Tuesday, August 31, 2004 |
14:27 - Oh hell yeah
http://www.apple.com/imac/
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Yes. Yes, that will do quite nicely.
I seem to recall that when the flat-panel iMac was first announced, three and a half years ago, Steve made a big joke out of the idea that it would simply be an iMac with a flat screen and all the components crammed up behind the monitor, so it would just be a flat vertical piece. The real solution, at the time, was to separate the computer and the monitor and use that awesome flexible arm.
But I guess maybe the arm has turned out not to be quite such an important component as it was previously thought. So instead, now the components are all crammed up behind the monitor, and the left-right swivel takes place by simply sliding the thing on its stand. This is precisely what Steve said he wasn't going to unveil in January 2001.
As I recall, the whole deal with the rejection of the vertical design had to do with the fact that optical drives don't work well in a vertical orientation; that's why the CD-ROM in the 20th Anniversary Mac was so slow-running. Maybe optical drives are more robust now (remember when you couldn't wave a hard drive around at more than 1g acceleration, because the heads would crash?). Or maybe Steve is just fickle.
17- and 20-inch screens, eh? Nice. And widescreen. Nicer still. I might just be in the market for one of these, as my original 2001 desklamp model (with its 15" screen) is now only a quarter the screen space as Apple's biggest monitor. I feel so behind-the-times...
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