Apple’s GenNext iMac 5 Design Here To Stay

Jonathan Ive, Apple’s chief designer, has made the new iMac look a lot like his iPod design. The new desktop computer was clearly designed to send a message to the world’s four million iPod fans: ‘‘If you think our music player is great, you should check out our computers’&# 8217;.

The most striking aspect of the new iMac, which is trickling into stores this week, is that its guts are completely concealed inside the tilting 17- or 20-inch flat screen. Only a thin anodized aluminium foot touches your desk. The overall effect is very attractive.

Nonetheless, the new design isn’t nearly as radical a breakthrough as the first iMac (that translucent, colorful, all-in-one egg) or the second one (floating screen, white dome-shaped base).

Apple’s chief, Steve Jobs, has gone on record as loathing the noise made by computer fans. Considering the heat generated by its 1.6- or 1.8-gigahertz G5 processor, the iMac’s silence is quite an achievement.

Truth is, Apple really muffed only one detail: even the top-of-the-line model comes with only 256 megabytes of memory. That’s typical for consumer computers these days, but on a creative powerhouse like the Macintosh, it’s not enough.

Programmes like Apple’s creative suite (iMovie, iPhoto, iTunes, GarageBand and so on, all included) and Adobe Photoshop can run i

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