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One of the happy surprises from Apple’s event today was the new iMac. Now that the dust has settled people are putting their grubby blogger-paws all over that shiny, pristine monolith. Guess what, it’s like, suuuuper thin!
Engadget:
It’s hard to overstate just how phenomenal this machine looks in the flesh. It’s also unbelievably thin — we’d be impressed if it were simply a new Cinema Display, but the fact that a computer is in there really takes it over the top. At £1,099, you’ll be hard-pressed to find a sexier all-in-one (assuming you don’t need an inbuilt optical drive, of course).
The Verge:
Apple’s using a ridiculously aggressive rounded back to make the sides appear almost impossibly thin until you come around fully to the back, at which point the true depth of the machine is apparent. It’s a trick, but it works incredibly well… the laminated front glass and anti-glare treatments make images look like they’re lying right on top of the screen… Overall it looks stunning – the first real reason to replace an iMac in years.
TechCrunch:
What you may not have seen from watching the presentation is that it still is fairly thick at its thickest point, but that doesn’t detract from the overall impression, which makes the machine appear surreal at first glance… Performance with Mountain Lion and Aperture seemed silky smooth on both versions, but that’s not surprising giving their specifications. And using the new Fusion Drive, which combines the speed advantages of flash memory with the capacity of platter hard disk drives definitely seems to speed things up compared to my 2011 27-inch iMac with a 1TB standard hard drive.
SlashGear:
What’s changed is the way the screens are layered together, and even without Retina that’s impressive. Optical lamination, just as we’ve seen used on the iPhone 5, brings the LCD IPS and cover glass together into a single pane, for what Apple says is 75-percent less reflection. To our eyes, though, it’s the colours and detail that really stand out.
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I want one.
I have the 2011 updated 2009 model, I love it to bits but still wish was as thin. I’ll get over it, I like mine
But kudos to them for making it more thin.
Wouldn’t it be funny if it was 5mm thin at the sides but 2 meters thick in the middle. Mehehe.
Funny how practically all the shots of it on the apple web site are from the front and they only let journos take shots of it in a darkened room
That 5mm is a bit of a gimmick. I guess they needed to change something but it seems they went back rather than forwards with that bubble. No optical drive is not great for a desktop either, that’s one port gone. SD card at the back, a real pain. And I wonder how hot those are going to be.
Am I the only one who thinks that thinness is kind of useless in a non-mobile device…?
Oh well, it does look pretty damn sweet in fairness.
yes, always thought that of TVs.
One thing’s for sure, if the new cinema display is anything as beautiful as this then there’s no reason to think the fabled Apple television won’t be a stunning piece of technology too.
Anyone else think that Apple are treating the Mac line as an after thought these days? They seem to be more interested in pushing iOS stuff rather than Macs.
It’s a shame, but why buy into a dying system?
Sure, the iOS line of products have been responsible for Apple’s ridiculous growth over the last 4 or so years, but designing a new iMac seems to me to be rather resource intensive. It looks like they’ve gotten round to it after making sure their other products have been updated within product life cycle time frames. The iMac’s life cycle was rather more flexible and so simply wasn’t adhered to beyond simple spec bumps.
But at the same time they really had to get it right. And I happen to think it’s gorgeous. Can’t wait to see it in the metal.
Essentially all apple products are moving towards a similar form factor – unibody metal rear, around 5-10mm thick (touch screen optional). I can imagine in the near future when they will all look pretty much the same with the exception of size. This could also be true of the fabled apple television – a large edge to edge iPad. Even laptops will end up being all the guts in the screen and a slimline keyboard on the front (like the surface!). I think this is a great direction to take – slowly shrinking the bulky ‘computerness’ of each product. The only issue I see with this is that the iPhone5 – IMHO, is too light. You need to know it’s there and in some cases it actually increases the feeling of quality if something is heavier…It’d also be nice to have the bevelled back on the next iPhone!