a glob of nerdishness

The new iMac is definitely trimmer. But part of the new design is just cosmetic:

The black mask makes the bevel around the screen look amazingly thin. In reality, it’s about the same width as the previous generation’s. It had me fooled until I started looking to see where they put the iSight camera.

This neat visual trick follows a similar vein as Ive’s design of the iMac G4 display.