Looking to buy the 20 inch iMac...

[jxyama]

Originally posted by edesignuk
Whatever mate, you still will not convince me that paying so much for a computer with such old, out dated, over priced tech, with a screen that is no use in the future is a good idea.
A year ago I would have said the iMacs were good, but now the situation has changed, we are a year on, and what's changed really? Oh, a bigger screen, great

i don't care at all about convincing you. you should get what you feel is worth your money.

i just wanted you to not be so crude as to label people liking iMacs (for various reasons you obviously don't agree with) as if they are absolutely insane.

if you wanted a brand new 20" LCD Mac for $2200, then iMac is the choice. it will cost $900 more to get one with a G5 PM. if one had no reasons for upgrades and didn't need the power of G5, would he/she spend close to a grand more NOW just so you can keep the screen in 5 years?

obviously, if those conditions don't apply, like the way you are, then this argument doesn't make much sense. but you have to at least give me that there are some people out there for whom these conditions *do* apply.

 

[rendezvouscp]

I would suggest waiting of course to see what Apple has up their sleeve (if anything). The 20" iMac is a very nice machine (my mom has one). It's everything she will ever need the next, well, probably 7 years. She doesn't do a lot of intensive stuff (a little PhotoShop and Illustrator here and there), so it fits her best. She added BlueTooth and 512 ram (one stick), and I suggest the same. Good luck, and welcome to Apple.
-Chase

 

[Opteron]

Originally posted by Dont Hurt Me
as G4s have been bumped up they havent really gotten faster because of that FSB. This is why when those G5s came out they started at 800 compared to 167 on single and dual G4s.

This is the real issue at hand isn't it. How fast we can feed data to the processor so that it can be turned into infomation that we can use.

Here is the line up in slowest first
HDD<South Bridge<North Bridge<RAM<FSB<Processor
Well that's how it should read, except in the case of the G4 the RAM is faster than the FSB. Thus the FSB is the crippiling factor in this chips architecture.

Why do you think we saw 2MB of level 3 chache last year? To try and comensate for this huge short fall

 

[aswitcher]

Originally posted by ebow
SNIP So I'd hold off on just about any purchase right now (except maybe iBooks) until... mid-March (wild guess) if I could wait. Another wild guess: we'll see speed-bumpted PM G5s, G5 iMacs, and faster G4 eMacs.

But basically, if you're interested in an iMac and can wait a month, it might be a good bet to just wait. Stay tuned to the rumor mill, of course.

Yep, hold off else you might find you missed out on a better computer for less...