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New iMac disassembled
Author: Joe MartinPublished: 9th August 2007
The new iMac, ripped open for the crows to feast on. Mwhahahaha.
Okay, okay - that is just friendly prejudice and Apple isn't really all that bad, but we were still glad to see what's inside the new, fourth-generation iMac.
Enter Kodawarisan, a Japanese site which has taken apart a new iMac ever-so-carefully just so that we, Internet freaks, can satisfy our raging curiosity.
As usual, it's nothing actually ground-breaking and the iMac still incorporates all the usual PC hardware - DVD burner, SATA drive, etc. - but as Engadget points out, it's still fascinating just to see how Apple has crammed all of it into such a small shell.
Kodawarisan has got the full image set, but we've got a fistful of the most important images below to give you the general idea of what lays on the other side of the fence.
In the mean time, you can head over to the forums to let us know just what you think of Mac computers as a whole and exactly why they always have to be so damn stylish and sexy.
The original iMac / the cover removed
The guts / main heatpipe
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Comments (105)
G3 -> G4 lampshade -> G5 all-in-one -> Intel all-in-one -> Intel all-in-one v2.0
I don't see where the iMac fits, it strikes me as the worst of both worlds, a Macbook without the portability, or a Mac Pro without the power and customisability.
But it does look damn sexy, so maybe that's the salient point?:?
I've used iMacs a lot, and I must say they're quite convenient even though they're completely sealed, but thats what I have my windows machine for right? :p
I guess the engineer in me just wonders why they don't design a tablet style flippy-over-twisty-round-screen Macbook to go on a nice brushed aluminium stand with a nice wireless keyboard and mouse. You get the same effect but with portability when you want it.
I'm impressed with how they managed to get all that stuff into such a small case as everyone else. But as everyone else I can't see this happen without running into overheating issues. This one better be far better designed than the 360. ;)
Where's the nice computer with a nice clean install of Windows?
sony has some windows desktops with the same approach...
http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10551&storeId=10151&langId=-1&productId=8198552921665089229
all it is, is basically a notebook with the screen mounted the wrong way round (true for both the mac and the sony one)
I do like Apple stuff (apart from the iPod), and love the whole concept/history. But I still can't stand the way they advertise their machines, relying on blatant insults and stereotyping.
As for PCs with similar design - there's no point. The PC market is so competitive that expensive, nicely designed computers just wouldn't sell. PCs are generally cheap and cheerful on the outside, but have beasty innards.
It's not that we hate macs, we don't, it's the stuck up, self important, supercilious little twats that rave on about them being 'perfect machines' that we don't like.
edit:
so its not that you dont like macs, its that you dont like being told how perfect they are? there are problems wih macs. hard to build one from scratch, hard to upgrade parts other than ram/hd, and the biggest problem is very limited support for gaming. although u can install vista or xp and play games that way, which is a hassle.
Another thing is the OS doesn't do anything new that Windows can't do already. I like Windows, there's no reason for me to use OS X (and a Hell of a lot of OS X things piss me off).
I completely agree!
A few mm extra thickness would be well worth it as a tradeoff to make it a functional laptop as well. After all, it is essentially just a laptop with no battery anyway.