Quanta to Produce New iMacs

Exciting! Any ideas what the new ones will look like?

i havent used a lcd imac, how can they make it better? (to those who do have experience with them)
the current crop of imacs look fabulous.

If they do a redesign....hmmm.....around MacWorld SanFran......cosmetic? Say metalic? Could we be seeing a single G5 in the iMac and all dual G5s in the PowerMacs?

Seems to be better odds now that this will happen.

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Originally posted by x86isslow
i havent used a lcd imac, how can they make it better?

IMHO it needs to be cuter or sexier (quite apart from faster)! Currently the industrial design nods to the minimalist school of thought of the cube, which is great, but that's not the market its living in.

The original iMac nailed its market space from a design perspective, and while we can't go backwards, I reckon we will end up with a machine ya just want to cuddle again :p

OK, while I like my stuff to be made in the U.S., I am cool with things being made in Taiwan, as they are a free country with good civil rights. They've held the line for freedom in the face of mainland China across the straits threatening them both with words and an ever-growing missile battery aimed at them.

But according to this article, which I hope isn't true, Quanta is shifting production over to Shanghai on the mainland. Crap.

For those that don't know why I'm throwing a conniption fit over this, China continues to have a horrible, horrible human rights record, and nobody seems to care about it, provided they make cheap stuff.

Are you a religious person? You better belong to the "Official" version of your church, or you may be prosecuted and your church leaders thrown in jail. The real Catholic Cardinal for China died in jail last year, because he wouldn't recognize the supremacy of the "Official Chinese" Catholic church.

Are you someone who'd like more than one kid? You better hide it well or bugger out of the country, because the government might just force an abortion on you or your spouse.

Are you an engineer wanting to design a cool chip, maybe for communication? Well, now Motorola engineering offices in China have Communist party political officers stationed in them, looking over your shoulder.

Are you a factory worker? Pay attention to this quote from the AI article: "In the new manufacturing facility, labor, electricity, tax and government fees will account for only 5 percent of manufacturing costs..." Nice to know your labor rates will support a nice livable community...

One last thing: When I first started working with Chinese engineers in this country, it was right after the Tiananmen Square massacre, and they seemed to truly appreciate the freedom of the west, and how wrong the Communists were.

Now the new ones coming over are just fine with repression - they have all kinds of excuses for why it is justified. I have yet to meet a new Chinese immigrant (in the last 5 years) with an interest in defending basic human rights. And they're coming over here, to California, by the boatloads.

So, a fine place to make an iMac, eh? Crap.

EDIT: Corrected spelling and grammar mistakes

woohoo, i've been upgraded to member.:)

If they do a redesign... Say metalic?

don't you think that they'd keep the consumer and pro lines separate? white consumer line, metallic pro line seems to be the trend.

Originally posted by Exponent
[B]OK, while I like my stuff to be made in the U.S., I am cool with things being made in Taiwan, as they are a free country with good civil rights.

taiwan doesnt have a stellar human rights record either. martial law ended in 1987. wasnt the KMT a dictatorship?

Well, Apple's notebooks pwn, so I'm all for such an adventure!

A couple of years ago, Taiwan had a democratic election where (at least executive) power changed from the Kuomintang party to the DDP. It was a big deal because the official party line of the DDP is that Taiwan should be an independent country from China.

Yes, Taiwan was under a military dictatorship when it was formed, (when Chang-Kai Sheck and crew retreated from the mainland), but they've been holding the line for freedom for well over a decade now. I'm sure things could be better, but it's head and shoulders better than the scumbuckets on the mainland.

For me, almost as troubling as the condions in the mainland are that a) they put up with it (you would think ex-pat chinese would be taking up arms for an overthrow), and b) leaders in U.S. industry love repression, if it makes manufacturing cheaper.

the original imac crt had 1 thing going for it. It was fun to look at and said lets play. the new lcd imac says i should be in a studio,dont touch! performance has allways been to low and cost to much. Emac should have been made the new imac and they should have done colors,anyways imac sales have sucked but what do you expect from low performance & high cost. Apple could have simply fixed this with a g5 imac in current form but i think they have something else in mind. Ill say it one more time just in case anybody who is somebody at APPLE see this.CONSUMERS ARE GAMERS take your fx5200 and shove it! they act like this card is supposed to be something.