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Pictures of Possible New iMac Design (Touch Screen Speculation)
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You guys might be right but it might look better when the screen is on and when the keyboard is in front of it.
make it smaller
Dear GodBless,
I like your idea, if you make a small change. At current monitor sizes, the wedge is way too bulky. Take the wedge and make it much smaller - only slightly wider wider than a laptop and slightly deeper. Integrate a keyboard onto the lower half of the top surface, and a touch screen into the upper half. The touch screen would not be standard monitor proportions, but rather long and skinny like the keyboard.
Why do I say this? Because a small touch screen would be cheaper. Because the smaller footprint would look less bulky and ugly - more "apple cute," and because it would be designed to be used with a normal, full sized monitor standing up behind it. The desktop would be on the traditional monitor, whereas the smaller touchscreen monitor would be used any special purposes that Leopard, or Applications might designate, such as the dock, widgets, the finder, sliders and knobs for music or video applications, a piano keyboard, cover flow, special touch screen games, etc.
What do you think?
Dear GodBless,
I like your idea, if you make a small change. At current monitor sizes, the wedge is way too bulky. Take the wedge and make it much smaller - only slightly wider wider than a laptop and slightly deeper. Integrate a keyboard onto the lower half of the top surface, and a touch screen into the upper half. The touch screen would not be standard monitor proportions, but rather long and skinny like the keyboard.
Why do I say this? Because a small touch screen would be cheaper. Because the smaller footprint would look less bulky and ugly - more "apple cute," and because it would be designed to be used with a normal, full sized monitor standing up behind it. The desktop would be on the traditional monitor, whereas the smaller touchscreen monitor would be used any special purposes that Leopard, or Applications might designate, such as the dock, widgets, the finder, sliders and knobs for music or video applications, a piano keyboard, cover flow, special touch screen games, etc.
What do you think?
Yep, think about it. This is a tough crowd - Mac users, afficionados, and addicts. You'll have to come up with something better than a cheese wedge - sort of like this guy:
http://homepage.mac.com/hansingehagen/ipod_av/powerplant.html
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Why does it look like a little soft wedge I used to sit on when I was driving?
In all seriousness if the next iMac design will be a touchscreen, the screen will probably be hinged in some way, regular angle for most stuff, slanted for being used as a touch screen.
In all seriousness if the next iMac design will be a touchscreen, the screen will probably be hinged in some way, regular angle for most stuff, slanted for being used as a touch screen.
Nothing like Apple
Haha... I would think this product would come out of iunno... eMachines for calling out loud. Look, Apple would never develop a product in the near future that would look like that. There are many reasons for this:
1) Yes, apple has recently gone with silver products. But each one has a distinct look and style to it. This one has no style whatsoever. I have been studying each apple product carefully, each one has its own curves. Look at the back of this product, just an ugly blank straight edge, maybe with USB and Firewire ports.
2) It's touchscreen. Yes, maybe in the future, Apple would go with touchscreen PC's, but not now for sure. What operating system are we going to run it on. The next one is Leopart 10.5. I'm almost 100% sure that for the rest of the 10 series operating systems, it would allow G4 and Intel macs to install. Apple wants Apple users to be upgrading their machines. Now if it's running an 11 series operating system, I wouldn't be surprised if it offered touchscreen. But we are pretty far from a 11 series computer.
3) Apple is pretty innovative, for example, the iPhone with Multi-Touch system. But how long as Apple studied and developed this technology. More than 8 years. I'm positive that Apple wouldn't rush into a Touchscreen computer without years of research. And we are talking about a touchscreen computer and not a touchscreen device or mobile computer. Oh and are tablet pc's all that common yet. It's getting better but not yet. Apple will research for a long time!!!
I rather see a Apple Cinema HD screen angled in this form be the design of a touchscreen iMac then that........ thing! Yes, this is harsh criticism.
Haha... I would think this product would come out of iunno... eMachines for calling out loud. Look, Apple would never develop a product in the near future that would look like that. There are many reasons for this:
1) Yes, apple has recently gone with silver products. But each one has a distinct look and style to it. This one has no style whatsoever. I have been studying each apple product carefully, each one has its own curves. Look at the back of this product, just an ugly blank straight edge, maybe with USB and Firewire ports.
2) It's touchscreen. Yes, maybe in the future, Apple would go with touchscreen PC's, but not now for sure. What operating system are we going to run it on. The next one is Leopart 10.5. I'm almost 100% sure that for the rest of the 10 series operating systems, it would allow G4 and Intel macs to install. Apple wants Apple users to be upgrading their machines. Now if it's running an 11 series operating system, I wouldn't be surprised if it offered touchscreen. But we are pretty far from a 11 series computer.
3) Apple is pretty innovative, for example, the iPhone with Multi-Touch system. But how long as Apple studied and developed this technology. More than 8 years. I'm positive that Apple wouldn't rush into a Touchscreen computer without years of research. And we are talking about a touchscreen computer and not a touchscreen device or mobile computer. Oh and are tablet pc's all that common yet. It's getting better but not yet. Apple will research for a long time!!!
I rather see a Apple Cinema HD screen angled in this form be the design of a touchscreen iMac then that........ thing! Yes, this is harsh criticism.
I could see it as a tablet PC, but not a computer that would sit on a desk the screen would be almost impossible to see. Nice idea though.
Some of those ideas sound neat but I've already updated my design and I'm going to release the update (that I am sure most of you will like a whole lot better) in a few minutes in another thread.
How do you know? Apple's Top Secret features for Leopard could be touch screen technologies.
Apple's first iPod took just a few months to develop--yes and they had never ever been in the MP3 market before. Apple already mastered handheld multi-touch technology with their iPhone. Who says they can't integrate multi-touch technology into a full sized computer?
*waves hand in air furiously*
Oo, Oo, me!
Although not 'can't' so much as 'won't'. I've never said it can't be done just that it won't be done, yet or real soon. It's a commercial thing, once the market's ready it'll happen, but it'll most likely happen in WinPC market first an Apple will release their improved version and claim innovation.