Hands-On With Apple's New Orange M1 iMac

[ArPe]

You’re missing my point. There are some liberties with marketing, but the difference between the two images is huge.

Different lighting conditions and lighting temperature give off different surface color. In marketing material the color presented is the color they aim for but if your lighting is dim, or too bright, or too cool, or too warm then you don’t see the same color as in the marketing material.

Your photo has a small blue shift and the lighting isn’t very bright.

This is well known. It shouldn’t be a surprise.

 

[satchmo]

Different lighting conditions and lighting temperature give off different surface color. In marketing material the color presented is the color they aim for but if your lighting is dim, or too bright, or too cool, or too warm then you don’t see the same color as in the marketing material.

Your photo has a small blue shift and the lighting isn’t very bright.

This is well known. It shouldn’t be a surprise.

I’m very familiar with marketing products and lighting.

Apple’s rendering is just a bit too off. There is no attempt to even distinguish a difference between the chin which is not only lighter in colour, but a different material.

It’s fine if they want to achieve a base colour, but just don’t pass it off as only one colour throughout.

Edit: That said, it doesn’t look as off on some of the other colours such as blue.

 

[dpfenninger]

I was most looking forward to the orange to replace my 2013 27", especially after seeing the back of it in the keynote address. But then the photos and first impression videos started pouring in, and it's probably a 'no' for me now...just can't get past that pastel-y salmon/pinkish front and on the keyboard/mouse. Don't mind a lighter hue, but IMO it still could've been bolder and more recognizably orange.

Might just stick with my M1 Air and dock it with a bigger monitor for now, and see what the 27" update will look like. Maybe next year Apple will refine the colors on these? Maybe?

 

[Stephen.R]

Here’s my problem...

Real life vs Apple website.



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You need to turn your one on, mate.

 

[ColdShadow]

Color it subjective,back looks fine,front looks ugly.
a really bad design when you consider how amazing previous generations looked.

The bezel was the only part needing refinement on older generation,it’s mind blowing that they keep the bezel,make it even more noticeable while removing all aesthetic strong points of the previous design..this looks cheap,ugly and older.
removing Apple logo from front specially a big failure of design language logic.

 

[RammyXX]

That rendering is just an iPad on a stick and doesn't look great.

Yes it does.

 

[Dark_Omen]

It is very elegant and when they brighten up offices it’s going to look and feel amazing.

If you want ugly there were computers that looked like this……

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That looks better than the current Mac.

 

[varsity]

It’s like a large iPad without a touch screen. Hopefully the higher end models will fix the awful aesthetics

 

[IllinoisCorn]

I'd by it if it was $900. The performance improvements are unimpressive. The screen is too small. Not enough ports. Basically, a very expensive stingy offering from a company with more money than god.

What would you be willing to pay for a 4 port model? Is it $900.00?

 

[Ted Lasso]

Oh your gawd… that's really ugly!

SJ is rolling in his grave, muttering something about "tasteless".

The only thing tasteless, is your comment.

 

[IllinoisCorn]

It’s like a large iPad without a touch screen. Hopefully the higher end models will fix the awful aesthetics

I felt the same re: the visuals when it was announced, but I can confirm the colors are really well done after seeing several in person. Not for me, but then again, not everything is, anyway.

This is a bold choice by Apple and I think it was the correct choice. We’ll get new, higher end machines in a month or so, and I think that will change the dynamic some what.

 

[usagora]

Put the orange sticker on the chin, find an orange 90° angle plug for the speaker Jack and you’ve got a helluva bargain there.

Stickers are too big for the chin.

 

[cmaier]

What would you be willing to pay for a 4 port model? Is it $900.00?

if companies are successful, apparently they are supposed to sell machines at cost.

 

[usagora]

Orange would be my choice right after blue but they should've made the front bezel and chin all black instead of ugly multi-colored peach and white.

Uh, an orange back and stand with an all black front would look atrocious (unless it was for Halloween, LOL!). Now, if the chin and stand were all the same shade of color as the back, then black bezels would be ok.

 

[HowardEv]

So basically in a nutshell... with M1 .... it’s a 24” iPad with keyboard and track pad running MacOs ....

An iPad has a battery, the iMac has to stay plugged in. Apparently it is more important desktop computer to be lightweight than a tablet.

 

[cmaier]

So basically in a nutshell... with M1 .... it’s a 24” iPad with keyboard and track pad running MacOs ....

My car had a 6502 cpu in it. That didn’t make my car an Apple ][.

 

[DotCom2]

As I suspected...to my taste it looks awful when the screen is off (which will be most of the time in a home environment). View attachment 1779303

Agreed! Too many different shades going on there from the darkest to lightest. The chin really should have been the same as the back IMHO.

 

[HowardEv]

This is just an iPad Pro with a huge screen running MacOS, isn't it?

Except it has to stay plugged in all the time, so you'll want a UPS. But a UPS is how you know you are smart.

 

[HowardEv]

iPad on a stick. Yes.

But it must be much faster because it plugs in to wall and needs an external UPS like fast pro computers do, right?

 

[HowardEv]

I’m very familiar with marketing products and lighting.

Apple’s rendering is just a bit too off. There is no attempt to even distinguish a difference between the chin which is not only lighter in colour, but a different material.

It’s fine if they want to achieve a base colour, but just don’t pass it off as only one colour throughout.

Edit: That said, it doesn’t look as off on some of the other colours such as blue.

The most egregiously deceiving thing about Apple's iMac marketing is how often they show it without a power cable, as if it didn't need a power cable. Or maybe turning it on is using it wrong? It's supposed to be used off and turned around facing the wall.

 

[cmaier]

The most egregiously deceiving thing about Apple's iMac marketing is how often they show it without a power cable, as if it didn't need a power cable. Or maybe turning it on is using it wrong? It's supposed to be used off and turned around facing the wall.

There are zero human beings who don’t understand that desktop computers are plugged in.

 

[HowardEv]

It’s like a large iPad without a touch screen. Hopefully the higher end models will fix the awful aesthetics

Well it runs MacOS, so it wouldn't support a touchscreen. MacOS does support built-in battery UPS though, so it's hard to understand why they left that out.

 

[HowardEv]

There are zero human beings who don’t understand that desktop computers are plugged in.

Think Different.

 

[Apple_Robert]

That external power brick is an epic fail.

How is it a fail? From a hardware perspective, I think it will be much better for the life of the iMac.

 

[Apple_Robert]

As I suspected...to my taste it looks awful when the screen is off (which will be most of the time in a home environment). View attachment 1779303

Is it being bought solely for decoration? If so, I can understand you point. In my opinion, a computer is not designed to be the focal point when it is turned off.