form over function?

The iLife app updates are small yes, but I just can't help think you are exaggerating.

Have you USED iMovie? I tried at the apple store (held up huge line) and it is really easy to use, with more professional interface. It only lacks themes and effects (though the titles resemble the themes, and there is video tweaking to make it look nice.)

Have you SEEN the iMac in person? I thought it was ugly in pictures, saw it and my jaw dropped. It is amazing. and yes, the graphics suck.

.Mac is acutly a pretty good deal, just needs to be updated a little.

Mac mini is to expensive. should go back to old prices.

 

No I wouldn't. Seriously, this update makes perfect sense when you consider the target market for the iMac. It's aimed squarely at digital media creation and general computing plus the so-called casual gaming market. It's a policy that's been working spectacularly well for them the last year or two and it's a policy that is likely to continue working for them in the future. The HD 2600 series is targeted more at HD video than high performance gaming (though let's wait and see how it performs in OSX rather than relying on windows benchmarks, hmm?) and as such is a good choice for the new iMac.

This is something that annoys the hell out of me, and I apologise for venting here, but if you're going to criticise a machine for not doing what you want it to do you also need to consider the target audience for that machine. I hate analogies at the best of times but it'd be like complaining that a Ferrari can't fit a wardrobe in the boot. Not what the machine is designed for.

Also, as yoyo pointed out, virtually no-one has actually used this stuff yet, at least not in anger or for any serious time. Basing opinions off demos and photographs is never going to be a substitute for getting your hands on something and using it yourself.

Bottom line - Apple targets the iMac at users who want an all-in-one machine that will do most things well and give them easy to use software tools for the current trends of creating, displaying and managing digital media. The old iMac proved to be superb at this and I see no reason that the latest one and the new iLife and iWork suites won't carry on the tradition.

 

pointless banter, i dont get what people were expecting in these updates, i think what we were given was amazing, apple really did deliver, they took awesome software and smoothed it out, i mean you can only improve upon already awesome sofware so much. and as for the imac, drop dead gorgeous, what? is apple not allowed to use the "color" black in their computers???
the white polycarbonate plastic looks to toyish as many people say, i think its awsome that the outside is now all aluminum and glass, its a step forward...
and as for the keyboard, im typing on my macbook right now, and seeing as the imac keyboard took on the design and feel of the macbook keyboard, i can honestly say its gotta be awesome, i love my macbooks keyboard alot...

oh yah and the glossy screen debate, even in well lit places you get NO glare when your viewing the screen at a normal angle, even at this moment there is a lamp to my right and o whats that, no glare on my glossy screened macbook, the only time i ever got any glare was outside on a sunny day or in school were the whole cealing was covered in florescent lighting(even then the glare wasnt that bad when i had the backlight at its brightest setting), its a non issue, and one would not be using an imac outside, and i would like to think most people who use phtotoshop on a glossy screened imac arent doing it in places with extreemly bright lighting, you shouldnt even be doing that on a mac with a matte screen...

change is good...

 

Wouldn't the Apple, Industry and Internet Discussion forum be a more appropriate place for this type of thread?