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iMac G4 no longer?

Duff-Man said:
Duff-Man says...Insanely Great and O'grady's Powerpage both make mention today of some kind of "significant announcement" from Apple next week...perhaps the iMac release, then the new PowerMac's at WWDC? Just another possibility....oh yeah!
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Or maybe the updated PowerMacs next week....

The launch of an iMac G5 will get far more attention than updated PowerMacs.

Would be nice if Steve would preview Tiger on an iMac ;)
Everyone assumes that the demo will be shown on tha fastest available Mac, but at the end of the show:

"Oh, and one more thing..... the demo you just gave witnessed was done on this NEW iMac G5!" :p
 
hmm... at first thought, imacs aren't very interesting... but my dad and i have been planning on getting a good priced g5, this just might be it... a $1,200 15 inch, 1.6 ghz doesn't sound too bad... as long as it looks nice, i'll consider it!
 
My daughter (2 years old) has been asking for mommy's iMac for some time now. If a new G5 iMac comes out, my apple loan account is going to be hurting.
 
MrToast said:
I'm predicting a continuation of the flat panel idea, but with components on the back of the screen. Maybe the same sort of neck for the screen, but one that couldn't have as much of a range of motion (due to top-heaviness). This would allow reasonable amounts of room for a PCI-X slot or two, 8 GBs RAM, some sick mad nasty graphics card, etc.
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Not a chance, Jonathan Ive has stated previously why Apple didn't go for this design with the original G4 iMac. Hard drives and optical drives need to be installed at right angles, poor cooling and most importantly it would look fugly. The iMac is a consumer machine it isn't meant to be upgradeable, if you need that get a Power Mac.
 
one should surf the web and look around....

several non-US mac web sites were reporting on extremely low stock level of iMac and PMG5 already few days ago.
hardmac.com was even making a news that the refurb store on Apple.com/fr was officially announced to be open on Wednesday (as usual) but also on Thursday!!! and what can you find mostly on the refurb at that time...iMac G4 , all models, and Apple Displays.... ;)
So Apple is probably repeating the recent promotion on the refurb store prior the release of the last PBG4 update. :cool:
Today hardmac.com is reporting that large reseller in France will receive shipment of PMG5 in 7 to 10 days; meaning that Apple has prepared a stock (big or small nobody knows yet) in order to be able to face the potential request after the official announcement at the WWDC. So at least for most future iMac and PMG5 we should have (maybe part of) them immediately avaialble...and not like last year. :)
 
I've been tracking the display rumors for about a year now. Badly needed updates in my opinion. G5 PowerMac better make the 3 GHz mark times 2 at least or dazzle us all with 4 processors (and running quieter than current models). I would love to see a G5 iMac but the price has to stay low, or the G4 things need to drop significantly. If the eMac with Superdrive dropped to about $700 I would probably buy 3 for my business. What really needs to happen is introduce a computer with all the specs of the current eMac minus the display for a price range of $500 to $800 and then offer bundle prices of core apps like Office for cheap. It is the only way to get the zillions of low end computer users to switch and realize the potential of a real computer to upgrade to a more powerful (expensive mac) in the future. I know my wishes are probably way off the mark but remain what I wish would happen. I would buy a 20" monitor at $900. A G5 Powermac at 4x3 GHz. 3 Headless eMacs at $500. A Powerbook with at least a 1.6 G5. If none of these things happen I will stick with what I currently have.
 
This is good news and past due, ill be getting one unless they do something crazy. Now the question is will it evolve from current imac or is it going to be something all new? Lets hope they give imac a video card and if they dont it better have at least a 9700 in it. The biggest problem current imac has is a lame videochip(fx5200) excuse why i puke and a just as lame cpu G4 1.25 ( excuse me again ) I dont mind paying big bucks for great stuff but paying big bucks for old and slow i do mind and from the sales numbers of this current generation a lot of people felt the same. If Apple wants to sell a all in one high end consumer model then it should consist of high end parts. not last place video and a chip from 2 years ago :rolleyes:
I would like to see a more aggresive looking Imac with performance to boot. something that yells at you to put in Doom3 and then plays it as smooth as butter on high settings :cool: The ball is in Apples court now will they score or fumble?
 
Where are they getting these chips???

For all the problems that IBM has been haveing with the 970 chip I don't know how ther are upreading the iMac,
But don't mind me I am just frustrated because this rumor is going to make my alreay tough upgrade question just that much harder. I HATE THIS!!!! :confused:
 
Well the real question now is, will the new iMac be headless. If so I would seriously consider getting one over a new Power Mac. Of course it would have to be cheaper than a PM and 2ghz would be nice. I don't mind the look of the current Power Mac's but they are very large and I know that if Apple made a headless iMac it would be amazing aesthetically. I'll probably just end up with a Power Mac but I'm interested in what Apple will do, who knows.
 
clr900 said:
Well the real question now is, will the new iMac be headless. If so I would seriously consider getting one over a new Power Mac. Of course it would have to be cheaper than a PM and 2ghz would be nice. I don't mind the look of the current Power Mac's but they are very large and I know that if Apple made a headless iMac it would be amazing aesthetically. I'll probably just end up with a Power Mac but I'm interested in what Apple will do, who knows.
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I am very skeptical of the idea that Apple would ever release a headless iMac. At least, it wouldn't fall under the iMac banner, it would be re-branded as some new piece of hardware. The entire concept of the iMac is the all-in-one philosophy, and for consumers, this fits the vast majority of them quite well.

Apple made a headless iMac once, it was called the Cube, and we all see how well that turned out. But the current constraints when dealing with available hardware, the current computer hardware market, and pricing don't seem to spell well for a headless iMac/revamped cube concept. It would either be too expensive or not powerful enough.

Just my 2¢ :)
 
i would gladly pay $2199 for a 20" G5 1.8 GHz iMac, 80GB 256MB, Superdrive.
furthermore, give me the option to downgrade to Combo drive and make it $1999, but apple wont give us that option, they'd sell too many computers that way.

either way, i am eagerly waiting for a 20" G5 iMac
 
Just whipped this up quickly...but something along this line with detachable touch sensitive monitor. I can always dream.
 

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i want headless, too

I don't understand why apple expects that all consumer-level people wish to upgrade their monitors and computers at the same time. Me, I tend to upgrade my CPUs about 2x or 3x more than my monitors; therefore, I would never buy an iMac with a built-in screen (because then I'm stuck with that monitor in the event I want to upgrade).

Sure, I could buy a Power Mac, but I haven't...know why? they are just too expensive for me right now, since I use a PowerBook as my main machine. If they had an inexpensive headless Mac, I'd buy one, just as a luxury, but as it is, Apple has gotten none of this money from me. In fact, I bought a PC instead (as my low-cost desktop "kicking around" machine).

Make a low-cost (even non-upgradeable) headless Mac, and I will buy. Force me to buy that monitor and Apple can continue to not have my money, because I already have nice monitors.

It sucks, really, because I have a really old desktop that I wouldn't mind upgrading...but I'm not going to spend $2,000 on a desktop -- ever again, unless I am just rolling in money.
 
Wonder Boy said:
yikes. god i hope not.
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:) :D i know it's pretty ugly...and i would hope they could do better...like i said i spent all of 5 minutes on it...

But i like the idea of a detachable monitor...ala tablet
 
feature said:
:) :D i know it's pretty ugly...and i would hope they could do better...like i said i spent all of 5 minutes on it...

But i like the idea of a detachable monitor...ala tablet
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i didn't mean to insult you. not bad for a 5 minute job at all.
 
suzerain said:
Then why doesn't it sell?
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Umm, because the iMac G4 form factor and internal hardware has remained pretty much unchanged since its inception. It's not the all-in-one philosophy that's killed it, it's the performance and outdated hardware offerings coupled with a high price tag.
 
thats okay for me

if it doesnt have got an monitor attached to it - the emac is for that.
i want an iCube :-]

i would pay 1349$ incl tax. for a g5 2ghz, 1ghz busspeed, 512mb ram, radeon 9600 mobility where i can only switch the gfx card that got a 100 or 120gb drive and a cdrw/dvd rom.

(with hardware discount: 1125 $)

i mean if i can get more than the double performance and power (lets think about a 2.4-2.6 ghz g5 dual) i wont consider an imac anymore.

i guess this time apple wont bring a great product ;p (if they bring an imac)
cause again they wont get the "price" point.

the powermac can be expensive - the imac cannot (not if it got no display, and many ppl do NOT WANT an display, if i wanted tfts - i would buy 2 19" that do 1600*1200)
 
LaMerVipere said:
Umm, because the iMac G4 form factor and internal hardware has remained pretty much unchanged since its inception. It's not the all-in-one philosophy that's killed it, it's the performance and outdated harware offerings coupled with a high price tag.
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I concur, imac is really a very sweet,overpriced and underperforming machine. just give it some performance so it can game and if it can game it can then do anything people want since games stress out a system more then anything else.
 
cool so if the G5 come out then the G4 iMac will be cheap, then i can convince my parents to buy one of those so they will stop calling me with wintel questions!!!!
 
the only thing is, the imac is a consumer product, and WWDC is a developer's conference. Powermacs and displays for sure (yes, displays! That's what I'm waiting for!), but I dunno about the imac... that would be a lot of hardware announcements.
 
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