i hope they don't get rid of the 17" imac, shoot i wish they'd make a super sleek 13" imac mini for the living room or kitchen
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iMac Revision and iLife on August 7th?
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I've got a 13" iMac but its the opposite of super sleek.... its a CRT G3! Muhahaha!
Pretty pointless on a desktop. The amount of power saved for a laptop is a lot. For a desktop? Meh.
They damn well better not loose the wheel. Gestures are useless if you want to use your iPod one handed.
Greener, better backlighting consistency (no dark patches), less heat, lower power is always better
The wheel is good, but if they want a big widescreen it's going to have to go. Apple have never let sentimentality, or cutting a good feature get in the way of progress/better/the next big thing.
Greener is relative. The amount of power being consumed by the display is marginal.
Again they better not or I will pick up a current gen iPod and buy something else for video. I spend 80% of my day in the car. When I'm at a stoplight I want to scroll to an album and select it one handed while keeping an eye on the light and one hand on the wheel.
When it has been 11 MONTHS since it has updated the product. Think of how much prices have gone down in the last 11 months on the components in the iMac, yet Apple is selling these iMacs at the same retail price. Apple is making quite a large profit on these iMacs and could easily introduce a better model and sell it for less $.
What's wrong with setting the iPodWide down first? You can do that 1 handed.
I just got an invitation for an in-house exhibition from my local mac dealer in Germany on Aug 17th. In the same conversation I asked him about his opinion about new Imacs (as I plan to buy several IMacs for my advertising agency as soon as possible). He told me that I really should wait and that there's a good reason why his in-house exhibition takes place on 17th of August. Then he smiled and said that he wouldn't plan such an exhibition event if there were no new attractions.
So, that was my (true) story I experienced today.
So, that was my (true) story I experienced today.
Being greener is not all about saving power. The LED displays get rid of mercury, which has been the biggest downside to CCFL backlights.
Steve jobs quoted that all new displays will be LED within a year, so why not add them into a major redesign. Especially if you can make your enclosure thinner and sleeker by incorporating them.
iLife/Leopard
In my mind Apple is SURE to include the new iLife suite with Leopard, but that's just me.
In my mind Apple is SURE to include the new iLife suite with Leopard, but that's just me.
I think that's just you. The current iLife is included with new Macs, not with the operating system updates -- they may have done it once, but its been a long time. It's sold as a separate product.
But Germany might get them after, say, the U.S., either because of different release dates or longer shipping times. Plus, are you sure he said seventeenth (siebzehnte?) and not seventh (siebente)? They sound similar in both English and German, whichever he spoke to you in.
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