Absolutely right. They have just taken the stock ACD pictures from the Apple site and switched them around a little. Cable positioning on the second picture and grey shadowing under the first picture give it away totally.
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New iMac Pictures Leaked
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Absolutely right. They have just taken the stock ACD pictures from the Apple site and switched them around a little. Cable positioning on the second picture and grey shadowing under the first picture give it away totally.
Definitely ^_^ I agree.
That same exact original picture + some distort in photoshop to crate fake perspective + blur to conceal faults (like pattern repetition)
Both pictures line up perfectly.
In the "fake" picture, one can still see darker pixels along the edge where the ports were erased.
I wholeheartedly believe that this is a fake leak, however, I do have one thing to point out.
You guys keep saying Apple wouldn't reuse an old design...but they've been doing that for years.
iMac G5 - Intel iMac: Same design
TiBook - AluBook - Macbook Pro: Same design
Powermac G5 - Mac Pro: Same design
G4 Mac Mini - Intel Mac Mini: Same design.
Apple has been using the same design for...what...3, and in the Pro notebook's case...6 years now? Why would they NOT put an iMac into an ACD's case?
You guys keep saying Apple wouldn't reuse an old design...but they've been doing that for years.
iMac G5 - Intel iMac: Same design
TiBook - AluBook - Macbook Pro: Same design
Powermac G5 - Mac Pro: Same design
G4 Mac Mini - Intel Mac Mini: Same design.
Apple has been using the same design for...what...3, and in the Pro notebook's case...6 years now? Why would they NOT put an iMac into an ACD's case?
Supposedly, somebody this morning saw the next iMac posted in the Mac section of Apple.com. Apple would have, accidently, posted the icon of the next iMac.
Here is the screen of what it looked like :
For more details, visit the French Mac Website : Mac4Ever
hah hah! This just gets better and better! I'm loving it, all these creative ways of trying to fool everyone into thinking that they have seen the new iMac!
This one is particularly ridiculous! Apple have spent millions in R&D and in keeping the iMac top secret, then, just as Steve Jobs is about to announce to the world the most hotly anticipated Mac for a while, then some spotty teenager accidently ftps the new image early!! Hah hah, loving it!!!
For those of you who might find it useful:
http://myskitch.com/neild/fakeimachowto-20070806-021731.png
Looks fake to me. Zoom on that image. All old product have compression artifacts around their edges. The new iMac doesn't. Plus, the new iMac's base doesn't look perfectly aligned with all the other computers.
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When you compare the current image of the iMac with the one on that french site you just can conclude it is photoshopped. The shadow on the stand is missing or incorrect.
Definitely ^_^ I agree.
That same exact original picture + some distort in photoshop to crate fake perspective + blur to conceal faults (like pattern repetition)
Both pictures line up perfectly.
In the "fake" picture, one can still see darker pixels along the edge where the ports were erased.
nicely done!
It's about as authentic as this...
Has any of these 'leaked photos' ever been genuine in the past??
Has any of these 'leaked photos' ever been genuine in the past??
It's not peeing, that's the power cord! It's yellow so you know there's electricity going through it. It's clear when it's not plugged in.
Ok... let's think about this for a second...
Intel iMac was not a redesign. It was just a processor upgrade for the iMac line.
PowerBooks and MacBook Pros are still essentially the same product; they changed the name and put in a different processor.
Same goes for Mac Pro.
Mac Mini is not a redesign.
The point is not that Apple wouldn't KEEP the existing design and up the specs. The point is that if they redesign it, they won't redesign it to look like an old display.
The potential for customer confusion alone makes it a laughable idea.
stonewall fake
not only that, such a thin design would surely mean a switch entirely to laptop components
no chance you'd be able to fit a desktop hard drive in there!!!
not only that, such a thin design would surely mean a switch entirely to laptop components
no chance you'd be able to fit a desktop hard drive in there!!!
Just for the sake of argument, just because it's Photoshopped doesn't mean it is fake. Apple also uses Photoshop.