New iMacs, iPods nice in person
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While at the mall tonight shopping for glasses, I slipped into the Apple store for another of my three-minute visits to check out the new hardware.
¹Was I the only person who hated the glare of CRT screens in 1998, even on a gorgeous 19″ Wega? Overly saturated colors are not worth the glare, people!
While at the mall tonight shopping for glasses, I slipped into the Apple store for another of my three-minute visits to check out the new hardware.
- The new iMac is a gorgeous kitchen computer, even with the horrendous glare of its glossy screen¹. Unfortunately I’ll never buy an all-in-one.
- As I expected, the new iPod Nano is very nice in person. It looks fat in pictures, but it’s a slick little wafer in the hand. If the market is still there for music players, I suspect this one will charm anyone who touches it.
- The new aluminum face on all the iPods, including the “Classics”, is a nice smoothly beveled surface. Nicer on the Nano than the heavier Classic 160GB, but a nice departure from the plastic lacquer look.
- The user interface on the Classic is much slicker than the old UI, with plenty of smooth motion and fades. I’m not very fond of the split-screen strategy, and it’s a bit slow moving back in its menus, but they’re doing a lot of cool with not much processor.
- I typed about twenty seconds on the new thin Mac keyboards, and I wasn’t disgusted. It’s no M, but the feel is tolerable, and the look is undeniably slick.
¹Was I the only person who hated the glare of CRT screens in 1998, even on a gorgeous 19″ Wega? Overly saturated colors are not worth the glare, people!