What do you think the iMac replacement will look like?
My guess is a solid base with the HD and Optical drive to give the screen stability. Both mounted horizontally.
Given the intention to bring DVD burning to consumer machines I am not convinced that we will see slot loading drives.
My quess it's going to be a quick silver colour scheme to represent the high level of performance.
Given the intention to bring DVD burning to consumer machines I am not convinced that we will see slot loading drives.
My quess it's going to be a quick silver colour scheme to represent the high level of performance.
Comments
Chris
here's the link
<a href="http://homepage.mac.com/macslash/"; target="_blank">http://homepage.mac.com/macslash/</a>;
here's a link to a previous posting
<a href="http://www.lowendmac.com/rumormill/01/0709.html"; target="_blank">http://www.lowendmac.com/rumormill/01/0709.html</a>;
detailing the concept out. they came pretty close to what I had in mind when I designed it.
derrick
<strong>That's kind of a cool idea but how do you get teh CDs in and out without reaching around to the back?</strong><hr></blockquote>
You reach around to the back
If it's wide enough, there's no problem. Either that, or put the optical drive into the display portion of the thing, where it's a bit closer?
I'm picturing a microtower about the size of a uhh, 10" x 4"x 15"box. An optical drive, perhaps an available 5.25" bay as well. Room for upgradable graphics, HD, drives, CPU, etc. Then it would connect with a single wire to the diplay, like the cube.
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You reach around to the back
If it's wide enough, there's no problem. Either that, or put the optical drive into the display portion of the thing, where it's a bit closer?</strong><hr></blockquote>
I doubt Apple would do that. It's a pain to keep reaching in the back, especially to put in a CD or DVD or whatever.
but, but with the usual Apple (ibook) style and elegance.
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Add a DVD popping out the top and speakers in the legs and you nailed it!
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I'm picturing a microtower about the size of a uhh, 10" x 4"x 15"box. An optical drive, perhaps an available 5.25" bay as well. Room for upgradable graphics, HD, drives, CPU, etc. Then it would connect with a single wire to the diplay, like the cube.</strong><hr></blockquote>
A good idea and I've considered the microtower too, but the form factor I suggested above would allow both expandability and the iMac's all-in-one simplicity. The CRT is the biggest part of the iMac and once that is removed you have a lot of room.
Any derivative of the Studio Display or Cube industrial designs are fine by me. Better yet, they'll come up with something completely new.
Why in the world would you want to take that away?? As far as I am concerned, I think that IF a LCD iMac comes out, it will look a whole lot like a Cinema Display. That would go well with the whole aspect of Apple and where it is heading. Also, I would think that the iMac2 will be G4 based because Steve wants the SuperDrive in the hands of consumers, not just pros.
Like I said, its very simple, I didn't spend much time on it but I think it gets my idea through. Hopefully I'll add a side view later.
It has four legs so it should be stable. The optical drive is in an area that drops down from behind the screen, I think the clear plastics of Apple's monitors looks really nice and I didn't want to break it. Instead, the drive is in the, for lack of a better word, belly of the machine and only slightly recessed (less than an inch). It would take on the color and plastic styles of the iBook.
I'd have the power cord and all the ports on the right side much like they are now, easy to reach and yet still out of the way.
Also, with the design I don't think it would be hard to make it so the monitor "snapped" on to the rest of the machine so users could select their iMac monitor size and still ship it as an all-in-one from the factory. I don't see this happening but it is an idea.
So, for simple work what do you think?
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