Apple gathering press for Mac event next week

[AlanTheBrit]

It's terrible like all of the other mockups I have seen... hundreds of them... all terrible

I'm totally convinced that this is Apple's genuine final iMac design masterpiece: Thank God and Mr Ives/Steve Jobs for this: Dali would have been transported by its eldritch renaissance beauty.

 

[neven]

No! The optical drive is merely, subtly, tucked behind and just inside, the screen boundary; what taste... What beauty...
Apple should snap-up this design genius pronto!

What are you talking about? Subtly? How subtle is it to have to reach behind your computer just to insert or eject a disc?

This sort of "design" is awful enough on laptops which put all the ports behind the screen - on a desktop computer, it would be catastrophic.

Get real.

 

[neven]

I'm totally convinced that this is Apple's genuine final iMac design masterpiece: Thank God and Mr Ives/Steve Jobs for this: Dali would have been transported by its eldritch renaissance beauty.

If you're trying to be funny, no one's laughing. You're just annoying.

 

[Digital Skunk]

What are you talking about? Subtly? How subtle is it to have to reach behind your computer just to insert or eject a disc?

This sort of "design" is awful enough on laptops which put all the ports behind the screen - on a desktop computer, it would be catastrophic.

Get real.

Dude... that is exactly how the iMac and many PCs have their ports. You have to reach around and plug something into the back of the CPU.

It's actually more successfully done with the iMac since the ports are on one side. The center is a bit weird though... but it makes more sense than the iPhone on the stand, or the crappy "hey look at me I'm in highschool and I have photoshop" mockups that choke the blogosphere.

 

[neven]

Dude... that is exactly how the iMac and many PCs have their ports. You have to reach around and plug something into the back of the CPU.

We're not talking about the same thing.

On a desktop computer, it's ok to have ports in the back since that's where you plug in things you don't usually unplug (printer, iPod dock...) Mac keyboards have had USB ports on them for a while, and that's where you plug in often-removed peripherals.

On a laptop computer, you are most likely plugging and unplugging things all the time - it's a portable computer, duh. This is where having to reach in the back all the time becomes annoying.

Also, it's perfectly possible to use iMac's ports "blindly", or with a very slight peak behind the screen. Now imagine how much of a "peek" you'd have to take in order to insert or remove a disc from that mocked-up design.

 

[Digital Skunk]

We're not talking about the same thing.

On a desktop computer, it's ok to have ports in the back since that's where you plug in things you don't usually unplug (printer, iPod dock...) Mac keyboards have had USB ports on them for a while, and that's where you plug in often-removed peripherals.

On a laptop computer, you are most likely plugging and unplugging things all the time - it's a portable computer, duh. This is where having to reach in the back all the time becomes annoying.

Also, it's perfectly possible to use iMac's ports "blindly", or with a very slight peak behind the screen. Now imagine how much of a "peak" you'd have to take in order to insert or remove a disc from that mocked-up design.

Not much of a peak... about as much as we have to for any of the iMac designs, or for anyone that puts an optical disc in any tray or slot loading device. Besides... its a mockup. It's the best looking mockup I have seen but as we both agree very impractical. But given all of the other crappy ones that twelve year old kids make it fits Apple's style for changing design.

As for the laptop reach around... that's a bit overrated. If unpluging anything from the back of a computer gets annoying then nothing will ever please that person. Moving a 5 pound machine that was meant to be moved can in no way shape or form be annoying.

By the way... this is very confusing: