The future of PCs (Not Macs) Concepts

[Jmymx1]

Don't know what PC concepts are? Basically they are PCs which tend to look like in the future with enhanced features and other stuff. But have these PCs really have a chance to destoy the PCs that exist today? You can actually buy these but will cost a fortune...

This is a PC inside the keyboard. Who knows how much it weighs. You only need a monitor and a mouse to use it.

This is a PC inside a monitor. You only need a keyboard and a mouse to make it work.

Not actually PCs, but are monitors that can be hanged on the wall.

This is a touch screen PC. You need nothing to make it work.

By the looks of it, it could be the future of PCs, but are not in regular stores such as Best Buy and etc.

Original Source: Cybernet Man

[davidsword]

they look like chunky, ugly offsprings of imac's

[SirSmiley]

Those all look like more than a couple steps back IMO.

There's no reason for the touchscreen monitor to be that thick with the 3M technology

I don't think it should be any more than a 1 cm at best.

[wizard]

They look like clunky and ugly PeeCees.

Honestly, still tray loading optical drives?!? Get on the slot loading drives people!

Silver and black plastic is not sexy anymore. It looks dated.

[schmrom]

1st April?

Edit: Okay, haven't seen the link... they are more then ugly... disgusting

[iGo]

Thank god I am not the only one who thinks those things are ugly.

[alpha2zulu]

Here's another one with that opinion. No worries, iGo.

[Paralex]

Eww, lol.

[Raats]

Hopefully this is a stale April fool's joke.

The first one looks like my old Sinclair ZX Spectrum from 1982 or actually, it looks just like the Amiga 1200 from 1992...

As for the rest??!!!

So much for new ideas.

[Borix]

Yep Amiga 1200 was my first thought aswell

[nickheer]

If this is the future, I want to stay where I am right now, thanks.

[ShadyApple]

lol the monitors isn't even widescreen.

[aquamarinealien]

i vomited a little in my mouth when i saw the photos on the website.

[Necroplasm]

These certainly aren't concepts. but bad copies of what's already been done in the homecomputer-market. Commodore had it's hardware in a keyboard, the iMac has had a slotin-drive in it's display for years and almost every LCD-display complies with a certain standard to mount it to the wall by removing its foot.

Future of PCs? Get a good preinstalled OS (whatever that might be, it's certainly not starting with a "W" in its name), dump the fracking BIOS, remove legacy-slots (IDE, PCI, Floppy, PS/2) and we'll talk about "future"...

[metallicamaster3]

remove legacy-slots (IDE, PCI, Floppy, PS/2)

Noooo.

Removing those would be disasterous. You do know how many parts are on the market that use IDE and PCI? 3/4 of my whole spare parts pile are IDE, PCI/E/X and (dated, yes) AGP. Floppies and PS/2 I can see, but what if your favorite mouse went haywire and the only one you had left was the old one from your Windows 98 machine in the garage?

Floppies too... They might not be the storage-thing as it was before, but I still use them day in and day out. They help out in tremendous ways with Operating Systems... Linux most notably. I got my whole GRUB installation on floppy, so that if the floppy is not inserted in my server, it cannot boot.

So there's some productivity... heck, even security!

[swimmingrocks]

man that is ugly

[brokenlighter]

Our macs will look even better

[Jmymx1]

Our macs will look even better

Thats true but Apple really needs to improve the iMac. Its the same look only the difference is the color. First it was white but now its greyish black. Whats next? Black and pink?

EDIT!!!

I recently talked to Steve Jobs and he showed me this picture:

Steve told me this was the iMac that was supposed to come out but it was postponed until Mac OS X 10.6. There is also a new Apple Logo.

[wizard]

Apple is past the clear plastic coating. The iMac on a stick, iCube, first and second gen iPods were that last of them. I happen to have liked them, it took me a long time to warm up to the brushed metal casings.

"I recently talked to Steve Jobs and he showed me this picture:"

"Steve told me this was the iMac that was supposed to come out but it was postponed until Mac OS X 10.6. There is also a new Apple Logo."

You think we're morons!?!

[Jmymx1]

You think we're morons!?!

Don't worry... I'm only joking around.

[iGo]

Don't worry... I'm only joking around.

Yeh.... I thought so. Steve doesn't talk to Aqua-Softians without consulting me first...

[painkilleryusuf]

lolz. iGo..

Anyways..i think the same what most of you guys think.. THEY ARE UGLY THINGS..

[Ellada]

Thats true but Apple really needs to improve the iMac. Its the same look only the difference is the color. First it was white but now its greyish black. Whats next? Black and pink?

EDIT!!!

I recently talked to Steve Jobs and he showed me this picture:

Steve told me this was the iMac that was supposed to come out but it was postponed until Mac OS X 10.6. There is also a new Apple Logo.

what's wrong with the imac (design wise)?

on topic: all of these concepts are stupid. the computer-in-keyboard one is the dumbest. how many of you have spilled soda on your keyboard?

[Ertai88]

Floppies too... They might not be the storage-thing as it was before, but I still use them day in and day out. They help out in tremendous ways with Operating Systems... Linux most notably. I got my whole GRUB installation on floppy, so that if the floppy is not inserted in my server, it cannot boot.

So there's some productivity... heck, even security!

Hmm, thats pretty clever. Got a tutorial or something?

[KAWSquared]

Honestly, still tray loading optical drives?!? Get on the slot loading drives people!

this would be a problem for me, i use mini dvd's for certain things.

case in point, my friend told me i could put a mini dvd into his optical drive and it got stuck.

lulz.