17-inch flat-Panel iMac Dead 517
EnlightenmentFan writes "Apple plans to stop production in June of the iMac with flat-panel 17-inch display, according to this article at Asian tech-news site Digitimes. As with the now-history 15" flat-panel iMac, sales started strong but stalled once the early-adopter crowd had bought in. Probably-not-unrelated story (also posted today): Chungwha Picture Tubes is boosting the price of its 17-inch LCD monitor panels."
this is terrible (Score:3, Funny)
Those poor mac users! (Score:4, Funny)
Teachers with tons of ungraded papers on their desks yelling:
I don't have any room on my desk for a monitor, you insensitve clod!
I'm confused ! (Score:3, Funny)
17-inch flat-Panel iMac Dead
MicroBSD 0.6RC2 Released
shouldn't that be:
MicroBSD is Dead (or dying) and
17-inch flat-Panel Released (We've seen dupes, and late posts so why not)
just when you though you got things figured...
Cost (Score:3, Funny)
Drop the price, like a THOUSAND dollars, and I'll bet they move like hotcakes.
19" iMac (Score:3, Funny)
It's not the end of the iMac. Apple will be in business next month. They will still be selling one button mice. They will still be annoying Wintel gearheads.
Re:Very notable (Score:2, Funny)
twat
Re:Cost (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Very notable (Score:5, Funny)
The CRT-based vi is still available though, right?
Re:Apples market research? (Score:2, Funny)
If I put a fan-less heatsink on my Athlon, removed the case fans, and disabled the power supply fan, it'd run silent, too. Of course, I'd probably have a dysfunctional machine on my hands quite quickly.
-Sara
Re:imac = overpriced (Score:1, Funny)
No one read beyond that line in your post.
Sure, I'll sell you $200 for $1000, dumbass.
Re:Apples market research? (Score:4, Funny)
This won't happen, because "Apple's market research" can be restated as "Steve's design sense", which, in case you haven't noticed, is a measure of how symmetrical something is.
Apple seems to always make marketing blunders when radial symmetry -- the highest order of Steve's Design Sense -- is involved in the design. Examples: the Cube, the round mouse, the new iMac. Steve is obviously brilliant, but sometimes he takes his particular taste a little too far.
Re:Apples market research? (Score:2, Funny)
I-I I-do I-agree I-with I-your I-points I-despite I-you I-calling I-it I-an "I-Cube"
Re:Apples market research? (Score:3, Funny)
Uhm, yes, the cube didn't do that (often) which made the heat control a cool engineering trick, I don't see why your athlon melting proves that apple can't design something that works?
Cooled cabinets for banks of them? You had a bank of cubes? Find me a bank of computers that doesn't use some cooling outside the case or extraordinary cooling inside the case.
Finally, the "lack of proper heat control" methods was a feature, no noisy fans or other weird stuff, just good old fashioned voodoo to keep it cool.
As with all Flat Panels on the Market... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Apples market research? (Score:2, Funny)
As for my Athlon melting if I didn't provide it with proper cooling, I was merely saying that I could run my Athlon silently too if I followed the path that Apple went with the cube. It's just not smart to remove all cooling, and the G4 Cube was not a very triumphant success in this area. As for "banks", I meant anything over 3 of them in close proximity, and once again--it wasn't my personal experience, as I never purchased a cube. Merely something I heard from someone whose employer had.
As for the "feature" comment, it's only a feature if it works reliably. If the computer likes to go into meltdown at an oddly high rate, then it's not a feature.
There are athlons that run silently using a combination of a special power supply, quiet HDD, a heatsink with no moving parts, and an aluminum case, THOSE have the "feature". The cube did not.
-Sara
Re:MacWorld (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Guess it wasn't cute enough. (Score:2, Funny)
To which the obvious reply is: we should all have such problems.
Re:Apples market research? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Early Adopter crowd? (Score:2, Funny)