[Trapper]

Here's an idea for a hack I just thought of. Maybe someone's already done this. It seems to me that you could stick an LED under the Apple logo on the top of the iMac case. It would be sort of like the glowing Apple logo on the Powerbook cases, except, being as it's on the top of the case, it wouldn't be very visible.

Watch, Ca$h will probably claim that this was his idea all along, and try to take credit for it.

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Travis Hreno
Department of Philosophy
University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario
CANADA
threno@julian.uwo.ca

I know this has been done with the little Apple logo on the front of the G4. It was hooked up so it switched on when the HD was being accessed.

[ThinkInsane]

There was a kid that did that with his B&W G3 tower. He posted pics of it in th G3/G4 forum. Red LED, looked kind of sinister! He had insturctions with it as to how he wired it up. I think Crashes master plan is to light up the entire case.

[This message has been edited by ThinkInsane (edited 06-16-2000).]

[Ca$h68]

No, don't worry. Mine is MUCH MUCh better than that. I just need a little spare $... tuition sucks. GRRRR

Ca$h

[Trapper]

Shall we take up a collection for Ca$h? I, for one, would like to know what he's majoring in first.


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Travis Hreno
Department of Philosophy
University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario
CANADA
threno@julian.uwo.ca

[ThinkInsane]

I think he's majoring in Speech Impedimentology at case western

[Ca$h68]

I was majoring in automotive engineering, but now I want to do computer stuff... so... I dunno, i still have no clue what I want to do. How about work for Apple, and make their computers not suck? Like, make iMacs that have a PCI slot so you can put in a vid card that doesnt suck.

Or making the iSub work with ANY usb computer.

Or making a G4 with the same Mhz as PCs.

Or including a contour designs mouse with EVERY mac, not that stupid puck

Or porting Interstate 76 to the mac

>sigh<

Ca$h

[sine -''-..-]

I hear ya about the Interstate '76 issue... but I think that would be more up to Activision.

[Feathers]

I'd like to know what Ca$h actually does on his Franken-iMac, or does he just kneel before it and er...do things?

[Ca$h68]

UT, VGS, Photoshop, games, and web surfing.

No porn though. I may be a pirate, but Im not akin to spanking my monkey. ALthoug girls piss me off. ODnt get me started. A Rgh....

Ca$h

[Misha]

Problems already with the new found love, Cash?

hehe...

Hey Ca$h.

Are you going to Case Western? I'm starting out there this fall as a freshman doing comp. engineering. We should hang out sometime!

[Ca$h68]

No. I went to UW Platteville last year, and this year I'm going to MATC for a semester and then Pville again. My rents quit paying for half of college because I didnt get all Bs. Is it just me, or does anyone else f*cking hate chemistry. Grumble grumble grumble... grrr

Ca$h

[ThinkInsane]

The case western thing was just a quote I stole from "Being John Malkovich". Didn't mean to cause any confusion on cra$h's education

[The Godfather]

How about painting the inside of the transluscent (sp) plastic behind the monitor with UV reactive paint and put a mini blacklight (one of those 3 mm wide) inside the monitor space (under the holes on the top). Call the Glo-friends!!!

[Trapper]

Here's something that has always bothered me: when the latest iMacs came out last fall, they were advertised as having a case that was more translucent. That locution, of course, makes no sense. How can something be more translucent? Things can be more opaque; things can be more transparent (which is clearly what the iMac advertisements were referring to); things CANNOT be more translucent. Consider - how does one go about increasing translucency? Do you let more light pass through, or less? Perhaps when we are dealing with things that are either completely transparent or completely opaque the answer is easy. To make a transparent object translucent, one reduces the amount of light it allows to pass through; to make an opaque object translucent, one increases the amount of light it allows to pass through. But once a degree of translucency is reached, any change is either an increase in opacity, or an increase in transparency. There is no way to make sense of such a change as being an increase of translucency.

There; I've said my piece. And people say that philosophy is a waste of time.

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Travis Hreno
Department of Philosophy
University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario
CANADA
threno@julian.uwo.ca

[This message has been edited by Trapper (edited 07-03-2000).]

[Bockie]

Trapper,

The "more translucent" that Apple promotes is merely a marketing term. I am a marketing specialist myself and know that when dealing with the public market, it is always best to be as (pardon the pun) clear as possible. Although your semantics argument is valid and correct, the average user of an iMac generally will not understand the terminology of a transparency versus opacity claim. The target audience of the iMac is a first-time computer buyer who wants a simple and effective way to access the Internet. Most of which will not be concerned with the language used to define the iMac.


Apple has, in a way, redefined the word "translucent" according to public opinion. When they introduced the original Bondi iMac, the campaign relied heavily upon the "translucent" case. This stylized computer revolutionized marketing on consumer electronics and brought the idea of translucency to the top of the market's consciencesness. Evidence of this is in many current products including the imitation peecees, radios, telephones and televisions. Once a term has become part of the vernacular, a wise marketing department is keen to utilize it. There are many colloquialisms that marketing departments have made popular including, nite(instead of night), bad(meaning good), and cool(meaning in style).

[SpeedRacer]

Originally posted by Trapper:
It seems to me that you could stick an LED under the Apple logo on the top of the iMac case.

I don't think this would be that hard at all. i just disassembled my iMac to the bone tonight and do you know what color the "real" case of an iMac is? You guessed it. beige. Wow. I am totally amazed. Kudos to the marketing of Steve Jobs and Apple. Putting the old machine in a new case and you sell more of that model that any computer in history. Amazing.

Now if i could only figure out what all these missing connectors on the motherboard are for...

I'm no engineering major, but i think there's a bit more capabilities to the original (rev A-D) iMacs than the public was ever led to know...

[SpeedRacer]

Originally posted by Trapper:
It seems to me that you could stick an LED under the Apple logo on the top of the iMac case.

I don't think this would be that hard at all. i just disassembled my iMac to the bone tonight and do you know what color the "real" case of an iMac is? You guessed it. beige. Wow. I am totally amazed. Kudos to the marketing of Steve Jobs and Apple. Putting the old machine in a new case and you sell more of that model that any computer in history. Amazing.

Now if i could only figure out what all these missing connectors on the motherboard are for... I see the spot for the mezzanine slot, the spot for the IrDA, but then there's another two spots that are mysteriously missing connector interfaces.

Hmmm... i'm no engineering major, but i think there's a bit more capabilities to the original (rev A-D) iMacs than the public was ever led to know...

hey dudes, I have a rev. A imac, and I was wondering something, there's seems too be a metal casing covering the internal monitor and motherboard, can this be taken out, so it'd
look like the new imacs?

[Ca$h68]

um.... duh. 1st gen iMacs have WAY more upgradeability, which still isnt much. >shrugs<

Anyway... taking off that metal shielding would be a bad idea. its basically a big RF cage, and it also supports the powersupply (on the left side of the Imac) and the Audio Video logic board thing on the right side. I dunno, I'll look into it in a bit. You should get that imac.pdf file that basically disassembles the ENTIRE iMac, down to the freaking frame. And I never saw any beige either.


Ca$h

[brucewayne]

Picking up on the "translucent" discussion of just awhile back...I just noticed at a store today a display of imac coloured fishing rods with matching translucent reels.

For a moment there, I almost bought one to match my iMac...but then I remembered that I didn't fish.

[SpeedRacer]

Originally posted by Ca$h68:
I never saw any beige either.

The inner monitor casing of the 1st gen iMacs is beige. Take off the front and top casing around monitor and you'll find the ugly truth. Sort of makes the iMac look like a curved 5400... ugh... that's a really scary thought.

Speed

[Tardbus]

ha!

[e-dard]

Tardbus this thread is very very dead, there is no need to bump it like that....

[Mister Elf]

Holy f*bleeping God...you bumped a SIX YEAR OLD topic? How far back did you have to dig, for Christ's sake?