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Apple Releases Updated iMac Models With 21.5- and 27-Inch LED Screens

Depends on the number of slots

moneyman118 said:
I finally hooked up my new 21.5" imac this morning and Time Capsule is transfering my data.

First question: Can I go from 4GB to 8GB for less money then the $200 Apple is offering? I just called and they said I can bring the iMac in to an Apple store and they would do it at the same cost as they charge online.
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If u have four slots (which i believe it is) u can add two more two GBs which costs around $100 Bucks. if u have only 2 slots then i presume self upgrade and apple upgrade will cost the same!:apple:
 
moneyman118 said:
I finally hooked up my new 21.5" imac this morning and Time Capsule is transfering my data.

First question: Can I go from 4GB to 8GB for less money then the $200 Apple is offering? I just called and they said I can bring the iMac in to an Apple store and they would do it at the same cost as they charge online.

Second question: Sorry if this has been answered but can anyone find the Star Trek Wallpaper anywhere. I assume it was a frame capture but someone has to have made one by now!

Thank you and I love my new iMac and the Magic Mouse!
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Assuming that there is still an access door on the unit for RAM upgrades then yes, you can get 4X2 RAM from Amazon, Crucial, etc, for under $100 and install it yourself.
 
My Order details for my 27in imac Quad core still says November but my Remote now says Ships Nov 18th. God I sure hope the computer ships alot sooner than that!!!
 
What I don't get is before the 27" iMac was released, everyone on here was saying how crap the 16:9 screens were, but now the iMac uses a 16:9 screen, it's great :confused:
 
It's always like that

MacFanUK said:
What I don't get is before the 27" iMac was released, everyone on here was saying how crap the 16:9 screens were, but now the iMac uses a 16:9 screen, it's great :confused:
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The fanbois are always like that - blindly defending whatever Apple is peddling, and claiming that everything else is crap.

Just wait for the Apple Blu-ray systems to show up - suddenly BD will be something that Apple invented for the wonderful future.
 
jmpage2 said:
If I'm really going to plug ram it is Mushkin. They are local to me.
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I'll second OWC. Not only do they have good products, but their whole operation just went wind powered. I'll do what I can to support companies like that.
 
AidenShaw said:
The fanbois are always like that - blindly defending whatever Apple is peddling, and claiming that everything else is crap.

Just wait for the Apple Blu-ray systems to show up - suddenly BD will be something that Apple invented for the wonderful future.
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Considering you're so patently anti-Apple, clearly an Apple hater, an Apple lover hater, and just generally a negative person and a troll with a lot of posts under your belt, why are you even here... seriously?
 
mosx said:
Not at all. Because I build a system for $1,000 today, and then add that Dell display in, that $1,000 in PC hardware will literally mop the floor with that iMac. If the two systems were physically fighting, that $1,000 PC would be kicking the iMac while it's down and laughing at it.
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Hi, Maybe you could help me. I am a PC (win xp) user who was going to switch to Mac with a new 27" i7/8g/1tb Imac. After seeing the price the lady of the house flipped out on me. Im still going to order the Imac but if you could show me a better pc build for less money then the Imac I am getting my home life might not go in the toilet. My current pc is a old amd 64 build I put together about 5 years ago, so no spare parts around. its my kids pc now anyway.

I will need a full build including :

-Case (not one of those windowed led/cathode lighting cases with 8 fans. Something small and sleek it will be used in my work office.)
-Motherboard
-Cpu
-Memory
-HDD (at least 1tb of storage)
-PSU
-GPU
-Speakers
-Keyboard and mouse
-Webcam
-Monitor (something around 27in)
-OS
-Remote (I was also purchasing this it would really come in handy)

Thanks in advance and I guess this is off topic but I am sure a lot of other people might be interested also.

Mike
 
Mic360 said:
Hi, Maybe you could help me. I am a PC (win xp) user who was going to switch to Mac with a new 27" i7/8g/1tb Imac. After seeing the price the lady of the house flipped out on me. Im still going to order the Imac but if you could show me a better pc build for less money then the Imac I am getting my home life might not go in the toilet. My current pc is a old amd 64 build I put together about 5 years ago, so no spare parts around. its my kids pc now anyway.

I will need a full build including :

-Case (not one of those windowed led/cathode lighting cases with 8 fans. Something small and sleek it will be used in my work office.)
-Motherboard
-Cpu
-Memory
-HDD (at least 1tb of storage)
-PSU
-GPU
-Speakers
-Keyboard and mouse
-Webcam
-Monitor (something around 27in)
-OS
-Remote (I was also purchasing this it would really come in handy)

Thanks in advance and I guess this is off topic but I am sure a lot of other people might be interested also.

Mike
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Yes, it is off topic, and no, we aren't interested. Start your own thread in the appropriate forum to get this advice or PM the person in question to take the conversation off line.

Macs cost more than PCs, well established fact. However, starting a discussion about how to build a PC in a thread like this, about debut of the new iMacs is beyond pale.
 
Since Windows2000 isn't getting new security updates from Microsoft, if you are using Internet Explorer that is more likely the source of many of your problems than Windows itself is.

Firefox ( or maybe Safari ... not sure if they backport that far) would likely help with your issues. Part of proactive antivirus/trojan/malware protection on Windows is just not using IE... especially the older ones.
The other part is not setting the browser settings so that is drops crap onto your machine willy nilly. (Firefox cames with the better out of the box settings that IE.. which can weak to an even better state. )
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I am using Firefox - the latest version, which is a bit of a memory hog compared to the previous version.




Windows 2000 is about 10 years old and was never supported or updated in the way XP was. Nearly all modern software won't run on Windows 2000, and Windows 2000 won't run on modern hardware. It's an obsolete OS. You expect MS to keep supporting it with updates?
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I don't expect Microsoft to do anything. I refuse to use their rubbish unless I'm forced to. This machine is going in the garbage soon anyway.

I've been wiating for the new iMacs and will soon upgrade this Windoze rubbish to either a 21" iMac or 13" MacBook Pro, upgrade my PowerMac G3 to a 27" iMac, and then I can easily get broadband and get rid of hopeless Vodafone as my Internet "provider".
 
Mic360 said:
Hi, Maybe you could help me. I am a PC (win xp) user who was going to switch to Mac with a new 27" i7/8g/1tb Imac. After seeing the price the lady of the house flipped out on me. Im still going to order the Imac but if you could show me a better pc build for less money then the Imac I am getting my home life might not go in the toilet. My current pc is a old amd 64 build I put together about 5 years ago, so no spare parts around. its my kids pc now anyway.

I will need a full build including :

-Case (not one of those windowed led/cathode lighting cases with 8 fans. Something small and sleek it will be used in my work office.)
-Motherboard
-Cpu
-Memory
-HDD (at least 1tb of storage)
-PSU
-GPU
-Speakers
-Keyboard and mouse
-Webcam
-Monitor (something around 27in)
-OS
-Remote (I was also purchasing this it would really come in handy)

Thanks in advance and I guess this is off topic but I am sure a lot of other people might be interested also.

Mike
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Wow. You'd rather put your home life in the toilet than go without a Core i7 iMac... I think you and your wife need to work on your communication skills!
 
Went down to the Apple store today and the new iMacs were on display. Here are a few thoughts:

The 27" iMac screen is huge... I'm not sure I would want to be sitting in front of that all day. It's about screen real estate, not screen size, and I think upping the 22" to 1920x1080 hit the perfect sweet spot. I also like being able to view 1080p content in a native resolution without having to upsample. That being said, I was surprised at how shallow (depth-wise) the 27" was... and it wasn't "space heater hot" like one poster had claimed. Warm, yes, but not hot. Both would make a good choice, but man... 27" is a lot of glare... I wasn't in the "matte, please" camp until today... they really need to do something about that.

The viewing angle seemed much improved over the previous version, especially horizontally. Increased ppi is also a very welcome plus. I really, really wish my 15" MacBook Pro had better resolution, especially now.

The new mouse is nice, but not quite as nice as I had hoped. For starters, it's extremely small... I suppose I have big-ish hands, but it wasn't comfortable to use. The gesture thing is really nice and I especially appreciated the scrolling mechanism. There seemed to be just a slight lag in the scroll, however, as opposed to the instant feedback of the iPhone screen. The back and forth between web pages felt awkward to me, but my guess is that I'd get used to it after doing it awhile. Thought I'd really want one of these, but after trying it out, I'm just sorta ambivalent about it.

I'd love one of the 22's in quad core, if that were ever possible. Kinda stinks that I always feel like Apple never gives me quite the configuration I want and so I'm left looking elsewhere.
 
ticho74 said:
Wow. You'd rather put your home life in the toilet than go without a Core i7 iMac... I think you and your wife need to work on your communication skills!
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yea it will only float around in the toilet until the imac gets here then she will see it and be in love with it.
 
AidenShaw said:
Sadly, if recent history has any bearing, you're more likely to see an Atom CPU in an Imac that's 2mm thinner than the current one - rather than seeing a capable CPU.

THIN! THIN! THIN! Never mind usability.
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Aw, it must have been a real let down for you when the iMac Quad-Core i7s were announced - one less thing that you can rant and whine about.

AidenShaw said:
The fanbois are always like that - blindly defending whatever Apple is peddling, and claiming that everything else is crap.
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While you make pathetic attempts at defending the archaic Achilles heels that are The Registry, and DLL in Windows.

Speaking of fanbois, your proselytizing signature peddling a 90-day free Windows 7 trial is most revealing.
 
DMann said:
Aw, it must have been a real let down for you when the iMac Quad-Core i7s were announced - one less thing that you can rant and whine about.
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The letdown was that no mini-tower was announced - the quad Imac only lowers the Apple quad entry fee to $2000. We can still find quad i5/i7 in the $750 range from other vendors.

At least Apple noticed a critical shortcoming, and addressed it - even if they're still more than twice the price of the same power from other vendors. The "all-in-one" form factor isn't popular for any company that offers mini-towers. The only vendor selling good numbers of all-in-ones is the only vendor that doesn't have a mini-tower. Can you connect the dots in this picture?

The "mini server" with the dual laptop drives - oh Christ, what silliness. Apple could have done a mini/micro tower with hot swap drives and come out with something to play against the HP MediaSmart and other Windows Home Server systems. But no...


DMann said:
While you make pathetic attempts at defending the archaic Achilles heels that are The Registry, and DLL in Windows.
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And OSX has plists and .so files, which are fundamentally equivalent to the registry and .dll files. So, what is your point?

Or, are you still pointless?
 
AidenShaw said:
The letdown was that no mini-tower was announced - the quad Imac only lowers the Apple quad entry fee to $2000. We can still find quad i5/i7 in the $750 range from other vendors.

At least Apple noticed a critical shortcoming, and addressed it - even if they're still more than twice the price of the same power from other vendors.

The "mini server" with the dual laptop drives - oh Christ, what silliness. Apple could have done a mini/micro tower with hot swap drives and come out with something to play against the HP MediaSmart and other Windows Home Server systems. But no...




And OSX has plists and .so files, which are fundamentally equivalent to the registry and .dll files. So, what is your point?

Or, are you pointless?
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I suggest you watch the beginning of this video,

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/1007-Mario-Luigi-Bowsers-Inside-Story

Its not the review itself I want you to look at but the metaphors he uses.
 
wow, i came to this to see what you guys thought about the new iMac and all you're doing is fighting like little 4 year old girls.

"No Windows is better!"

"No, Mac is better!"

Stop being babies.

Thanks in advance.
 
AidenShaw said:
And OSX has plists and .so files, which are fundamentally equivalent to the registry and .dll files. So, what is your point?

Or, are you pointless?
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Equivalent? Not even close - apps are self-contained packages in OS X - they can be run outside of a folder, and deleted by simply dumping them into the trash. Try doing that in Windows. The registry needs to be in sync

with the filesystem - if you delete an application without "uninstalling" you're up sh*** creek. If you want to move an application to a different path on your machine, or perhaps to a different machine altogether, good luck extracting the relevant settings

for that one particular application from The Registry, as any given application typically has dozens of settings strewn all over it. Unix, on-the-other-hand, allows different versions to be present in the same directory - a poor attempt of a comparison.
 
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