Intel iMac Sales Sluggish?

[gnasher729]

What, exactly, is the difference in "amateurs and semi-pro" users and "pros"? I'm not a professional, but I daresay my scanned 4x5 negatives are as large as what most 'pro' users work with under most circumstances. Likewise, consumer digital SLRs produce files roughly the same size as pro dSLRs in RAW form.

The correct distinction would be that an amateur is someone who does it just for fun, and a professional is someone who makes his or her living doing it.

For software, that would affect the price (how much can I spend for something I do just for fun, and how much for something I need to make more money), and software for amateurs would try to get reasonably decent results for an inexperienced users, while software for professionals would try to get best possible results in shortest possible time for people who are willing to invest time into learning to use the software.

But things like a "MacBook Pro" use a completely different model; a "Pro" computer is just more expensive and more powerful. A professional writer who makes his living writing books doesn't need a powerful computer; someone who wants to convert his 200 DVD collection to H.264 just for fun does.

 

[mongoos150]

The new iMacs are more pro than the MBP.

 

[BigHat]

Good News

iMac order was slowed 3-4 weeks due to the 500 GB HD BTO. Just got
word it shipped on 1/31 vs 2/8. Additionally, slated to be here 2/3 vs. 2/15.

Gives me time to play with it this weekend. Guess I need to hunt up the process of moving data from my PB. Anyone think that will be an issue with the two different processors. Can't see where it would but ....

 

[mongoos150]

Yes, mine shipped today (as they told me it would last week) however it says it's slated to arrive on Friday (they originally stated it'd be here the 7th). Great news, except the serial number is that in question of the 128 v. 256 memory issue...I ordered mine with 256mb vram - it'd BETTER be in there!

 

[bugfaceuk]

The new iMacs are more pro than the MBP.

Except they are harder to fit in your briefcase, and require a car battery and a big adapter to run.

 

[rickvanr]

Except they are harder to fit in your briefcase, and require a car battery and a big adapter to run.

Post of the Day™. Bravo

 

[mongoos150]

Except they are harder to fit in your briefcase, and require a car battery and a big adapter to run.

Since when is portability a prerequisite to being pro? Take a look at the PowerMac...

 

[NeuronBasher]

Since when is portability a prerequisite to being pro? Take a look at the PowerMac...

When you're talking about a Pro laptop, portability is pretty darned near the top of the list of prerequisites.

The iMac G5 is a lot more of a Pro machine than any PowerBook if you factor out the portability. Yes, you get more bang for the buck in a desktop system, this is not exactly a new trend.

 

[Multimedia]

Just Boot the PowerBook With The T Key

iMac order was slowed 3-4 weeks due to the 500 GB HD BTO. Just got
word it shipped on 1/31 vs 2/8. Additionally, slated to be here 2/3 vs. 2/15.

Gives me time to play with it this weekend. Guess I need to hunt up the process of moving data from my PB. Anyone think that will be an issue with the two different processors. Can't see where it would but ....

Hook up a FW cable and boot PowerBook with T key. Should mount on the iMac desktop no problem.

 

[mongoos150]

When you're talking about a Pro laptop, portability is pretty darned near the top of the list of prerequisites.

The iMac G5 is a lot more of a Pro machine than any PowerBook if you factor out the portability. Yes, you get more bang for the buck in a desktop system, this is not exactly a new trend.

Nobody was explicitly talking about portablility, we were talking about *pro machines*. Of course if we were talking about portable pro machines, the iMac is out. Intel iMac is more pro than MBP - I'm talking about the MACHINE, not it's portable status.

 

[PMacG5Dual2.7]

Went with all G5 machines.

I just purchased last Friday. I went with a PowerMac G5 Dual 2.7 ($1799-apple store refresh) 23 HD Cinema display ($899-apple store refresh) and iMac G5/20 ($1100-apple store refresh).

We already have an iBook G4 (11 months old) and a PowerBook G4 (12 months old). So everything old and new is all gonna run the same apps.

Things are real cheap right now if you don't mind G5s'. I say use them for a couple or three years and then down the road after a couple generations of all MACS switching to INTEL make the switch.

I really wanted a Pro Machine and that's a long ways off anyhow. Also Adobe and friends are a way off from porting Photshop/etc to the MAC intel chips at optimum speeds.

 

[cr2sh]

iMac G5/20 ($1100-apple store refresh).

Did you get this at an Apple store and what generation was it?

 

[munkees]

I disagree

The German Store where I purchased my new intel iMac said that business has never been better. since the new of switching to intel last year there sales went down, but know there are the best ever. In fact when I went in to purchase my new iMac there were new switchers. Apple European presents is not the same as the USA, but it starting to grow