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Apple Delays New iMac
An anonymous reader writes "Reuters is running a story that Apple has delayed the release of the new iMac until September and has stopped taking orders for the current models."
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Must...save...money.
then users will need to upgrade to a jPod and perhaps a jPaq for compatability - a great marketing scheme
Maybe they decided that the current Design Style was just... shite! Back to large beige boxes that we can stack CDs on and arrange all your happy meal toys over!
And Windows is for real men?
"Blue screen, how I love thee"
In the education market, Apple has historically emphasized its iBook notebook PC and the eMac desktop machine rather than the iMac computer, which has a circular base and a flat-panel screen that hovers above it.
Last I checked, the iMac's flat panel was attached via a swing-arm to the circular base. Where can I find one with no arm where the LCD magically hovers above? Perhaps this is the new model in fall? The hoverMac?
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This official pressrelease just in from Apple Headquarters:
"We regret to announce this delay in the release of the new iMac. The reason for this delay is that we are close to developing a mouse with MORE THAN ONE BUTTON! Although we know that many people are eagerly awaiting the new iMac we believe that most users, when introduced to a multi-button mouse, will agree that it was worth the delay."
SIG: TAKE OFF EVERY 'CAPTAIN'!!
Surely these delays are a death knell for Apple. It is only a matter of time before they go under. 2005 will be the year that Apple dies. If not then, definitely by 2027 (or very soon after that!).
He made that nice black NeXT cube way back when. Nobody much bought it so perhaps he reckons it's bad luck!
TWW
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I think I have an idea of what the new design will be like, assuming they go for a whole new look. Remember what they did with the PowerMacs last year at WWDC and the monitors this year at WWDC (and last year with the finder). That's right! The next iMac is going to be brushed metal. Is this a fact? Hell no. Does it sound reasonable by extrapolating their current design patters? Sure... why not. Plus, it is the most interesting thing I can come up with at 04:50 in the morning.
Andrew
...which may explain why Jon was last seen wandering around Steve Jobs' vegetable patch muttering "I know we've got to ship, but all I can come up with is these damn broccoli sticks."
Apple currrently sells Emacs for $799. That's pretty cheap
Good deal, but you can get it much cheaper
here.
"We planned to have our next generation iMac ready by the time the inventory of current iMacs runs out in the next few weeks, but our planning was obviously less than perfect."
Apple is going for a next generation-leap, but their supplier of floppy-drives had problems with the new 90 nm process!
The upcoming iMac is called iMLate
[T]here's no excuse for a premium priced computer to come with anything but a Trinitron-style arpeture-grill display.
I can think of two excuses:
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You've got your damn transparency! Haven't you seen the menus??
--Steve Jobs
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Mac OS X--Unix without the assholes^Whassles.
there doesn't even need to be mockery of this post. the original post says it all: by Anonymous Coward. i think that pretty much says it all.
actually, Jobs essentially announced the new iMacs to be coming in September during the WWDC keynote. It was just in a subliminal form. Watch the keynote again for his presentation on the spotlight/search technology in forthcoming Tiger. First, he does a search for "iMac". Then he does a search (in addressbook) for "Paris". Mac Expo in Paris is during the first week of September :)
-Q
so an A.C. sez:
"I'm using a 800MHz G3 iBook and it's plenty fast enough for me doing just about anything. Unless you're using photoshop or crunching numbers, why do you even need a G4? "
EXACTLY! My current Mac is a PowerMac 5500/225, with a Sonnet Crescendo 400 Mhz G3 card in the L2 cache slot.
Photoshop 4 runs perfectly well and at a respectable clip on this machine, As do my spreadsheets and just about any other application I ask it to run.
Compared to the first/second gen CRT iMacs. my Mac just blows them all away in terms of speed, and I get to use all my old SCSI and serial port peripherals, too.
I did drop a USB card into the PCI slot, so I could use a more modern mouse, and when I finally get an iPod, I'll change out the USB card for a USB/FireWire card.
All I really NEED right now, is an internal CD-RW SCSI drive to replace the stock CD-ROM drive.
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