iMac Photos?

[Coca-Cola]

same series (backside)

 

[npm]

not a new iMac

Somone here or on AI suggested this explanation to the white box.
It is another early apple LCD. I got this pic from everymac.com.

However, you never know, it could be back to the future...

edit: just beaten to it.

 

[GroundLoop]

Somone here or on AI suggested this explanation to the white box.
It is another early apple LCD. I got this pic from everymac.com.

However, you never know, it could be back to the future...

edit: just beaten to it.

It isn't that LCD either though. If you take a closer look at the white box, you can see that the arm reaching up to the flat panel is angled. All of the LCDs that are being suggested do not exhibit this angular trait.

Hickman

 

[TMA]

Somone here or on AI suggested this explanation to the white box.
It is another early apple LCD. I got this pic from everymac.com.

However, you never know, it could be back to the future...

edit: just beaten to it.

Spot on! I spent a while looking for a picture but could only get the charcoal one, I didn't look around on everymac hard enough I guess.

 

[JtheLemur]

I doubt much of that image would have been photoshop'd. If you look at the reflections in the screen they show the styrofoam of the box at different angles and also of the elevator's surrounding. That would be difficult to photoshop, so I would say the picture is ligit.

OH GOD. The stuff in the pic was setup in the elevator, using some LCD screen, in some Apple box. It was THEN PHOTOSHOPPED, adding a new little Apple logo and greying-out the white sides. Get it?

 

[TMA]

It isn't that LCD either though. If you take a closer look at the white box, you can see that the arm reaching up to the flat panel is angled. All of the LCDs that are being suggested do not exhibit this angular trait.

Hickman

Err angle? Surely you mean perspective? From where i'm sitting the images match perfectly.

Edit: Added images. Ok not perfectly but enough for me to be convinced.

 

[GroundLoop]

Err angle? Surely you mean perspective? From where i'm sitting the images match perfectly.

Could be a perspective issue. Does anyone have that monitor in their home to try to match the perspective? But the arm on the white box is steeply angled where the older LCD seems to be more vertical.

Hickman

 

[themacman]

Cool

ehh i guess its ok, i was kinda hoping a cooler version of the old one except you can mount it on the wall, and it has two peices. Did anyone think that a new powerbook G5 possibility if this g5 is that small?
Of course it would be in like october,november but still

 

[rendezvouscp]

Wow, so much rumour flying around. Well, the first pic was a really bad fake. The second is surely real, but I don't think that is an iMac unless–

1. It's now aluminum.
2. The display is similar to the new cinema's.
3. The base is box like, or like a elongated pyramid with the top cut off.

I really don't think that either are the new iMac. I hope not, because Apple usually has better style (at least considering the first pic).
–Chase

 

[TMA]

I'll put £10 down that the following are true:

1/ 'Pizza Box' mac in a lift = Some other/generic LCD with an Apple logo stuck on top. OR an Apple customised LCD TV for playing promotional material like iPod adverts. The box is a powerbook box - hence why we are not being shown much of the box (so we can't see the images) The whole thing seems too 'bland' and smells funny.

2/ White box on the show floor. As i've said in other posts I think its one of Apple's old displays. Either that or a different non-Apple LCD. Why would Apple be so careless to put something like that on public display whilst putting all their other stuff in crates?

 

[GroundLoop]

I'll put £10 down that the following are true:

1/ 'Pizza Box' mac in a lift = Some other/generic LCD with an Apple logo stuck on top. OR an Apple customised LCD TV for playing promotional material like iPod adverts. The box is a powerbook box - hence why we are not being shown much of the box (so we can't see the images) The whole thing seems too 'bland' and smells funny.

2/ White box on the show floor. As i've said in other posts I think its one of Apple's old displays. Either that or a different non-Apple LCD. Why would Apple be so careless to put something like that on public display whilst putting all their other stuff in crates?

Deep down, I agree with you. I am starting to think that the white box is a thrid-party LCD. I just wish that we could figure out which one it is. I really do hope that the white box is not the new iMac.

Hickman

 

[Doga]

Why would Apple be so careless to put something like that on public display whilst putting all their other stuff in crates?

I don't think it was on public display - it's one of those moments where carelessness gives someone a chance to see something they shouldn't, even if it's just for a moment. To my eye it looks as if the person who took the pic, or their accomplice, is holding open a privacy curtain on the left hand side of the picture.

I don't believe that's one of Apple's older displays discussed earlier in this thread, as the packaging didn't look like that back when they were current if I recall correctly. Also, that white box is a fair size, way larger than a box for a display.

I agree with the speculation that the elevator pics are merely of a video display that'll be used in an exhibit somewhere.

 

[mvc]

Looks about right to me.

Somone here or on AI suggested this explanation to the white box.
It is another early apple LCD. I got this pic from everymac.com.

However, you never know, it could be back to the future...

edit: just beaten to it.

I reckon this early LCD could be it.

Isn't that box like the style of box we had around the time of the original iMacs? When was this old Apple monitor released, 98, 99, something similar? And IIRC the boxes were always way oversized.

So it could be just an old box from an old monitor, on the show floor in 2004 because its just full of cables and stuff. We all reuse old boxes.

But then, I don't want that white box image to be the new iMac, so I could be biased.

 

[shyataroo]

did it occur to you guys that the pictures could be of the iMac g5? and that the iMac is now a tablet computer? ( A g5 in a tablet would be pointless I know...but it would demostrate that the G5 is ready soon for laptops)

 

[sockeatingdryer]

i'm pretty sure this is a hoax. first of all, Apple ships their products wrapped in brown post packages (I know because I worked the summer at a reseller). So, if this guy would have opened the box, he would actually first have had to open the brown box, then this one. There's loads of tape to open there.. so he would have gotten caught for sure, and no one's stupid enough to take that risk.

second of all, as some think, this isn't a cinema display. They have the apple logo on the bottom of the screen, and they're thinner. So my guess is someone has been photoshopping a little bit.

Mine didn't come in a plain brown post package. In fact, I was worried because they put an eMac box on my front porch <i>while</i> I was gone. I know they ship software in plain brown, but my eMac didn't. Nor my iMac in '98.

 

[beetle]

Check out the Apple logo!

Thanks for the picture.
N.b., the Apple logo is at the top of the screen. The cinema displays have it at the bottom.

 

[rendezvouscp]

Mine didn't come in a plain brown post package. In fact, I was worried because they put an eMac box on my front porch <i>while</i> I was gone. I know they ship software in plain brown, but my eMac didn't. Nor my iMac in '98.

No no, they ship to you in their boxes, but when they have them in numbers (ie, transferring them), they ship in brown boxes.
–Chase

 

[fredwick]

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.

apple logos at the top

 

[cubist]

did it occur to you guys that the pictures could be of the iMac g5? and that the iMac is now a tablet computer? ...

Not only that, but it's also a new Newton, and the base is the new Cube. You can use it as a remote for your Airport Express, or put it on top of your TV to use it as a Pippin. New Quicktakes and Laserwriters are coming too. I'm excited. (edit) Actually it's the new eMate.

 

[GroundLoop]

No no, they ship to you in their boxes, but when they have them in numbers (ie, transferring them), they ship in brown boxes.
–Chase

My 15" PowerBook was shipped in a very thin brown box that covered the normal black box. That was back in March. I am assuming that they only do that with the smaller boxes and that most desktop computers are delivered in their original packaging. (That has been my experience anyway).

Hickman

 

[Stella]

The so called 'photo shop' experts are here.


HELLO... you fake 'photoshop experts' haven't a clue.. really, you don't, you've been wrong about crying 'fakes' more times than you've been correct.

WRONG - G4 TOWERS 'fake'
WRONG - iPod pictures
WRONG - Tiger pictures
WRONG - Panther pictures

You lot obviously have too much time to spare...

Go and Get a life. Really.

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?

 

[Squire]

either a monitor box (they do have other companies at the expo... or a box from an OLD school apple lcd display...before the cinema display. i also don't think that looks like apple photography... and they would have a better sense of balance on a package than to have all that white space to one side and no text or anything..

not it either... also, it would be to top heavy if all a computers components were cramme dinto teh top and then suspended from a neck

I disagree. I just took a look at my 17" iMac (not too closely, mind you, because there's a lot of crap in storage around it) and there are large sections of white on at least one side. As far as it being too heavy, I think a lot of you are underestimating the size of the base. To me, it doesn't appear that there are two angled legs but rather a sloping dome shape. Finally, compared to the size of my iMac box, that box looks huge!

I don't think it was on public display - it's one of those moments where carelessness gives someone a chance to see something they shouldn't, even if it's just for a moment. To my eye it looks as if the person who took the pic, or their accomplice, is holding open a privacy curtain on the left hand side of the picture.

I don't believe that's one of Apple's older displays discussed earlier in this thread, as the packaging didn't look like that back when they were current if I recall correctly. Also, that white box is a fair size, way larger than a box for a display.

I agree with the speculation that the elevator pics are merely of a video display that'll be used in an exhibit somewhere.

I agree totally here.

Squire

 

[Doga]

Seeing that low-res picture of the white box, and assuming that it IS the new G5 iMac box, makes me think that Apple has preserved most if not all of the G4 iMac's display adjustability in the new G5 version. The guts of the computer will be behind the LCD, which is mounted on an adjustable control arm attached to a whomping big base, which itself will house the speakers.

 

[zelmo]

No no, they ship to you in their boxes, but when they have them in numbers (ie, transferring them), they ship in brown boxes.
–Chase

Every Mac I've bought from a reseller [4 of them] shipped in the Mac box w/o wrapper. The PB I bought from the Apple webstore shipped with a brown wrapper.

 

[Freg3000]

The so called 'photo shop' experts are here.


HELLO... you fake 'photoshop experts' haven't a clue.. really, you don't, you've been wrong about crying 'fakes' more times than you've been correct.

WRONG - G4 TOWERS 'fake'
WRONG - iPod pictures
WRONG - Tiger pictures
WRONG - Panther pictures

You lot obviously have too much time to spare...

Go and Get a life. Really.

Very true. Most of these "Photoshop Experts" seem to know very little and throw around the "FAKE!" word around too lightly when a few pixels are out of line.