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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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Thanks to google. clicky
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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 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
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
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...
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.
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.
One of Apple's strongest selling lines has been their notebooks. Considering that some people actually buy notebooks as desktop replacements, you may not be completely off-the-mark. A desktop iMac with a small footprint and a dockable tablet that links wirelessly would fit this market well, working as a desktop, yet providing portability. It would fit the same niche market for people that use notebooks around the home, while alleviating the problem of dealing with plugging and unplugging cables. Steve Jobs did seem to give a clue that Apple may be working on some kind of wireless product- here's a quote from AppleInsider...