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Early iMac Reviews Praise Design and Display Enhancements
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Anyone praising Windows 8 will never realize the total power of UNIX and never mind the quality of materials this iMac provides.
It's the same argument people who go out and buy a wireless router/switch and say they are on par with the Airport Extreme Base Station when all one has to do is look at the build of any third party next to the Airport EBS and it's not even close.
There will be a time and a place. Niche machines with the features you describe have been around for years. However, Microsoft is betting that 2012/2013 is when touchscreen desktops become mainstream. Apple is betting that now is not the time. I tend to agree with Apple as far as desktops are concerned. Most users don't need touchscreen desktops right now, and they don't really add much now.
Notebooks may be a different story. It will be interesting to see how the Surface Pro and other Windows 8 Ultrabooks fare over the next year or so. They could potentially replace 10" tablet devices as the road warrior machine of choice, though I think that the 7-8" tablets such as the iPad mini will exist as a separate device for a lot longer.
If Apple does add touch capabilities to OS X, it will be to the MacBook line first, not the iMac, and likely as a specialty product. That's my prediction.
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That's been Apple's direction as of late. There's the $29 Thunderbolt Firewire 800 adapter now.
And why exactly is that useful? To me all this touchscreen everywhere is just throwing stuff at the wall to see what sticks. Same with all these convertible laptops. I'll be curious to see how well this stuff sells over traditional laptops and AIO's.
Sales tax depends on where you live. In a few states, it's 0%. In most states it is between 6-10%.
Ha! I'm probably even worse than you are. Since I got my iPad and iPhone, I walk around everywhere with a little silk cloth in my pocket to wipe all my stuff down with. I hate finger smoo so much. If I could get away with it without anyone making fun of me, I'd probably wear mittens all the time to keep from greasing up my screens.
Wanna adopt a 42 year old man with a wife and 2 kids? (Wife and Kids can find their own sugar daddy).
There is absolutely a reason as I mentioned above. The head-down position is terrible for your neck and back.
Hmm. $2599 + 19% VAT does not equal $3444.79. There is a difference of some $351, which is usually called the "Apple Tax" in these parts.
As a European living in the EU I am intrigued by these "European Union Taxes" of which you speak. Please elaborate.
I sorta agree. I don't ever see touch taking off for the desktops in the consumer market....at least not anytime in the immediate future. It'd be a nice thing to have, but it's not exactly necessary for anyone except graphics artists, drafters, ect. ect. Most people would be using a desktop with a touch screen about the same as they would a desktop with a mouse.
For laptops? Hell, why not? Your hands are already within 6 inches of the screen anyway, and we're already gearing OSes up to take advantage of it. The only thing it'll cost is a tiny extra bit of money.
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Even with that design your arms have to float freely rather than resting on the flat surface. When you have to have your arms in front of you with your forearms elevated your whole arm and back have to work rather than just your hand.
Also the benefit of a mouse is that you can make the pointer move a much greater distance with only a slight move of the hand. So small movements generate much more efficiency and you can get nearly pixel accurate clicking with far less time taken.
I could go on and on but it's all fairly logical if you think about it.
Don't waste your time with them; Americans are scared by their government in to believing we're all oppressed under enormous tax regimes.
If you scare people in to believing that taxes are evil, the government is neutered and can't do anything to help people from the vulture capitalists.
At a severe angle, yeah. Sitting in your comfy chair with the screen pushed up fairly near you, tilted back at fairly gentle angle? Not so much.
Touch screen is even worse for graphic artists and drafters because you need to be able to quickly make pixel perfect clicks and drags with out missing 3 times with your big finger in the way of what you are trying to see to click on.
Example:
I have the iDraw app on my iPad retina which is a drawing program that uses vector style graphics. It is a great app and would be really powerful but its extremely difficult to use because you have to be able to touch an object that's only two or three pixels wide. It's really hard unless you zoom way in. Takes about 10 min to do what would take 2 min to do if I had a mouse.
Only thing I can come with is import duties, since all of Apple's finished goods are imported in China. According to the Internet, German import duties are anywhere between zero and 17%, depending on the item / item category.
No CD/DVD Drive
If you want to install software from DVD, rip music from a CD, or burn a DVD for grandma, you'll need to purchase a SuperDrive.
The 1st iMac to not include a CD/DVD drive. It also does not have FireWire (which is not a problem for me).
This is in addition to Apple dropping iDVD.
If you want to install software from DVD, rip music from a CD, or burn a DVD for grandma, you'll need to purchase a SuperDrive.
The 1st iMac to not include a CD/DVD drive. It also does not have FireWire (which is not a problem for me).
This is in addition to Apple dropping iDVD.
I was saying that, even without VAT and every tax in the book, the EU price is still bloated in comparison with the US one.