Dual Swingarm iMac G5?

iMac, Maybe not part 2

I think this patent covers Apple's version of this Marathon Computing product.
 

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After talking to a Apple rep friend of mine tonight I get the feeling that we are not going to see a new imac tomarrow. He told me the scuttlebutt around the water cooler is that it’s going to be pushed back untill the end of September. I hope he is wrong though... :(
 
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Wonder Boy said:
finally, the negative ratings outpace the possitve . that is the ugliest thing i have ever seen. a pyramid shape? c'mon. if thats for real, ives is slipping.
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But what about pyramid power? What an untapped market. All those freaks would convert to Macs!

Heheheh.
 
mvc said:
I understand why you might want a tv on the wall, or a monitor thats basically being used as a tv, especially a nice big 30" one.

BUT

Why do you want an iMac on the wall?
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Well...allow me to speculate rampantly. If I could get a wall-mounted iMac with a 23" or 30" screen, I would hang it just above my desk. The keyboard, with built in slot loading optical drive, would go on a drawer underneath my desktop. The mouse is, of course, bluetooth. The wall unit has one cord which combines power, USB, firewire, and ethernet into one ribbon which is insulated with translucent plastic, so that it blends in with the wall as much as possible. The power supply sits on the floor behind the desk.

This way I could work on my mac rather comfortably while at my desk, ignore it completely when working on something else (it looks like a framed picture when the screensaver is on, and has zero footprint), and then watch movies on the large, crystal clear LCD display from across the room. Using my iPod as remote, of course. Also, the iMac has a media player which outputs to Airport Express.

This would be a really sweet setup. Suitable more for executive offices and college dorm rooms than anything else--where space or clean lines is highly desirable.

As I've said numerous times before, I'd be completely shocked if thats what came out tomorrow. I expect something more along the lines of an aluminized, dome shaped machine, with a pivoting display (Jobs wanted that in the first but the engineering was complicated enough to make him pass back then), and of course the G5. Probably a few fans and cheese grater to allow the best air flow. Also significantly larger than the current iMac, but stretched only side-to-side, not front-to-back.

But a wall-mounted iMac would make a good Information Appliance offering from Apple in the future. (When OLEDs mature, and chips get smaller/more energy efficient eg.)
 
adzoox, here is a picture of the refrigeration cycle:
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You see how a refrigerant moves from inside coil (that's called an evaporator) to an ouside coil (which is called a condensor)... In the industry we just add freon (a refrigerant of some type) to the system, it boils across the evaporator, absorbing heat from your house. Moves through a compressor and then the heat obtained by the air is blown off the coils in the condensor, and released outside your house. This would be a maximizing cooling effect to a computer, if only it were possible to do this. Water being used as a refrigerant isn't so bad for computers, because I have to have a licence to buy the freon I buy for A/C units. Although water will work too. That would be interesting to see somebody try to make a cooling cycle like this work in a computer using a cheap, aboundant coolant/refrigerant like water.
 
fluidinclusion said:
Now that's funny. Just look at all those fingerprints!
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Sorry, sorry. My fingers got all greasy when I was shoving bacon down those little vent holes. I just hosed it down with a mixture of Lysol and muriatic acid, so now everyone is going to shut up and leave me alone before I go get my mom, 'cause then you'll all be sorry. :eek:
 
corbin_a2 said:
After talking to a Apple rep friend of mine tonight I get the feeling that we are not going to see a new imac tomarrow. He told me the scuttlebutt around the water cooler is that it’s going to be pushed back untill the end of September. I hope he is wrong though... :(
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Say it isn't so, that will hurt Apple more than just with us Mac Fans. It will also not go well with the stock market. Now we are down to about six hours till this will be public.
 
For any doubters out there about the cpu being behind the screen and the rest of the guts with it, it will certainly all be behind the monitor. Certified and true.
 
kontact said:
For any doubters out there about the cpu being behind the screen and the rest of the guts with it, it will certainly all be behind the monitor. Certified and true.
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And why are you so sure of this? :confused:
 
New iMac picts

Photos of the new iMacs set up. seems Apple are going back to their roots
Who said CRT is dead.. ha ha
 

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We are all being duped by Apple

The new G5 iMac will have a removeable display with wireless capability so you can use it anywhere in the house. This is what Apple does, come up with stuff that nobody expects. They've also been know to drop hints to throw everyone off. Wouldn't that be cool if you could trade in your 17" screen for a 20" when you are ready to upgrade? Mark my words! It will happen!
 
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