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iMac redesign 2009
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There's no reason Apple couldn't make the back out of silver plastic to match the aluminium front.
No, only the ACD's the iMac is Black Plastic
It would not be very apple though
1) How would they get the components in?
2) The MB/MBP/MBA have a removable bottom so its not literally Unibody
3) The iMac is made with the same process as the Unibody MB's Unibody just means it started as one hunk of metal
4) Whats with the iMac with no Glass
iMac with no glass - seems that he wanted a matte display.
Easy to load components into a unibody iMac - just have the glass removable ( like current one ) Then have the LCD removable - exposing the main-board, ect...
They won't do it with $ issues in all likelihood, but it most certainly can be done.
so trueI want the chin to be gone, the 20" iMac doesn't look as good as its bigger sibling because of the chin
but the ram and the speakers are down in the chin so it would have to slide down in and that would be expensive to engineer
Perhaps A Touch Screen
The next iMac could be a touch screen. Its has been well documented that aapl is working on such and HP's product is garnering some good mo. Desktop computing hasn't changed all that much in terms of input and this looks like the next obvious direction. The iPhone's generational success validates the concept that users can and will go back to using their own digits as an extension to the virtual world.
The next iMac could be a touch screen. Its has been well documented that aapl is working on such and HP's product is garnering some good mo. Desktop computing hasn't changed all that much in terms of input and this looks like the next obvious direction. The iPhone's generational success validates the concept that users can and will go back to using their own digits as an extension to the virtual world.
I would hate to pay a huge premium for a feature that has yet to mature it to a fully functional input yet... I would hate to edit a film in final cut on a touch screen, the controls would be so fiddly.
Uh, no. OS XI will be fully multitouch-based, but reaching out to touch a screen is a gimmick. The arms... they will get tired. No one wants to do that.
I want to see a multi-touch trackpad, anchored onto the end of the Wireless keyboard!
Could come in Right and Left handed versions.
Multi Touch trackpad like that found on the new macbook seems like the most natural way to interact with the screen.
Pinching and zooming, swiping, and moving across the entire screen with a small movement of your finger!
Im starting to hate apples mouses! Anyone know the best mouse out their.
Could come in Right and Left handed versions.
Multi Touch trackpad like that found on the new macbook seems like the most natural way to interact with the screen.
Pinching and zooming, swiping, and moving across the entire screen with a small movement of your finger!
Im starting to hate apples mouses! Anyone know the best mouse out their.
If the multi touch screens werent horizontal - the arms would not suffer from fatigue. A panel flat on the desk - just like the product it emulates - paper - would provide all of the natural writing surface and angles we are ergonomically designed to use, No actual keyboard, no mouse - just hands and a panel - The panel can to rotated to the vertical for viewing of course. In my opinion its an inevitable direction.
Yep thays what i see in 10.7
Well that where it seems to be going but who knows what apple has up there sleeves
As long as Apple uses laptop motherboards on the iMac, there won't be 8GBs of RAM supported and being used by the machine. Not until Apple allows it in the system that is. Hopefully by Snow Leopard.
The internal design of the iMac is a mess by the way. Improving that would maybe help get some more ports and BTO options in there.
Personally, the best upgrade that the machine could get right now is a desktop MOBO and upgradeable GFX card slot.
The internal design of the iMac is a mess by the way. Improving that would maybe help get some more ports and BTO options in there.
Personally, the best upgrade that the machine could get right now is a desktop MOBO and upgradeable GFX card slot.
no way will they put in a Desktop Logic board
~too hot
~they only make one and its too big
I would love to see the Upgradeable GFX slot but i dont see them cutting another whole in the computer
Given the right cooling design it could be pulled off, just mean having some kind of a mac pro like grill across the top or something, to allow better airflow.
Using standard (Socket 775) Core 2 Duo processors would allow apple to save alot of money compared to using laptop chips. Those savings could then be used to invest in a better cooling system for the chips, which let's get it straight, isn't exactly a massive hard ship, if Dell can supply a bog standard PC with a 3.2ghz C2D that has a stock cooler, Apple can do the same but with a much better heatsink/cooling system.
The cooling systems on the iMacs, since the original G5's has been an absolute mess, it would be nice if cooling wasn't so obviously a after thought...
Although I agree you will never see a removable gfx card for the iMac.
I agree that it won't happen, but we all have to remember that Apple did stick that hot brick of a chip the PPC G5 in the iMac not too long ago. And it did run hotter than any Intel.
But I know, I know. Apple is too obsessed with thin to make a fatter iMac like the original (heavy @$$) G5.
p.s. Yes, cooling on an iMac is a severe after-thought. Even the current ones get BLAZING hot near their fan vents during idle.
But I know, I know. Apple is too obsessed with thin to make a fatter iMac like the original (heavy @$$) G5.
p.s. Yes, cooling on an iMac is a severe after-thought. Even the current ones get BLAZING hot near their fan vents during idle.
I miss the heavy ass G5's, it was as if you were getting what you paid for
Now it's like you're paying for a really fancy display, that just happens to have (essentially) a laptop stuck inside it...
Now it's like you're paying for a really fancy display, that just happens to have (essentially) a laptop stuck inside it...
I miss the heavy ass G5's, it was as if you were getting what you paid for
Now it's like you're paying for a really fancy display, that just happens to have (essentially) a laptop stuck inside it...
You are. The iMacs of yore had REAL desktop chips inside of them. It essential was a reconfigured G5 chip inside. They debuted at 1.6GHz while the G5 debuted at a single 1.8GHz model.
well displays get hot too and all thats stuff plus a power brick are inside so it deserves to get a little hot
Wow, the cooling must have been insane to stop those G5's popping out the sockets...
So it really is entirely possible apple could pull off a desktop CPU'd iMac, come on apple, give us a propper desktop machine...
(Because SJ just trolls MR all day and will obviously read this thread)
So it really is entirely possible apple could pull off a desktop CPU'd iMac, come on apple, give us a propper desktop machine...
(Because SJ just trolls MR all day and will obviously read this thread
)
I want:
-No chin
-Matte screen option
-That's it!
I solved the second problem a few months ago by getting a great deal on a 24" white iMac - I love it! What I don't get is why it still has the chin. I've looked inside, and there's tons of space; enough for a second hard drive if they wanted to put one in. I don't care if it's thicker, does Steve really think anyone cares? WHY IS THERE STILL A CHIN, IT LOOKS TERRIBLE.
-No chin
-Matte screen option
-That's it!
I solved the second problem a few months ago by getting a great deal on a 24" white iMac - I love it! What I don't get is why it still has the chin. I've looked inside, and there's tons of space; enough for a second hard drive if they wanted to put one in. I don't care if it's thicker, does Steve really think anyone cares? WHY IS THERE STILL A CHIN, IT LOOKS TERRIBLE.
Desktop CPU's must be inevitable.
Seem's like the current iMac mobile chips are the bottle neck to the system!
It scored the lowest rating on my windows vista performance assessment.
Seems as if we are behind the time on Hardware.
Afterall the iMac is a Desktop!
Seem's like the current iMac mobile chips are the bottle neck to the system!
It scored the lowest rating on my windows vista performance assessment.
Seems as if we are behind the time on Hardware.
Afterall the iMac is a Desktop!
1. What iMac do you have?
2. You said it scored the lowest rating.....compared to what?