Aha! The smooth glass cover of the LCD, the black surround, and the included wiping cloth point to just one thing -- future touch-screen iMacs.

This iMac is not the 4th generation of the iMac. This is an update. Look at all the G3 iMacs updates - similar design, but different.

I have a two year old, so my Macbook is alreadya touch screen.

He usually has clean hands, but I am always amazed at how smudgy the screen looks.

I don't want a touch screen, it will always look a mess.

Here's the link to the C|Net article.

Line 1 of article, "it's" should be "its."

I stopped in at the Fashion Valley Apple Store this evening and played with the new iMac for quite a bit.

The glossy screen had a good bit of glare from the lighting in the store. For doing graphics that would be a problem. In my home office I am in a bit of a cubby facing out so I really don't have direct light on the screen.

I could get used to the new keyboard fairly quickly, not much of a different feel from my iBook.

I tried the new iLife and I like it. However, I will hold off purchasing it until I find out if it will be included with Leopard.

I looked a Numbers, but didn't try it for very long. From what I see it would meet my needs. I am using Excel, but nothing that is really number crunchy.

More importantly to me I got to try Adobe Creative Suite 3. Well I tried Illustrator and InDesign which I use quite a bit and I like them a lot. I will probably going to upgrade to CS3 within in a few days.

The store was busy and there were a lot of people buying stuff. The iPhone table was quite crowded. Apple's star is on the rise again, the iDog days of summer.

At least they did not test the ease of the sustainable user experience... because they did not have the time to do so. It looks like a race to award honours to things that just came out on the market, with no sustainable feedback. M

aybe this iMac has a flawed architecture, overheats, is noisy... but whatever, CNET needs to be the first to award something... let's take some time to live, sometimes

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Guest wrote:
Aha! The smooth glass cover of the LCD, the black surround, and the included wiping cloth point to just one thing -- future touch-screen iMacs.

I was equally interested by the inclusion of the "wiping cloth". Is it just a nice little extra (maybe Apple had leftovers from the iPhone?) or will a touch-screen be activated on these Macs once Leopard is out? (The wishing goes on ... )

I called apple and they mentioned if I buy iMac now, I will get and upgrade to Leopard for half price in October. Unless I wait it's free. Half price is better than full.

Didn't really mean to imply that I WANTED a touch screen. Just trying to figure out a purpose for the rather unusual "black-eye" around the screen. Cheers

Stopped at NYC Prince street store to check it out, great machine, but i really do NOT like the glossy screen, a TON of glare and reflections. Why did they do this? On my PC I have a LG Flatron Slim monitor (love it!!!) and one of its best features is little to no glare because it is "matte" or flat. I am going to check it out one more time (the iMac, that is) but I think this is a deal breaker, I cant stand glare and reflections esp. as light changes in my apt during the day. I wish I had been in a focus group b/c in about 10 seconds I would have said NO to a highly reflective screen.

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This iMac is not the 4th generation of the iMac. This is an update. Look at all the G3 iMacs updates - similar design, but different.

Sure, it is.

1G: iMac G3 (CRT)
2G: iMac G4 (lamp)
3G: iMac G5
4G: iMac Core Duo/Core 2 Duo

You can't be contending that the Intel iMac wasn't a "new generation," regardless of the case design (which was a bit different from the original iMac G5).

The Editor's Choice award for design? You have to be kidding! The iMac's glass screen takes computer design backwards 10 years, to when we had to deal with screen hoods, anti-glare film covers and cowering in dark rooms to diminish the headache-inducing glare. Photo editing is all but impossible on the new iMac because all you see in dark colors is yourself. Professional photographers are left without a Mac in this price range because the glass plate makes proper calibration of the screen impossible. It may be a stunning design, but we measure design by its combination of form and usability. In this regard, the iMac fails.