Thank you, appreciate the coolness of it. "Off" means off. Call me a Luddite, if you will (an iPad-using Luddite, if you can make that math work).
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Anyone else think the iMac looks, for lack of a better word, “feminine”?
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gloomy grey is all very well if you like that sort of thing: some of us prefer joyful colours
What’s with all the likes I’m getting then? Or are you still pretending you can’t see them? Not to mention all of the replies in this thread agreeing that they look feminine. Can’t see those either?
I love gloomy grey or even better black. I am still using a Series 3 Apple Watch because they don't make one in Black Stainless Steel anymore.
Sounds like you need them, crave them probably. Makes you feel good? Gives you a warm fuzzy feeling inside? You poor soul.
Yes, upon reflection it probably did. But I still believe Apple did not-insignificant focus grouping which brought them to the design decisions they did.
The large(r)-display "iMac Pro" will be the model released in "sober" colors like Space Grey and Silver.
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Anyone else think the iMac looks, for lack of a better word, “feminine”?
No. But I’m not terribly happy with those squared off edges. 🤨
Anyone else think the iMac looks, for lack of a better word, “feminine”?
No. But I’m not terribly happy with those squared off edges. 🤨
Uhhh... if it's likes we're measuring now, your post doesn't do very well against the second post in the thread.
Add another to the growing list of those who agree with me that they look feminine.
This is quite the hole I’m digging. If I dig any deeper, I’ll be in the clouds. LOL
Are you serious? You're playing a joke on us, isn't? But you mentioned 'my macho manly eyes".
I wouldn’t say feminine but they do look juvenile
To answer the title of the thread? No.
I’d say they look a bit more whimsical and fun.
I’d say they look a bit more whimsical and fun.
I like your answer. I speak French and true French assigns gender to inanimate objects like a table is feminine but a computer is masculine. Just to let you know, Italian and Russian and Arabic also assign gender to inanimate things...
Colors I would really want.... Flat black, Product Red, Pearl White, Forrest Green, Royal Blue, and Space Grey.
I can just see this scenario working out at Apple HQ between T.C. and the head of R&D:
Tim C: Ah...the new iMacs! What colors are you thinking and what is your projection in terms of sales in terms of men/women, old/young, professional vs casual user?
R&D: Ah...but Tim, that’s the good news I have for you. Color doesn’t matter. We can color them pink, black, green, brown, polka dots and guess what? They will all sell equally across all demographics.
Tim C: Note to self - “Cut R&D and advertising budgets! We’ve been doing this all wrong!
mmmm this may have nailed it in combination with the original poster's meaning which I would like to think was not meant to be negative at all. it was merely descriptive like saying "you throw like a girl" kind of thing. I should add that reading some of the posts were sadly and I mean sadly entertaining.
Look, I know you're just going to try to distract by saying "oooh, you're another one getting all emotional about it", but really, I don't even know what you mean. They're just computers with a colorful enclosure.
They're not the specs I want, but even as a red blooded Merkin male I wouldn't have a problem with one of these on my desk. The silver one looks dull in comparison. Yes I know what a merkin is.
But would it matter even if they did look feminine? My daughters used to "do" my hair when they were little. The guy who trimmed our trees came to our door once shortly after they'd put my hair in scrunchies and I didn't realize until after he left. I didn't know why he was looking at me like that. It was funny and I didn't feel feminized.
They're not the specs I want, but even as a red blooded Merkin male I wouldn't have a problem with one of these on my desk. The silver one looks dull in comparison. Yes I know what a merkin is.
But would it matter even if they did look feminine? My daughters used to "do" my hair when they were little. The guy who trimmed our trees came to our door once shortly after they'd put my hair in scrunchies and I didn't realize until after he left. I didn't know why he was looking at me like that. It was funny and I didn't feel feminized.
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Anyone else think the iMac looks, for lack of a better word, “feminine”?”
No, I didn’t, and don’t, think that when I look at the iMacs. The sight of the computers does not deter me, as a man, from owning one.The chin/Ethernet/M1/sub-iPadPro camera/lack of faceID does. Thinness for a desktop matters far less to me than the colours do. And some depth, trim the bezels, utilize the foot/stand, etc.
The colours are just colours.
I have some sweet pastel sneakers. Lots of colourful shirts but I’m wearing black right now so I’m dressed… masculine? Wait, this so weird….
The more I consider your comment the less sense it makes.
My wife and I both chose a green car. Not mint. I had blue, white, grey, and “tangerine”, and before.
Next up, wine goblets. Hers is black, mine is white and blue and pink.
Oh and I’m a bit colourblind.
Can we stop now?
I'm so glad I'm not triggered by color. The new iMac options sure beat the old Classic II beige!
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