re: Can it play YouTube videos?
Better question; Will it blend?
Oh, wait .....
Better question; Will it blend?
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Can it play Youtube videos?
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Intel Core i5 Quad-Core iMac Begins Shipping
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The noise actually does matter; my school's digital recording labs use iMacs specifically for that reason.
The thread was derailed on page 1 by infamous forum troll, Wakashizuma. Surprise surprise.
(MacRumors forum mods don't seem to care about reining in the trolls and flamebaiters who run rampant on this board these days.)
I agree...
You inspired me to register on the forum and add to your post.
As a graduation gift, I received a Dual 500 MHz G4 PowerMac in May of 2000 from my parents. Over the years, I added RAM, added hard drives (four internal), and added a couple of PCI cards to add functionally (i.e., USB2 interface)- plus a DVD burner and pro sound interface. I still use this computer every day, including for graphic design work, non-HD video editing, and music production. It has remained turned on for 70-80% of its life and has never failed me. Even 9+ years later, the industrial design of the tower does not look dated. People see and use my computer and assume they're on a machine no older than 2 years. Bottom line, its has stood the test of time- both from a functional and design standpoint.
FYI, I am awaiting my i7 iMac without bitching about it. I've been patient for nearly a decade, what's an extra couple of weeks?
You inspired me to register on the forum and add to your post.
As a graduation gift, I received a Dual 500 MHz G4 PowerMac in May of 2000 from my parents. Over the years, I added RAM, added hard drives (four internal), and added a couple of PCI cards to add functionally (i.e., USB2 interface)- plus a DVD burner and pro sound interface. I still use this computer every day, including for graphic design work, non-HD video editing, and music production. It has remained turned on for 70-80% of its life and has never failed me. Even 9+ years later, the industrial design of the tower does not look dated. People see and use my computer and assume they're on a machine no older than 2 years. Bottom line, its has stood the test of time- both from a functional and design standpoint.
FYI, I am awaiting my i7 iMac without bitching about it. I've been patient for nearly a decade, what's an extra couple of weeks?
Agreed. I loved my G4 Power Mac dearly. That design still looks better than anything on the PC market (that isn't from Apple) today. And the way the case opened and exposed its inner bits was sheer genius.
The PC makers confuse frequent design with good design. I don't understand why the Dells and HPs of the world don't see the benefit of longer design cycles. Isn't it a real shock to the bottom line to roll out 12 different laptop designs every year? It seems when you're trying to squeeze out a few nickels of profit from a $400 laptop that you'd want to maximize your design efforts. Alas, no. The IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad fortunately bucks the trend of daily design refreshes as far as PCs go.
Apple nails it in this regard. They slave over every minute detail of a design before they roll it out, then they use that design for several years. And this attention to detail translates to customer love. (Sorry haters, but it's true.)
I have an HP/Compaq laptop sitting in front of me and I don't see a single appealing detail on the thing. Not one. It looks cheap, it feels cheap, and it evokes absolutely zero emotional response. And it looks like every other PC laptop out there. But hey, at least you have those brightly-colored Intel and Windows stickers to distract your eye from the worthless industrial design.
A MacBook Pro, on the other hand - you're simply not going to mistake it for anything else on the market (though there are some copycats and pretenders out there).
I interrupt this ridiculous war to say that I too have received a notification of my i5 shipping
Shipment Date:
10/11/2009
Delivers by:
16/11/2009
And I might also note that I did sort of BTO in that I changed the Wireless Keyboard to a Wired one.
Oh and that
MAX SUCK MAN JEEZ WINDOWS PWNZ I MEAN 90% OF THE FREAKING WORLD MAN CAN'T BE WRONG I MEAN PWNZORSZ MAN PWZORZZZZZ NOOB LOL ROFLMAO
Shipment Date:
10/11/2009
Delivers by:
16/11/2009
And I might also note that I did sort of BTO in that I changed the Wireless Keyboard to a Wired one.
Oh and that
MAX SUCK MAN JEEZ WINDOWS PWNZ I MEAN 90% OF THE FREAKING WORLD MAN CAN'T BE WRONG I MEAN PWNZORSZ MAN PWZORZZZZZ NOOB LOL ROFLMAO
Thank you. Finally someone makes sense. Screw Macs. It's like... why should I have a hot boyfriend/girlfriend, when 90% of the world has an ugly one. Sure they're insecure and hiddeous, but so damn easy.
Not strictly true. The lowest end 21.5" iMac does actually ship with a nVIDIA 9400M graphics card (as used in the MacBooks and MacBook Pros). I haven't checked to see if that's build-to-order swappable to the ATI Radeon 4670 or 4850 cards used in the other iMacs.
lol have you tried using windows 7? its the most stable OS ive used in a long time, and i use Ubuntu, W7, WXP, WVista, OSX 10.5 and 10.6 almost daily, i have to support all operating systems at work and personally for friends and friends of friends.
10.5 beach balls quite often especially on mac minis
ubuntu is great but 9.10 has stupid bugs that just piss me off, bluetooth will stop working randomly 9.04 is still my choice.
10.6 has those random deleting issues as well as breaking alot of apps that were working previously.
vista is slow but stable and works.
XP is just old and has no support anymore.
I usually stay out of these flame wars, but this was so funny it made tea come out of my nose.
I'm an Oracle DBA that has done contract work for many customers, some very large. 90% of these companies use UNIX. I did some 'rescue' work for a well known womens makeup company that tried to do clustered Oracle on Windows. Bless their hearts, they poured a ton of money into getting it working correctly. I have heard some good things about Windows 7, but lets face it anything is going to look great compared to Vista. I currently own a 2 year old iMac that I'm selling to get a new one. Yes, really, I'm selling it! All my old PCs just went into the trash. For years I bought PCs but after my last one gave out I swore I would never buy another. I lied, I just bought an HP laptop. First thing I did was wipe the drive of Vista and put Linux and vmware on it. Now it's a good laptop.
UNIX, whatever flavor you choose - Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Mac OS X and even Linux are light years ahead of Windows.
I usually stay out of these flame wars, but this was so funny it made tea come out of my nose.
I currently own a 2 year old iMac that I'm selling to get a new one. Yes, really, I'm selling it! All my old PCs just went into the trash. For years I bought PCs but after my last one gave out I swore I would never buy another. I lied, I just bought an HP laptop. First thing I did was wipe the drive of Vista and put Linux and vmware on it. Now it's a good laptop.
UNIX, whatever flavor you choose - Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Mac OS X and even Linux are light years ahead of Windows.
Apart form the fact that oracle is designed for use on Unix. thats like saying KDE sucks because it wont run on Windows.
Doesn't matter what software you run on it the OS is flawed. Windows started down the wrong path when they tried to put an interface on DOS. Although I liked DOS it never crashed on me.
MorphingDragon said:
Hahaha, nice one kb27973, so funny, its like all the Microsoft Boys that troll threads in this forum, they are so blinkered to Microsoft software, they think we all really need / want it.
When I first migrated to MAC's, I used MS Office for Mac for a year because I blindly thought I should stick to what I know and I had used MS Office since its inception. Since dumping it in its entirety and have never needed to use it again even when receiving files from other people.
Its a real shame most of the MS Trolls that destroy many threads, spout useless information about software & hardware without any real evidence of using a MAC properly.
Even those that have partially used Mac's without making the break from the PC & MS software will struggle to see the benefits most of us realise when we have cut the MS strings completely!
I have found even a Mac experimenter (who intends falling back on a PC because they are too lazy to find (often better s/w alternatives)) are rarely qualified to preach either!!
Basically come back and talk to me when you have lived with a total Mac environment for a few months without having to use a PC for anything (like I have) and then I'll listen to your gripes (if you have any) but if your a pretender (that has even used a Mac) but still goes back to their PC to use software you know, then you haven't spent any time really trying to substitute the Mac, you probably have not spent any time tweaking the interface properly to serve you needs, so you have no business trying to tell me squat
P.S.
I started out in the tech business before the first PC came out with just floppy drives. Yes, I used pre PC systems with 7" floppy disks. I've seen it all come and some of it go, so No you cannot preach anything to me about how great PC's are or how great Microsoft is PERIOD!!
