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Rate the design (not the features!) of the new iMac G5 on a scale from 0 (worst) to 10 (best)
1/1: Rate the design (not the features!) of the new iMac G5 on a scale from 0 (worst) to 10 (best)
Other polls | 1,339 votes | 10 comments
9 of 10
I gave it only a 9/10 because nothing is perfect, though this comes pretty damn close.
A solid whack with the ugly stick
Personally, from the pictures I've seen, this is one of the most butt-ugly things to come out of Cuppertino in years. Looks like an iMac designed by the MacPlus designer! I'm sitting here in front of my beautiful iMac G4 with it's almost animal like 'neck' wondering why we have to go back to the 80s for the new design.
A solid whack with the ugly stick
(Off topic but the fact that everything fits into such a 'small space' is no great feat either. All you have there is a G5 laptop with a larger screen and external keyboard.)
9/10
9 out of 10 until it comes with a compact, say PB or iBook like, lightweight, wireless keyboard.....
The space.
I like it all but the large bit of space underneth the screen. On the old imacs that space was filled by two speakers, a cd drive, a power button, ect. Now it's just got an apple logo. I suppose I want it to look like a flatscreen display.
user-serviceability
Externally, I'll probably get used to the yawning bezel as quickly as on my eMac. My wife likes to laugh about the eMac's SuperDrive tongue. :-)
One thing the new internal design has going for it is convenient user-serviceability in comparison with previous iMacs and the eMac, as indicated by Apple's iMac G5 parts you can install yourself article and exposed backside photos. And a 1GB DIMM is significantly less expensive than a 1GB SO-DIMM.
G5 iMac
The new iMac G5 certainly is plain. I don't know yet whether I find it refreshingly so, or just boring. It remains to be seen how well it will sell, but the cost of making it is a lot less than making the iMac G4 Flat Panel, with its chrome neck, etc., so from the standpoint of the number of iMacs Apple would sell anyway, regardless of its appearance, Apple will save a lot there. They also dropped about $300 from the average price, so they've automatically reduced how much profit they'll make, but maybe that'll help sell more of them, which may offset the loss of sales to people who won't buy it because it's so plain.
FW hub
Yep, FireWire hubs exist. Web search for "firewire hub". :-)
great
I just come back from AppleExpo.
Apple, can you touch this?
As jonsaw said above, the new iMac does look rather plain; whether that was done intentionally or not. |
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