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New iMac Is Bizarre
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You keep saying that but you dont lecture us what are those reasons....Jesus, are you trying to troll us?
Please, lecture us what are those obvious reasons. But please let them be serious reasons
Haha well I wish the OP would make up their mind. In one post, nobody cares about extra wires, and in the next, having an extra wire is so offensive that it is literally forcing them to buy a Bluetooth speaker… for a computer they already stated they won’t be purchasing.
I'm sorry you need to me point out the obvious reasons why white bezels are not used in these products. Take care mate. ✌️
Can you post a link with a explanation why monitors and TVs have black bezels? I tried to find anything, but hadn't any luck.
I always did..But im NOT the one who said that are obvious reasons, you did....So, i bet you dont have any reasons
He has none...he hide behind the bush. Its clear that he open this topic to troll us
Is this a real question? What if i want an 50$ rose gold Dell or Samsung monitor with rose gold bezels? I am SOL right?Because the other companies has lack of imagination ?! they choose to go with the same route (black bezels) over and over again! Is like the london tailors are making the same suit, same pattern , colour and fabric over and over again, and when the italian comes after decades and do something different...oh no, its wrong...
How old are you man? Why did you create this topic? To hate on Apple at all cost?
""Design is subjective. Any design you encounter is the result of a number of decisions made by one or more designers and most, if not all of those decisions, carry some measure of subjectivity. Design decisions aren't absolutely right or wrong"
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I'm very confident they will make the larger iMac look very different than the 24" iMac.
This. I personally hate white bezels. I understand that some people like them which is fine.
What is not fine is that there is no choice.
And who's "mark" would that be? Opinions on what people want "the next" iMac, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, Mac Mini, iPhone, etc. to be vary wildly. What happened is people got so involved in their own fantasy of what they wanted the first iteration of a redesigned iMac to be that they seriously expected Apple to follow their blueprints. I think we all can agree that's not how it works and never has been. No matter what they did, some people were bound to be disappointed. It's impossible to please everybody.
As for it being "bizarre," that's too strong of a word imo. If they had a giant spinning apple logo mounted to the top of the display - THAT would be "bizarre." Externally, it definitely looks like an iMac still, just with a uniformly thin profile, different color schemes, and of course the ports are different.
Noone is suggesting this is a failure. And no one is suggesting colors are bad. It’s the white bezels, and strange two tone that folks mention regarding colors. And the other hardware items the OP posted. No one is buying this Mac BECAUSE it has two tone colors or white bezels. Maybe because there are colors in general, but that would be true with or without the bezels or two tone. Still doesn’t explain why they don’t provide the option of the now common black and SG coloration.
I was primarily suggesting a macrumors forum IS the location to voice your dislike of a design. Design is an opinion.
What you aren’t apparently listening to is that the OP is simply saying this is bizarre. And it unquestionably is at the moment when looking at other devices in the lineup. The white bezels alone are bizarre as that was a thing that Mr Ive preferred on mobile devices and apple had left that design years ago.
I’m guessing the “pro” versions will look different but who knows. Maybe this is the new direction with all new MacBooks and macs.
I think this was deliberate to appeal to the very low end market who just wants something fun while their more expensive macs will be more iPad Pro colored - In part to upsell folks.
We will see.
But what if I hate black bezels?
(luckily I don't give a f*** if the bezels are black or white)
Here's the deal. Say you are walking down the street and you see this lady ahead of you. You're like, hmm... nice!... so as you pass her by, you glance over to look at her from the front. What do you see? Some people see a beautiful woman, others, not so much. Lets say you're in the not so much category... do you stop and talk to her to find out her inner beauty or keep walking?
Gut reactions are real. Whether we like it or not, people are judged first on how they look... as is most everything. You buy a car that way. You buy a house that way. Everything. So to suggest that looks aren't everything is a crock.
To be real here... multi-colored devices do more to harm sales than improve them. You end up with some colors always being out of stock and others overstocked to the point of a financial loss. This is why cars don't come in every color that is possible... no one wants their product sitting on some shelf until the next product comes along.
Colors should be a BTO option. Then and only then will they find how much people really like one color over the other... if they aren't willing to wait for purple, they really didn't care if it wasn't purple in the first place.
Gut reactions are real. Whether we like it or not, people are judged first on how they look... as is most everything. You buy a car that way. You buy a house that way. Everything. So to suggest that looks aren't everything is a crock.
To be real here... multi-colored devices do more to harm sales than improve them. You end up with some colors always being out of stock and others overstocked to the point of a financial loss. This is why cars don't come in every color that is possible... no one wants their product sitting on some shelf until the next product comes along.
Colors should be a BTO option. Then and only then will they find how much people really like one color over the other... if they aren't willing to wait for purple, they really didn't care if it wasn't purple in the first place.
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Then you would be very happy 😊. I didn't say the bezels should all be black. I said there should be a choice.
The original G3 iMac was designed so that anyone could buy it and easily use the internet. With the revisions, OS9, and eventually the G4, it became a friendly consumer all-in-one device - perfectly capable for daily use while also storing your photos, allowing you to edit and produce home movies, and maybe even for making some jangly-sounding tracks with GarageBand. In the past decade or so everything that made it special, (about using the internet and content creation), moved to phones and tablets. I imagine the audience for the iMac also grew up during this time. Not only that, but laptops also became smaller and more capable, and there is a lingering question about who requires an entry-level desktop computer these days.
Take a look at the images on Apple's site - these are all young people, families, young professionals, etc who are pictured using the device. These are people who may be younger than the G3 iMac. It seems to be a new device for them - as an alternative (or complement) to a laptop. I don't think this audience cares so much about white bezels or if the headphone jack is on the side of the machine - and they're certainly not counting ports. The iMac is once again a status symbol. It's the bold styling of the G4 combined with the colors of the G3. It certainly helps that this design era is back - the fluidity of borrowing from the late 90s and early 00s is very much in vogue.
As far as the device itself? I like it, but I'm content to wait for a second revision. As someone who mostly uses a laptop as a desktop these days I can see the appeal of just plugging a thin monitor into the wall and having that be your machine. I don't love the colors or the design, but that may change when I see one in person. Part of the reason why the new iMac seems so strange is that it is disparate from the rest of the lineup - there's no Space Gray to be found! I agree that the power brick is kind of clunky. Still, as the first computer designed for the M1, I think it shows a ton of promise. Now I can't wait to see what the MBP ends up being.
Take a look at the images on Apple's site - these are all young people, families, young professionals, etc who are pictured using the device. These are people who may be younger than the G3 iMac. It seems to be a new device for them - as an alternative (or complement) to a laptop. I don't think this audience cares so much about white bezels or if the headphone jack is on the side of the machine - and they're certainly not counting ports. The iMac is once again a status symbol. It's the bold styling of the G4 combined with the colors of the G3. It certainly helps that this design era is back - the fluidity of borrowing from the late 90s and early 00s is very much in vogue.
As far as the device itself? I like it, but I'm content to wait for a second revision. As someone who mostly uses a laptop as a desktop these days I can see the appeal of just plugging a thin monitor into the wall and having that be your machine. I don't love the colors or the design, but that may change when I see one in person. Part of the reason why the new iMac seems so strange is that it is disparate from the rest of the lineup - there's no Space Gray to be found! I agree that the power brick is kind of clunky. Still, as the first computer designed for the M1, I think it shows a ton of promise. Now I can't wait to see what the MBP ends up being.
I don't think white or colored bezels are an issue. As an artist I've been using a light-grey colored Eizo as my main for years, apparently without issue - or at least none that any client would have ever brought up. I have three screens on my desk, none of them have a black bezel (did not want all-black monitors for the home office - too imposing).
To me it looks as if running a dark theme is far more important to color perception (and to reduce eye strain) than some frame that's in your peripheral vision.
That being said, the new iMac sure is pants all-round!
If that's an indication of things to come then oh boy it's not going to be a lineup of hardware working people have a reason to look forward to. Dropping ethernet or putting it on the power brick is some next level bizarro move.
To me it looks as if running a dark theme is far more important to color perception (and to reduce eye strain) than some frame that's in your peripheral vision.
That being said, the new iMac sure is pants all-round!
If that's an indication of things to come then oh boy it's not going to be a lineup of hardware working people have a reason to look forward to. Dropping ethernet or putting it on the power brick is some next level bizarro move.Did you say the same the last 13 years, when there were only black bezels to choose from?
It seems to me that people use the sad and angry faces as placeholders for the dislike/disagree button, since MacRumors decided people can't take a thumbs-down on the discussion forums.Silver is not a pastel color.
EDIT: And apparently that makes some people "angry"
Sure there is a choice. Almost every single computer for sale today has black bezels. If a black bezel is that important to you, the new iMac isn’t for you.
What is bizarre about white bezels? People keep saying it, and maybe I’ve missed it, but I haven’t seen any reasons. I cannot recall anybody saying about the iMac G4 or G5 that the white bezels were bizarre.
I certainly understand if people don’t LIKE them, but I fail to see how they are bizarre.
I think people are just used to every TV and computer these days having black bezels, so they can’t wrap their minds around something different.
I agree that Apple made some very bizarre decisions with this new iMac. The back and sides of it look fine to me, but who cares when 99.9% of the time you're staring at the front and that looks awful. A near bezelless front like iPad pro with the same back would have looked 100 times better. The white bezels and big empty chin look terrible. It's overpriced, the ports are a joke, the RAM is a joke. The whole thing is pathetic. This iMac is a perfect example of why I no longer buy Apple products.