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Curved iMac Concept

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[H] reader Dave A. sent me a link to some dudes portfolio that has probably the most amazing looking iMac I have ever laid eyes on. The chances of me switching from PC to Mac just went way up (don’t get excited, it went from 0.00% to 0.50%)...but that’s saying a lot! Follow the link for more pictures.
 
Hmm. iMac iView... interesting.


The monitor on the back is kinda weird.
 
Screen on the back? ...why?

Nice design except for the fact that the internals would need to be curvy as well. Oh well.
 
Very interesting, but that back lcd would have to be an option. I can't see home/business users utilizing that.
 
phide said:
Screen on the back? ...why?

Nice design except for the fact that the internals would need to be curvy as well. Oh well.
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Back screen is for work/productivity, allow others to view your work as you progress through something. Also good for teaching a student or similar fashion, allows to show student an example while working on the next step.

The curved screen is nice, but like you said, parts will have to fit inside such a case which currently might make it difficult.
 
I'm not a big fan of these all-in-one PCs. Laptops are fine because they're also portable, but these all-in-ones are incredibly hard to upgrade and such. I'll stick to a nice tower either hidden away discretely, or shown loudly and proudly! :p
 
Daedalus_AI said:
Good thing Dave A. reads Gizmodo who posted this 8 hours ago.
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It sure is, a LOT of our stuff is user submitted.

You'll notice that stuff like the USB fan we posted yesterday is now on the front page of Gizmodo today. A lot of [H]'ers read more than one site, when they see something cool, they submit it to other sites they read to share the coolness.

Kinda odd that Gizmodo didn't even bother giving the designer a link for all his hard work though. They linked someone else who didn't link the original artist's portfolio either. :(
 
theDreamer said:
Back screen is for work/productivity, allow others to view your work as you progress through something.
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Or so your boss can make sure you're not playing games!

It's pretty cool but it looks like it might get knocked over a little easy. I guess it all depends on the curvature. Anyway, it looks cool, but if it has crap hardware in it and still costs 2-5 times as much as a similarly fast PC, then it's still pointless.
 
I don't see a point. One sweet spot that requires that you aren't just directly in the center but also a very specific distance from the screen, eh. It is really pretty but not very practical.
 
This was partly inspired by the screen at the Cinerama Dome here in Los Angeles. To be clear, if I can't be seated in a section of about 10-15 very specific seats, I won't watch a movie there. :)

The sweet spot is nice in that little section but is IMO terrible for everyone else.
 
Serpico said:
This was partly inspired by the screen at the Cinerama Dome here in Los Angeles. To be clear, if I can't be seated in a section of about 10-15 very specific seats, I won't watch a movie there. :)

The sweet spot is nice in that little section but is IMO terrible for everyone else.
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Does that have to do with the image and how it is projected on the screen or the screen itself and just bad viewing angles?
 
Xrave said:
This is just a concept designer "making" a mac product he would be interested in. This isn't a real product.
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Thanks for stating the obvious.

The original source for this concept is the one linked on the front page....you know, the designers own portfolio.

I prefer to give the guy that designed the thing the hits, not the 25 other people that linked it and never gave him a single link :(
 
theDreamer said:
Does that have to do with the image and how it is projected on the screen or the screen itself and just bad viewing angles?
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The screen itself and bad viewing angles. It is a curved screen just like the one in the concept.
 
Dell, HP or Gateway should snag this design for an all in one PC.
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To heck with the all in one. I would like to see this as a stand alone Dell Monitor. Very cool looking indeed. Futuristic even.
 
Didn't they do something like this recently at some conference? Putting together 3 LCDs in a curved way just like this, demonstrating Crysis?
 
it does look futuristic... but what are the real benefits of a monitor like this other than looking bad ass lol
 
SoteloMichael said:
it does look futuristic... but what are the real benefits of a monitor like this other than looking bad ass lol
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I know a few pre-sales guys who would go nuts for this. When you're in the office, you use the main screen. When presenting a demo, you turn the monitor around--the small LCD is enough so you know what your prospects are looking at, but you're never in the way of the screen.

But yeah, it's mostly about looking bad-ass: The guy who walks in with this in a briefcase vs. the team who spends an hour settings up their servers and asking how to plug into the overhead projector.
 
People realize that this is impossible to build right? I never understood what was so special about designs like these. The best industrial designs look great and also have an understanding of how things work so they can be a reality. If he made something similair but made sure it was technologically possible to build then that would be way more impressive. Weird designs like these are for sci-fi movies, they are useless to companies that make real products like Apple/Dell.
 
Fharakin said:
Wrong. If this were branded by anyone but Apple, no one would buy it. We all know how pompous they are (Mac owners)
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Yes, though if it wasn't for their amazing marketing & hype team, Maiden of china would never crank out crappy, cheap generic versions of their products.

Serpico said:
I don't see a point. One sweet spot that requires that you aren't just directly in the center but also a very specific distance from the screen, eh. It is really pretty but not very practical.
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Make it about 36" tall, with a radius of 4 feet (8-foot total diameter), and put <insert favorite FPS/pornographic website> up on the screen. See the point now? If it still doesnt help, lean back in your chair a bit... Pop open a beer or two (or five), and start to think of how amazing it would be to have your entire field of vision surrouded with popup ads, blue-screens, etc.

idividebyzero said:
People realize that this is impossible to build right? I never understood what was so special about designs like these. The best industrial designs look great and also have an understanding of how things work so they can be a reality. If he made something similair but made sure it was technologically possible to build then that would be way more impressive. Weird designs like these are for sci-fi movies, they are useless to companies that make real products like Apple/Dell.
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Im not sure exactly what part of that display you consider impossible, if you are refering to the circular screen: http://youtube.com/watch?v=k6bkmPjVF-k&feature=related

It might not be possible right now, but the only impossible thing would be apple failing to market such a potentially useless device. I can certainly say, that if someone put together a screen like that, even made out of just "E-paper", I would buy it within a reasonable price. When you have autocad open, it doesnt matter if you have half a dozen 24" LCDs, there is a seam/break between each section... Worth $3,000? No... Worth $800? Perhaps... Not exactly like in that link, but the same idea... definatly worth thinking about how much it might be worth ;)
 
A lot of you guys bashing on macs probably have never used a mac earnestly for more than 5 mins.

I like the design concept of this and the lcd in back is very useful. Anyone in works in the IT industry would be able to see how useful that is. Every time I have to go to someone elses office and view their screen its a circus act of swinging the lcd around to a position that we both can see whats going on in a very uncomfortable viewing position. With the lcd in back life is grand.
 
Looks Star Trek-ish to me. I definitely like. Too bad it would cost about $3500, when you could build one with the same internal hardware specs for $400. :(
 
it wouls be better as a monitor rather than a whole computer....

it would buy a panoramic monitor
 
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