How to pick up and carry your iMac G5
By Ryan Block 
posted Oct 1st 2004 12:25PM
posted Oct 1st 2004 12:25PM
It might appear Apple is having some slight usability problems with the complicated design of their new iMac G5.
Thanks for the help, guys! We can take it from here.
[Via
StreetTech]
I know a lady who had bought a first generation iMac and brought it home. She had unpacked and plugged it, then had called my friend to learn how to turn it ON. My friend told me she'd positioned it so it was standing on its screen, front side down. A lot of things that are obvious to us are not so obvious to a lot of people...
n/t
...heck, us Mac people is pretty dumb...
but if you're smart enough to get online and view this document, shouldn't it stand to reason that you could perhaps figure out how to lift the thing?
What's next, a tutorial on how to click the mouse?
But now that I've picked it up, how do I put it down?
After I did what the website told me, the computer wouldn't turn on. Help, I'm totally lost!
(the cables are disconnected :)
Anyone seen a tutorial for the iPod? It would be so cool to take it out of the cradle and, like, totally bring it with me...
This is like an Al Gore misstatement being ripped apart by Karl Rove ;-)
The iMac G5's hinge isn't strong enough to be used to carry the iMac by the stand -- several users have broken the stand this way. So the better way for Apple to phrase this would have been "Don't carry your iMac G5 by the stand; instead, lift it by grabbing both sides of the computer."
Apparently this is a problem:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86337
*Please remember to breathe (inhale and exhale) while carrying your iMac to its desired location. Apple is not responsible for loss of breath.
*Please remember to breathe (inhale and exhale) while carrying your iMac to its desired location. Apple is not responsible for loss of breath.
Macs used to come with a tutorial on how to click the mouse.
but apple says you can carry it
"wherever you wish"
does that mean you can take it to the movies?
cas, like, i kinda want to. . .
Obviously, this message is for idiot PC users who just bought their first Mac. The concept of something other than the bulky PC's they're used to is too alien to grasp (excuse the pun). You need to explain to them how to use them futuristic new-fangled thingies Apple makes.
What's most troubling here is that the "created" date differs from the "revised" date. So, they had to revise this thing at least once.
Yeah, I thought this was inane when I first saw it.
But here is the thing: with the iMac G4 Apple educated everyone that the way to carry that iMac was to pick it up by the monitor arm, considered it's "handle"... When I saw the new iMac design, I recall thinking: do they still expect users to carry this by the metal "handle" connected to the back of the monitor, the new stand? It doesn't look like that'd be the best way to pick it up...
Hence this document, I would have thought.
Sam: Well if thay're moving away from a real computer to Mac then of course they'll need all the help they can get.
#3 some people i know actually needed help finding all the buttons on the mightymouse