iMac in Paris?

[Spades]

Pesonally I liked this design someone posted on a different thread a while back. (The far left look is pretty cool)

Looks interesting. Does it fly and shoot death rays too? 😉

 

[g4cubed]

I discovered it on the Swiss Apple Store:

Thanks, I like the colors.
You just may have the color scheme down 😉
Now for the design...

 

[dizastor]

RAM

lets hope they allow you to put at least 4 gigs of ram into the new iMacs.
If they do... i might be in the market for one...

 

[Freg3000]

Thanks, I like the colors.
You just may have the color scheme down 😉
Now for the design...

It also fits in with the recent abundance of a new type of brighter blue in Tiger:

http://www.apple.com/macosx/tiger/spotlight.html

 

[funkywhat2]

I can think of a million cool things Apple could do, and I'm 100% convinced of the value of an All-in-One iMac. And of a headless iMac. And of a really cheap low-end G4 iMac Mac... and of a new sub-PowerMac prosumer G5 iMac 🙂 So who knows WHAT might be coming!

I'll settle on a general prediction:

Simplicity AND flexibility.

Look at the new pro displays to see that trend 🙂 The iMac has always had simplicity. Flexibility could become part of the new hardware design, or it could be done by offering more different models (like G4 AND G5 iMacs, or iMacs AND some new line altogether).

I don't know if anyone has said this, but the new VESA mountable displays could lead towrds such a thing. Sell the iMac as a headless, but you can have the option of an integrated display via a special mount in the case. That way, you can have it headless, or with an upgradeable integrated display.

 

[nagromme]

Yes, I have long favored that kind of flexibility. A choice of mounts, ONE of which is the iMac swing-arm attached to the CPU.

Add a CRT and G4 option if you want the new iMac to also replace the eMac 🙂

 

[dizastor]

If it turns out Steve ain't going to the keynote this year, and the iMac is really scheduled for some other event, and I'm left with some random Apple France employee talking about the wonders of Airport Express... your all fired!

Airport Express would be better than a 2 hour keynote on a Security update. Maybe they'll intro iChat AVI... exclusively for windows. Maybe apple will port Calculator over to windows... just because they can.

 

[musicpyrite]

Maybe they'll intro iChat AVI... exclusively for windows. Maybe apple will port Calculator over to windows... just because they can.

Over my dead body!!!

 

[dongmin]

Five reasons on why the next iMac will go G5

As for a G5 in an iMac, I have my doubts - the heat sink alone is about a sixth the size of the current iMac dome, and that dome is crammed. The G4 is also the differentiating factor between the Pro and Consumer lines. And don't forget that supplies of the G5 are strained as it is.

For those of you who are expecting "Panel Style" iMacs, I doubt that as well. The current style allows for the most cost effective way to change LCD sizes, and offer more choices - and we love our choices. Also, optical media access is difficult on vertical machines - anyone remember the 20th Anniversary Mac?

Of course this is all circumstantial evidence, but as far as rumors go, this is about as close to absolute certainty as you get.

1. If you read through , it's pretty clear that Apple has been readying two new desktop models, the PowerMac 7,3 and the 8,1. The even numbers (first digit) have always designated a consumer desktop, the odds a Power Mac. The 7,3 is the recently announced 970fx G5 Power Macs. The 8,1 should be the first in a new line of iMacs sporting a brand new architecture.

2. Apple store is confirming "an all-new iMac line." While that could simply mean an across-the-line speed bump, the words "next generation iMac" make it sound like the changes will be a lot more radical than just a speed bump.

3. A brand new design would mean a brand new architecture (especially considering the "8,1" designation). Why would Apple design a new architecture, cooling, and case for the G4 when the G4 is basically maxed out?

4. In this [URL=http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2004/06/09/apple/index.php?redirect=1086765595000]Maccentral article, an Apple spokesperson goes close to confirming that they are currently working on putting the G5 into the iMac. "While [Apple spokesman] Boger didn't give a timeframe for an iMac G5, he did say the company faced similar challenges getting a G5 to work with their consumer desktop."

5. Tiger is going 64-bit. While Apple will retain the G4 for the iBooks and eMacs, it's clear that Apple is firmly migrating their hardware/software to 64-bits. My guess is that by the time Tiger actually ships, Apple will be shipping Power Books and iMacs containing 64-bit processors. There is an outside chance that Apple will use the e700 that's on the Freescale roadmap. But that processor, while 32/64-bit compatible, seems to be ways away.

 

[manu chao]

HP iPods - iTMS compatible?

Since somebody mentioned the HP iPods, does everybody think that they will be compatible with the iTMS? If yes, wouldn't that run counter the aim of making the money with the iPods and not with iTMS? Or would the license fee, HP will have to pay, be big enough to take care of it?

 

[johnnowak]

If the iMac has a G4 in it, who thinks there will be a riot in Paris?

 

[Machead III]

If the iMac has a G4 in it, who thinks there will be a riot in Paris?

I'd storm Jobs' Bastilles.

 

[zakee00]

I Googled for "iMac G5" and liked this concept much better:

those two pics are VERY ugly, no offence. I PRAY that apple dosnt go swiss cheese on the imac too, i would be very sad 🙁 and it is NOT going to be aluminum!!! that is what we know almost for sure.
EDIT: i just saw the 3rd headless pic, i think thats pretty cool...but that display would be very $$$$...

 

[AliensAreFuzzy]

Looks interesting. Does it fly and shoot death rays too? 😉

That's a BTO option.

 

[musicpyrite]

If the iMac has a G4 in it, who thinks there will be a riot in Paris?

Forget riots, I'd start a full scale nuclear strike on Cupertino!!!


and I like the Swiss Cheese iMac... I love cheese... 😀 😎

 

[ChrisH3677]

Pesonally I liked this design someone posted on a different thread a while back. (The far left look is pretty cool)

Oooooo!!! The interesting thing about this design is... they're almost a half-dome!! (cut horizontally, rather than the vertically discussed earlier) 😀

 

[Steven1621]

I thought this was common knowledge anyway, because when Steve did a search for Paris using spotlight at WWDC, then iMac and then everybodies birthday for the month of September, he was hinting at something, thats the impression i got?

exactly, which is why they didn't debut the new imacs at wwdc

 

[Freg3000]

Forget riots, I'd start a full scale nuclear strike on Cupertino!!!


and I like the Swiss Cheese iMac... I love cheese... 😀 😎

This all reminds me of the threatened riots if Apple didn't release the G5 at WWDC '03. 😀

 

[dizastor]

Over my dead body!!!

Steve could arrange that.

 

[iMeowbot]

Since somebody mentioned the HP iPods, does everybody think that they will be compatible with the iTMS?

That's a given. HP have already started shipping an HP-branded iTunes with their PCs.

If yes, wouldn't that run counter the aim of making the money with the iPods and not with iTMS? Or would the license fee, HP will have to pay, be big enough to take care of it?

The sample iPod displayed by Carly Fiorina was an Apple unit with blue instead of white plastic. Also, Apple stated that the HP player will display the Apple logo when it boots, and use the same codecs as iPod. It really looks as though HP will more likely be acting more as a reseller than a licensee with separate design or manufacturing.

Apple don't need to make very much from the relabeled iPods to come out ahead. The music store is already doing better than breaking even, so it's not really subsidized by the iPod any more.

 

[gooddog]

So, we need a word --- PRO-SUMER iMac there, *POOF* 🙂

OK -- you're wrong. 🙂

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Whaaaaatt ???? !!!!! -- impossible.

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Seriously speaking, a) the $2000 23" display is way too expensive to go in a low-end consumer machine,

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a1) Who said "low end" ? The Stealth is
the PRO-sumer iMac 🙂

a2) Display too expensive ? They said that
of the 20" as well .

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b) WiFi is too low bandwidth to drive the video for a 2.3 million pixel display,

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b) H.264 / AVC built in the display 🙂

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and c) aluminum is the look for the pro line -- white has been the standard for the consumer line.

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c) OK, white Stealth iMac or Black
Stealth iMac only.

----------BUT WHEN WILL KEYNOTE BE UPDATED ????? --------------------------------------

---gooddog 😕

 

[gooddog]

That's very close, but ...

You mean something like this? (found it on spymac):

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It will have a foot almost equal to the current footprint.

Ives will not allow a rectangular riser -- it
will taper toward the top gracefully.

No perforations --- at least not in front, just a smooth, satin ano white or black OX finish and a throbing violet apple logo = power button.

So.... graceful ... not squat.

.... lose the speakers 🙂



---gooddog

 

[gooddog]

I Googled for "iMac G5" and liked this concept much better:[/
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I liked it too, but it is just not "radically different" enough to match the rumors.

It does have that 1950's hint to it though 🙂

---gooddog

 

[gooddog]

I will use Apple brand genius -- of course 🙂

Tell me how you're going to put in the CPU, mobo, and a super-sized heatsink into the 'riser', which I take it to mean the neck of the stand?

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The riser IS the "super-sized heatsink" . essentially.

Who says it will be a dual G5 or even the single G5 you are thinking of ?

We must think different.

If it were anything we can imagine , it would have no "WOW!" value.

It will be a single G5 of the kind that will go
into the G5 PowerBook eventually - only the riser will actually have more room and better vertical heat-dissipating characteristics , by far, than the PB has now.

Yes, G5 on the PRO-sumer iMAc *before* it goes on the PB.

There can be an overlap in this.

It may be the year of the notebook, but SJ is slowly cuddling up to Apple's version of "convergece" --- call it flexibility, call it what you will --- no one wants to pay for a large display twice ( once for desktop then again for TV , DVD's etc. ) ---

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Yes Powerbooks are thin, but they use a totally different chip and architecture. Can't apply the same design principals to the G5.

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I would not carry my PB comment too far.
"Like a PB , but not identical" is better -- I was just
pointing out that the miniaturization of the laptops can be used for a Stealth concept
Pro-sumer iMac riser.

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Nice fantasy, but a fantasy it is.

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Apple routinely manufactures and sells lots of fantasy machines. 🙂 🙂 🙂

I own two and am poised to purchase my third 🙂

------------------------------------------------------BUT WHEN WILL KEYNOTE BE UPDATED ?????




---gooddog

 

[gooddog]

Wow gooddog, that sounds really cool.... Too bad I don't have my SolidWorks at work anymore or I'd render us up a preview... 😛

MrToast

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Go get your SolidWorks Mr. Toast !!!!

I am being set upon by a small army of naybobs and thinkers-inside-the-box.

Remember to taper the riser nicely toward the top to avoid that squat BOXY look that Ives would NEVER countenance. And let the foot of the stand be trapezoidal as well, but in a subtle, radiused corners, satin-finish way, with the slot drive on the right side edge of the foot, to have a very clean, satin, minimalist face and a softly throbbing, violet Apple logo/power button on the black ox ano riser's face.

I'll keep the Phillistines at bay 🙂

---gooddog