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Dual Swingarm iMac G5?

keysersoze said:
but doesn't that scare you? Or am I the only one that doesn't want to dump tap water into my $2000 computer?
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Why don't ask a few people over to pour water over your $2000 computer. If they're all happy to then statistically you probably are the only one who dosen't want to. Personaly I would be happy to...of course if we're talking about MY computer that'd be a whole different kettle of fish. I i certainly would not want a kettle of fish near it either!
 
mpw said:
Why don't ask a few people over to pour water over your $2000 computer. If they're all happy to then statistically you probably are the only one who dosen't want to. Personaly I would be happy to...of course if we're talking about MY computer that'd be a whole different kettle of fish. I i certainly would not want a kettle of fish near it either!
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:) That's pretty damn funny.

Well, after lots of thought and deliberations, I find "watering the PowerMac" to be quite possibly the worst idea I have ever heard. Ever. :)
 
keysersoze said:
but doesn't that scare you? Or am I the only one that doesn't want to dump tap water into my $2000 computer?
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Well obviously not tap water. Apple support will recomend evian or something.
 
keysersoze said:
but doesn't that scare you? Or am I the only one that doesn't want to dump tap water into my $2000 computer?
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Well, obvoiusly you'd be adding $10/liter fancy bottled water to your $2000 computer. :D

Hey, maybe that's a new market for Apple - Mac labeled water. Just think of the margins on that!
 
That prototype drawing looks terrible. Double arm is far from simplistic design approach Apple normally opts for.

I hope G5 iMac is much simpler in design. I would be happy to see new iMac looking similar to Studio Displays with all components sitting behind the screen.

Hopefully we'll find out what it looks like in 24 hours.
 
Peel said:
Well, obvoiusly you'd be adding $10/liter fancy bottled water to your $2000 computer. :D

Hey, maybe that's a new market for Apple - Mac labeled water. Just think of the margins on that!
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Please God don't ever make me spend $2000 on a computer that I have to dump water into so it will stand up without falling over.
 
Abstract said:
PS: If we hang an iMac on the wall, where does the cord attach to a wall socket? So now we have to run an ugly cable along the wall? A wall mounted iMac doesn't make sense if its going to make everything look ugly.
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iMac on a double arm stand, hides the power and other cords that way. (Think of a floor lamp). You can stand it up like a piece of sculpture/artwork against a wall.
 
bryantm3 said:
the base is really way too big and the arm is too wide. non-apple, even more than the pyramid idea (ya'll it's not a pyramid scheme, that's an illegal marketing tactic :rolleyes: )
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Its a little bulky, but more useful than a pyramid. You could load up gobs of ram in there, or maybe a second harddrive. Got to give him props for the rendering job though :)

If people thought the G5 looked like a cheese grater, maybe the iMac is supposed to be shaped like one. I hope not . . . very Bauhaus though, to go from Cube, to (half) Sphere, to Pyramid. Walter Gropius would be proud.
 
macphoria said:
That prototype drawing looks terrible. Double arm is far from simplistic design approach Apple normally opts for.

I hope G5 iMac is much simpler in design. I would be happy to see new iMac looking similar to Studio Displays with all components sitting behind the screen.

Hopefully we'll find out what it looks like in 24 hours.
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8hrs & 32mins
 
relimw said:
Hmm, now all you need is a big firey, glowing eye in the middle of that screen image... :D
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You mean like this? :p
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iMeowbot said:
No, it's not. See? [BTW that's a 17" iMac, and no it's not broken. Every one I've seen does the same.]
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Thanks for that - I stand corrected. I can't get any of my displays to hit the tray though - I have a 15" and a 17"

I was under the impression that this specifically did NOT happen.
 
Abstract said:
PS: If we hang an iMac on the wall, where does the cord attach to a wall socket? So now we have to run an ugly cable along the wall? A wall mounted iMac doesn't make sense if its going to make everything look ugly.
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Sounds like the IKEA ceiling lamp solution, whose curiously enough also has a love affair with white round rubber cords.
 
half dome

in stevenote at wwdc, sj mentioned yosemite's halfdome as part of search demo

just a thought

think of a quarter melon or watermelon

(no time to read all pages; if anyone else mentioned it, sorry)
 
i'll take the bucket of fish......

seriously, i think this patent might just be misdirection on Apple's part.....but i didnt like the jell-o/gum drop/dome imac either and i guess it has done well, so who knows....apple knows what they are doing (save for the cube and those graphics cards in the PM's)i'm sure that whatever appears in Paris will push the industry into new grounds...since when has apple EVER been conservative in design?
 
dbasskin said:
That landscape/portrait screen rotation thang is a very good idea. All kinds of flat panel LCD's today offer this feature and Pivot software on the PC supports screen rotation under Windows XP. The only hardware on the Mac (well, maybe until tomorrow, that is) supporting rotation is the ATI Radeon 9800 Pro (with its supporting Versavision software). (See: http://www.atitech.com/products/radeon9800/radeon9800prome/features.html) That card is a royal pain in the ass to install in a G5 and, of course, is irrelevant from an iMac perspective.
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It bugs me that this card is different from the ATI Radeon 9800 XT which can be ordered with a G5 PowerMac, but which does not have Versavision.
 
mpw said:
Is this photo not from last years, or another, expo? there are lots of other photos on the site which obviously are not from this year and when i download the photo and 'Get Info' it was last modified 20th Aug.'04, I guess when it went up on the site(?)
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I'd say it can be from this year... only because of what looks to be a 30" display in the top left corner...
 
That's the dumbest thing I've ever seen. Either it's an unused design idea, a way to throw the rumors sites off their trail, or the dumbest idea Apple has had since Jon Ive was hired.
 
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