I guess the desktop computer is truly dead, or at least on life support.
The new iPad on a stick, er iMac, is literally a footnote in the hoopla of the new Apple products, which feature iPads and even a MBP over the iMac.
And the all-in-one? what's the point? You put it on a diet and it becomes either a monitor, a laptop or a tablet. Tell me why anyone would want one. Even as a design statement it's rather archaic (and I noticed there are no shots of it's heinie in Apple propaganda...looks like the diet was only partially successful). When you've got a 28" of glowing blob and a keyboard and mouse on a desk a few millimeters in cross section doesn't matter much. And Thunderbolt cables? Ugly. I really thought Apple was gonna leave these dinosaurs for MS's touch screen Windows 8 boxes.
And if you are a form-follows-function kinda person? Another fail. No hackability, no upgrading, except externally. I'd rather have an industrial steam punk-looking towerish thing; at least I could fix it.
Maybe they'll find uses as cash registers or starter computers for your shut-in grandparents.
Rob
The new iPad on a stick, er iMac, is literally a footnote in the hoopla of the new Apple products, which feature iPads and even a MBP over the iMac.
And the all-in-one? what's the point? You put it on a diet and it becomes either a monitor, a laptop or a tablet. Tell me why anyone would want one. Even as a design statement it's rather archaic (and I noticed there are no shots of it's heinie in Apple propaganda...looks like the diet was only partially successful). When you've got a 28" of glowing blob and a keyboard and mouse on a desk a few millimeters in cross section doesn't matter much. And Thunderbolt cables? Ugly. I really thought Apple was gonna leave these dinosaurs for MS's touch screen Windows 8 boxes.
And if you are a form-follows-function kinda person? Another fail. No hackability, no upgrading, except externally. I'd rather have an industrial steam punk-looking towerish thing; at least I could fix it.
Maybe they'll find uses as cash registers or starter computers for your shut-in grandparents.
Rob