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.

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iMac Lite

[kjones692]

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.

Re:We waited for that?

[linguae]

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?

There are two things, though. The G5 is a very hot processor. Whereas putting a hot processor in a desktop computer is one thing (they don't have to move it around, so the users wouldn't care about some heat as long as its not melting or its a heater), putting that same G5 in a portable computer is another thing. Users of portable computers demand having a cool (literally) computer just about all the time, and I don't think Apple is ready to put the G5 in the PowerBook yet (not unless it want to recreate the Macintosh Portable or something). I think that the new iMac would have enough room to support (and cool down) the G5 processor in it (although I think that the current pictures are fake).

Another interesting that you stated is that Apple is putting its G5 in a consumer based computer before in its professional notebook. Although it is kind of odd, remember that the iMac is Apple's mid-range desktop computer. This is the first time that Apple has had two seperate consumer based desktops (eMac and iMac) since the days that Jobs returned, so I'm actually not too surprised that the iMac would have a better processor than the PowerBook. With the G5 processor in it, it fills up a gap between the eMac (Apple's low-range desktop) and the PowerMac (Apple's professional desktop). It's good that Apple is refreshing its iMac line now, since sales of the iMac G4 weren't going too well IIRC (in fact, an eMac was a better deal at times than an iMac). With a complete iMac refresh, the mid-range iMac line makes sense, again.

I believe that the PowerBook would finally get a G5 processor sometime in 2005-2006. But, what would be completely weird is if that eMac gets a G5 first....