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New iMac G5 Announced

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Time to be jealous

Time to be jealous of education buyers again:

17" 1.6 Combo = $1199

17" 1.8 Super = $1399

20" 1.8 Super = $1799

Even at NON-edu pricing these should sell great.

Re GPU: keep asking for more, Apple may listen! I'd like the highest GPU I can get. (Replaceable? Not in that form factor!) But we aren't all hard-core gamers that would care about maxing the detail level on next year's titles without slipping below 60 fps. The iMac G5 is great for current games, and the PowerMac option remains as well. (And why make everyone else pay for a GPU more than they need? I bet Apple knows its iMac market.)

Re RAM: you do want more--I suggest MORE than 512--and get it from OWC etc., don't pay Apple prices. But Apple's not stupid here--they are selling RAM at a profit for them and their resellers. Such is life. Luckily more RAM is cheap.

Re whining: Why not more of it? Seems like everyone's loving the new iMac or giving the design a chance to grow on them. Come on, I know you can do better! Let's hear it: Apple is dead! :)
 
A lot of people on the IRC channel had... strong thoughts on the design.
It took me about 5 minutes to love it already!

So does this make those elavator pics real?
Either way, I can't wait to test them out.
 
TorbX said:
Is it just me, or am I the only one that find resemblance to THIS?

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UH, NO.
 
Chaszmyr said:
Everyone remember... Even if this thing can be mounted on a wall.... You can't mount it flat on a wall because that wuold mean you couldn't use the ports on the back of the computer.

(Which means it is only viable to mount flat on a wall if you have airport, bluetooth, and no need for firewire access)
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True.. but with 54mb/s airport express (not hugely fast, but fast enough to stream video) all I personally would need to do is mount it to the wall above my desk (faces a wall) and that would be that. Maybe throw another drive or two in my server, and I regain basically my whole desk. And realistically, I would want a wall mount that tilts up and down at least a little, so there would still be enough room to plug in a cable.. maybe plug cables into USB and Firewire, run them, and the power cable down a conduit to firewire and usb hubs, and never worry about it again. Could even run them inside the wall, for that matter.. but I am not that obsessive.
 
very impressed with the design although the design kinda shocked me at first.

quit your whining about the RAM, this is a consumer machine designed for internet surfing and it now cost significantly less that the previous generation. whats $50 for another 256, geeze.

my sis bought a 1.25ghz iMac the beginning of this year, im gonna try to convince her to sell that and buy this!
 
Well I love the machine. I won't be buying one but I think it's an amazing design. This announcement was the decider for me 64MB 5200 just won't do; full stop. I was just waiting to see if I could put a good graphics card in a consumer Apple and it's not to be. It's quite a tear really since I've used macs since 1987 but I'm going to build myself a PC box and run linux. And one thing's sure that PC box will have one whopping graphics card that I may decide to UPGRADE in a year or two. I suppose I'm just outside Apple's target market but I'm still torn I can't get one of these.
 
slipper said:
quit your whining about the RAM, this is a consumer machine designed for internet surfing and it now cost significantly less that the previous generation. whats $50 for another 256, geeze.
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Plus a Bluetooth adapter AND BOTH a wireless keyboard AND mouse for $99, Great Deal
 
A+

perfect. wow. even their ad is great, "from the creators of ipod." i'm sure half of you will think that ad is stupid, but it's great. they're using the ipod to introduce the masses to the apple experience. way to go!

i'm glad it's not all aluminum. white is clean. aluminum is cold.

i'm glad the speakers are not visible. it looks ten times cleaner and the times less like a pc with them out of sight. you're not even supposed to use the speakers. you're supposed to use airport express, but apple put in speakers, so we wouldn't say, "it doesn't even have speakers!?"

i'm glad i don't need to buy 512mb of ram from apple.

i'm amazed they kept the price down, and i'm glad they eliminated the 15". every G5 imac is going to be impressive to see, even the low end. wowsers. A+.

this may finally initiate the switch (especially for many happy ipod users).

(and it can be completely wireless. i was hoping for that one!)
 
OMG!

I cannot believe the UK Price points! I am amazed! £1350 inc. VAT for the top model????? wtf?? That is quite simply the most value friendly price I have ever seen! Just going to check out how much its going to be with edu. disc.. (frantically looks for link............finds link..reports...) £1173???? wtf??? dvd burner! 20" tft! an apple product! 160 gig HD! this price is spectacular..>!

Almost as amazing as this placeholder image I found on the Apple UK HE store.. lol...

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djdarlek
 
Mencius said:
Well I love the machine. I won't be buying one but I think it's an amazing design. This announcement was the decider for me 64MB 5200 just won't do; full stop. I was just waiting to see if I could put a good graphics card in a consumer Apple and it's not to be. It's quite a tear really since I've used macs since 1987 but I'm going to build myself a PC box and run linux. And one thing's sure that PC box will have one whopping graphics card that I may decide to UPGRADE in a year or two. I suppose I'm just outside Apple's target market but I'm still torn I can't get one of these.
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Get an old 1.8 GHz ;) ... people are ebaying those...
 
realityisterror said:
my only beef:
measly 256 RAM on all models (when will you learn apple?)...
big white space on the bottom should have speakers on it...
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At least the top model should have like 512MB ('cause that's what you need for OS X to run smoothly). Maybe they're planning some 'special offer' thing on memory, but that would still be kinda lame.

As for the speakers... I was looking for them too. Aren't they in the white space ??? No, gosh... no internal speakers ? Pitty.
Anyways, I guess the lower part needs to be a bit more robust for overall stability.

My beef: No FW 800, no Gigabit Ethernet.

(And of course, that I would be like the same machine (specs) without a monitor, lots of optical drive options etc...)
 
djdarlek said:
Almost as amazing as this placeholder image I found on the Apple UK HE store.. lol...

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Ha ha, classic!

The prices are pretty amazing, the 17inch 1.8, costs less the the price we paid for our old Sage 450mhz iMac in 2000...
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djdarlek said:
I cannot believe the UK Price points! I am amazed! £1350 inc. VAT for the top model????? wtf?? That is quite simply the most value friendly price I have ever seen! Just going to check out how much its going to be with edu. disc.. (frantically looks for link............finds link..reports...) £1173???? wtf??? dvd burner! 20" tft! an apple product! 160 gig HD! this price is spectacular..>!

Almost as amazing as this placeholder image I found on the Apple UK HE store.. lol...

cp_top_indi_imac_20040831.jpg


djdarlek
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i have to admit that top end price is sweet... for the uk... at edu prices its great...

and even better for the americans
 
The first thing I though when I saw this, was it's the new TAM.


Ok, maybe it's just me :rolleyes:
I love it, very progressive design. The bottom part of the bezel will take some getting used to. Another machine to add to my collection, it appears :)
 
Disapointing

What happened?

This thing looks like so many of the pizza boxes with screens around the office I see all day.

OK, it's neato that there isn't a computer at the end of the cable, but boy, this is not the most attractive baby Steve and Jonathan have given the world.

I am sorry to use my very first post here on Mac Rumors to predict less sales for this chopped eMac looking iMac than even the second generation lamp post iMac had.
 
The new designs by Apple are always shocking...

I guess it'll take until tomorrow morning to really LOVE this new member of the family... :)

One accessory i can already think of is one battery, and there you go, the apple tablet!

The old iMac is dead, long live the new iMac!
 
Chaszmyr said:
Everyone remember... Even if this thing can be mounted on a wall.... You can't mount it flat on a wall because that wuold mean you couldn't use the ports on the back of the computer.

(Which means it is only viable to mount flat on a wall if you have airport, bluetooth, and no need for firewire access)
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Uh what about the power cable? I am envisioning a simple accesory power cable for the vesa mounts with firewire + bluetooth. Simple answer!
 
wait a second...did ID release mac doom III specs. Right off apple imac design page:

That’s a 1.6 or 1.8GHz G5 processor, 533 or 600MHz frontside bus, 256MB DDR SDRAM running at 400MHz and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra with 64MB graphics memory. So you’ll be able to play Worlds of Warcraft, Doom III and other fantastic entertainment.
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I guess apple designed it for cheaper gaming computer a little bit?
 
Cool design.

Only bad thing I can see is that the 17" still appears to have the low quality TFT that the old iMac had ie. viewing angles 120 H / 90 V.

My 2nd Mac is an iMac 17", but the screen has an aweful viewing angle compared to my Sharp LCD on my powermac with 170 H / 170 V viewing angles.

120 H / 90V is very old when it comes to viewing angles on TFTs now.
 
datasurge said:
What happened?

This thing looks like so many of the pizza boxes with screens around the office I see all day.

OK, it's neato that there isn't a computer at the end of the cable, but boy, this is not the most attractive baby Steve and Jonathan have given the world.

I am sorry to use my very first post here on Mac Rumors to predict less sales for this chopped eMac looking iMac than even the second generation lamp post iMac had.
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im going to get a lamp imac if the prices drop enough,,, but i have to disagree and say that they will sell really well at that price... there a steal... 1.8 g5 for 1350gbp including monitor... nice..but there not the "lamp" are they
 
Great Price

The price is great, £919 here in the UK (why not £899?), anyway the old 15" G4 sold for £999. Now we get a 17" screen with G5 for less than that, great stuff.
 
dekator said:
No, gosh... no internal speakers ? Pitty.
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It has stereo speakers built-in. They emit from the bottom edge and reflect off the desk.

Hidden speakers--cool :) I wondered the same thing though until I read Apple's page.

Watch "journalists" make the same mistake now ;) (They probably think the 12" PBook has no speakers when it has three.)
 
New G5 iMac

I'm so happy! Said in a voice reminiscent of Monty Python.

Hey, wait! Every picture shows a wireless keyboard and mouse but not even the 20" is Bluetooth ready. Wassup with that?
 
I love it! It looks much better, for some reason, when you see it with the keyboard.

The 20" is also cheaper than I expected!
 
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