Thursday, July 01, 2004
So, it seems like Apple accidentally ran out of iMacs today (oops), and the new ones won't be here until September. Last week there was a lot of talk of a new iMac excepted at WWDC including how it would look - supposedly a G5-based system with a vertically arranged motherboard and built in flat panel. The vertically arranged part suggests the old G4 Cube to me - that they might be looking to combine their liquid cooling with a passive convection based approach that doesn't require fans like the heatpipes you see on some of the Shuttle XPCs.
Anyway, the funny thing is that yesterday before Apple announced this, the French rumor site MacBidouille posted their conspiracy theory on the when the new iMac was going to be released, and that it would be a special "20th anniversay of the Mac" kind of deal. After today's announcement by Apple that they ran out of iMacs and won't have new ones before September, this wacky theory may actually be pretty close to the truth...
Given how Apple never preannounces products, and how the Mac has such a fervent rumor community, it seems hilarious (if true) that Steve would give away the date and place where the new iMacs are going to be released (based on the three Spotlight searches he did: "iMac", "Paris" and "birthday", pointing to a birthday launch of the iMac at MacWorld in Paris in September).
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Anyway, the funny thing is that yesterday before Apple announced this, the French rumor site MacBidouille posted their conspiracy theory on the when the new iMac was going to be released, and that it would be a special "20th anniversay of the Mac" kind of deal. After today's announcement by Apple that they ran out of iMacs and won't have new ones before September, this wacky theory may actually be pretty close to the truth...
Given how Apple never preannounces products, and how the Mac has such a fervent rumor community, it seems hilarious (if true) that Steve would give away the date and place where the new iMacs are going to be released (based on the three Spotlight searches he did: "iMac", "Paris" and "birthday", pointing to a birthday launch of the iMac at MacWorld in Paris in September).
