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Re: PURE CRAP!

Originally posted by h8teiris
That imac is a flop, Apple is crazy, we want real stuff, ata 133, 1 + ghz, 100gig hard drive, 2 gig of ram, a pda, OSX on intel, 64 mb video, I’m so sick of this crap, "be prepared to be blown a way" ? What a let down!
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I hope for your sake that was sarcasm, or you have just made a fool of yourself in this forum.
OSX on intel? do you know how difficult that would be to pull off never mind keep up to date?
PDA? good idea!, lets enter a pda into a market which we havent a clue the future of. That market is going downhill.
the rest of what you said was for a powermac i assume.

From what you said i can tell, you have no knowledge of computing, no knowledge of economics, and you are probably in your early teens.
 
over priced desl lamp

the imac might look nice and fluffy but u cant really expand it and i think it look like an over priced lamp besides how does that go beyond the rumors?? we have been predicting this for months now i want to see power not 800mhz g4 over and over again
 
crystal clear savings

check this out...
crystal clear savings promotion goes until jan31

drum roll...

i think that new powermacs and displays will be released in february.
makes sense to me.

marketing 101
why would apple want to take way the focus from the new imac. consumers now.
pros a little later.
apple desperately needed to update their imacs now and thats what they did. powermacs can wait a month.
 
This is how it should be

Steve finishes his presentation (perfect streaming connection here in Holland btw). I go to the Apple site and immediately get to download the new Iphoto App... Within minutes I have replicated all the demo stuff...
Adding all my photo's now... from a harddrive location and from my canon camera (without every having to install drivers...)

Only thing that is too bad: I have to have a US shipping address to order the photo's...

But this is how it should be, fast simple and reliable...

WOW!

 
I prefer the new iMac design

How awesome to be able to swivle your monitor in and out of your field of view and off your desk? I dont' know about your cubes, but mine is always cluttered, even with a tower on the floor. the footprint of the device is great. I agree that there will be monitor size options in the future, but even better would be to extend this design to all displays, allowing Pro users to enjoy the ergonomic advantages, and have their beloved towers with PCI expansion.
 
spikey

What, this is why I hate this kind of stuff, just because you don’t like my post you have to call me a little kid , you tell me how economic sound it is to make a $1300 lamp, and try to tell me it took 2 years to make , then try to justify the top of the line model at $1800, give me a break. I mealy looked at what the majority of the past posts were looking for and had dreamed of. You are just one of the old school "apple can do now wrong" type of people. So go make fun of me, and pretend your high and might , with your star bucks , I don’t care, I could do much better with my $1800! , And soon you will see osx on Intel, it will not be a hard as you thing to port a bsd kernel to Intel, or just emulate cpu instructions in a new micro kernel.

[Edited by h8teiris on 01-07-2002 at 04:01 PM]
 
Yes, it is amazing. iPhoto is amazing also, but only if I own a $300+ camera made by specific vendors and a digital video camera, and an iPod, etc. This digital hub idea is great, but to take advantage of it, you have to buy another $1000-$1500 worth of stuff. How about the cheap digital devices like the JamCams of the world. People (read: ordinary folks with a budget) can't afford an expensive camera AND a new iMac. This is the only real flaw I see with this new strategy. Besides, all of the DVDs I have made with iDVD for my family are still sitting on my shelf, because it does them no good without a DVD player that they don't own.

My 2 cents.

gus
 
paml is apples pda

If u havent already realized apple is not going to make a pda they virtually call palm the apple pda anyways why would apple have bothered to make software for palm if they intended to make their own pda it wouldnt make sense
 
By the way, thanks paul777. i couldnt find those prices.

indeed, word up....... how english of me.

Macnut you are a whining little gimp. what the hell makes you think the imac is about expandability.

 
no consolation....but...

u can import photos into iPhoto by either already having them on your hard drive or if u can scan them in...

u don't have to have just a digital camera to use it....that would have been dumb!
 
Makes sense to me.

The US & UK are hanging on the brink of a major recession. The only thing saving the economy is the fact that consumers are spending (albeit on credit cards).


People are gonna go mad for this iMac. Can you imagine the cheek of Apple in saying "Were gonna ship the expensive one first because we know it's gonna sell."

SJ is a very wise, shrewd man.



"We are not worthy" (Wayne - Wayne's World)


 
Argh

Some things are rather annoying.
I hoped for my Kodak DC240 DigiCam to work with iPhoto, because it didn´t work with ImageCapture.
It sucked.

Error message: "Could not find /users/.../pictures/iPhoto Library/2002/07/01" or something like it.
Great Software.

The new iMac is cool, however as I saw the German Prices it made me feel sick. Converted to US$ the price for the Superdrive iMac in Germany is $ 2280!
(source: german applestore)
How can this difference be explained?

And I too need a tower, in the meantime I´ve 2 Harddisks floating around, and a new iMac can´t take them...
 
didnt live up to the hype

All I have to say is that all the hype that apple made about this expo was nothing more than what the rumor sites were predicting for months now how did this expo go beyond the rumor sites anyways? Will someone please explain that one to me? we got am imac with a flat screen. no big news their. iphoto that was a rumor too. pda that was a joke to begin with and no one with their head on straight even beleved that one. Maybe Tokyo will be hyped just as much but they better deliver some good high end products next month or apple will go down the tubes fast An imac wont cut it with most of apple followers. and will those people at motorola get their head out of theur butts and release a chip with atleast a ghz u could hear the crowd get disappointed when Jobs didnt say anything above 800mhz
 
The G5 must be coming at MYTKY.I don't think that Apple would put a G4 in their consumer models at the same speeds as the pro models if the G5 wasn't coming at MWTKY. The new iMac rocks. Everyone should stop bitching about the iMac unless they happen to own one and have good reason to. I take the fact that there is no new towers to mean that something very fast is around the corner and Apple didn't have the chips ready for this time. As far as I'm concerned the iMac is a truly amazing feat of engineering. A 10" dome that holds everything including the power supply and audio hardware, that's pretty impressive.

[Edited by asurace on 01-07-2002 at 04:26 PM]
 
Re: over priced desl lamp

Originally posted by MacNut
the imac might look nice and fluffy but u cant really expand it and i think it look like an over priced lamp ...
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What do you want to expand? This is a computer for consumers. If you want to expand buy a Tower. And most of the G4-Tower-Users haven't got anything more inside than RAM, Airport and maybe a second HD.
 
Where no PC has gone before ?

I think this new iMac can make its way into the LIVINGROOM. And this is a place that no PC has gone before.
 
switching

Okay, I was hoping for the new towers...I really don't care about imac. I need something that I can work with graphics and 3D animation. I guess they can't go more than 867 mhz. Pentium is coming out 2.2 ghz pretty soon.

Is apple abandoning professional designers? and go for more regular consumers?

I guess I should switch to PC...faster and cheaper.
 
iMac - No re-set button?

I just looked at the back of the new iPuck...uh iMac.
Where is the re-set button? Do you mean to tell me they have added a feature that makes it unnecessary for you to re-set your iMac two, three times a day? Wow that's cool! Now I guess you just reach around the BACK (ergonomic huh?) and hit the power button when it craps out on you. Definitely worth the hype! And if you believe that, I got a brand new power mac, loaded, I mean loaded with an 867mhz processor, superdrive, and a whopping 128megs of RAM. Just enough to run OS X! At the low low low price of $2599. (Sorry, monitor and modem not included) But you get a fancy keyboard and OPTICAL mouse!
(Sorry, speakers not included) And did I mention software......
 
Attention idiots:

10 PRINT "OSX will never be ported to Intel"
20 GOTO 10
RUN

This BASIC program may help get the message across.

"And soon you will see osx on Intel, it will not be a hard as you thing to port a bsd kernel to Intel, or just emulate cpu instructions in a new micro kernel."

If it's not hard, then snap to it! I mean, it's gotta be tremendously easy to port an operating system that was made with a specific chip in mind to another chip achitecture, and make all of the software compatible. Not to mention make it compatible with the 10's of thousands of motherboards, video cards and junk add-ons for the PC. Then you wave your magic wand and somehow make all of the software compatible with x86 instructions. I expect you could have this done by the end of the week.
 
Low end user

I think that it is very important for Apple to respond to the low-end costumer. Yes the new imac is cool, but they need to keep the current one (a classic model if you will) and lower the price to $599. You must remember in order to take advantage of all the great technology you must have all the gadgets: digital video camera, digital still camera, DVD player, printer and so on. They all cost money. If Apple wants to be your digital hub then it must also offer a low-end low price digital hub. A low-end imac could do that. Say 500mhz 15gb 128ram for $599. If marked right, that might get the masses to join in on Apples digital hub idea. Once in they might learn to love it and move up to that flat panel model. I thought Apple wanted more market share? This would mean more market share.

Some one else stated that Apple still has the old imac at $799. But for how long? And it is still too high. If Jobs said “and we are lowering are low-end model to $599”, would that not been news?
 
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Though, i'm so dissapointed....I want a g5 and a cinema display at half the price! 
 
Give it time, and try it out.

Not many people like Apple products on the day they are announced. When you get to play with them and see that they are way faster than anything you have owned you will like it even more. The iMac is not meant to be expanded in any way. In fact, I think Apple wants to make PCI cards extinct. Its not like it is impossible to make any hardware available now work with firewire/usb/airport. All you need is enough bandwidth/speed.

Apple has created a consumer computer that NO OTHER PC COMPANY can copy! They copied the original iMac but they will NEVER be able to copy this and make money.

As for the G5, don't hold your breath, look for the next Jan Macworld for that. Apple always takes it's time with these things.
 
I will say this. Everyone here at work is excited about the new imacs. Also, it was way beyond the rumors because it was more of a change to the design than we expected, and would have been totally shocked except time screwed it up.

Also,you buy a tower for expandability. End of story.

I thought it was nice. iPhoto is Grande, and I would like to get a new iMac just because they are totally awesome.
 
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