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Apple Delays New iMac

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the catching-up dept.

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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  1. Good by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Must...save...money.

    1. Re:Good by SilentChris · · Score: 5, Funny

      For what? An iMac? You're Slashdot: the technological elite. Pity those who have mere iMacs! I myself have a Cray from the 1990s I bought from eBay (sure, it's about as slow as my Pocket PC, but it was featured in Jurassic Park!)

    2. Re:Good by DChristensen · · Score: 5, Funny

      I know this...this is UNIX!

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  2. they should call it a jMac by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    then users will need to upgrade to a jPod and perhaps a jPaq for compatability - a great marketing scheme

  3. Think different by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!

  4. Hovering displays by nacturation · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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    1. Re:Hovering displays by ozbird · · Score: 4, Funny

      Nah, the HooverMac sucks.

  5. Obligatory Prediction by be951 · · Score: 4, Funny

    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!).

  6. Re:Apple faggots by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    trolling is for fags and losers
    That explains why you are doing it...
  7. A sunflower inspired Jonathan Ive's iMac 2 design: by michaeldot · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...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."

  8. Re:Macintosh needs to go back to the future. by period3 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Apple currrently sells Emacs for $799. That's pretty cheap

    Good deal, but you can get it much cheaper
    here.