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points by everdrive 2 days ago | 0 comments

The panel is incredibly thin, but the base is a few inches, and the amount of space it will take up due to tilting the display is also a couple of inches. After a certain point, thinness is a meaningless aesthetic choice that serves no function whatsoever.

[–] sscarduzio 2 days ago

Thinness has been frivolous aesthetics since Steve Jobs times. A thicker laptop will always mean better thermals, more silence, more battery, repairability, more ports.

[–] wpm 2 days ago

In a laptop though that thinness and its compromises might actually provide some positives to the product: lower weight, easier to carry in hand or in a bag

On a desktop you view face on, who fucking cares how thin it is?

[–] taurath 2 days ago

Its brand differentiation, and hoping that folks associate the ability to make thinner products as "better technology". Which they seem to, especially when paired with a high cost. I'd be surprised if one of their initial mockups didn't have a transparent bezel around the screen (or the screen itself!) to make it look like a minority-report style screen

[–] anentropic 2 days ago

it is a piece of furniture though, so aesthetics matter

[–] rightnutwingjob 2 days ago

Effectively yeah, it’s a desk lamp.

[–] whycome 2 days ago

The one place where size and thickness don't matter is when it's a non-portable device.

I'm surprised they haven't yet gone the route of making a hyper thin screen and hiding the actual cpu somewhere else (something akin tot he puck for the Apple Vision display). Hell you could probably do a proprietary wireless signal and have the display be completely detached. (Or existing wifi6 or something?)

The edges of the thin monitor could be actual transparent glass.

[–] philistine 2 days ago

Look at that thick base of the iMac. That's where they should put the CPU. Bring back the G4 iMac you cowards!

[–] spider-mario 2 days ago

You can get it with a VESA mount instead of the base.

[–] encom 2 days ago

>meaningless aesthetic choice that serves no function whatsoever

"And we’re just getting started."

It is an Apple machine, yes.