do you have an attention disorder? Show me when I called an iPod cheap. i could go nuts naming off the items i would rather have for 400 dollars, and a portable music player will never be among them. now go back to your playstation.
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IMAC IS FREAKIN UGLY
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My playstation? How cute.
You said CHEAP as in POORLY BUILT you retard. Sheesh, you don't even know what you said.
I have taken two apart, and I have to agree with the wackos at tech tv, it's a pretty sturdy little machine.
And with that $400, you can buy yourself a nice little eMachine and get away from the company that sucks.
You said CHEAP as in POORLY BUILT you retard. Sheesh, you don't even know what you said.
I have taken two apart, and I have to agree with the wackos at tech tv, it's a pretty sturdy little machine.
And with that $400, you can buy yourself a nice little eMachine and get away from the company that sucks.
imac not so bad....
regardless of what anyone else thinks, i think the new imac's form is pretty smooth =) i have managed to find 3 things i dislike (knob for a base, tray-loading drive, needs more headphone ports) about it but i have found many things that i LOVE (800mhz g4, geforce 2 mx, dvd burner, etc....) about it.
apple has learned from the cube and has designed this computer accordingly. i can guarentee that apple isnt making a gigantic profit off this machine. just think about what they are offering here for a second.....800mhz g4 (same mhz as top-end machine: risky is u ask me but then again maybe apple doesnt plan on keeping its pro mhz that low for long...), 15" lcd screen, 60gb hd, dvd burner, geforce 2 mx, pro speakers, 3 usb ports, 2 firewire ports, 256mb ram, etc.....all for the same price as a cube when it debuted only a year and a half ago. if anyone has a problem with that i suggest that they get their head out of their ass and wipe the s**t out of their eyes.
as someone said before, the imac is intended to intice new users. why do u think they are trying to attract so much attention??? they got on the cover of time magazine and got the imac announced on just about every radio station in my area. those teasers werent just for the rumor mill. they were to get noticed so that everyone would be paying attention when the imac got announced. the one about being beyond the rumor sites was probably intended as a slap-in-the-face to all the rumor sites out there who think they know better than apple. apple has been trying to shut down rumor sites for a while, and has especially been doing so since mwny. if u just sit back and look at what apple is trying to accomplish, it all makes sense. does anyone out here think they could have designed a better imac than what apple just did? if so, u should go talk with apple right now and try to get hired......
and lol i do think the new imac would be great in a horror flick or something hahahaha! come to think of it, the imac would look pretty freaky just sitting there, staring at u in the dark hahaha!
regardless of what anyone else thinks, i think the new imac's form is pretty smooth =) i have managed to find 3 things i dislike (knob for a base, tray-loading drive, needs more headphone ports) about it but i have found many things that i LOVE (800mhz g4, geforce 2 mx, dvd burner, etc....) about it.
apple has learned from the cube and has designed this computer accordingly. i can guarentee that apple isnt making a gigantic profit off this machine. just think about what they are offering here for a second.....800mhz g4 (same mhz as top-end machine: risky is u ask me but then again maybe apple doesnt plan on keeping its pro mhz that low for long...), 15" lcd screen, 60gb hd, dvd burner, geforce 2 mx, pro speakers, 3 usb ports, 2 firewire ports, 256mb ram, etc.....all for the same price as a cube when it debuted only a year and a half ago. if anyone has a problem with that i suggest that they get their head out of their ass and wipe the s**t out of their eyes.
as someone said before, the imac is intended to intice new users. why do u think they are trying to attract so much attention??? they got on the cover of time magazine and got the imac announced on just about every radio station in my area. those teasers werent just for the rumor mill. they were to get noticed so that everyone would be paying attention when the imac got announced. the one about being beyond the rumor sites was probably intended as a slap-in-the-face to all the rumor sites out there who think they know better than apple. apple has been trying to shut down rumor sites for a while, and has especially been doing so since mwny. if u just sit back and look at what apple is trying to accomplish, it all makes sense. does anyone out here think they could have designed a better imac than what apple just did? if so, u should go talk with apple right now and try to get hired......
and lol i do think the new imac would be great in a horror flick or something hahahaha! come to think of it, the imac would look pretty freaky just sitting there, staring at u in the dark hahaha!
iPod
Everything is relative. $400 is a lot for an MP3 player, if the yardstick is a Rio. On the other hand, a Rio can't be used as a backup or emergency hard drive. Nor is it as convenient for a traveler to use with an FR-modulator and become an MP3 player for the car. While one could buy an MP3 in-dash for $200-$300 (uninstalled), it wouldn't be portable, either. One friend of mine who takes long crusies on his Harley takes an iPod along with RF-modulator and has hours of music to listen to while he makes his way along the highway, and it goes with him when he gets off the bike.
The point is, if the only way you're going to see the iPod is as competition for a Rio then you are going to be disappointed. But if you choose to examine it in light of all the things it can do, then you'll most likely find it is actually a very sweet deal.
Everything is relative. $400 is a lot for an MP3 player, if the yardstick is a Rio. On the other hand, a Rio can't be used as a backup or emergency hard drive. Nor is it as convenient for a traveler to use with an FR-modulator and become an MP3 player for the car. While one could buy an MP3 in-dash for $200-$300 (uninstalled), it wouldn't be portable, either. One friend of mine who takes long crusies on his Harley takes an iPod along with RF-modulator and has hours of music to listen to while he makes his way along the highway, and it goes with him when he gets off the bike.
The point is, if the only way you're going to see the iPod is as competition for a Rio then you are going to be disappointed. But if you choose to examine it in light of all the things it can do, then you'll most likely find it is actually a very sweet deal.
Elfin buddy...
I think the G4 residing in the iMac is clearest evidence that G5 will make its debut by midyear in the towers. The fact it is in the iMac now is capitulation by Apple to the reality that OSX requires a G4 to operate with any speed at all. Since one of the major reasons for MWSF was to legitimize OSX as the default OS (and no longer the OS of the Future but the OS of the Present), they couldn't very well unleash a new iMac that poked along running OSX like a kid being dragged to the dentist's office.
When the G5s hit the market later this year the Tower Boys will be able to drool and gush and then complain about all the other things they don't like about the new towers. It is a given that some people need to complain about something.
(And didn't someone complain about tray-load drives? Is the SuperDrive available as a slot-load? If not, then that would explain why all the other choices would have to be tray-load as well, since you have to design the hardware to work will all three drive mechs...)
In the meantime, I expect Apple to reach out to the masses (NOT just the faithful) with the message than Apple iMac can make the user get more productivity and value out of their DV and digital still cameras. This won't vault them to 10% market share, but it will bring some new converts to the tent. I think Apple's research shows 40% of visitors to the Apple Stores are not Mac users currently, which means they have "fresh meat" to impress, instead of just selling new iMacs to old Mac customers...
I think the G4 residing in the iMac is clearest evidence that G5 will make its debut by midyear in the towers. The fact it is in the iMac now is capitulation by Apple to the reality that OSX requires a G4 to operate with any speed at all. Since one of the major reasons for MWSF was to legitimize OSX as the default OS (and no longer the OS of the Future but the OS of the Present), they couldn't very well unleash a new iMac that poked along running OSX like a kid being dragged to the dentist's office.
When the G5s hit the market later this year the Tower Boys will be able to drool and gush and then complain about all the other things they don't like about the new towers. It is a given that some people need to complain about something.
(And didn't someone complain about tray-load drives? Is the SuperDrive available as a slot-load? If not, then that would explain why all the other choices would have to be tray-load as well, since you have to design the hardware to work will all three drive mechs...)
In the meantime, I expect Apple to reach out to the masses (NOT just the faithful) with the message than Apple iMac can make the user get more productivity and value out of their DV and digital still cameras. This won't vault them to 10% market share, but it will bring some new converts to the tent. I think Apple's research shows 40% of visitors to the Apple Stores are not Mac users currently, which means they have "fresh meat" to impress, instead of just selling new iMacs to old Mac customers...
iMovie is probably the best low-end consumer product like it out there... If you go to any Film school... they all use FinalCutPro... and they start off using iMovie.. or at least they did at my buddys school. you can teach your self how to use it in a day and its free. How can you beat that.
The new iBook is very nice.
Maybe they should give a free iPod when you buy a BMW.....
iDVD is great, and im glad iMacs now have that ability. Ok??? so theres some positive stuff. But I still feel disappointed as they promised more with the advertising.
G5s might come out mid year. Might. Mot is having problems. So who knows. I believe that they are going to release gigahertz machines at MWTokyo. Even though this isn't an important matter to me, optimization of OS X is more important in my eyes.
But with apple, who knows except TimeCanada.
But with apple, who knows except TimeCanada.
repboy
you have some good points =) i never figured that the reason for a tray was the superdrive. either way, its not something im pissed about, im just being picky because there are im having trouble coming up with things that i DONT like about the new imac =) long live the imac!
you have some good points =) i never figured that the reason for a tray was the superdrive. either way, its not something im pissed about, im just being picky because there are im having trouble coming up with things that i DONT like about the new imac =) long live the imac!