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An iMac is Now Thinner Than the First iPhone
Hardware Post #3023 · source on Telegram

An iMac is Now Thinner Than the First iPhone

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A simple, side-by-side comparison image against a white background. On the left, a profile view of the thin, blue chassis of the 2021 iMac is shown, with the text 'iMac 2021' and '11.5mm' printed above it. On the right, a profile view of the original 2007 Apple iPhone 2G, showing its silver and black body, with the text 'iPhone 2G' and '11.6mm' above it. The image visually highlights the remarkable progress in hardware engineering and miniaturization over 14 years. The joke is a mind-bending realization for tech veterans: a complete desktop computer, including its display and processing units, is now slightly thinner than the first-generation smartphone that revolutionized the industry. It's a powerful statement on the relentless pace of innovation, particularly Apple's long-standing obsession with thinness

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick By 2030, the iMac will be a 2D object that only exists when you're looking at it, and the dongle to connect a USB-A device will require its own power supply
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    By 2030, the iMac will be a 2D object that only exists when you're looking at it, and the dongle to connect a USB-A device will require its own power supply

  2. Anonymous

    Apple’s latest feat: a desktop thinner than the 2G iPhone. Too bad the React bundle that renders its product page still outweighs both devices - turns out Moore’s Law doesn’t apply to node_modules

  3. Anonymous

    When your desktop is thinner than your phone from 2007, you know you've either solved Moore's Law or just moved all the actual computing to a $2000 external GPU dock that's thicker than both combined

  4. Anonymous

    When your 24-inch desktop is thinner than a 3.5-inch phone from 2007, you know Moore's Law has been working overtime - or Apple's thermal engineers have made a pact with physics itself. The real question is: how many dongles do you need to make the iMac as thick as the iPhone 2G?

  5. Anonymous

    Hardware got thin (11.5mm iMac vs 11.6mm iPhone), but our “thin client” shipped as a 12MB SPA inside a 1.6GB Docker image - turns out thickness migrated to node_modules

  6. Anonymous

    A desktop thinner than the original iPhone (11.5mm vs 11.6mm) while my desktop app ships a 900MB Electron runtime - progress clearly skipped node_modules

  7. Anonymous

    iMac 2021 hits iPhone 2G thinness: because in Apple's architecture, ports are legacy debt and dongles are the microservice mesh

  8. @panchajanya1999 5y

    Lmao.

  9. @ProAbdulrahman 5y

    I don’t have any

  10. @feskow 5y

    Isn't that cool

  11. @LastStranger 5y

    I have only one question. Why i need thin imac? I understand iphone or MacBook, because you can carry with you it, but why i need thin computer?

    1. @LionElJonson 5y

      Well, its complicated. And doesn't matter. Just buy it please

      1. @LastStranger 5y

        Does it have a charger in a box?

        1. @LionElJonson 5y

          Much. Better. You can buy it as a separate product.

    2. @paul_thunder 5y

      You are right. It's pure marketing.

    3. @karumsenjoyer 5y

      Then why you need pic 2 instead of pic 1?

    4. @yarmoliq 5y

      thinnes wasnt the goal. thats just how it is.

  12. @karumsenjoyer 5y

    Well, there is nothing surprising. New iMac is more like iPad, but with macOS

    1. @feskow 5y

      I've heard one of Apple's plans is to have macos on phones and desktops

      1. @karumsenjoyer 5y

        those rumors will celebrate anniversary soon

  13. Deleted Account 5y

    Never had anything from apple and never going to buy something. So idc.

  14. @LastStranger 5y

    If 1 pic will be more productive or cost less with same productive, i buy 1

  15. @tov_ogurcov 5y

    Piece of shit

  16. @MagnusEdvardsson 5y

    What's up with all this apple ads lately on this channel?

    1. @ArchieWindragon 5y

      the developer conference was last week or so, people who like mac are geeking a bit

  17. @dosboxd 5y

    lmao

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