iMac? Roll on August 7th…

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Okay, okay, it was a woopsy on my part not telling you I was going to be away for a week or so, therefore no PotW or TotW. But I’m going to make it up to you now I’m back.

But anyway, thats not what this post is about. The date August 7th has been flying around for a while now as a potential date for an iMac overhaul. Those rumours seem to have been confirmed, well, the date has at least; Apple is holding a special event at their Infinite Loop campus in Cupertino, California on the 7th of August (a Tuesday, which historically has been Apple’s day of choice for announcing new products) at 10am PDT.

The Engadget blog was invited yesterday to a “product presentation for Mac” at Apple Town Hall on August 7th. Apple were very specific that the event was for the Macintosh, presumably so as to quash any iPhone/iPod rumours.

As I have said before, I see no reason for Apple to break its product branding (pro = metal, consumer = white/black plastic) for the new iMac, but with so many rumours about the new brushed metal iMac, I’m finding it hard to ignore it.

But I do think that Apple would shoot themselves in the foot if they released the “super slim brushed aluminum keyboard” that everyone has been going on about. Or rather if they release that particular design, they are shooting themselves in the foot. That keyboard is basically a 104-key version of the current MacBook keyboard, and I don’t know about any of you, but I prefer to type with a ‘proper’ keyboard whenever I can, so that new keyboard for me would be a no-go. But maybe thats just me.

I’d like to hear people’s thoughts and comments on this topic, so drop a comment below.

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