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Buckaroo · Jul 7, 2003, 11:25 PM

Are we do for a 20 year aniversory Mac in 2004?

I don't know if this has been brought up before, so please forgive me if it has.

What will the 20 year aniversory Mac look like?

k_munic · Jul 8, 2003, 02:02 AM

some people in other forums speculate, that a kind of �ber-Cube will be the anniversary mac this century...-

question is as allways. does it make sense economical to celebrate such an "event" with a espacially produced product? the first anni-mac was a financial desaster - it was a dream machine to its time and still some geeks spend big money for this machine�

maybe, this time, it's a little bit smaller: a 20years iPod (same hardware, just some design add-ons, a big 20, a nice celebrate logo, a colored iMac design, something) to a special price - i would appreciate that.

Dr. Wahnsinn · Jul 8, 2003, 06:00 AM

It would be nice to think that there will be an affordable "true" 20th anniversary Mac that pleases all Mac fans, but I don't think that's possible.

Rumour has it that one discarded idea was a Mac that resembled the head of Steve Jobs. A small LCD screen was on the forehead, microphone where the nose is, speakers where the ears are, and the optical drive was located where the mouth is. Initial testing revealed two concerns; users became paranoid having to have the eyes of Jobs staring back at them while they worked, and, the optical drive became clogged from all the short whiskers that had infested it.

What I'd like to see would be a Mac like the Colour Classic. LCD screen, G4 (G5 might run too hot), combo drive, and either a polished (like a mirror) metal case or a transparent coloured plastic one.

Mediaman_12 · Jul 8, 2003, 10:07 AM

If anything computer related it's more than likely going to be a special (limited) edition of the G5, possibly with some sort of special 20 etching in the side instead of the Apple (or maybe an etching of the old Macintosh logo.
Nothing to complicated or expensive to produce, Look at the Automotive industry for example. Ford has it's centenary (100 years) this year there may be special editions of the existing models, but there's no special 100 years of Ford vehicle (outside of maybe a concept).
It's unlikely to be a 'non Mac' thing This is a Macintosh anniversary not an Apple one so a special iPod wouldn't make much sense.

GoGoReggieXPowars · Jul 8, 2003, 11:01 AM

I doubt it'll happen, very few people went for the first TAM, it was over priced,underpowered, and broke a lot.

idyll · Jul 8, 2003, 11:15 AM

When exactly is this going to take place? July? August?

graphics84 · Jul 8, 2003, 01:01 PM

what would be sweet would be if the macs from that year had some sort of commemorative design or etching on them...

Like the bicentennial quarter...

but I'd love a cheese grader cube for $500-$800 bucks...

G5 1.x
256 ram
40 gig HD
Slot loading DVD-CDRW

imagine that... an anniversary mac that actually converted some PC geeks

(pricing is speculative)

Angus_D · Jul 8, 2003, 01:03 PM

Originally posted by GoGoReggieXPowars:
I doubt it'll happen, very few people went for the first TAM, it was over priced,underpowered, and broke a lot.

That's because it was a right royal cockup during Apple's bad years. Done correctly it would have been a nice machine. Pity, that. If they did it again and got it right, well...

tooki · Jul 8, 2003, 02:40 PM

Originally posted by idyll:
When exactly is this going to take place? July? August?

January.

Remember the "1984" Macintosh commercial?

"On January 24th, Apple will release Macintosh. And you'll see why 1984 won't be like '1984.'"

tooki

rezzi · Jul 8, 2003, 07:39 PM

Yeah, the 1984 Superbowl commercial. For those of us old enough to have seen the original airing. Where the young lady runs in & frees the peecee users from the 'matrix'. Totally ahead of it's time.

DBvader · Jul 8, 2003, 10:45 PM

it would be awesome if the next revision of the G5s were the special macs.

i agree with those who say it should be simple, somthing like the old mac/apple logo like mediaman said would be cool

Eriamjh · Jul 9, 2003, 11:04 AM

Why would an Apple Cube be a fitting "20th Anniversary" model? It failed miserably for Apple. Jobs' ideal computer was a marketing blunder.

I know the Cube is admired and revered by many... now, but it didn't sell.

I know, I know. It was too expensive! For MORE than a regular PowerMac you got far less in expandibility (PCI slots).

It was cool, but what should the 20th anniversary Mac really look like? How much should it cost? How fast should it be?

How about a 2GHz G5 in an original style 128K mac case?

I betcha Apple will probably just slap a special "20th anniversary" logo on it's current iMacs and bump the ram for an additional fee.

Buckaroo · Jul 9, 2003, 03:16 PM

The Aniversary Edition will cost more. It's suppose to be special.

How about a Gold or Black colored Aluminum G5. In it's new aluminum case.

Maybe with an LCD display on front that would play some fancy sci fi computer graphics/charts/readouts etc. Maybe show some computer parameters with whatever.

The LCD would be maybe only 7", but it would be neat.

-Q- · Jul 9, 2003, 03:54 PM

I predict the Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh will look like this:

What I can't figure out is what they'll call this thing (if they do manufacture one) as they've already used the TAM name.

TAM the second?
TAM II?
MAC20?

Ya got me.

MrK · Jul 9, 2003, 06:01 PM

It will be a laptop of some sort, perhaps with a docking setup. But it will acknolwdge the giant shift to portable computing. The desktop Mac is dead...

-Q- · Jul 10, 2003, 09:06 AM

Originally posted by MrK:
The desktop Mac is dead...

The G5 would disagree.

mrtew · Jul 11, 2003, 12:19 AM

I think (hope) that it looks a little like this in some way....