When Apple launched its all-in-one private pc, the iMac G4, again in 2002, it was the best computing machine you may personal. An enormous departure out of your typical squarish-beige-box PC, the iMac G4 was funky and completely different, with a white/clear plastic show hooked up to a hemispherical base that held the elements.
The legendary iMac G4 is lengthy gone now (besides as an artifact of adoration in followers’ basements), however Apple would possibly launch one thing related subsequent yr – a minimum of on the skin.
In keeping with Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple’s rumored sensible house show will look just about just like the iMac G4, with a show hooked up (at an angle) to a small base that might be “harking back to the round backside of the iMac G3 from a few many years in the past.”
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The bottom would possibly embrace audio system, which might make the machine one thing akin to a HomePod (mini?) with a display screen. However the show, Gurman claims, might be pretty small, “in regards to the dimension of two iPhones facet by facet.”
The small dimension ought to make this machine “comparatively low cost,” one thing a person may have in a number of rooms of their house. Gurman additionally claims the machine will run a brand new working system, with iPad-like apps resembling FaceTime, Notes, and Calendar, however total tailor-made for movies and photograph slideshows. So, a bit little bit of the whole lot, then.
Apple’s sensible house show will launch in 2025, Gurman says, as the primary of two sensible shows Apple is planning. The bigger of the 2 can have a much bigger show and a robotic limb, however this one will value “nearer to $1,000” and possibly will not be prepared till 2026.