New iMac design

Sun, 27 August 2006

What’s next for Apple’s iMac development department? After world-changing G3 iMac, fabulous G4 lamp design and astonishing G5/Intel iMac what could be possibly done to make iMac even better, cooler, sexier?

Maybe the answer is only one click away. Adam Benton’s vision of 30″ transparent screen iMac is a breath-taking example how “Think Different” can be put into action, if only technology could catch-up.

Apple iMac

Adam was commissioned by MacFormat magazine to conceptualise a future iMac to accompany a related article. The result is here. Enjoy!

Update 01 Aug 2007: It seems that new iMacs will be released on 07 August 2007 (nothing like the model pictured above, of course).

[tags]iMac, design, Adam Benton [/tags]

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19 Responses to “New iMac design”

  1. Rub3X said: Sat, 9 September 2006 at 16:53

    Wow that looks SO awesome. Are those small things speakers? I would certainly buy a Mac if they keep that up >.>

  2. samuel caezar s porcalla said: Tue, 17 October 2006 at 23:32

    this new imac design concept is fantastic… could hardly find the perfect words to describe it! awesome!!!

  3. gerry said: Sun, 22 October 2006 at 10:28

    What a silly idea. I cannot see the benefit of this - can someone explain it to me?

  4. oleg said: Tue, 7 November 2006 at 11:51

    gerry is a retard , apple is stylish , they have to one up themselves , therefore this would be the next technologically fesabile step, 30% of the reason people buy macs is that they look good,k
    but if you perfer your ibm brickpad , i mean thinkpad .

  5. Tom said: Thu, 16 November 2006 at 06:11

    I think some of the people who posted on here think this is actually going to be the next iMac. You are mistaken. This is a concept idea someone designed for a magazine.

    Oleg, I can’t see why you can call gerry a retard when you cannot even spell or string a decent sentence together yourself.

    Gerry, you are Bill Gates’ dream. Congratulations.

  6. Mac Mini said: Sun, 15 April 2007 at 11:11

    Man I wish that design was true. Sigh! I would definitely buy one of those. Even if it takes up a while to save up for it. :)

  7. Jimmy579 said: Wed, 18 April 2007 at 02:19

    isn’t the keyboard the opposite way to those ergonomic ones.

    Doesn’t that mean that its like ultra-unergonomic. hehe

    oh well…..looks gr8 - shame it isn’t a definite design cos i’d buy it (if they sorted the keyboard out!)

  8. Niki said: Sun, 22 April 2007 at 13:30

    It’s pretty, but I hope the new iMac doesn’t look like this. Getting the screen image strong enough to give a good image basically requires a screen you can’t see through.

    I love the look of the keyboard, I’m getting one of those the day it comes out.

  9. Nickk said: Tue, 1 May 2007 at 05:01

    Actually there are other pictures of this same model around and you cant see through the screen once everythings up and running.

    and are those keys supposed to be designed the same way the buttons were on the 2nd generation ipods?? that’d be rather crazzy id have to say…

  10. grudder said: Fri, 8 June 2007 at 06:10

    This is AWESOME! Apple has always been an innovator in the world of computing & this demonstrates their forward thinking well.

    However… what OS is that? By the time this computer would be available to the public would it be around OSXX? It looks a lot like OS9 made colorful.

  11. psynco said: Sun, 15 July 2007 at 02:17

    Actually that is very possible. You can have electronic glasswindows that tint white on the push of a button. You can also have transparent LCD-screens. Those soundboxes can be bought already (soundsticks II or so - standing on my table right now).

    But nobody wants to spend the dough on all that kind of geekery. So stop dreaming and think about productivity instead.

  12. Tinklet said: Thu, 2 August 2007 at 17:47

    How do you access the CD drive? And good luck with graphical work on this one, should it ever be produced.

  13. Thomas Hallock said: Sat, 4 August 2007 at 06:28

    Transparent screen = no backlighting and the hardware of your computer is always showing through your screen. Why would anyone want this?

  14. matt said: Tue, 7 August 2007 at 03:15

    This is the ugliest thing I’ve ever seen.

  15. Dandamazo said: Thu, 9 August 2007 at 07:27

    Well, actually, if they were using an OLED screen (existing tech — http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OLED) then not having a back-light wouldn’t be a problem in the slightest. In fact, it would look substantially better. Hardware might show through, but at least there’s no plugs in the future :) well, not in that pic.
    Switch the curve of the keyboard round, and then I’d get one.

  16. emilh said: Thu, 16 August 2007 at 22:55

    it looks nice, but wats really bothering me is that thing behind the monitor the goes right down the middle…can some1 fill me in on that 1? y is it so visible? thx

    other than that, the keyboard design looks good…i like the curve… and speakers are also “futuristic looking”…

  17. Dushyant said: Sat, 25 August 2007 at 19:53

    when its launching??????Its too good.

  18. dan said: Mon, 8 October 2007 at 18:32

    it’s a concept model people! same thing goes for cars, just because a concept car gets good feedback, doesn’t mean they’ll actually produce it (most of’em don’t even work).
    read the article and don’t just look at the picture and assume…

    “…if only technology could catch-up.”
    “Adam was commissioned by MacFormat magazine to conceptualise a future iMac…”

  19. bee said: Mon, 26 May 2008 at 21:02

    omg thats sooo cooll!!!!!!

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