Fugly
Sorry ya feel that way. Most of us love the design.
From what I'm seeing here and elsewhere on the web, I don't think you can say "most" love the design. Seems like plenty are ambivalent about it, some like it, and some really, really hate it.
I type at about 90 wpm. If the new keyboard is anything like the MacBook keyboard - which it is, exactly - it is
perfectly fine. Absolutely no more typos than on any other keyboard. Perhaps you have mal-coordinated hands
Perhaps I just like a keyboard that offers some tactile feedback and has a little play. This keyboard has neither - in fact it feels slightly different from the MacBook keyboard, from what I remember, and not for the better. Key spacing is also odd, and the flat keytops do nothing to help guide the finger to the target key. I also found typing on the keyboard very fatiguing - your fingers quickly hit rock bottom on the keystroke with a big thud.
I can't understand paying laptop prices for a desktop computer and getting a cruddy laptop keyboard in the bargain. This strikes me as an amazingly bad deal.
Absolutely not. Have you seen the pics of the mouse plugging into the keyboard? Apple did this so you didn't have an extra dongle sticking out the side of the keyboard. It's cleaner. You only see a cord. One less thing to snap off or bang against the side of a wall/chair/whatever.
I don't think you read what I actually wrote in my original message, so I'm gonna repeat it - the recessed, indented USB2 jacks on the new keyboard are very tight. There isn't room under there for most USB devices like flash drives to attach - they won't fit. You'll need a dongle. Anything that has a cord already - like a mouse - will likely fit, unless it sports a bulky connector.
I did like the way the mouse cord trailed out of the keyboard, that seemed kinda nice. But I'd rather have a wireless mouse, anyhow. To me the USB jacks on the keyboard are for attaching USB flash drives and the like, and for this function the new keyboard sucks compared to the keyboard on the white iMacs.
Fingerprints are even worse on matte screens.
Um, no, actually, they aren't. Fingerprints are clearly more visible on glossy surfaces. I have to look carefully to spot fingerprints and smudges on my 19" Samsung matte monitor. Fingerprints on glossy screens are readily visible from a good distance.
I thought we all learned this back in the days of CRT monitors, especially the ones with glossy tinted glass panels in front of the picture tube.
If you're in an environment sodden with flourescent lights/windows, then I agree. However, in most averagely-lit situations, it's perfectly fine.
Maybe if you live in your parents' unlit basement it would be OK, but a large monitor like the one on a 24" iMac can generate enough illumination of its own to make reflections and glare an issue even in a dark room. The glossy screen also screws up color rendition, and as I think I already mentioned the gray levels on this monitor were pretty crummy. Shockingly so.
Who the hell uses the internal speakers?!
Um, people who don't want their desktop and workspace cluttered up with speakers, cables, volume controls, power supplies and other junk. If I wanted that rat's nest of mismatched cables, I'd save $500 - $700 and just buy a desktop PC from Dell or HP.
You whine too much.
No, I'm just not impressed by an already-outdated hardware "upgrade" and a visually unappealing (and in many cases impractical) design. In many if not most respects, the "new" iMac feels like a downgrade from the existing model, not an upgrade. The graphics card actually is a downgrade from what I can determine, and they've taken away the ability to replace it, the way you could in the existing 24" iMac.
