Gates the thief
Does this man have no standards:
This looks just like a Cube with a 17 inch wide screen display and the OSX default background. The man is so unoriginal it is embarrasing. And he is stealing concepts that are 3 years old!
I guess imitation is the highest form of flatery- but come on. This is getting ridiculous.
This looks just like a Cube with a 17 inch wide screen display and the OSX default background. The man is so unoriginal it is embarrasing. And he is stealing concepts that are 3 years old!
I guess imitation is the highest form of flatery- but come on. This is getting ridiculous.
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Either way, it's nice, I love the arm that holds the camera. Actually, if everything is in the display, then I prefer that to the iMac's dome. Yeah, yeah, disc speeds, blah blah. Modern clamping mechanism make that moot. And the large flat machine has packaging advantages. The back could fit a fairly standard MoBo and lay all important, replaceable industry standard graphics cards at 180 degree angle behind the LCD and beside the mobo. Same with an easily accessible CPU/mobo combo. It could become a new form factor, like ATX, but flat, no cards, just RAM, GFX, and CPU slots/sockets. Nice.
I particularly like the little arms that hold a teleconferencing camera and what looks like a phone or remote. Nice.
It even has a smaller footprint than the iMac when viewed from the side. Nice.
Derivative AIO? AIO's aren't especially nice, but if MS addresses the expansion/upgrability issues of the format, this might be the future. Some sort of industry standard format built around a flat screen AIO? I like that better than a hermetically sealed iMac.
They'll probably just keep making towers, and who can blame them. They're a much better format than current AIO's (including the iMac)
Now good may be good so I can excuse the wide screen and small cube like machine. But the blue desktop- thats just a blatant rip off. Get a different color at least!
OH and if you read the article at yahoo. They tout the great idea of USB ports in the display! WOW what a novel idea.
Originally posted by salmonstk
Does this man have no standards:
With the camera and remote hanging on the side like that, it looks like something from Short Circuit.
freedom to innvovate my a##
shame on them.
"light up". Wow!
Go to this AP article.
Half of you would be creaming yourselves if Apple made this exact same machine, and excuse the derivative stuff as just another nice little integration. So there it is, it's not from Apple, get over it. They'll probably never build it anyway. Ironically enough, I liked it better when I thought it was an AIO, since they put the optical in the display anyway, shoulda just put the whole computer in there.
Originally posted by MacsRGood4U
The computer was built by HP. It is amazing. listen to this. If you're listening to music and the internet phone rings, the music mutes when you pick up the receiver. What a breakthrough! Also any imporant email will cause the area around the screen to
"light up". Wow!
Go to this AP article.
And soon spammers will figure out how to make the screen light up, and you'll have an expensive light show.
Originally posted by Matsu
Half of you would be creaming yourselves if Apple made this exact same machine, and excuse the derivative stuff as just another nice little integration.
It would certainly not look like that if Apple made - it's fugly.
The keyboard looks like it came from the 70s.
Originally posted by Matsu
Half of you would be creaming yourselves if Apple made this exact same machine, and excuse the derivative stuff as just another nice little integration. So there it is, it's not from Apple, get over it. They'll probably never build it anyway. Ironically enough, I liked it better when I thought it was an AIO, since they put the optical in the display anyway, shoulda just put the whole computer in there.
No one is criticizing! Thats the point- Apple did create this machine. 3 YEARS ago!
Oh and they have not created this machine- its a concept. Years away from shipping if at all.
The keyboard OTOH is very ugly, I'll give you that.
"It's more than just slamming things together," said Steve Kaneko, design director of Microsoft's Windows Hardware Experience Group.
The why the hell does it look like they just slammed things together?
Originally posted by Matsu
The machine is not ugly, and Apple has not created it yet, nor did they create it 3 years ago. However, if it is not an AIO, then it seems kinda dumb to put the optical up in the bezel like that.
The keyboard OTOH is very ugly, I'll give you that.
Having a phone and a camera hanging on the side on those arms are not the most elegant design!
This thing stinks. What is the problem with these manufacturers. Why can't they design something that looks half decent. It has bits sticking out all over the joint. All it takes is for a company to stick their neck out a few mm's from their shells and take a small risk on some up and coming designer. Instead we get design by committee again
Oh well. My year old iMac still looks fresh and years ahead. Perhaps theyshould have just bought the cube design off Apple and make a decent job of it.
PS: The form seems OK enough, though the appendages at the monitor sides could be handled more elegantly -- and of course the keyboard. The materials on the other hand (or maybe just the lighting) look rather poor. Acutally, the lights don't seem as subtle and elegant as Apple's stuff (aside form the light-up e-mail notification, which is another matter altogether). I can tell from here it doesn't have the detail that Macs do. But I wouldn't croak if PC users used this instead of black Dell whales.
Originally posted by Matsu
The machine is not ugly, and Apple has not created it yet, nor did they create it 3 years ago. However, if it is not an AIO, then it seems kinda dumb to put the optical up in the bezel like that.
The keyboard OTOH is very ugly, I'll give you that.
Ah, the monitor looks like the 17" widescreen, even has a chrome small centered logo, the desktop pic looks like OSX's default, and the small square-ish computer slightly resembles the cube.
Now what part of this thread did you miss?
Originally posted by Overhope
Is that Jobs in the little window on the screen?