Suspense over
Cover story: the flat-panel iMac.It’s not an Internet appliance, a tablet PC or a PDA. Apple gave the scoop to Time magazine, and copies of the issue started appearing on newsstands on Sunday night. The article hasn’t appeared on the U.S. website yet (it will surely be up before the keynote), but the Canadian site couldn’t wait. CNET News.com puts it this way: “The new iMac looks like a desk lamp.”
At 9am PT (noon ET), Steve Jobs will give the Macworld San Francisco 2002 keynote address which Apple has hyped beyond any event in recent memory. He’ll officially introduce this new machine, but all the details are listed in that Time article. I’ll probably tune in just because there’s nothing like a Jobs keynote, and there might yet be some surprises up his sleeve. You gotta almost feel bad for the guy—despite all their efforts at protecting their secret in advance of their much-hyped keynote, the cat was out of the bag a full 12 hours before the scheduled announcement.
January 7th, 2002 at 10:04 am
I can’t say that I’m really impressed with the look of this latest Apple wonder. Is Steve running out of ideas? I had to laugh when Time scooped him though. He had to be pissed.
January 7th, 2002 at 10:37 am
If I get one, the desktop image will be a big chicken. That cpu part looks like a big fat egg. Will Apple come out with imac colors in time for Easter?
January 7th, 2002 at 10:43 am
I’m getting a kick out of the story getting released too soon by Time Canada, then pulled. It was too late — CNET and Macworld have already reported on the story, and mirrors of the story and the images (just the two I captured) are all over the place. They are trying to put the cat back in the bag, but it’s too late.
January 7th, 2002 at 4:53 pm
I really like the design. If I could have any size/shape computer I wanted, it would just be a thin, flat screen floating in space, using no desk or floor space. This comes closer to that than any other.