New brushed aluminium iMacs concept

[Levi- The perfectionist]

... rumours say that they're coming August 7, heres a thought to wet your appley appetite;

Product RED iMac

* Black, white and silver variants for higher spec models (iMac Pro)

* lots of different colour variations (red, blue, green, pink, yellow, purple...) for standard models

Features:

* slimmer profile than current models

* brushed metal

* Easy access side ports including USB (for flash drives) and headphone jack.

* All other ports- ethernet, firewire, power and additional USB etc at the back).

* Dual CD burner drive with on-the-fly mode (fast cd burn mode that allows you to burn cd copies without having to store anythiing on the hard drive in between).

* An adjustable stand (yes the mockups dont really show it).

[Linwe]

i can't see the image!! but get me a blue one

[Silverlight]

I can't see the picture either but it would have to be White, Green or Blue (Depending on Hues) or perhaps Rainbow? lol

I hope they are able to play Blu-ray (and HD DVD for whoever has 'em) but I'm pretty sure that they will.

[painkilleryusuf]

can you please host the image on imageshack?

[Levi- The perfectionist]

how bizzare... it shows up on my computer (macbook pro running OSX 10.4.10... but then I went to the windows platform (xp) on my other pc and it doesnt show up...

a sign dont you think? (just kidding).

I tried imageshack and it doesnt work either...

OK, i uploaded jpeg thru my XP machine and used the "save for web" option in photoshop to compress it down to 44kb. I think th previouse file size (956kb) must have been too big for firefox to load or something.

[Jake Moore]

neat-o, gimme a white one.

[Ertai88]

I dunno, I kinda like the current iMac design. But Apple should stick in dual CD drives and thin it down a bit.

[Levi- The perfectionist]

I dunno, I kinda like the current iMac design. But Apple should stick in dual CD drives and thin it down a bit.

I too love the current imac design and didnt think there was much I could really change.

The main complaint I hear about the imacs is the size of the "chin" where the Apple logo is on the front. Thus I have cut it off and added a bigger screen in my mockups.

Secondly, I personally am over the clear plastic + white look... it looks toyish. I was inspired by the 2nd gen nanos which both look funky and are hardwearing at the same time, but also the Mac Pro/powermac which looks tough.

I used nano source images to create the mockups.

Its time Apple brought back the colour to computers which made them popular!

Dual drives would be hard to create specially in such a thin computer, but It was just an idea I had...

[mps69]

I'm for the silver or black ones.

However I'm not wanting to see the white in the side view of the colored ones, make all the same.

I think it look too much the aerial view of the older iPods (don't know what gen it was).

I just think redish, blueish etc looks cheap and tacky. :slant:

[iGo]

I wonder if iMac's will loose their "chin" so easily. Let's see how John Ivy and team slim down iMacs.

[Levi- The perfectionist]

@ iGo... I think the only real way they can do it is to increase the thickness of the imacs to fit in all those internals behind the bigger screen.

I dont care if they do, so long as its not wayyy to thick.

@mps69 - its based on a nano 2nd gen source image .

[Converse]

Whoop, whoop!

Didn't see the green one! My fiancée wants everything in the lime green.

[zondajag]

hmmm thats cool...though i would have expected the new imacs to be more widescreen than these. I worry that the new imac will just become a skinny laptop with a metal stand and no keyboard. Maybe there will be a thin low powered nano version of the imac and a thicker beefier more powerful version released as well (like the whole macbook and macbook pro thing). (Though they do already have the mac pro but thats mainly aimed towards the hardcore technophiles and multimedia producers). I had a feeling everthing would go brushed metal eventually. Ever since i saw the ipod mini i thought hmmm..what about having a [insert all other hardware here] with an aluminium case.

[Levi- The perfectionist]

Whoop, whoop!

Didn't see the green one! My fiancée wants everything in the lime green.

down the bottom left of the third picture

[Quube LC]

I like the idea. If those come out I'll get a black iMac Pro

[Levi- The perfectionist]

I worry that the new imac will just become a skinny laptop with a metal stand and no keyboard.

like this ;

(not mine, found it on applecollection.com)

hmmm thats cool...though i would have expected the new imacs to be more widescreen than these.

I had a feeling everthing would go brushed metal eventually.

Here you go! One new widescreen imac!... (hope you dont mind white)

[CyberTeddy]

it should be white.. like that.. or transparent!?

[Levi- The perfectionist]

it should be white.. like that.. or transparent!?

like this?

(not mine)

its cool.... but wayyy over the top.

[shmengie]

i like that you put the power button on the side. much better than where apple put it.

[Mac Intosh]

I like the iMacs just the way they are. Maybe they should have black and white options. I don't think iMacs will ever become more than black and white. I think maybe just a little thinner would be nice, but I'm not expecting much out of the new iMacs. What if it was possible to have a built-in printer? That is too much but it would be kinda cool.

[CyberTeddy]

like this?

(not mine)

its cool.... but wayyy over the top.

yeah! i like that. the keyboard is not bad either!

[Levi- The perfectionist]

update-

An Apple press event has been Officially anounced;

http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/apple-g...vent-next-week/

"Looks like those rumors about new Macs (specifically, iMacs) on the 7th were true -- we were just invited to an Apple "product presentation for Mac" at Apple Town Hall in Cupertino next week."

..."this is going to be a press gathering for Mac products (and Mac products only -- so stash away those iPhone hopes, fears, and rumors until next Wednesday)."

woot woot! this is EXCITING!

[Soniku]

... rumours say that they're coming August 7, heres a thought to wet your appley appetite;

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I see you were quite bored :p but it's still cool

[Quillz]

It's a nice concept, but I just can't see the new iMac looking like this at all. I think we might see an entirely new ground-up design, like how the G5 iMac looked nothing like the G3 or G4 iMac.

[Plexform]

I don't like this...I'm also "plastic-white look" fan...and I like the chin on current iMacs