The iMac, in a little more color

I, for one, am tired of people bitching about the new iMac's design. Especially those people who have only seen a picture of the new model. Last week I purchased a 20" 2.4ghz iMac to replace my three-year-old G5 1.8ghz iMac. I have been using ot for a week now and am completely happy with it.
Yes, I could have saved $300 by buying a refurbished 20" 2.1ghz iMac, but I felt it was worth the money to get the bigger hard disk and more video memory/beter video card. I have no complaints about the new design. Love the new keyoard and love the display.

I, also, don't care for the large dark Apple logo. Something more subtle would be a lot better, I think.

I'm curious - is the back aluminum or plastic? I've heard reports both ways. If it's aluminum, I bet someone can bead blast the black off and make it look better.

The reason behind the strip at the bottom: I guess it's necessary to reconcile the tilt of the screen for your eyeline with the bouncing-off-the-desk of the sound. Put in other words if it weren't there, your eyeline would be in one direction, while the sound would be travelling in another. Apple really do think of everything!

I personally love ithe new design. So there. ;)

As for "what's the point?" - This new iMac is more environmentally friendly. Which is a great thing.

It may be a cliche' to hate on the look of any new iMac that appears, but I'm really not a fan of this new design. The pervious white plastic was clean and elegant - a pleasure to look at. This model seems somehow...depressing. The color scheme and materials really do remind me of a Dell product. And dammit - I went through a lot to get limited edition white KRK studio monitors to match my white plastic iMac. They're gonna look ridiculous next to the new iMac. (Despite my antipathy, I will eventually get one.)

And yeah, glossy screen sucks. I didn't realize how much until I actually owned a MacBook and spent some time with it. I would MUCH rather have an LCD monitor.

Oh, and the logo on the front is not black, fellas. It's chrome. (I kinda figured someone in this thread woulda figured that out by now.)

@21 - Brian, you seem to have taken great offense at Mike getting the "Product Red" name wrong. That must've been a heckuva report to have given you such a vested interest in this campaign. Congrats!

Ask me, this thread has been overrun by a whole bunch of whiners. This is exactly the new computer I have been waiting for -- lower price, bigger hard drive, faster processors, more RAM. And it will look good on the desk in my living room, even with the black strip, which far from being a deal-breaker. I've got a flat-screen TV for movies, thanks. Still, if you don't like it, you could always go out and drop the dough for a cinema display, then remove the stand and glue it to the face of your new iMac. Mine -- sans cinema display and glue -- should arrive at my house next week. I can't wait.

the chin is for heat disipation... a guy took it apart over at engadget and the fans are in the chin. I dont like the glare but you guys need to relax about the black edge. It makes it poppin'

The white iMac was pretty much perfect looks wise, all they needed to do was make a black version and maybe slim it down a bit again. The chin is here to stay, if they get rid of it where would they put the big Apple logo? I would have liked to see more of an update to the internal hardware, especially the graphics. The new iMac looks like a lot like a Dell display or any old LCD TV, what happened to think different?

so true, I'm sick of that Jay Lenno look-a-like chin an the black rim makes the iMac look sad.