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Early iMac Reviews Praise Design and Display Enhancements
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I agree it's not a hardcore gamers platform, but it's not exactly a shrimpy performer, either. For people like me, who play games, but aren't building custom SLI rigs to push out games at 8x AA, 16x AF, every option set to the absolute mat at as high a resolution as they can go, it's more than enough.
To me, this new iMac with the 680MX is the first truly do-everything-well Mac I've seen outside the Pro line.
...cept for when you need to swap out your harddrive.
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That's why you use a stylus, which is just as pixel perfect, and much more immediate.
Keep in mind that when I'm talking about touchscreens, I'm also assuming they'll have a digitizer onboard as well. Touch by itself is COMPLETELY useless on a desktop.
I spend very little on my wife. I think I spend more on my daughters and my Chihuahua. My wife gets mad often!
Not even close. The mobile 650m gets 1282 on passmark while the desktop version of the 650 gets 2727. Thats more than a little difference. Not to mention the desktop 650 is hardly high end. In fact even the highest end 675m scores lower than the desktop 650 despite having a higher series number.
675m scores 2490 on passmark.
670 desktop scores 5253.
Even the desktop 640 is faster than the 650m. You can buy a gt 640 for 59.99. So apple gpu is outperformed by 60 dollar parts which is considered entry level for dedicated gpus. The highest end option you can get on the imac is outperformed by the gtx650 which costs less than 100 dollars.
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So you are going to re-implement all of Mac OS X for $2,000? You have to factor in the engineering cost and the manufacturing costs. It took thousands of people working for decades to create all the software.
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Well, since the new laminated screen is the best part, I shall await the Thunderbolt Display update.
I would rather have my notebook outside the monitor than inside it
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Well, since the new laminated screen is the best part, I shall await the Thunderbolt Display update.
I would rather have my notebook outside the monitor than inside it
The high end GPU on the iMac is a 680MX, which is about...I think...20% faster than the 675MX.
...maybe I'm overestimating the power of the thing. I guess I'll have to go look it up later and see how right or wrong I am.
I agree but reckon that Siri will be on macs before very long....I feel apple would rather go all Star Trek on us and have us talk to the computer.....probably not great for the business side(imagine the noise levels)but great fun for the personal user.
Also explains the two microphones for noise cancellation(yeah and the FaceTime obviously)
It's "bloated" by 10%. That's hardly offensive compared to the likes of Adobe's pricing scams.
And besides, that 10% is Apple's buffer against shifting exchange rates. They don't like to change their product pricing during its shelf life. It causes people to hold off for bargains that may never appear.
Mr. WorldTravelBro, the iPads you ordered for your Chihuahua are ready for pickup.
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I can't even reach the screen on my 24" from the normal seating position at my desk (ie from a comfortable viewing distance).
Still slower than everything above and including the gtx660. It also costs a a minimum of 2200 dollars to even get the gtx680. At that price you could afford a much better gpu. In fact at that pricepoint you should be getting multiple gpus and an i7 but your only getting an i5. There is zero benefit that apples new imac design brings the user. No one was asking for a thinner desktop. They certainly didn;t ask for the base price to rise 100 dollars either especially since the thing was already priced too high. The base configs gpu is the equivelent of a 30- 40 dollar gpu. Its a joke considering its in a machine that starts at 1300.
That would be why they didn't try to do a touchscreen
What I loved about this review were things like him claiming it is wider than Apple said. Uh no, they showed the bulge themselves. And the implication Applesaid it is reflection free,which they didn't.
Well, 10% is 100 on a 1000 purchase or 200 on a 2000 one. That's relevant to a lot of people.
And overcharging in order to protect margins from eventual exchange rate shifting does not feel like a very customer-friendly policy to me.
Also, Apple did not hesitate to increase 120-150 on the prices of Macs when they were forced by the UE to provide a 2-yr warranty for their products, like everybody else does.
No, it's a stupid argument ESPECIALLY for designers like in the picture. A wacom cintiq like have been around forever with a pen is awesome. But putting your grubby fingers on a screen you are designing on is completely stupid.
I almost hit someone for touching my screen trying to point something out to me. "jerkface, your fingers don't belong on my color calibrated screen."
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Cuz really, what can touching your giant 27" screen with a finger do that your mouse can't? Not a damn thing.
But a touchscreen and a wacom style digitizer? I could be using two fingers to rotate and zoom a picture in PS while drawing directly to the screen. That's awesome.
FINGER SMOO NO!
I know, he goes to the point of showing where the ram is but stops there.m
Not to mention not showing the computer in action, with perhaps less of his face. And using a soured up unit anyway. On a model that isn't shipping. A review of the baseline 21.5 would have been more useful at this point
My physical therapist was expensive but I can now walk without any problems.
Thats due to a lighter wallet in your back pocket.
Surely that price can't be right! The same system costs 2.649,00 euros ($3.444,79) in Germany...
1. Import taxes raise prices
2. Apple doesn't adjust for currency every day. More like once a quarter if that (might be only once or twice a year)
3. Every state in the Us has different sales tax so it is never put in prices. Unlike ow the VAT is the same country wide so it's 'in the tag'. Add the percent of your VAT to the US price for a better comparison
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Nope. Many states tax online flat out. Others tax it if the company has brick and mortar in the state.
Windows 8 might not be able to "realize the total power of UNIX", whatever that might mean, but on my Mac Pro 3.2 quad it is amazingly more responsive than Mountain Lion. Don't get me wrong, I'm still a big Mac fan but W8 really moves. While W8 Geekbench scores are only a little faster than ML's on Cinebench it's no contest.
In the end it's all about what applications you want to use. Obviously an iPhoto, FaceTime, Aperture fan will need to use Mac OS. For a gamer or Photoshop user Windows would work better.