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.

Comments

Not Sure

[Oculus Habent]

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.

Re:Not Sure

[nickinho]

Actually it looks nothing like the cinema displays

And it will of course

No way is that the iMac
Nick

Re:Not Sure

[T'hain Esh Kelch]

And if you want to check why it is a hoax, try this: Open the pictures in Photoshop and look at the RGB channels alone. It says "FAKE" a few places.

Re:Not Sure

[BillX]

It's not really visible unless you split the image into CMYK.

Re:Not Sure

[grahamlee]

Indeed, the original story in appleinsider stated that this was an elevator at Paris Charles de Gaulle, where the photographer (a handler) had intercepted the package. Well, that screamed "hoax" at me; Apple don't tend to bundle top-secret prerelease hardware to their expos in the retail packaging. clickety - original story

In English

[Arc04]

Thanks to google. clicky

debunked

[FrenZon]

As sent to the editors:

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

Re:debunked

[horza]

From the thread, if you import the image into Photoshop and turn on only the blue channel then the word FAKE appears in bold letters in the corner. Nice one.

Phillip.

Slow news.

[Amiga Lover]

The guy who faked the pics admitted to it. Yesterday. They're photos of a LaCie LCD in a powerbook box.

For crying out loud

[xutopia]

There are always pictures like these by Apple fans. If you would have read the comments there is one in particular which should have alerted you :

"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.

Re:For crying out loud

[Lars T.]

Or they could have checked the English Edition of MacBidouille

Site says they are fake

[jeriqo]

"[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.

The article itself admits the photos are false...

[vorpal22]

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.

Pictures Fake

[JM Apocalypse]

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.

When you think it can't get worse

[Udo Schmitz]

/. somehow disqualifies itself by spreading such an obvious hoax hours after it was debunked by the creator himself:

http://hush.cc/fakeduh.jpg

Read about it on AppleInsider

LaCie Pictures

[__aanonl8035]

Here are some original pictures of a LaCie for comparison.
http://dp-now.com/archives/000349.html
One
http://www.shutterbug.net/test_reports/1001sb_laci e/
Two

While these are certainly a hoax...

[slux]

The Ipodfrance galleries also feature this...
(Coral link)

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...

Re:While these are certainly a hoax...

[Udo Schmitz]

that's a Toshiba 15" LCD television

Yup. A moderator at the AppleInsider forum found this version. Hmmmmm, do you think it looks somehow familiar? :-D

Spelling Nazi

[Colonel Cholling]

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.

Details on the hoax

[intx13]

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...

Re:Sensible design (even if faked)

[glennrrr]

I remember watching the introduction of the current "desk lamp" iMac. Steve Jobs was emphatic about the computer built into a flat screen monitor was a bad idea. He gave the example of taking an original iMac and removing the CRT; the optical drive wants to be horizontal; the monitor wants to be vertical. If you wanted the whole unit to be flat, you had to mount the optical drive at a severe angle, which drive technology at the time would not allow while maintaining full speed and reliability. Good design required keeping the intrinsically horizontal separate from the intrinsically vertical.

Now, if there has been advancement in vertically mounted optical drives, in that there are drives available which are fast while spinning at any arbitrary angle, then this whole calculus changes.

(Official) English Version

[Lars T.]

The English Edition of MacBidouille (aka hardmac.com)

Re:Unlikely

[MarcQuadra]

Well the pictures linked are bunk but...

The G5 isn't really so hot of a CPU, the current ones put out about as much wattage at 2GHz as my Athlon-XP at 1.8GHz. It puts out about 50 watts, about half as much as the latest P4 offerings. And contrary to popular belief, it's OK to run your CPU hot, there's no need to cool it down to 50C if it's rated and tested at 80C.

The G5 tower's design is designed for the case to be cool to the touch and quiet, hence the big fans, the system puts out less heat than an off-the-shelf P4 box. I'm sure Apple would implement some sort of case-as-heatsink for any SFF systems they cook up (pun intended).

I don't think it would be tough to build a really small G5, you can always underclock/undervolt the bus and CPU to save on heat and energy. Apple also has a history of placing the AC-adapter outside the system, which saves a lot of space.

Fiddle with the contrast or use CMYK

[starsong]

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.

Re:Guts of the computer behind the monitor?

[Anonymous Coward]

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.