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New iMac Pictures Leaked?
krimmc writes "Pictures have been posted on the internet of the supposed new mac design which will feature the guts of the computer behind the flat panel monitor. The new computers are to debut as early as next week and its creating a buzz among current apple users. News.com has also published coverage of the new design." As with most of these things, we won't really know if it's real until Apple cease and desists the website. Pictures are really crappy looking, so its hard to tell anything anyway.
It might be, but it also looks strikingly similar to the Cinema Displays. Apple's home line has been white plastic for a while - eMac, iMac, iBook - and this looks more like brushed aluminum. The poor picture quality makes it hard to tell.
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The pictures looked like flatscreen tv's... Could you really fit an imac in there?
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This has already been debunked as being just a LaCie panel in an Apple box. See: http://www.engadget.com/entry/3611729073994828/
Or from the horse's mouth: http://forums.appleinsider.com/showthread.php?s=&p ostid=666014#post666014
The guy who faked the pics admitted to it. Yesterday. They're photos of a LaCie LCD in a powerbook box.
A monitor in a box? What, with FOAM PADDING?? This is absolutely revolutionary!
I wonder what those losers in Redmond are thinking now!
Looking at the current G5, much of the space is taken up by cooling apparatus. Surely, there isn't enough room, from what one can see in the picture, to fit a G5 and the requisite hot air pathways/fans and avoid burning off the LCD.
"A notre avis, c'est juste un écran habilement retouché.
[MàJ] Il semble que ces photos aient été posté en premier sur le site AppleInsiders. Nous avons acquis depuis la certitude qu'elles sont fausses."
Which translates to:
Our opinion is that is just a picture of a monitor which was touched up.
It seems they have been posted first on AppleInsiders. We have since found out with certainty that they are false.
It seems that as of late, "leaks" have been good publicity for companies. Could it have been an apple authorized leak? Has apple done anything like this in the past?
"[MàJ] Il semble que ces photos aient été posté en premier sur le site AppleInsiders. Nous avons acquis depuis la certitude qu'elles sont fausses."
Translation:
[Update] It looks like these pictures were first posted on AppleInsiders website. We are now sure that these are fake pictures.
Alexis 'jeriqo' BRET
Well, the box resembles the kind an Apple display comes in. The unit itself looks similar to pictures I've seen of the recent aluminum displays. I'm not convinced.
If popular convention has it that the iMac is going G5, and the computer will be set up as in the picture, then does that mean cooling problems have been solved? If so, why not placate the power users who crave portability and offer a PowerBook G5 before catering to the lower-tier market within which the iMac resides?
I am not who I say you are.
Perhaps it's a sneak preview of the new iMac Lite... now sans processor, hard drive, or any of those other annoying remnants of the Wintel world. Yup, this is a revolutionary new design for Apple.
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Nous avons acquis depuis la certitude qu'elles sont fausses
Roughly translated (my French is far from perfect): We have discovered with certainty that they're fake.
In the other forums that have already covered this, such as Mac Rumors and AppleInsider, evidence suggests that the pictures are not the iMac.
But, this can mean many things. It can be the new apple display, or a completely unannounced product. But, just as likely, it is an old display, or something photoshopped to look like something new from Apple that is not from apple at all.
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This reminds me more of the 10th anniversary MacIntosh. Could this be similar, maybe a 20th anniversary Mac, and not the new iMac?
I wish my lawn was emo, so it would cut itself.
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The machine seems to us well punt, and the history a rocambolesque hair.
Automatic translaton systems never fail...to amuse and confuse.
Can't help but think this doesn't really seem all that revolutionary of a design. With the original iMac, they made the monitor and the PC the same nice compact unit. This just takes the next logical step now that flat panel displays have come to the mainstream.
Also doesn't seem all that much of a leap from a tablet PC... Make one a bit bigger, and add ports for all the standard peripherals, and mount it vertically. Poof, you have the new iMac.
I will, however, give Apple credit for doing it first. Might not seem like a real leap o' engineering, but I've looked forward to exactly this form-factor. If they make it use a wireless keyboard and optical mouse as well... Oooh, what a wonderful thought! A literally one-wire PC (two if you still use a wired LAN).
Just sell it for under $1000, and I'll take three (and here we run into the reason for which I will probably never buy a Mac... I'd guess a starting price of $1600-$2400, depending on how decked out they make it).
look out that http://forums.appleinsider.com/showthread.php?s=&
it is an hoax. nice try
bye
This site has pictures of apple ads. As if the ads themselves weren't enough, we have to have Mac fanboys posting pictures of them on websites. WTF?
I don't even believe the Mac sites that I read religiously because too many of the contributors are fanboyz with a copy of photoshop (pirated, no doubt) and too much time on their hands.
So I have to be inflicted with the same fictions on slashdot? At least give me fiction with a slight chance of being true like, oh, Longhorn really being released in ought-six. Naaah, that defies credulity, too.
http://hush.cc/fakeduh.jpg
Read about it on AppleInsider
Here are some original pictures of a LaCie for comparison.i e/
http://dp-now.com/archives/000349.html
One
http://www.shutterbug.net/test_reports/1001sb_lac
Two
What's that unearthly glow coming out of the cardboard box?
iMac G5
The original picture is hosted on Mac.com... if htere was anything to this, Apple would have shut him down by now.
Steve Jobs' Reality Distortion Field (TM). So the thing must be real. Gasp!
Where have I seen this before?
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and you burned subscriber points on that...
For being dead, Apple sure is a big company. Huge market share isn't the only measure of success.
Mod down posts with a "Free Mac Mini/iPod" sig, they're spam!
The 'h' in hoax is pronounced, therefore the indefinite article preceding it should be 'a' rather than 'an'. 'An' may only be used to modify words that begin with a vowel or are pronounced with a leading vowel.
"An honest opinion", "A house", "A Yuletide log"
"A hoax"
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It looks somewhat more convincing although it's very bad quality and could really be something completely different, but at least it does looks somewhat like Apple hardware and has never been seen before...
you had me at #!
here my doubts would be why would they only take pics while it was still in its box? take it out, set it up the way it should be, then snap some shots. seems suspect, plus it's gray, not the candy coloured lighted thingy we're expecting. perhaps it looks diff on, and again, why not power it up if it's real?
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Oh My God it's in some freaky alien language. I always knew Steve Jobs was an alien. No wonder the aliens are always the first to know about the new Apple products.
Although the photos may be fake, the design is sound. A 17 inch or 20 inch LCD creates a massive space of real estate in the back -- plenty of room for a mobo, powersupply, drive bays, etc.
Cooling would only be trick if Apple insists on passive cooling (which is just the type of thing Jobs might do). Even this would not be that hard an engineering problem because the height of the monitor provides an excellent chimney effect for passive cooling. Mounting the G5 (and other hot electronics) at the base of the unit and allowing the G5-heated air to rise the height of the monitor would provide a fairly nice draft (at least 4-8 times the cooling capacity of the ill-fated PowerMac Cube). An auxillary fan might be used if needed (a large low-RPM exhaust fan in the center top could provide extra airflow if needed).
Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do.
Maybe i should have chosen this one? :)
Gateway is already on its 5th generation of such a product. The Profile is very similar in description, but has been out for quite a few years. I find it hard to believe tht Apple would try to imitate an existing product, Steve Jobs seem more innovative than that when it comes to packaging hardware.
Why does Slashdot insist on posting every single Mac rumor? 99% of these things are bogus, and are usually debunked within 10 replies. It's not news, it's just crap.
There is no reasonable defense against an idiot with an agenda
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I do. I was helping a desginer buy a mac a few weeks back and we were so disappointed by the lack of range/availablity and the quality of macs which were for sale just did not pass the mark.
In the end he ended up spending over 3000 uk pounds for a top of the range home built pc to meet his work needs.
Too bad Apple, when you forget the basics like actually having products in stock to sell to customers instead of dirty and damaged display models and the dreaded "We'll have to order that for you" response from sales staff you lose big.
"I will, however, give Apple credit for doing it first."
Two strikes.
If it were real, Apple wouldn't be the first.
First posts are so insightful, I can see why the missed opportunity would upset you.
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What has happened to slashdot lately. All you read about is gmail's rumors, apple's hoaxes, linux' greatness and MS bashing.
Is that all nerds want to read? There is more technology out there...more pr0n...lets not forget star wars...
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I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer.
It is "Grammar," not "Grammer," and "Nazi," not "Natzi." And "an" can precede words beginning in "h" (e. g. "an historical occasion"). That letter is a breathing, not generally considered a true consonant. In Greek, for example, the sound does not merit its own letter, but is represented by a diacritical mark over the vowel.
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Just for those who don't feel like reading through the article and associated forum: An apple fanboy created this photo with some ingenuity and photoshop and posted it as if it came from a third party. If you view the photo's blue channel only, you can see the following image Notice the words "fake fake fake" in the corner. Later on the forum Philbot (who was caught as the purpotrator of another hoax last year) admitted the deed. Oh those crazy apple geeks...
Curious: What was his other hoax?
did anyone see the rediculous apple vest? was that a fake too? it looked like a prop from a 70's space movie. Or was that just a Lacie vest in disguise? French fashion!
Having already read the post above which says this is an admitted hoax...
The pictures actually look a lot like the PC's made by this company I used to have one of these sitting on my desk at work... a speedy enough PC, but way loud because of the fan. Really, it's not a sexy enough design for Apple. Honestly, look at the colors, it would have to be a hoax.
Flamebait? That's a hilarious post, you tone-deaf fundamentalist!
1. The bad spelling was obviously on purpose
2. This is English where a voice 'h' is preceded by an 'an'. Just because the Greeks have their own rules does not mean that those rules pertain to English.
I've seen the new iMac!
It must be only for pointy haired bosses.
Can you say Etch-A-Sketch?
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All together now, "NO CRUMMY MONITORS IN PRETTY BOXES". If you're not going to fork out for a Trinitron-class screen in the eMac, Steve, don't put a monitor in it at all. You're saving fifty bucks with that ugly shadow mask, and condemning your customers to eyestrain.
This new form factor for the iMac had better be right. In fact, it better be really special.
If it is dull or in any way like any other computer on the market, people will ignore it.
Apple has to have a really awesome new iMac this time.
It has to have the wow factor at least as good as the first one or the second version, of it will die at the gate.
So do not expect a routine iMac next week. If that happens, Apple will lose a lot more than market share.
...oh wait, this is /.
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To the guy who modded me down from perfect to terrible Karma - Apple haters still suck
I want an all aluminum single processor headless mac, to give an entry level machine without a monitor. I think a lot more people would go Mac if they weren't forced to either get an expensive LCD display or a top-of-the-line dual processor system.
Isn't "17 Inch Widescreen" just a fancy name for "U.S. Legal size"?
Does anyone remember these. Monorail http://www.monorailcomputer.org/index.html My dad has one with P133 and 640 x 480 monitor.
Apple fan boy moderators can't handle the truth.
The "b" is for business and blade.
While Apple needs to refresh their consumer model, what would really be "insanely great" would be a system of rack mount Mac blades with Apple branded/quality DVI/USB/FireWire repeaters. They've already added firewire and USB to their cinema displays. Why not give me a system that lets me run an office from a rack of easily replacable/upgradable cpus with a utility to make it apple-easy to use networked home directories. Seems like this would be an easy sell to education as well as business customers.
Start with a G4 model with a lower price point since a G4 will do everything an office user needs. The cinema displays are expensive, but they look nice and the cost savings in centralizing network, power, and maintenance in addition to greatly reducing virus downtime would make these a solution small offices may actually consider.
If The Steve really objects to having a new iMac integrated into the monitor panel, it's not for technical reasons. The Twentieth Anniversary Mac was a computer integrated into a flat-panel monitor, complete with a vertical CD drive, and they made that way back in 1997! (that large box next to the TAM in that picture is just a subwoofer, the CD-ROM is right below the screen)
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A cease and desist from Apple Legal won't necessarily mean this is the new iMac. Claiming something is an Apple product when it's not is pretty worthy of legal action.
First, I think these iMac pics are probably fakes. Just a gut instinct as a long-time Mac user. It doesn't really look much like an Apple design. I could be wrong, but only if they're striking out in some tangential direction.
Second, look at another Mac-related tidbit that made the rounds of the rumor sites just recently. It hints of a tablet Mac which is strange because the market is weak and Jobs has already gone on record saying that PDAs are not a market Apple is interested in (and possibly by extension, tablets as well?)
So what does that leave us with?
Well, Apple has recently made a relatively quiet product announcement with Airport Extreme so if I were to put 2 and 2 together, the result would be a dockable iMac, a machine where some of the components are in a base station (optical drive for one, some ports, etc.) and the screen actually rests in the base where is recharges when it's in desktop mode and can be picked up and walked around with and used like a tablet using the technology they've begun to explore with Airport Extreme.
Sounds far-fetched, but take a second look at the sketches for the "tablet" which appears to have an dock-connector similar to the iPod's on one edge. Maybe this isn't a tablet per se but the screen for the iMac G5.
My theory may be completely off-the-mark, but just following the threads of Apple's recent products, I'm lead to consider this sort of possibility.
--Rick "If it isn't broken, take it apart and find out why."
I took this picture in the bathroom at this same event http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v432/64Bit/np_bl ack.jpg
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I opened both images in a hex editor. Obviously the guy had the same idea and had replaced the information with lots of "@@@@@" characters, except "Ducky". Does anyone know what Ducky means?
It came out in 1997 I believe. AFAIK this was the first computer to have that formfactor. More info and pictures are here:
http://tam.axon.net/
I've tried only R, only G, and only B channels with both images and don't see any text.
let progress...
We are now certain they are fake.
Nous avons acquis la certitude: We acquired certainty (word to word, not very elegant, I agree)-> The speaker is now convinced. This is the opinion of the speaker, not some scientific discovery. It has some weight, but it is still an opinion.
We have discovered with certainty : for me, your formulation is ambigous. I feel some research, but the "with certainty" breaks the effect. We have discovered, or we have not. But "discovering with certainty" make suspicion arise about the certainty of the discovery.
Now... my english/american is not perfect, so I can imagine subtelties that are not present.
do a search for it. its basicly a wintel stuffed on the backside of a lcd screen with wireless keyboard and mouse. you cen put it on top of you desk by using the stand (that can allso hold a set of speakers that can integrate with a mp3 memory unit to become a portable stereo) or hang it on your wall. for some reason i hope its the future of computers (even more so if said computer is a tablet/laptop hybrid and the stand is a docking station, kinda like the toshiba m200 + docking station)...
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Anyone care to tell me what those rifle-droppers are talking about?
Napoleon
Uhhhh.... what are you talking about? You want me to run a lab or a small office with a KVM switch? Do the users take turns using the computer?
Is there some multi-user GUI with seperate keyboards and video connections for the XServe that I'm not aware of? I know you can have multiple users connected using SSH or X11, but that doesn't address the need to have dumb terminals with networking on every desk.
What I'm talking about is moving the CPU from the desk next to the display to a rack at running DVI/USB/FireWire instead of networking to the desk. When I want to swap out "computers" I can do it very easily. Power, cooling, networking, disk space are centralized as well.
Again, why is it only Windows that would need multiple instances? I currently have a computer on every desk for every user because they need their own computer. I've never seen a "server" with 18 video cards and keyboard/mouse connections that will allow everyone to connect to their own instance of the OS.
What I'm saying is don't put the CPU in the same enclosure as the display. With processor speeds increasing and prices dropping, I am going to want to upgrade the CPU before the display or drive. If I could swap my G4 rackmounted bMacs for G5 bMacs for $500 a pop, I'd do it. Tied to the displays... this will cost me $1500-$2000 a station.
The new iMac had BETTER BE AWESOME!
Go to the current iMac site. http://www.apple.com/imac/
Take another look at that great, world-class design.
That sucker's just about perfect!
Now, picture those STUPID new iMac "photos" talked about here, next to these (old, awesomely designed) iMacs.
Tell me these two things are even relevant
!? -Or related!?
If the next generation G5 iMac is not at least as uber-cool and as well designed as the former generation iMac, Apple is in BIG trouble!
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I know that it being a fake is old news, but open the image in Photoshop and turn on only the blue channel like they did here. In conclusion: fake fake fake
I want to win a new winMac!
I opened it with the GIMP and poked around a bit. Go to the Color Balance and turn Cyan all the way down, Magenta and Yellow all the way up. The word "fake" appears three times on the right side, on the metal molding just above the floor.
Well if any /.ers read french you may have noted that macbidouille at the end of the post noted that they had determined the pics were fakes...
Good grammar from the company who trademarked "Think Different" would seem even more fake.
Cupertino, start your photocopiers!
I don't seem to recall Sony, Dell or IBM making "guts of the computer behind the LCD"-style computers prior to May 1997, when Apple first did it.
Damnit, I'm a Mac user and I just can't seem to find any skunky buds anywhere.
Maybe I need to get myself to one of those 'user group' meetings.
I think I understand the double entendre now.