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MacMinute claims new iMac on TIME cover

Re: Bandit

Originally posted by burger011
Look at the cover photo....is it me or are there no cables/wires between the two. After reading the article, I got the feeling these (hub and LCD) 2 separate things.

Also, look at the bigger photo, it looks like a poll rather then a hook between the 2....
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From the article:
"But instead of taking up precious desk space like a typical flat monitor, the iMac's screen floats in the air, attached to a jointed, chrome-pipe neck. ... The chrome neck is articulated and bends while maintaining the angle of the screen; it connects to the computer, an improbably small hemisphere at 26.4 cm in diameter-somewhat bigger than a halved cantaloupe."

As I said it is connected by the arm.
 
sorry to disturb all the fun but...

I'm real sorry that it's kind of off the topic, but I live in Japan, and they are saying the Keynote starts at 9AM..
how many more hours is that?
I'd REALLY appreciate, because I have to get my puny dial up 56k modem running steady with my ibook...

Thanks sooooo much.
yours truly iapple (a teenager in Japan)

NOW about the deal..iMac...
GREAT! That's my reaction. yes it did look wierd and terrible at the beginning I agree.. but after looking closely at it (not just that crappy 1inch time cover thumbnail!), I agree with apple. The design is new, and don't mind if i say revolutionary. I mean, where have you seen a computer that has a "arm" that conects the moniter to the computer??? Like a spaceshuttle???
I'm sure he has some clever way of handling the wires, and the superdrive tray.
As the digital hub, the iMac needs to be simple, small, so that there is room for the other devices to connect to it!

I think one of the best newses is that the consumers finally have the power of the G4, hinting the presense of a VERY fast G4 or even a G5 shortly..
I can't imagine Apple having the pro line almost the same speed as the consumer imac. I think we ca expect SPEED from the powermac, maybe not this mwsf, but certainly soon.
 
Re: sorry to disturb all the fun but...

Originally posted by iapple
I'm real sorry that it's kind of off the topic, but I live in Japan, and they are saying the Keynote starts at 9AM..
how many more hours is that?
I'd REALLY appreciate, because I have to get my puny dial up 56k modem running steady with my ibook...

Thanks sooooo much.
yours truly iapple (a teenager in Japan)
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Well, it is 1:51AM here in Vancouver, Canada. And the keynote is at 9AM, so about 7 hours.

Hope this helps.
 
Re: Re: sorry to disturb all the fun but...

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Well, it is 1:51AM here in Vancouver, Canada. And the keynote is at 9AM, so about 7 hours.

Hope this helps. [/B][/QUOTE]

Thanks so much!
 
Re: Re: Re: Concerning Detachment

Originally posted by paulwhannel
Originally posted by ThorPrime


I'm not saying the screen is detachable but it DOES NOT need a hard drive/Ram/Processor. Just an airport connection to drive the monitor remotely.
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*laughs and laughs and laughs*

You go right ahead with that idea... Just think about how damn ZIPPY a computer would be with an Airport system bus! Okay starting from the beginning:

-A processor is needed to *drive* the Airport card in the iPad
-Airport isn't fast enough to handle the processor, let alone the processor, hard drive, RAM, etc, blah
-Technology to *make* Airport fast enough to do these things would REVOLUTIONIZE the wireless world... It's the IEEE 802.11b Wireless standard, understand, and there has been no signifigant speed increase in that standard since it was created
-such a device, if it *was* physically possible, would cost many many thousands of dollars... Forget breaking the Cube cost, it would break the original TAM cost!
[/B]
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I don't think it's detachable, but your reasoning is flawed. AirPort is more than fast enough for a VNC client. It's just the DISPLAY that would be necessary, and the display under OS X is PDF. Since the graphics are all vector based and there ARE hooks in the OS for remote display (see mac vnc client) it COULD be done. Not that it makes any sense to waste an AirPort connection on a display. If they would make a removeable display, it would probably use something simpler than tcp/ip over 802.11. tcp/ip is too heavy a protocol. Sure they could use udp or a proprietary protocol over 802.11, but wouldn't it be simpler to use a scaled down wireless connection designed for detachable displays?
 
The design is nice, clean and in line with the rest of the snow white product line. And if they could make everything fit into a cube, why shouldn't it fit into this? If it could be picked, wouldn't they say it in the article then? I think the different models are more or less the same except for the optical drive, as with the ibook. I still think we'll see dodecahedron metal case Apollos (or MAYBE G5's but i doubt it) though. A High-End line in titanium all over and the rest in white, does that make sense?
 
The War Against The x86 Drones

The margins of market share are won and lost on the battlefields of "mindshare"...

Now is the time to take the battle to MS and show them that Windows is garbage for people who want to be creative, productive, energetic, youthful or inspired!

In the same way that O-B-L should be locked up and the key should be thrown away, all the product keys for Windows should be thrown away with all the clunky PCs they come on, never to be seen in the light of day again.

I challenge all Mac users to prove just how inadequate Windows is compared to the Mac. For those who complain about Aqua, then your memories of Windows' history is short, or you've forgotten how long it took to get a threaded UI on top of NT 3.1 (9 years - aka XP), or how long it took to get rid of DOS (16 years) or how long it took to get new icons for FreeCell, MS Paint and all those other lovely staples of the "Windows Experience" (9 years).

The Mozilla/Netscape 6.x project is going into its sixth year, but Mac users fret about where the Dock resides and what it interferes with. This is short-sighted and a waste of time.

... and that is the point every Mac user should be pounding their Windows counterparts with every chance they get! Windows anything will cost them time (as in days and weeks out of their lives, wasted on nothing more than endless reboots, service pack installs, virus definition updates, printer driver problems and last but not least, endless talk of the newest P4 that will make their current P4/AMD system obsolete 3 months after they bought it. Oh... and did I forget the idiots in tech support at PC manufacturers who ASSUME everyone is as dumb and blind as they are, willing to pay $$$ and hours trying to figure out why Windows XP won't rip CBR MP3 files?

... Think Different
... Be Different
... Pound Windows Now!!!
 
Big Mistake

Oh dear!

The iMac2 design looks horrible. A wireless keyboard and mouse must be part of the package.

I hope Time get sued though.. . Apple forgot the golden rule... 'Never trust a journalist'.

 
Re: Re: Re: Re: Concerning Detachment

Originally posted by i_did

I don't think it's detachable, but your reasoning is flawed. AirPort is more than fast enough for a VNC client. It's just the DISPLAY that would be necessary, and the display under OS X is PDF. Since the graphics are all vector based and there ARE hooks in the OS for remote display (see mac vnc client) it COULD be done. Not that it makes any sense to waste an AirPort connection on a display. If they would make a removeable display, it would probably use something simpler than tcp/ip over 802.11. tcp/ip is too heavy a protocol. Sure they could use udp or a proprietary protocol over 802.11, but wouldn't it be simpler to use a scaled down wireless connection designed for detachable displays? [/B]
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I see your point, and yes my reasoning was in fact flawed, in as much as all of the system bus would be housed in the base. Don't quite know what i was thinking, i stand corrected. Although the subject is dead, i do point out that FCC regulations require that Airport be a minimum of 20 inches from all other antennas (and people), so when the display was on the unit, the Airport connections would be too close together for FCC compliance. Just a technicality. But theoretically a scaled down version of Airport might work around this (another possible intention of AirSurf, i might add).. There would still have to be some sort of processor controlling input/output - video and pen/keyboard in the pad, correct? I'm just plain curious now.... Okay maybe I should just drop it 😉

Apologies all around for my misguided snap 🙂

And yeah, I'll register... later 😉
 
It's beautiful!

I liked one of Gateway's all-in-ones that is similar to this, but used really crappy parts. I'm glad they didn't use the modified Apple Display mock-up versions people thought they would, since those displays are ugly.

This will sell like crazy, and I still hope for G5s....
 
Re: I think its a hoax!

Originally posted by venom72
Maybe I'm the only one noticing this, but there are a couple of issues at hand with this "early release":

1. All of the other issues (i.e. Asia, pacific, europe) have a web address of http://www.time.com/time/asia , etc

there is no such cananda address.

instead we get timecanada. There may be a law, but laws can be broken.

2. Looks like either it is a cut and paste job, or time canada needs to hire a new web designer, as there are obvious aliasing issues around "TIME" on the timecanada's homepage. Also, the time sites have "time" and then a large ASIA, etc, by it. different designer JUST for Canada's site?

3. Many links on the site return you to time US or are "coming soon". Pretty unprofessional for time-warner, right?

4. OK, I realize that I am probably an idiot conspiracy theory sort of guy, but I wouldn't expect any less from some of the people out there with too much time on their hands, or even a mac publicist having fun with a discarded prototype. With all the recent hype, iwalk drove me nutz, and if this is a fake, its an even better one, but don't rule out the possibilty.

Just food for thought.
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NOW!? What about this?



Registrant:
Time Inc. New Media (TIMECANADA-DOM)
1271 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10020
US

Domain Name: TIMECANADA.COM

Administrative Contact:
Domain Administration (PD288-ORG) domain_admin@TIMEINC.NET
Time Inc. Internet Technologies
212-522-9565
Fax- 212-522-9514
Technical Contact:
Domain Operations (PD287-ORG) domain_tech@TIMEINC.NET
Time Inc. Internet Technologies
212-522-9565
Fax- 212-522-9514
Billing Contact:
idNames, Accounting (IA90-ORG) accounting@IDNAMES.COM
idNames from Network Solutions, Inc
440 Benmar
Suite #3325
Houston, TX 77060
US
703-742-4777
Fax- - 281-447-1160

Record last updated on 20-Sep-2001.
Record expires on 15-Dec-2002.
Record created on 15-Dec-1998.
Database last updated on 6-Jan-2002 20:46:00 EST.

Domain servers in listed order:

DNS-03.NS.AOL.COM 152.163.159.238
DNS-04.NS.AOL.COM 205.188.157.238


Geez!
 
Re: timecanada.com

Originally posted by tadpole
hey guys when you run whois for both Time.com and Timecanada.com, you get two different host servers, not even remotely related. If it is truly the same corporation they would usually outsource their stuff to the same serving entity. http://www.TIMECANADA.COM is served by AOL. This reeks of a hoax.
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THIS IS TIME.com

Registrant:
Time Inc. Magazine (TIME-DOM)
Time + Life Building
1271 Ave of the Americas
Rockefeller Center
New York, NY 10020

Domain Name: TIME.COM

Administrative Contact:
Domain Administration (PD288-ORG) domain_admin@TIMEINC.NET
Time Inc. Internet Technologies
212-522-9565
Fax- 212-522-9514
Technical Contact:
Domain Operations (PD287-ORG) domain_tech@TIMEINC.NET
Time Inc. Internet Technologies
212-522-9565
Fax- 212-522-9514
Billing Contact:
idNames, Accounting (IA90-ORG) accounting@IDNAMES.COM
idNames from Network Solutions, Inc
440 Benmar
Suite #3325
Houston, TX 77060
US
703-742-4777
Fax- - 281-447-1160

Record last updated on 21-Nov-2001.
Record expires on 20-Nov-2003.
Record created on 19-Nov-1993.
Database last updated on 6-Jan-2002 20:46:00 EST.

Domain servers in listed order:

NS.PATHFINDER.COM 209.251.208.19
NS2.PATHFINDER.COM 209.251.208.20

AND CANADA FINALY:



Registrant:
Time Inc. New Media (TIMECANADA-DOM)
1271 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10020
US

Domain Name: TIMECANADA.COM

Administrative Contact:
Domain Administration (PD288-ORG) domain_admin@TIMEINC.NET
Time Inc. Internet Technologies
212-522-9565
Fax- 212-522-9514
Technical Contact:
Domain Operations (PD287-ORG) domain_tech@TIMEINC.NET
Time Inc. Internet Technologies
212-522-9565
Fax- 212-522-9514
Billing Contact:
idNames, Accounting (IA90-ORG) accounting@IDNAMES.COM
idNames from Network Solutions, Inc
440 Benmar
Suite #3325
Houston, TX 77060
US
703-742-4777
Fax- - 281-447-1160

Record last updated on 20-Sep-2001.
Record expires on 15-Dec-2002.
Record created on 15-Dec-1998.
Database last updated on 6-Jan-2002 20:46:00 EST.

Domain servers in listed order:

DNS-03.NS.AOL.COM 152.163.159.238
DNS-04.NS.AOL.COM 205.188.157.238



 
#1. Design looks terrible.
#2. Apple def. should sue Time
#3. Perhaps the suit will = $$$ cause these iMacs2 look bad
#4. Lets hope Apple rolls out A LOT more than this today
 
Happy new year.

I'm back, this forum is not complete without my comments.

The iMac looks fine, lets see the show first.

For all of you that want to buy one right now, I recomend you to wait at list 3 more monts.

The first production always comes with defects, specially with that arm holding the LCD, whait for others to test the unit first and whait for the revisions.
 
Hmmm...ROCK & ROLL!!

Hi group;

Two TV-related notes here ...

1. Lou Dobbs MoneyLine on CNN has Steve Jobs as a guest tonight at 6PM EST. They're running spots for it now, showing Jobs with the new iMac.

2. Hmmm... maybe Jobs' new friendship with Dean Kamen (the guy who invented the Segway HT uberscooter AND also the guy behind the popular Robot Wars TV series with all the little R/C killer robots fighting) has had more of an effect than anyone thought.

The new CyberiMac probably has a remote-control / wireless keyboard (?), so stick some skateboard wheels, a battering ram and DVD-slot flame thrower on that baby and you are ready to
*** KICK SOME PC ROBOT ASS!!!!!!!! ***

🙂
 
Give Steve a chance!

Originally posted by mymemory
I'm back, this forum is not complete without my comments.

The iMac looks fine, lets see the show first.

For all of you that want to buy one right now, I recomend you to wait at list 3 more monts.

The first production always comes with defects, specially with that arm holding the LCD, whait for others to test the unit first and whait for the revisions.
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Good point. that arm does look a little frimzy... if you know what I mean. And honestly, i think the thing looks better than it seems from those TIME photos. Let JOBS introduce it. Don't let some crummy TIME journalist introduce the new iMac with orrible photos!

Give Steve a chance

By the way, how much longer do we have to wait? (remember? I'm the Japan guy that's too stupid to work out time differences!) Is it about 2-3 hours to go?

--------------
Steve, every time, I forgive you!
 
surely doesn't look very elegant... i mean a cantaloupe cut in half is fine for a cantaloupe. personally i would have thought that building the compoenents into the back of the display would have been the better route... just about all of it would have been hidden. and you won't be able to repurpose that lcd anyway right? how cool would it be to have 2 flatpanels next to one another... and have people wonder where the computer was 😉

perhaps this is a scam... but it's looking to be real.

"way beyond the rumor sites" ?

i think we have been discussing flat panel iMac for a very long time... so what could Apple be talking about? it sure isn't iPhoto.... it isn't this iMac everyone knew was coming out (lcd orders), it isn't even Winblows usage of the iPod (we knew about that already by visiting iPodhack.com)...

if its not the iWalk, and it's not G4s at around 1.6Ghz, and it's not g5s... did Apple set itself up for another letdown? i mean, we have been talking about a set-top Apple dvd player too...

who knows... i hope that my eyes tear up with lust today and Apple really suprises us all with some kick-ass stuff. i know the economy isn't great... but Apple has hyped the hell out of this one themselves. bring it on Apple!!! 😉
 
Decoy

That ugly monstrosity has got to be a decoy. Apple/Jobs have gone out of their way in the past to distract us MacGeeks from the real products. They've been taunting us all last week, this is no different.
 
YES IT'S TRUE!!!

I live in Toronto, Canada and I actually saw the cover of Time with the new iMac this morning. IT IS TRUE!!! I didn't have the opportunity to read the entire article so I can't confirm any specs or prices, but I must say that it looks far better in the print photos than on the web... the crome arm is actually really cool. You'll all see very, very soon.

BTW, it is being promoted as the "digital hub" so many of you have been talking about.

 
Time Canada redirects visitors

Does anyone have the actual link to the time canada article on the new imac? timecanada.com now redirects people to time.com 🙁
 
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