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Post number 14927

MintSauce — Wed, 20 Feb 2002 01:50:27 -0800

Pixar iMac ads in the Luxo Jr style ... inevitable really.

By: sycophant

sycophant — Wed, 20 Feb 2002 02:00:10 -0800

Ha! That was one of the first things that popped into my head when I saw the new iMac - 'looks like a table lamp,' I said to myself, 'a bit like the one in that Pixar thing.'

By: Lionfire

Lionfire — Wed, 20 Feb 2002 02:09:35 -0800

Hey -- they dance? If you'd told me that before, I might have bought one :)

By: fpatrick

fpatrick — Wed, 20 Feb 2002 05:37:47 -0800

Talk abou inevitable . . . how about a "powerful new screensaver" that "turns the iMac 2002 into an ultra-modern desk lamp."

By: Su

Su — Wed, 20 Feb 2002 06:10:06 -0800

That one with the drive going in-out in-out is just lewd. I'm so offended. 'n stuff.

By: ParisParamus

ParisParamus — Wed, 20 Feb 2002 06:43:50 -0800

Two questions: are colors inevitable? If Apple reduces the PC to a hidden dome, is it shooting itself in the face; erasing one of its previous marketing appeals. Actually, I suspect they reasoned that this disappearence of the CPU was/is inevitable and Apple wanted to get there first.

By: mikemonteiro

mikemonteiro — Wed, 20 Feb 2002 06:54:25 -0800

Swivelness aside; the iDeskLamp tops out at 256M of ram. That seems like a dubious decision on apple's part. Even casual users are gonna hit that fairly easily.

By: mkelley

mkelley — Wed, 20 Feb 2002 07:08:47 -0800

mikemonterio: the iMac tops out at 1gb of ram.

By: mikemonteiro

mikemonteiro — Wed, 20 Feb 2002 07:17:10 -0800

mklleye: my bad.

By: jpburns

jpburns — Wed, 20 Feb 2002 07:44:36 -0800

So... why is it squealing like R2D2 in the commercial? If it did that when I plugged it in, I'd call AppleCare.

By: olav

olav — Wed, 20 Feb 2002 07:51:39 -0800

Too bad the monitor doesn't rotate vertically so it is oriented like a sheet of paper. Most web pages are layed out this way and it would make them a lot easier to read.

By: O9scar

O9scar — Wed, 20 Feb 2002 07:59:35 -0800

Funny how one of Apple's fans beat them to it..

By: pixelgeek

pixelgeek — Wed, 20 Feb 2002 09:12:19 -0800

Swivelness aside; the iDeskLamp tops out at 256M of ram. That seems like a dubious decision on apple's part. Even casual users are gonna hit that fairly easily. Thats in the internal slot. There is a user accessible external slot that can be upgraded so that the machine has 1GB of RAM.

By: kindall

kindall — Wed, 20 Feb 2002 11:19:08 -0800

Even if it did top out at 256MB, that's adequate for most purposes when you're running an OS with a real VM system, like, oh I don't know, maybe UNIX... Apple should use that!

By: rorycberger

rorycberger — Wed, 20 Feb 2002 19:08:05 -0800

I'm surprised that Apple hasn't run the first thirty seconds or so of this video as a stand-alone television ad for the new imac. I watched the MacWorld Keynote speech (when this was first shown) with a crowd at my local Apple store, and that animation got a huge response.

By: Dome-O-Rama

Dome-O-Rama — Wed, 20 Feb 2002 20:23:25 -0800

kindall - most mac users are graphics people, in one way or another, we don't work like PC people. And unix don't cut it. Hell, Linux can't cut it. Photoshop is coming out any minute for OSX, and you can run it in classic mode, which runs just as easily for me on my G4 Powerbook. mac users dont' want unix, we wants macs. Deal with it geek boys. We shun thee.

By: kindall

kindall — Wed, 20 Feb 2002 20:42:12 -0800

That whooshing sound you heard was my post going right over your head, Dome... My point was, Apple is using UNIX. That's what Mac OS X is.

By: patricking

patricking — Wed, 20 Feb 2002 23:29:22 -0800

this is one mac (and graphics) person who's totally into unix. for the record, the *only* reason you can run anything from adobe in classic mode is that there's OS9 copy buried inside the OSX app. OSX users can simply remove and :::plunk::: into the trash. i did this with illustrator and my installation size went from 72MB to 5MB.