underwhelmed

I'm prepared to be underwhelmed by the new Apple iMac, which will be announced in a minute... I don't like the current design jag they're on, all this brushed aluminium crap. It just looks like it was knocked together in someone's home workshop. I suspicion the new iMac will be of the same ilk.

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UPDATE
Well, at least it's not entirely brushed aluminium. They've gone for the consumer white goods look. But I've got those quotes from Jobs and Ive ringing in my ears, about how each element has to be true to itself, and glomming the works onto the back of a flat screen defeats the object. Sure, it's "only" 2 american inches thick, but it still feels as if they've fulfilled the expectations of everybody who imagined the original flat screen imac would look like that.

That said, I'll prolly end up getting one, when I feel the need to go G5.

They've also pandered to the "iLamp" brigade, the critics who didn't like the "Sunflower" design iMac, with its fantastic industrial design and useful tilt/swivel arm - an absolute godsend when you're recording. I've always felt the "iLamp" people deserved an iPunchinthemouth.