Post Bank Holiday delights
Apple and Bare Bones Software seem to have conspired to make the return to work after the Bank Holiday (UK only!) a bit more bearable: there’s the new G5 iMac and BBEdit 8.0. My feelings are slightly mixed about the new iMac. I think I like it, but it doesn’t grab me like the old flat-screen iMacs did. They immediately struck me as cute and cool, and whenever I see one ‘in the flesh’ I can’t resist grabbing the screen and moving it around a bit. It’s that kind of machine. I don’t dislike the new design, but I agree with blech that there’s too much blank space beneath the screen itself. I thought that there must be speakers there, but I see from the specs that they are mounted on the bottom edge and fire downwards to:
[…] bounce sound waves off your desk, counter or table into your ears.
You could have someone’s eye out like that… If I was responsible for designing the new iMacâand it’s a good thing for everyone that I’m notâI would be tempted to put something useful in that space, like a reasonably sized monochrome LCD display to display the currently playing track in iTunes. Still, the specs are pretty good, and a G5 in a ‘home’ Mac is a very nice thing to see.
