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Is it just me who thinks the new iMac is a downgrade in terms of design?
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i personally prefer still the design of the imac g3
and if apple would transfer the internals of the 27" i7 into the case of the iMac g3 it would be the first mac i would order straight away without asking about the price
i still think they should try to get the next iMac a fanless again ,then there would be at least one thing that cant fail ...non existent fans cant fail , if i want a fan i can always listen to my eMac which has at least a fan running at a constant speed , so in terms of case design the new iMac has more in common with the eMac then with the iMac g3
that is my opinion
and dont get me wrong i love my eMac too, fantastic picture quality and the screen is big enough and i dont need to get bigger fonts as they are perfect size
and if apple would transfer the internals of the 27" i7 into the case of the iMac g3 it would be the first mac i would order straight away without asking about the price
i still think they should try to get the next iMac a fanless again ,then there would be at least one thing that cant fail ...non existent fans cant fail , if i want a fan i can always listen to my eMac which has at least a fan running at a constant speed , so in terms of case design the new iMac has more in common with the eMac then with the iMac g3
that is my opinion
and dont get me wrong i love my eMac too, fantastic picture quality and the screen is big enough and i dont need to get bigger fonts as they are perfect size
That's a maybe. I have a lot of FW400 gear, but the world is moving on. I'll just use a 400-800 plug. What's worse, is that there's only ONE FW800 port - I'd prefer if there were 2 (or even 3!). As is, I had to buy a very expensive FW hub (and yes, I am aware of daisy chaining, but for some things you don't want to do that).
Agreed. It's a scandal that it doesn't read CF cards. That's just lame.
Agreed.
Agreed.
Not a "design" issue with the 27 iMac specifically. It's an OS X issue, though it's more dire when you have a large screen like the 27". But yes, resolution independence would be nice, and it's a bit of a scandal that after it being rumored about since Tiger, here we are in SL and still don't have it. Lame.
I understand what you are saying - which is why I have a 1600x1200 monitor hooked up to my mini. I had to pay extra for this monitor, and it's harder to find (even a Dell!), because it has more pixels per panel - all you see nowadays are the obnoxious "wide but skinny" monitors. For writing it's bleh. Some try to solve this problem by being able to tilt from horizontal to vertical (like mine can), but then OS X can't handle that. Lame. However, with the 27" I'm not sure your complaint is valid, simply because at a certain size, the aspect ratio stops mattering - after all, you have enough height to comfortably fit a page of text without scrolling... what difference does it make that you also have a ton of (perhaps) unused side space... and that way you can put pages next to each other thanks to the width. So this complaint while generally valid, is no longer relevant at sizes of 27" and above, IMHO.
I totally disagree, I love how the glass goes to the edge and the smaller chin.. the screen is the focal point and that's all that you're looking at, which is the most important part, and there aren't and "distracting" parts on the imac. it's a very clean design.. but I guess its obviously all opinion on what looks good
Yes, I personally think the iMac g4 was the coolest looking iMac ever but the new new ones look very nice as well.
It doesn't look drastically different. Coming from a G5 iMac it's a huge change. When the G5 and the i7 were side by side you could see the huge advances in case design. The G5 is a plastic box with areas that collect dust and dirt all over the place.
The i7 has maybe 2 areas where dust might collect. The case is crafted from a single piece of aluminum which makes the computer feel a lot more solid. It's certainly quieter with this new design.
Aluminum and black is a hard color scheme to top, it's a very modern look. Maybe we'll see a titanium colored version, but I don't foresee the basic design changing much. There's very little you could do to improve upon the basic design being used since screens are just going to continue getting larger.
The i7 has maybe 2 areas where dust might collect. The case is crafted from a single piece of aluminum which makes the computer feel a lot more solid. It's certainly quieter with this new design.
Aluminum and black is a hard color scheme to top, it's a very modern look. Maybe we'll see a titanium colored version, but I don't foresee the basic design changing much. There's very little you could do to improve upon the basic design being used since screens are just going to continue getting larger.
thats what i see coming one day everyone is crying ,because the iMac model from 2020 only gets a 140" screen
for god sake ,i think even 17" is nearly to big in size to work on ...
for god sake ,i think even 17" is nearly to big in size to work on ...
thats what i see coming one day everyone is crying ,because the iMac model from 2020 only gets a 140" screen
for god sake ,i think even 17" is nearly to big in size to work on ...
Are you kidding? 17" too big? Clearly you never do photography work... I'd take the biggest screen you can give me for that!
for god sake ,i think even 17" is nearly to big in size to work on ...
Wow, welcome to the year 2000.
for god sake ,i think even 17" is nearly to big in size to work on ...
I used to think the same way.. the biggest monitor I ever owned was 17''.. but after owning a 27'' imac for a few months there's no way I could possibly go back to anything smaller than 22'' for a desktop and I just use computers for normal web/email/messaging etc, nothing fancy. My 13'' macbook is tough to use now and I've had it for a year.