iMac redesign with the next update?

[Mactagonist]

i want them to release a special edition iMac - in aluminium with up to date specs - of the iMac G4.

The lampshade iMac was one of the most distinctive computers ever! I would love to see a remake, but I just dont see it ever happening.

 

[jonnysods]

I don't know if it's going to change just yet - they still haven't gotten all the other products in line with the iMac yet, such as the mini and the mac pro - I don't think it's due yet. Is the design even 2 years old?

Perhaps if they change things to desktop processors we might see something different. But I love the way they look right now!

 

[Flying Dutchman]

When is this update most probably going to be anyway? End of January or later?

Well this is how I see it: if it is in January, it should be coming Tuesday. This is the last Tuesday of January and this is the moment at which iLife '09 will be released. So its either with that, but seeing how little rumor there has been around the new iMac, I think that might be a bit of a dream. My guess is still Q1 09 but besides coming Tuesday, it might be any Tuesday till the end of Q1. Don't think they'll wait for WWDC, like someone here already said, WWDC isn't a consumer show, so Xserve might get an update there as well as the Mac Pro, but the Mac mini and iMac are so much overdate, there have been so many rumors about the new chipsets and stuff. I say this Tuesday of somewhere in the end of Feb.

As for the iMac; don't think there'll be a design update. They've been streamlining their entire productline to that computer. I am thinking of a external keyboard with the silver/black finish like on the new MB's. Do very, very, VERY much hope they put in a higher end top graphics card in there than they do in the MBP (9600), else we'll be going south performance wise from the 8800GS

And about the quad core thing; not that sure they'll put that in, maybe a BTO option on the topmodel, but even that. Intel core's are finally getting a bit less heat expelling and this makes it possible for Apple to put in faster dual cores. And as some said before, even now, dual cores still aren't used 100%, so quad will underperform alot, unless they figured something out in Snow Leopard.

Offtopic-ish:
My guess for the top of the line iMac:

24" LED screen
1 FW800
3 USB2.0
1 TB
4 GB DDR3
3,4 GHz dual core/possible quad core as CTO at 2,8/2,93 GHz
9400+9800 useable at the same time (Hybrid-SLi)/ 1 9800GTX+ (energy efficient model of the GTX). maybe the Gfx is a CTO option as well as the 4 GB but something like this isn't unthinkable

 

[jackcarp13]

Why??

The design is top notch. There is no reason to improve that. They probably will but how sleek and high tech looking can a computer look? i think they will make one or two more models in the next 5 years then step up the computer standars just as they did in 1984. Maybe a virtual or 3d graphics

rock on
20 inch iMac

 

[JayLenochiniMac]

An awful lot of people are suggesting restyled keyboard with black keys, but I don't see that happening without Mighty Mouse redesign and in black. The current white keys match the MM and if they change that, the white MM would look completely off.

 

[RemarkabLee]

The main purpose of black keys on the Macbook/Pro is for the backlight function, i.e. maximum contrast between the black keycap and the letter itself - clearly viewable in all light.

The need for this functionality on a desktop is less where ambient light is more controlled, but it could be a quirky feature of future iMac versions.

I agree, a black mighty mouse may look off at first, but it could grow on me