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Dual Swingarm iMac G5?

adamfilip said:
i bet this pyramid look is how its going to be.. there is no reason for apple to put some generic base on that drawing.. if they wanted to hide the base design why wouldnt they just put the curent base design on it.
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It's possible that iMeowbot is right in that this could be a patent that applies to the iMac G4, not G5...Apple may have been exploring the possibility of using either the payramid or dome, and wanted to make sure that they already had the patent on hand when they decided between the two.

this may have been a concept for the original iMac G4, and may have nothing to do with the iMac G5.
 
im_noahselby said:
****Ever accidentaly ejected your CD drive while your iMac's screen was down. As you can see in the pictures, the two arms would extend the screen far enough from the cd tray for this to never be a problem. ****
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I'm guessing that the bottom joint next to the base would actually move. Obviously, if it didn't, the iMac would be suspended very high in the air.
–Chase
 
skunk said:
This is no more than a variant on the original design. The new iMac will be just that: NEW.
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I certainly hope so! Although I would love an Apple VESA arm when I buy my 23" display in a few months!
 
I don't like the patent drawings. The two-arm design looks ungainly and the pyramid base looks ridiculous.

This is a nicer implemenation of a two-arm design:
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I agree -- this looks absolutely hideous. I hope it's true that the base is a pyramid because it's not part of the patent.

Maybe this has something to do with a different product? I thought the new iMac was supposed to have all the guts behind the display? If it does, yet still has these weird arms, I'd be curious to see what the outcome is. I guess we'll find out tomorrow...

.narco
 
kangaroo said:
I don't like the patent drawings. The two-arm design looks ungainly and the pyramid base looks ridiculous.

This is a nicer implemenation of a two-arm design:
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Yeah, that's what I was going to bring up. "Two arm design" doesn't necessarily mean "end-to-end arms" except then there are those drawing with the patent app.

Really, I don't think the new iMac is going to look like that (at all) and I sincerely hope it doesn't.

<shiver> ugly base...
 
kangaroo said:
I don't like the patent drawings. The two-arm design looks ungainly and the pyramid base looks ridiculous.

This is a nicer implementation of a two-arm design:
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I think that design is awesome, the best that I have seen yet. A very G5 looking design. Futuristic looking. Whatever we get it will be new, as many have posted.
 
Eagle-eye CholEoptera36

CholEoptera36 said:
Hey I just went on the Apple-Expo site to look at some info on the Apple-Expo in Paris tomorrow, and look at the pic that's on there site... Doesn't this swivel double hinge arm look like the ones in the drawings for the patent?

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You're The Man!

That is a new iMac design and you spotted it first. Based on this we can see that the iMac will remain essentially the same, except for the new neck.
 
apple has already gone on record after the iMac G4 inventory fiasco that we will be knocked out by the G5 iMac. that patent is not it. heck it may be time for something entirely different...iMac 3G. good thing office is real empty this week...no one will care that i have this page up on my screen all day tomorrow. :)

sedge
 
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That's pretty high up. If that is a 20'' screen then the computer will be about 8'' high from bottom to bottom of the screen, but it's just an artist's rendition.
 
bluebull said:
That looks a little strange...
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This was just a quick Photoshop job of a couple of cobbled together images; one of the new Apple monitors and a triangle base with of a modified G5 grill.

Move along people... nothing to see here.
 
Well the patent does include the base, so its dual swingarm + pyramid base. Like others have said, they were just cover their bases....literally. Maybe they thought having the dual swingarm was a bit of a quality assurance nightmare. It would have been......the current arm is already difficult enough. How do you get the wires through both arms without them being visible? And even if you could, there's always the chance of the cable breaking at the point where it passes through the joint that keeps the two arms together.

This isn't it, folks.

Also, do you install the DVD drive slanted into the pyramid? Do you install a DVD drive with a slanted front face? Either way, it doesn't sound like Apple.
 
Sol said:
You're The Man!

That is a new iMac design and you spotted it first. Based on this we can see that the iMac will remain essentially the same, except for the new neck.
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Yeah I'm still going back and forth on that pic. It's such a strange angle it really depends on the person and how they look at the picture. If it is the new iMac G5, then I'm happy I spotted it ;) If it's just an old iMac G4 with a wierd camera view, then I'm sure I'll still be pleased with a totally new design too. Either way there's a very good chance I'll be selling my eMac to help fund for a new iMac in the end.

Cheers Sol
:cool:
 
Have cake, eat too?

A thought: The new iMac could be BOTH a thick "screen-only" unit AND have a swing arm. With a strong enough arm, the whole thing could still be in the screen, CPU and all. At the base of the arm could be a very large but flat and unobtrusive plate (round or rectangle) with the arm attached near the back edge. Super stable, but using zero desk space.

The whole swing arm could then be optional. Use the display alone sitting on the desk like a picture frame if you prefer, or hang the iMac right on the wall, or build it into the wall or desk. Maybe have a cheaper, less adjustable Apple arm option too, that's exactly like the pro displays. Or if you wish, replace Apple arm options with your choice of VESA support. Last but not least, you could use the Apple swing arm but change the base plate at the bottom end: use an edge clamp, a bolt-on tabletop mount, or a bolt-on wall mount. Both ends of the arm would be VESA standard so the sky's the limit.
 
kangaroo said:
I don't like the patent drawings. The two-arm design looks ungainly and the pyramid base looks ridiculous.

This is a nicer implemenation of a two-arm design:
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That's better than the pyramid, but I saw another rendition somewhere that I like even better. It had more of that "pizza-box" design...

Anyway, I do think that the new iMac will be metallic so that they can show off the moutning capabilities of the new iSight.

We'll all know soon enough...

JOD8FY
 
The more I think about it and look at the pictures, the more I can see the new iMac looking like that. I see so many advantages by building on an already solid design! Please let this be the next iMac. I really think having all the components stuck behind a display, totally sucks and defeats what Steve Jobs wanted to do with the iMac. Wasn't it him that said "...what is the point of having a beatiful slim display and not being able to do anything with it..." I think I remember him saying something of that variety.

I'm not sure if Apple would go with a pyramid base, but I think we should all wait and see actual images of the real thing before we start breaking a sweat.

Noah
 
Something to think about....

What if the physical appearance is essentially the same, except that the screen is detachable? If you look at the original patent drawings, it looks as though the screen has been removed. Maybe the screen is actually a wireless tablet.

1. I think it's been mentioned more than once in the recent past that Apple was working on some type of wireless device.
2. Apple recently had a patent application in Europe for a wireless tablet like device, didn't they?
3. Jobs hinted at a way to control Airtunes from another room back at the D all things digital thing a few months back.
 
I used to have a G4 iMac and loved the movability of the screen. If this did to the iMac screen that much more of what the iMac G4 arm did to the iMac originally I think it is a great idea.
 
skunk said:
This is no more than a variant on the original design. The new iMac will be just that: NEW.
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Agreed. If the photo on apple-expo.com were really the new iMac, Apple wouldn't have allowed it to continue to sit there all day long. (Surely it's somebody'd job at Apple to cruise the rumor sites for leaked images -- particularly this close to an announcement.)

The new iMac will be truly new.
 
ornamental designfor a display device with a moveable assembly
I agree. If it's only an ornamental design, by definition, the base is non-functional. It does appear that the screen/CPU may be mountable. The drawings seem to show a mounting mechanism (or at least something other than a standard screen) on the left side of fig 1. Very interesting.

nagromme said:
A thought: The new iMac could be BOTH a thick "screen-only" unit AND have a swing arm. With a strong enough arm, the whole thing could still be in the screen, CPU and all. At the base of the arm could be a very large but flat and obtrusive plate (round or rectangle) with the arm attached near the back edge. Super stable, but using zero desk space.

The whole swing arm could then be optional. Use the display alone sitting on the desk like a picture frame if you prefer, or hang the iMac right on the wall, or build it into the wall or desk. Maybe have a cheaper, less adjustable Apple arm option too, that's exactly like the pro displays. Or if you wish, replace Apple arm options with your choice of VESA support. Last but not least, you could use the Apple swing arm but change the base plate at the bottom end: use an edge clamp, a bolt-on tabletop mount, or a bolt-on wall mount. Both ends of the arm would be VESA standard so the sky's the limit.
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Abstract said:
Also, do you install the DVD drive slanted into the pyramid? Do you install a DVD drive with a slanted front face? Either way, it doesn't sound like Apple.
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Yeah that would be kinda hard to install a combo/super drive slanted to fit the incline of the pyramid design. I never thought of that before. But also remember, I'm sure people would have thought it to be hard for Apple to install a DVD drive on a sphyrical and rounded shape base too but Apple pulled that off quite nicely. I don't think this design will hit the shelves though, I must agree. (the pyramid shape that is atlest)
 
im_noahselby said:
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A lot of people seem surprised by this design, and are putting it down. I don't know if this has been mentioned yet, but if this is indeed the new iMac G5 in the picture, I for one see at least one important benefit:

****Ever accidentaly ejected your CD drive while your iMac's screen was down. As you can see in the pictures, the two arms would extend the screen far enough from the cd tray for this to never be a problem. ****
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Oh, perfect. So I will now spend $2000 dollars for the same looking Mac, but this time it's faster and hey, when a cd is ejected, it won't hit the screen. Thanks Apple.

Also, although I think those patent pictures are ugly, it's quite stupid of some people to say that those patents are "Un-Apple like." Well, they are not fake, they are by Apple, so I suppose it is very Apple like, no matter used or not. But no, none of those have anything to do with with the G5 iMac.
 
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