Next-gen iMac’s: Redesign?


Apple’s next-generation iMacs to add a touch of grace

This article made me pause for a minute when I saw the headline. Val and I are considering picking up a tiny little mac for our living room, just to make life easy for web-browsing, quick email’age and such. But now it could be worth the wait for a low-end dual core chip and most likely the Leopard release.

Anyone else heard more about this? Typically at this point we wait about a week for some geek to sit on the US Patent office website and watch sketches roll through just so they can be the first moron to post it to digg. But hey, I like surprises.

New ImacAppleInsider has learned that Apple’s popular line of iMac personal computers are about to undergo a substantial facelift that will showcase striking new industrial designs aimed at leaving both competitors and onlookers smitten.

People familiar with the matter say the Cupertino-based Mac maker has called upon its award-winning design chief Jonathan Ive and his team to cut the fat from the the current iMac line and outfit a pair of new Core 2 Duo-based models in a form factor that will be both slimmer and sleeker than today’s offerings.

For Apple, the impending iMac makeover will represent the first major industrial design overhaul to hit its flagship all-in-one consumer desktop line in nearly three years. The last eye candy to accompany an iMac update came back in August of 2004, when the company retired its “sunflower” iMac G4 design while introducing the portrait-style iMac G5.

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