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.

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

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.