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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."

7 of 513 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Apple faggots by azzy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    > trolling is for fags and losers

    Yes, yes it is.

  2. Sony Ad by funk_phenomenon · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Is it just me, or was the photo shown on the article the recently unveiled Sony Walkman music device?

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  3. Re:Attention: Important info about Apple by mr+i+want+to+go+home · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    Apple can up with this idea many many many years ago, before desktop OS's had things like m u l t i t a s k i n g . It was a clever way to get around the limitations of not having a true multitasking environment. So they're actually re-implementing an old idea o f t h e i r o w n in response to the way people use their computers now (major specific apps supplemented by minor universal apps).

    The only reasons you'll be modded down are for getting it wrong, and more importantly...being off-topic.

  4. Re:Think different by builderbob_nz · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Now that Dell has embraced the idea of computers without floppy drives, I guess the iMac's work here is done.

    As a computer tech, I'm rather annoyed at this as I still find that floppy disks are the most convinent storage medium for the diagnosis/repair software I use. Yeah, yeah, I know this is slightly off-topic (and agree that floppies need to be replaced) but please remember that if something is taken away there needs to be a suitable substitute for it. Much like if Apple stops selling one generation of computers, there needs to be another generation to put on the shelves.

    Unless, of course, they want to loss sales to people like me... hold on a moment... forget what I just said, Apple can stop selling iMacs if they wish.

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  5. Black isn't patented is it? by chris_sawtell · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Even in these interesting times, I don't think Big Blue can have a patent on the colour of a portable computer. The white is pristine for a moment or two. Then you start to use the dratted machine and you get hopelessly dazelled by the white. A few months after that it gets a few inevitable scratches which get filled with dirt and it looks, frankly, scruffy, cheap, and nasty. With that shiny surface they slip out of your grasp so easily too. Yes, I do know. I've seen them, and used them, in an educational setting.

    Please Steve, CAN I HAVE A MATTE BLACK ONE?
    Sorry to shout but you didn't hear last time I asked.

  6. Great sig by Rockin'+Az · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    That was a really great sig - loved it. I don't know if you're a Pies fan or not, but Sad Loser would be a great username for someone that is ;-)

    Go the Dockers!

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  7. Wirelss Firewire by simpl3x · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I don't think that the wireless firewire will be ready for an accross the board rollout by September. The iMac is a wierd machine in a sense, and placing a base on the new displays will solve the same design issues, but require a thousand dollar monitor. But, having a wirless iPod play movies on a 30 display with a Mac base would be the ideal home computer setup. No?