New Flat Pannel I-Mac....

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Whoa, now that's a good looking machine...

But I didn't say that

Hum... It's different.
But frankly I'M not too impressed. If I was to buy one of those compact desktop computer, I'd prefer the IBM Netvista X
http://commerce.www.ibm.com/cgi-bin/ncommerce/CategoryDisplay?cgrfnbr=2276963&cntrfnbr=1&cgmenbr=1&cntry=840&lang=en_US .

really getting board with all the spacintosh stuff being posted

They decapitated R2D2 and stuck a monitor on his head!

It looks like it should be in the garden remotely mowing the lawn!

Looks to be something I would want to place my TV dinner on while watching reruns of I Love Lucy.........

ja!
check this site

http://www.applele.com/

I'm very pleased with the specs on the new iMac. The inclusion of the G4 rather than the aging G3 makes this a much more compelling machine, IMO. I'm still undecided on the base design but overall it's seems pretty nifty. I just might pick one of those mid-priced puppies up within the next 6 months depending on the changes to the Power Mac line-up at the time.

I like the color of the Netvista better but having to 'clamp' or bolt down my monitor to be able to use the radial arm just makes it seem badly designed.

I wouldn't be too quick to compare the new iMac to the Cube, either. The Cube didn't fail because of it's form factor, it failed for the simple reason that it was priced about $600 too high at introduction compared to the other models in the Apple line-up. Considering the system specs, I don't think this is the case with the new iMac, at all.

The new Apple iPhoto software is also seriously nifty, IMHO.

A friend at work (a Mac user BTW) said something hilarious: oh, so the Cube didn't sell, so they're trying a ball now?

It's a pitty they didn't call it the I-ball

The hiMate R1 (under notebook) at the Appele link listed above is something that they should all be looking more into.

That imac should be the iball. It is scarey at first, but now I think it looks OK. I think it would look wicked in real life, sat on a desk!

Urgh, the shaping of the cube was a good idea, executed miserably (designwise), but this thing is just hideous. No shape integration or relation whatsoever! It's good that they managed to cram an entie machine into a lamp, but some more shape studies would've been nice.

i've looked at a lot of those LCD screens and have not been very impressed. they seem to run good at only one resolution 1024 x 768. a higher resolution is often not available and at lower resolutions the text is very fuzzy! i am also not very keen on the looks of the new imac flat panel. i heard that there is a new CRT in the making though and that will only be an inch thick! i think i'll wait.

How can a CRT be an inch thick? Impossible!! But I'd like to see it. How can it be anything like that?

The reason why CRT's are so deep is because the electron cannons in the back shoot a beam forward, which has to be deflected line by line by magnetic coils. So the radius is limited. That's why I don't see an inch deep CRT coming anytime soon.

hi it's me again, took me a while but i found the article where it talked about those screens, it was at zdnet, i hope the link stays good, zdnet's bad for that. www.zdnet.com/pcmag/news/trends/t960627b.htm
i know that this is probably well into the future but i can always hope, eh? (sorry true canadian here.)

Of course, that article is dated June of '96... one has to wonder if the technology ever went anywhere. There's also not any indication in the article of consumer possibilities nor of anything in a remotely usable size/resolution.

true. i am just really disappointed in the resolution of the LCD. does anyone know of a LCD monitor that kicks butt on all resolutions? and don't tell me to get the I-Mac! i have heard that there is an adaptor to adapt it to PC but will it run as good on a PC?

Renita, the link above for the new I-Mac is a whole computer, not just a screen. And no, I doubt you can find an adapter to plug an i-Mac computer in your video card.

And by the way, I have at home an 21 inch Apple monitor (actually a Sony Trinitron, but sold under the Apple brand), and it works perfectly fine. Apple screens work just as well on a PC, granted you have an adapter and that you can find the drivers.

From what I've seen, LCD monitors are generally created to work best at specific resolutions - 15" at 1024x768, 17" at 1280x1024, etc... That's one of the reasons I chose to go with the CRT Apple Studio Display when I purchased my Mac G4, rather than an LCD... However, I don't generally switch resolutions frequently so my next monitor will no doubt be one of the Apple LCD's.

...and yes, Renita, the iMac is a complete and rather powerful all-in-one computer. The entire computer is in the half-melon shaped base.

Trouble with TFT (not LCD) screens is that that default resolution is too low for me. I'm the type that goes 1600x1200 on a 17" CRT.

renita here,
so i take it that there is not much upgrading going to be happening in this new i-mac? i'm the kind of person who can't keep her fingers out of the computer case, you should see the bills! hehehe