+100%. Reviewers can’t resist sticking in their personal biases, like the guy who wrote this review started off by questioning the colors, then begrudgingly admits everybody he knows are excited by the colors.
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M1 iMac Reviews: Impressively Fast With Long-Awaited Redesign
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"waaaaa! I'm such a Pro! I need black bezels on an entry level computer I'd never buy!"
Yeah let's have a bunch of easter egg computers all year long. Terrible. Terrible. TERRIBLE colors.
One significant reason I like desktop over laptop: I hate the praying mantis posture you have to adopt to use the keyboard. That and the small screen.
For mobility, if I need it, I have an iPad (and I am speaking only for myself). Otherwise I love my iMac. And it looks like they took everything I liked and made it even better.
For mobility, if I need it, I have an iPad (and I am speaking only for myself). Otherwise I love my iMac. And it looks like they took everything I liked and made it even better.
If the chin was removed and the bezels were black then it would just look like any monitor. They want it to look like an iMac. I don’t think people fully appreciate the importance of the chin.
I bet you’re really fun at dinner parties. I really dig the new design, and am going to buy one. Colors are fun and not for any specific gender or age. It’s still a computer. If you hate it so much then…just don’t buy one?
While I love the deep, saturated colors on the back and sides... you never really see the back and sides of a desktop. You look at the front, though, and they've gone with light, pastel "baby" colors for the chin and a white bezel. I'd rather just have the body color or even a darker variant on the front with a black bezel.
And for all the talk of how the chin is an essential piece of iMac design, so too is the black bezel for as long as they've had the chin.
I'm sure it's a good computer overall, and I actually find the 24" display size to be very good for general use. I have both a 24" and 27" and I think I prefer the 24" unless I'm working with many windows.
And for all the talk of how the chin is an essential piece of iMac design, so too is the black bezel for as long as they've had the chin.
I'm sure it's a good computer overall, and I actually find the 24" display size to be very good for general use. I have both a 24" and 27" and I think I prefer the 24" unless I'm working with many windows.
That's a good point -- the edges are much thicker which is where the perception of thinness is most noticeable.
I'd also say that if you just look at that photo, it looks a little bit childish with the pastel + white front. How nice would it look in a saturated red all around (including base and chin) with black bezels? Lordy.
Wait.... so you're saying Orange is the new Apple?
Now take a look at 2:10 to see which looks thinner (and better), the image speaks by itself.
Are you kidding me about the performance? My M1 Mac Mini is faster than my 2019 i9 iMac. And Max reported it’s better than his $15,000 Mac Pro. Does my mom need more performance than that?!
Exactly this! They want it to be readily recognizable which it would not be if it were just a near bezel-less display.
The chin is still the best place for the components. Putting them right up against the hot screen, it will compound the heat and make the SoC hotter and cause a different cooling solution needed.
So in this case, making it thicker would be just making it thicker.
So in this case, making it thicker would be just making it thicker.
Now it’s becoming overwhelming with 24” IMac reviews on YouTube. Want one that shows all the colors here you go.
I liked this one from a photographer or film perspective.
I liked this one from a photographer or film perspective.
That does it! That looks fantastic! I WANT THAT FREAKIN‘ GREEN IMAC!!
I was prepared to accept Silver, and having seen the Yellow I really like that too, but that Green is effin’ cool!
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I think I mentioned this before, but I like the colors more on the iMac than when we first saw them on the recently release iPhone cases.
I probably would not an all-in-one desktop at this point in life, but I'd be really attracted to these if I were.
BTW: My G4 iMac 17 has vertical height adjustment for the screen...... It is possible.
I probably would not an all-in-one desktop at this point in life, but I'd be really attracted to these if I were.
BTW: My G4 iMac 17 has vertical height adjustment for the screen...... It is possible.
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These look terrible to me = tacky. I don't think the design will age well.
*moves away to sit in the corner by myself*
*moves away to sit in the corner by myself*
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I don't know mullets and bell-bottom jeans seem to have had a lot of staying power... in terms of mockery.
Interesting tidbit: the lower-end config has just a single fan and heatsink, whereas the middle and upper-tier models have the dual fans and a heat pipe.
It’s like those last few years where they still had 16gb entry level iPhones that jumped to 64gb on the next level… just smoke and mirrors. They want people to get suckered into the mid-tier.