17-inch iMac Production Shift

Didn't I read that they stopped production because they're were going to be manufatured at another manufacturing company?

If this is true, I wonder what they would replace both iMac models with... perhaps standard-shaped 17" LCD's that don't cost as much? Hmmm. Odd.

That doesn't sound right. What are these guys on?

The 17" is the perfect size, IMO. I still say they will never make a 19", and there's nothing wrong with the 15" either.

Originally posted by ddtlm
If this is true, I wonder what they would replace both iMac models with... perhaps standard-shaped 17" LCD's that don't cost as much? Hmmm. Odd.

Or maybe same size as existing models, but with a touch-screen display that had to be manufacured elsewhere. Or forget touchscreen, maybe it's a whole removable iPad display!

Originally posted by Hemingray
That doesn't sound right. What are these guys on?

The 17" is the perfect size, IMO. I still say they will never make a 19", and there's nothing wrong with the 15" either.

Yeah man, I work on a 15" LCD all day and I have no complaints about it. Apple should be lowering their prices, not adding larger and larger screens (not that they're mutually exclusive, but the focus should be on lowering prices...)

Well here's the link regarding changing production facilities:
http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=5746

Originally posted by DHagan4755
Didn't I read that they stopped production because they're were going to be manufatured at another manufacturing company?

I dunno, the article implies that the 15" iMac production was halted in October because iMac sales "stalled in June". Could Apple really just have been selling from their inventory since October? That would certainly explain why there have been no iMac updates in a year! I guess Apple vastly overestimated demand for the iMac, and had to hold off on updates until it could clear out its huge inventory. Hopefully this inventory's been cleared away enough now for Apple to make an update....

maybe they're not selling well. maybe it's going to suffer the same fate as the cube. anyone know?

I know that some times when a comopany produces too many unites they destroy them, they take a truck and run over the units:(

About 20 years ago there was a tv factory here in Venezuela (a Sony factory) and some times when they produced too many tv they do that.

Can you imagine to run over a iMac?:confused: :confused: :( :mad:

That would be like killing a dolphing or something like that:rolleyes: :D

In regards to the Sony TVs, Honda did the same thing to a boatload (literally) of Civics that it was shipping to California. For some reason that I forget now, they didn't pass emissions inspections or some other requirement and the Japanese company decided to park them at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean instead of waste the fuel to ship them back to Japan. Crazy.

Anyway, I doubt this is what's happening to FP iMacs. I think someone's got their wires crossed. I could understand this news bit being confused with a switch in manufacterers