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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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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.
The previous edition had no floppy drive. Perhaps this one has no hardware at all ;-)
"[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
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.
The machine seems to us well punt, and the history a rocambolesque hair.
Automatic translaton systems never fail...to amuse and confuse.
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
iMac G5
Steve Jobs' Reality Distortion Field (TM). So the thing must be real. Gasp!
It is an 'oax.
:-)
helps if you say it in a Cleese accent
When they came for the communists, I said "He's next door. Take him away. Goddam commies."
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.
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
:wq
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...
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)
0 1 - just my two bits
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 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.