum back? Think iPhone, just larger.
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I've always thought a black iMac would look REALLY good, and when the iPhone was released that was exactly my thought. I hope you're right--that would be the coolest looking machine ever!

I do like my white one though.
 
I was just thinking back when the PowerMacs came out -- especially the Quicksilver (G4) versions -- and how easy it was to open them up.

What if the new iMac would pop open somehow like that so you could have easy access to the internals for user upgradable RAM, HD & whatnot? Sweet!
 
not brushed

Apple has never made a brushed metal enclosure, why would they start now? Perhaps they will make one like the cinema display, but that's just painted metal. Not brushed.
 
Brushed aluminium

nagromme said:
They will absolutely NOT be brushed aluminum. I will bet my MacRumors password on that (street value US$.07 and a graham cracker).

Apple has never used brushed aluminum for any hardware. They have used a brushed look for textured metal windows, but never on physical products.

Many apple products are aluminum, and the new iMacs may well be aluminum too. But no Apple products are BRUSHED aluminum.

Brushing creates a distinctive linear texture... like a brush :) See Safari 2 for instance. Like this. There is no such linear texture on Apple's aluminum hardware. Someone posted that that fine texture Apple uses is called bead-blasted. I wouldn't know. But brushed is a very distinctive look and very different from what Apple uses.

Next week on Ranting With Uncle Nagromme: "Revision B" means the second REVISED version... which is the third release of the product! The first release is not revised at all, and Revision A is the second release.
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look at the back of the iPhone:D
 
mambodancer said:
look at the back of the iPhone:D
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I have. In person. It's NOT brushed :)

MrCrowbar said:
Haha. Where do I subscribe to your podcast? :cool:

And shouldn't released 1.0 software be called gamma versions?
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I broadcast every Sunday at 6pm Mountain time from my Griffin iTrip. You must be within 12 feet of me to tune in.

My topic for the week after next: the Apple term "unified" for their UI does NOT refer to unifying white and metal windows into one theme, as seen in Leopard. "Unified" refers to removing the line between the title bar of a white window and the toolbar (if any) below it. Unifying the title bar and toolbar together--as seen in Mail and System Preferences, but not seen in many other white apps.

bretm said:
Apple has never made a brushed metal enclosure, why would they start now? Perhaps they will make one like the cinema display, but that's just painted metal. Not brushed.
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Well, Apple's aluminum products aren't actually painted either. They are anodized (which adds a clear layer of aluminum oxide for strength) but not painted.
 
Kilamite said:
Guess that means aluminum keyboard and mouse to match?
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An aluminum keyboard sure would make a refreshingly different sound when typing. Not sure it's better than aluminum. Backlighted would be cool tho. I want the Macbook keyboard with a light upward curve and a number pad with the additional F-Keys.

Aluminum mouse... hmmm... errrr... why not?
 
realistic expectations

20 inch
2.2 ghz core 2 duo upgradable to 2.4
2GB Ram upgradable to 4gb
320GB HDD upgradable to 750gb
8600M 128mb upgradable to 256
superdrive

24 inch
2.4ghz core 2 duo
2gb ram upgradable to 4
500gb HDD, upgradable to 750
nvidia 8600m gt 256mb stock option, maybe a slightly better one as a bto
superdrive

Praying it will be released before end of this month!!!!

I do not expect user accessible hdd or replacable graphics card or blu ray, but do expect displays will be hdcp compliant so at least users could enjoy the benefits of an external player
 
And while they're at it, would it kill them to include a card-reader and eSATA, or at the very least FW800? After almost 20 months with no significant improvement in the iMac lineup other than adding C2D and a little speed, and almost a year since even this was added, the new iMacs better damn well massage my feet and make me a margarita as well.
 
too good to be true

i'm very happy that we have a rumor about a product other than the iphone.
i love the thing, but was suffering from overkill.
 
vendettabass said:
EXACTLY what I want! upgradable GPU would be awesome too
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Apples history with Gpu upgrades is pretty weak at best. Dont count on it but I must admit, a All new iMac could entice me, 20 or 21 is all I need but the GPU is prime concern for myself. Integrated and crap-o graphics will kill this deal and I really dont need or want a 24" display in my face to get a decent gpu.
 
Discontinue the 17''? That's stupid. What about schools and places? They don't need huge ****ing monitors. 17'' is the perfect size for schools.
 
august?? are you ***** kidding me? spring, then WWDC, then july, now august? 11 months between updates? to go from a core2duo/napa to a core2duo/santa rosa? LAME, apple, very freakin' lame.
 
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