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Apple Clearing Out 20'' G5 iMacs
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I know I have money to spend on a iMac and I would like to have a 20". But I just can't seem to reach into my pocket what with all those mouse traps set to prevent me from such endeavor 
Oh and I would want to go with the future processors with my next purchase anyway.
With a student discount that looks quite tempting indeed. And I do know of some Graphic Design Firms that use G4 iMacs. Not a single G5 PM as far as I could see. I was somewhat in disbelief.
Oh and I would want to go with the future processors with my next purchase anyway.With a student discount that looks quite tempting indeed. And I do know of some Graphic Design Firms that use G4 iMacs. Not a single G5 PM as far as I could see. I was somewhat in disbelief.
mproud said:
Um dude pass whatever you are smoking this way. Keynote vs. PowerPoint Winner: Keynote. However Word vs. Pages . . . Word stomps all over Pages and then puts out its cigarette in pages chest.
iWork isn't quality. It’s the bundling of Apple's two productivity apps into one oddball package that is still maturing. Wake me when Apple gets even a quarter of the features of Word into Pages. You show Pages to anyone who does any serious word-processing and they will laugh you right out of the building.
joepunk said:I know I have money to spend on a iMac and I would like to have a 20". But I just can't seem to reach into my pocket what with all those mouse traps set to prevent me from such endeavor
With a student discount that looks quite tempting indeed. And I do know of some Graphic Design Firms that use G4 iMacs. Not a single G5 PM as far as I could see. I was somewhat in disbelief.
If you're only running Illustrator, Photoshop and not doing heavy 3D or massive photo manipulation, an iMac is more than adequate. The G5 iMac is also about twice as fast as the Intel iMac at running Adobe's software and will be until Adobe releases native Intel versions.
So, for design pros on a budget, the 20" iMac G5 is probably THE machine to have for the next year.
Interesting that in the Anandtech article, the Core Solo got its backside kicked by the G5 in most of the benchmarks (the exceptions were those that relied heavily on the GPU). This suggests that the Core Solo would be a weak offering for the Mac Mini and the iBook, and a Core Solo 1.66 GHz may be no better than a G4 at 1.5 GHz. Considering its relatively high price, I hope we will NOT see the Core Solo in those machines.
OTOH, it doesn't look like Rosetta takes advantage of the 2nd core.
Looks like I should stick with my current iMac G5 at least until something Merom-based comes along.
OTOH, it doesn't look like Rosetta takes advantage of the 2nd core.
Looks like I should stick with my current iMac G5 at least until something Merom-based comes along.
>I'd buy one if I had the money.
no, u should buy one even if you dont have money haha (joking)
indeed, i made up my mind after the Japanese input method ATOK announced incompatibility on intel iMac!! iMac G5 is still a masterpiece that worth to purchase!!!
no, u should buy one even if you dont have money haha (joking)
indeed, i made up my mind after the Japanese input method ATOK announced incompatibility on intel iMac!! iMac G5 is still a masterpiece that worth to purchase!!!
NO WORD PROCESSING SOFTWARE?
Blimey, who would have thought that?
A £250 bargain basement PC has better software than a £1300 Apple Mac.
Blimey, who would have thought that?
A £250 bargain basement PC has better software than a £1300 Apple Mac.
Sweet...I can get the iMac 20'' for 1399 with my student discount. I wish I had some rainy day funds for events like this. By any chance, is there any word on whether iLife '06 is bundled with this model?
I know this is somewhat off topic, but I am really entertaining the thought of buying one of these G5s. Any thoughts of using that apple credit loan program? I would really like another Mac in the household
I know this is somewhat off topic, but I am really entertaining the thought of buying one of these G5s. Any thoughts of using that apple credit loan program? I would really like another Mac in the household
combatcolin said:NO WORD PROCESSING SOFTWARE?
Blimey, who would have thought that?
A £250 bargain basement PC has better software than a £1300 Apple Mac.
I know, this is a problem for Apple, I would think people would have more need for word processing software than sometihng like DVD authoring sotware such as iDVD in iLife. I think most PC's come with MS Works.
Does not make sense to buy a G5, every application developer is switching over to take advantage of dual core. Also, the graphics card alone in the new imacs is worth the price. I've been using the 17" intel imac, multitasking, windowing, quicktime, ilife, everything is sooo much faster. Once the pro apps are released they will take advantage of dual cores.
Why would you want to pay the same price for a machine when the dual cores have two cpus and better graphics ?
Why would you want to pay the same price for a machine when the dual cores have two cpus and better graphics ?
The Anandtech Article was OK. . .
The author seemed to draw some really odd conclusions in places. I don't remember what half of them were, but I do remember thinking, "That's Odd. . ." I'm really interested to see how the Macs based on the Duo perform in some of the tasks where the old G5s used to get blamed for downright craptastic performance.
The author seemed to draw some really odd conclusions in places. I don't remember what half of them were, but I do remember thinking, "That's Odd. . ." I'm really interested to see how the Macs based on the Duo perform in some of the tasks where the old G5s used to get blamed for downright craptastic performance.
aegisdesign said:
No I think he really means TextEdit. Most people don't realise how fully featured it it. It does tables. It does lists. It loads and saves Word documents. It can save documents as valid XHTML. It really is pretty good!
Not really. It can deal with stuff created in the word processing module, but documents created with the draw module are orphans. (That's kind of a strange omission because the draw module was more Pages-like than the word processor.) Spreadsheets and databases are also orphans, but Keynote can import the presentations.cube said:
robbieduncan said:
I must agree, a lot of people tend to confuse Word Processing with Word Publishing. For the former, there are a lot of good programs in many platforms (TextEdit, GNU Emacs, TeX, LaTeX, Kate and even Notepad).
Now, I must admit that Microsoft Word does a terrific job on the publishing of documents, it's formatting capabilities are outstanding. But for a serious writer, the format is not important, they usually have a separate department to do the "polishing" of their documents.
BlizzardBomb said:So if you buy an Intel iMac without iWork, what do you word process on? TextEdit?
vi?
SiliconAddict said:
Pages does what it does very well. It is easy to use, the table tool works reliably (I've had too many years of Word's broken table implementations), and above all it is fun to use, whereas Word isn't. It has some quirks, it sometimes feels like it is stuck between being a page designer/layouter (DTP) and a word processor. You can have multi-page Pages - maybe calling them 'Sections' would have been more sensible
OTOH it doesn't have all of Word's features. Not that most people ever use them. Word also has the awful complicated layout, whereas Pages has a much cleaner simple interface. The next Office will fix that problem of course, with the innovative looking ribbon UI component.
iWork is certainly more consumer oriented than business oriented however. That's reflected in the price and the featureset.
I don't know where Apple is taking iWork however - will they add more features to make it more Office-like (unlikely now that Office is going to be enhanced for the Mac for the next few years) or merely improve the consumer level features? There's only so many new templates you can offer I like integrating the spreadsheet functionality into standard tables however - that seems quite sensible for how I use spreadsheets. Maybe Numbers isn't ready, or Numbers was sacrificed to the Office on Mac gods.