If I was to get one - and if these color choices ARE true(?). Well, no to the Easter pastel colors. I will take that space gray/black iMac though!
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Prosser: 2021 iMac to Come in Five Colors, Apple Silicon Mac Pro to Resemble 'Stacked' Mac Minis
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This Appletrack isn't a good site - if Prosser gets a yellow for pending for products he said were coming a year ago - then you can never be wrong - surely this Appletrack site should only be green for correct and red for wrong which would bring Prosser down to just over 50% which is what anyone on Macrumors with decent analytical skills could guess on future releases.78% hit according to Apple Track:
Jon Prosser: 69.1% accurate
Reporting on leaks for years on his YouTube channel, Front Page Tech, Jon Prosser only became a source in 2020 and made a name for himself by sharing the iPhoneappletrack.org
If he tells me a product is coming last May and it's still not released then it's not pending - he simply got it wrong which makes him more unreliable and less believable in the future IMO.
Sell privately? I mean post it on Craigslist, Facebook marketplace, etc. You'll get more money than what Apple will offer.
The user doesn't but other people do who walk up to the iMac. Say there is a room full of desks with iMacs on each and the boss is in the back keeping an eye on everyone. He won't, but a customer walking in will see the colorful backs.
I don't suppose there is enough of the geek left at Apple who wants to see the innards of the iMac like the early semi-transparent models. Personally a graphite type semi-transparent model would be cool, but clearly the metal is more sturdy but again it blocks the WiFi and Bluetooth signals. That is why the MacBook Pro has the black plastic panel by the hinge for the antennas. Can't a iMac have a smoked plastic window for the same purpose?
Apple has a history of using external power supply, eg with Mac minis or cinema displays. Because who cares if there is a power brick below the desk or just a power cable. Making it external reduces heat in the chassis, saves space in the device and would even make the device more serviceable.
Actually the majority of all Apple products uses external power supply incl. iPads, iPhones and all mobile Macs.
You might want to check Apple Track, the site clearly details where he has been wrong and where he has been right. His big fails are the launch dates on Airtags, AirPods Max, and the Apple TV or saying that new iPad Air would be announced through a press release. He gave some significant details of other products from iPhone to Apple Watch way before launch. FYI, Ming Chi Kuo is also on 78.2% accuracy with 142 rumours instead of 147 for Prosser and it doesn't get anywhere near the amount of bad press Prosser does. The best leaker by a million miles is Mark Gurman and his leaks rarely feature in Macrumors.
Why is everyone taking this as a negative? Of course it’s a great color for all sexes. I just mean it’s probably far more popular with females and it’s good that a computer serves that market .
Indeed.
He has had several leaks, that demonstrate he clearly has some insider source, with specific release info that could not have been a guess.
His next big moment could be the unveiling of the AirTags, which will show if his leaked render was accurate or not.
The Apple Glass leak is his other exclusive, but it may be a while before we get that one confirmed!
He also leaks a lot of accurate Samsung product launches, before anyone else. But I don't think they're included in the appletrack stats.
I’m a bit skeptical, but I hope Apple does offer some color options. The Jonny Ives monochromatic era needs to come to an end.
I think waiting for the dust to settle on these "new" dream machines would be wise what with the reports of excessive SSD cycles wearing down the lifetime of the drive in the new M1 machines. Since the SSD drives are soldered in, there is not an easy replacement. Oh, I forgot, it is possible to design for the operational life of the SSD to be one day longer than any of the extended warranties sold. Thus the repair may cost more than a new computer.....
You realise Ive headed the team that designed the original iMacs right?
These people can be close in accuracy to each other but you really need to understand how different these people are and the roles they play. Ming Chi Kuo is an analyst at an investment bank, his reports and advisory services would be read by clients looking to invest in Apple and other companies in the tech sector. Ming Chi Kuo has become a reliable analyst and therefore his predictions have got picked up by MacRumors and other such sites.
Mark Gurman is a technology journalist at Bloomberg, he's an insider journalist at an establishment publication who gets fed information directly by Apple, they trust him and therefore he gets the scoops and the advance leaks from official sources. This is why he's the most reliable. For me I'd always go with a Gurman report over anyone else.
Prosser is a guy on the internet who likes attention. He might have done stuff in the past and has cultivated contacts somewhere in the supply chain but out of these three he is very far behind when comparing to Ming Chi Kuo and Mark Gurman.
Sure hope that the actual colors do look a bit more like the true colors present on past iMacs and not like those pastel excuses for a color as shown in the render.
Kuo is supply chain specialist based in Asia, with significant information on large movements of components and orders. When Apple is buying something, their orders are huge, and that is the source of all leaks and speculations from Kuo. Prosser is a random guy who came from nowhere and who claims to have an informant within Apple organization and even with this inside information he was wrong plenty of times. While all information Kuo has is second/third-hand, and based on reasonable assumptions based on supply chain movements, he was on par right (according to Apple Track you quote) with Prosser, who claims to have first-hand information from an insider at Apple HQ.
Try posting my entire quote next time, not just the cherry picked versions. I clearly stated when he's right it's because it was common knowledge or it came from multiple reliable sources first.
Jon Prosser isn't a reliable source, period.