Does anyone think that the new iMac will have a monitor capable of being rotated and incorporate the sensor like the iphone to readjust the image into the current mode?
knowing apple, it will turn out like none of these predictions. Though, I do like the original mock-up very much. i think the optical drive in the base idea is also very good.
i think the optical drive in the base idea is also very good.
I think so too and I also think the hard drive should go in there. Keep the user serviceable components in an easy to access place (the Ram is at the bottom of the screen) and the circuitry inside the back of the display.
Unless that's a 40" screen, there is no place to put the actual "computer." It's a pretty picture, though -- and perhaps we'll see a computer like this in 10 years or so...
I like the iPhone inspired new iMac. Good job Fagin. I wouldn't be surprised one bit to see that the new iMac looks exactly like your mock-up -- with a black stand of course. As a matter of fact, Apple is going to be hard pressed to do something better.
My only comments and suggestions are why keep the chin and what about adding speakers? If the new iMac can lose the chin then that would be fine with me. I see no form or function to it. As for speakers, if Apple built some speakers in on the right and left side, made them black, then the new iMac would look even more like the iPhone. Plus, it would keep the desktop less complex. Add a wireless keyboard and mouse that match the black-with-chrome-edging concept and you have the best looking computer anyone has ever seen.
As for multitouch, I say include it but don't make it manditory for operating the computer. Give people a choice and let them experiment with it. If it gets rave reviews then Apple can take it further in the next release. If it bombs, then Apple hasn't jeopardized their product. I'm guessing multitouch will work very well for some apps and not for others. It will cause a buzz in the industry and one can never have too much buzz.
As for the old iMac designs, notice how dated they get so fast? I never have been a friend of the white plastic look and as for the initial color versions, well let's just say they were cute when Apple needed all the help they could get. However now, Apple needs to project class and sophistication. I like the current metal look of the Pro line but have to say, if Apple does the Fagin iMac, it will make the current metal Pro look dated.
replying to the original mock-up, I doubt it's going to look like that. at all. First of all the reports have been saying they are being designed to fit the higher-end models, like the MBP and cinema displays. But moreover, look at the diffrence between all the other iMac designs. They're all completely different, whereas this mockup looks very similar to the previous iMac. Jon Ive's going to blow us away once again with a totally new look that no one will expect.
Oth the other hand, it does look like a pretty nice machine. Good job with that
Just a doodle in Photoshop but it struck me as being a plausible idea with a clear precedent. At any rate, having doodled it, I felt I had to do something with it so here I am. *waves*
- Joel Fagin
Looks great!!!!!! I'd buy it and I thought I was going to hate black. Done like that, it would rock!!
I'd love this one.. but they /Apple don't really have a rep. for easy solutions. But if the ini really is on its way out, it might be a REALLY simply way off leverageing knowhow.
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i think the optical drive in the base idea is also very good.
I think so too and I also think the hard drive should go in there. Keep the user serviceable components in an easy to access place (the Ram is at the bottom of the screen) and the circuitry inside the back of the display.
That keyboard would be very painful to use... carpal tunnel syndrome would become a common word and Apple would proably face a class action suit.
I'd like something like this:
Unless that's a 40" screen, there is no place to put the actual "computer." It's a pretty picture, though -- and perhaps we'll see a computer like this in 10 years or so...
My only comments and suggestions are why keep the chin and what about adding speakers? If the new iMac can lose the chin then that would be fine with me. I see no form or function to it. As for speakers, if Apple built some speakers in on the right and left side, made them black, then the new iMac would look even more like the iPhone. Plus, it would keep the desktop less complex. Add a wireless keyboard and mouse that match the black-with-chrome-edging concept and you have the best looking computer anyone has ever seen.
As for multitouch, I say include it but don't make it manditory for operating the computer. Give people a choice and let them experiment with it. If it gets rave reviews then Apple can take it further in the next release. If it bombs, then Apple hasn't jeopardized their product. I'm guessing multitouch will work very well for some apps and not for others. It will cause a buzz in the industry and one can never have too much buzz.
As for the old iMac designs, notice how dated they get so fast? I never have been a friend of the white plastic look and as for the initial color versions, well let's just say they were cute when Apple needed all the help they could get. However now, Apple needs to project class and sophistication. I like the current metal look of the Pro line but have to say, if Apple does the Fagin iMac, it will make the current metal Pro look dated.
I wonder if Mr. Jobs visits AI's forum pages to see how beautiful that thing looks?
Oth the other hand, it does look like a pretty nice machine. Good job with that
Just a doodle in Photoshop but it struck me as being a plausible idea with a clear precedent. At any rate, having doodled it, I felt I had to do something with it so here I am. *waves*
- Joel Fagin
Looks great!!!!!! I'd buy it and I thought I was going to hate black. Done like that, it would rock!!
The black version will have a slightly larger hard drive and cost $150 more than the white model.
and i can laugh at everyone who wastes their money purely for image
and i can laugh at everyone who wastes their money purely for image
You'd go hoarse. Don't waste your breath.
Umm. You realize that they can make plastic that looks like chrome. It wouldn't be actual chrome, only plastic.
Well, that looks like really crappy, cheap, fake chrome.
i mean that pic?
probably touch screen too.....
Does anyone have a guess to the new specs?
Sure I'll guess.
Take the MBP specs, add a larger HDD and there you go.
You'd go hoarse. Don't waste your breath.
my brother just got the black macbook!