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Here's another pic I found before the .Mac site went down...

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Clearly photoshop. :rolleyes:
 
If you look at the picture when the display is tilted, you can tell that it is too wide. Yes, it will fit into the box, but it is so wide that its sides touch the very edges of the box, leaving no room for protective styrofoam, which would definitely be a part of an Apple packaging. I think it is definitely a hoax, but we'll all find out soon enough.
 
webmatthijs said:
can anyone tell me what that thing is the red arrow is pointing to?

The PowerBook Packaging?

I think these pictures could be real, though. Jonathan Ive got fired and the same guy that put the gray ClickWheel on the iPod designed this iMac.
 
liketom said:
am i right in saying ibooks old imacs emacs come in white boxes an powerbooks and g5's come in black boxes??? if so imac in black box???? fake pics if you ask me

We won't know if this picture is fake or not until Tuesday August 31st. The box really doesn't give a clue either. My thought is that if the iMac is a G5, then it will also come in a black box.
 
This is the one, right?

This is the prop they used for the photoshop, right? They've just removed the buttons and added the white thing that kinda looks like an Apple logo.

It's a 20" LG LCD monitor. Model name L2010P

Edit: Hm ... maybe it's not the one after all. This LG has air vents on the back and the "fake" hasn't.
 

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Won't be too long before 'Photoshop experts" come along to say why the images are fake... ...just like the images of the G5 specs, G4 Towers, Tiger screenshosts et al were fake... NOT.

All probabilities.. i think these are real. After the GNAA Tiger screenshots.. anything can happen!
 
Lancetx said:
According to another website, Apple Legal has requested their removal.

http://www.insanely-great.com/news.php?id=3713

Note that this (intentionally) proves nothing. Apple Legal has a history of shutting down both sites with "real" pictures and sites with photoshop hoaxes they *claimed* were real. Legally, claiming a photograph is a company's product is just as prosecutable as exposing corporate secrets.
 
webmatthijs said:
can anyone tell me what that thing is the red arrow is pointing to?



it looks like some kind of cd drive or so. also the screen doesn't look very big compared to the mans hand, it must be a 17"[/QUOTE]

I think that's the white wrap paper/cloth stuff, folded away. You also see that same wrap obscuring the top of the device in the way-overexposed photograph and folded away like that in the under-exposed photograph.
 
Real, fake... isn't it fun being a Mac user and getting excited about this stuff?

It's like having extra holidays sprinkled throughout the year.

:)
 
webmatthijs said:
looks like a cheap touch screen computer they use in museums. if he took the foto's why didn't he include the apple logo to make it official.

i think i like the old one better. :)

I agree.. I wish Apple willl stick with the "white" and turn to "cube" a little...
 
i'm not to impressed with the form factor to be honest, i was a lot more excited by the idea of a G5 cube. I've got a million monitors, i don't want to shell out for another
 
Right now I'm leaning towards calling the pics fakes - mainly because of a gut feeling imparted by where the Apple logo is placed on the LCD bezel in the pics: top centre. The new & previous Cinema Displays and other Apple products like iMacs and the eMac have the logo placed at bottom-centre. Anyway, it's only days until we find out what the new iMac really looks like...
 
My speculation

Putting aside all of the fuzzy sasquach iMac photo's and the like...


I do recall a few months ago (maybe longer) saying that a useful desktop form factor would be an LCD flatpanel "All in One" iMac implimentation:

...think "Pizza Box" design that's stood upright and has the LCD integrated onto the side.

Technologically, this would be very easy to do -- the total form factor need be no bigger than a laptop with the screen flipped over, "tablet" style.

The only "problem" with doing this with an iMac is in the commonly greater cost for laptop miniaturization components, but that's not really as big of a problem as you might think: they already buy this stuff for their laptops, so having the iMac use it too gives them increased economy of scale - - for every dollar it increases the cost of the iMac, it probably saves a dollar off the cost of their laptops. Besides, between a likely 20" LCD screen and the realative ease of adding an extra 1/2" - 1" of thickness to the pizza box, you have significantly more case volume than inside a laptop to put in a couple of cheaper-but-bigger components, such as a 3.5" hard drive.


As such, I'd not be at all surprised to see the new iMac go into this general form factor, which is what these pictures seem to be trying to infer....if you want a catchy name for it, its not the "headless iMac", but rather the "bottomless iMac".


...and I'll even go out on a limb and say that it's possible that just such an iMac design could be carrying the future Powerbook G5 motherboard, once again for simplified and streamlined parts management to keep costs down. Just one more thing to think about...


-hh
 
Brian Haworth said:
He claims that several were in simple boxes like this and he did not have to unwrap anything.

it might be truth, but I highly doubt it. why wouldn't they have anything covering them when apple's not shipping even any "normal" products like that :p it's fishy indeed. I guess we'll see soon enough.
 
Sharewaredemon said:
Who was it who posted that they would eat their socks if (insert rumor here) came true about two months ago? I think it had to do with g5's being released at wwdc after g5 being released a week or two before?

Rumors are fun.
neatgekko
 
More reasons its a fake

I saw these a few days ago and had a look at them in photoshop. If you zoom right in on the apple logo on the box there are some strange patterns/reflections around the edge of the apple logo. After thinking that it was photoshopped in for a while, I realised its just one of the apple stickers that come in the box with a mac!

My theory is that its a plain black box with an apple sticker on the side, and something that fits some of the more popular rumours masquerading as the iMac.

-Ash
 
LeeTom said:
Everyone, say "Welcome" to the new iMac, or possibly a mountable computer that will not be called the iMac. I think it will be the former.
To all of you that say "this is a hoax", you're going to eat those words in about 3 days.

I, for one, think it is awesome, and will definitely pick one up.

Lee Tom

it's not that I think it's ugly. It's pretty nice actually. I still don't see this coming. however, this iMac (artist rendition) seems pretty cool I think:

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it's pretty B&Oish though, so I don't think anything like this is coming out either.

Jonathan Ive must have a fascinating job! working on top secret ART projects :D
 
NOT real, and here is the proof...

Ok, Sorry to burst everyones fun bubble, (but the thing is ugly anyway, whatever it is), but here is an enlargement (That I did not doctor) of the so called "imac". As anyone can see, the Apple symbol that is applied on the side of the box is COMPLETLEY an add-on. You can see this by the difference in the pixels surrounding the apple and how their texture is different from the texture on teh box. It provides a nice little edge that is only distinguishible when you zoom in to see it. (a VERY poor job at digital photo manipulation...whoever dids this needs some real Photoshop lesons...if they even used Photoshop) Granted, this only proves that the box is a fake, but the chances of the item within it being phony are now greatly increased....I'll take bets with anyone on it.

So, let's stop this silly discussion about some fool who took a picture of some box with some square thing in it. Open the file for yourselves, examine the apple symbols, (and other mistakes as well which I wont mention) and start talking about things that might actually have some validity to them.

...and NO, it's not the sticker. Since when do their stikers have straight edges?
 

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LeeTom said:
Everyone, say "Welcome" to the new iMac...

To all of you that say "this is a hoax", you're going to eat those words in about 3 days.

Ummm... I want to believe! ..... ? ..... :rolleyes: I'd put a $20 down that this is not the new iMac. There's way too much evidence that this is just a hoax. Relax buddy.
 
webmatthijs said:
can anyone tell me what that thing is the red arrow is pointing to?



it looks like some kind of cd drive or so.[/QUOTE]

Looks like a shadow to me. :D
 
I really wish they could keep the floating screen-arm-base design of the current G4. That thing is stunning. The all-in-one vertical pizzabox design seems too... obvious.

I'm all for introducing iPod mini type colors, though!
 
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