Dan you all for luring my weak gullible no-willpower self to this thread!
At first, I was like, huh? The hemisphere was challenging to me. Then I noticed the screen arm, and immediately though that would be very cool to swing around as needed. I can't tell you how many times I've "swiveled" my bulky monitor around clumsily for clients.
Then I read the article, cuz, you kow, I'm weak, and boy did it really come together. The software, hardware integration is beautiful. It really is an excellent product for its audience. In fact, I may just become one of its audience after this, unless they up the ante on the top end models (puh-lease!).
I was hard on the iPod when it came out, but only because it wasn't what I wanted. This iMac is similar, but now I can accept it for what it is, which is quite cool.
BTW- Time Canada is going to have to send a representative to Apple headquarters for his anal raping. Unless Apple let it leak because they have even more up their sleeve, Steve is going to FREAK! This will make the ATI thing look like nothing. (On the other hand, Time has been very Apple biased for quite some time (heh), so not even Steve would be crazy enough to dump them).