08-07-2007, 07:44 PM
Based on the rumors floating around, I knew that the iMac's form factor wasn't going to change considerably. Yes, now it's thinner and shinier and blacker, but I'm sick of the slab on an upside down ice cream cone form factor.
I mean, Apple started with this form factor with the first G5 iMac. We have gone through multiple cycles with a thinner enclosure, added iSight, then the switch to Intel, then upgraded CPUs and now a thinner and different colored look.
But, the form factor is basically the same.
I know people say that this form factor is darn near perfect and Apple would be hard pressed to improve on it. I don't believe that. This *is* Apple, after all. If anybody could improve on something already considered perfect, this is the company to do it.
Do I have any suggestions on ways to improve it? Well, they don't pay me like I'm sure Mr. Ives gets paid, but at least at the bare minimum, they could have made the stand *height* adjustable. I mean, that would have been easy.
What's the next generation iMac going to look like? Well, I don't know, but I hope it's something radically different.
I mean, Apple started with this form factor with the first G5 iMac. We have gone through multiple cycles with a thinner enclosure, added iSight, then the switch to Intel, then upgraded CPUs and now a thinner and different colored look.
But, the form factor is basically the same.
I know people say that this form factor is darn near perfect and Apple would be hard pressed to improve on it. I don't believe that. This *is* Apple, after all. If anybody could improve on something already considered perfect, this is the company to do it.
Do I have any suggestions on ways to improve it? Well, they don't pay me like I'm sure Mr. Ives gets paid, but at least at the bare minimum, they could have made the stand *height* adjustable. I mean, that would have been easy.
What's the next generation iMac going to look like? Well, I don't know, but I hope it's something radically different.