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New iMac Announced
Steve Jobs is terrific at just that, Creating Desire. This is no surprise to us, for sure, but nothing drives it home as much as sitting in the audience and watching him speak. I could tell you how wonderful an orator he is, and how groovy his products are, but I really want to hear what the Slashdot user communtiy has to say about that. I want to talk about what Apple is doing technically.
First: The new iMac is very attractive. It's cool, it's neat. It will be a very popular machine. It's got a good price/feature spectrum and it looks like a pretty decent machine for the consumer. It isn't, in the end, a machine for the linux die-hard, but that's okay. It's slick, it ships with a bunch of very decent apps to manage your digital media. I want one, it's a cool machine. I don't know what I'd do with it (which is the problem), but it's cool looking. It's not particularly a good deal, I mean, you can pick up 200$ 15" tft displays at Fry's and lets get real, the G4 (Excepting the velocity engine stuff) isn't that fast of a chip at any available speed compared to the x86 world. But boy, this is one slick machine. But we know that already from the previous story. I do worry about it overheating, as I did flash back to the cube's cracking problems a bit.
Second: Photoshop for OS X will be coming out "soon". That was the big news. They had a very impressive working demo, I hope to learn more tomorrow on the expo floor.
Third: iPhoto is a decent cataloging program, and one designed to be used easily and generate more revenue streams for apple in the form of booklets and print costs. But it looks very polished and useful.
Superdrive: You'll see the superdrive in the new imac finally, which is nice. Note that this is not the superdrive that everyone remembers from the 80s' :-)
That's about all. The keynote was terrific, but in the end, not so outstanding. I'll post pictures soon. I'm sure a lot of /. regulars will be doing the same. More Tomorrow!
No new G4s, so the fastest Mac you can buy is a $3500 dual-800 MHz G4, and that's way more expensive than the $1800 800 Mhz G4 iMac, with virtually the same capabilities. Good one, Apple.
Wake me for MWNY, if you're still around.
I use Macs for work, Linux for education, and Windows for cardplaying.
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Can your IM do this?
It looks great ,it's just too bad I dont buy computers for how they look !!!
Why does apple care more about exterior fashionable aspects of its products then about its funcionality and usability as well as perfomance?
Okay, I see they have a new iMac in a typically Apple-style weird case. Obviously not designed for me (like most Apple products), but hey, someone might like it.
But was this worth all the hype all week? "This one is big, even for us". "Beyond the rumor sites. Way beyond."
To be honest, I was really, really hoping that they would finally release OS X for standard Intel hardware. That would have excited me for the first time since 1984 when the Mac first came out (I was an original owner of a Mac). I really detest Apple the company, but that would have really excited me. The first viable operating system competitor to Microsoft in what, 10 years?
But again, Apple shows no vision and stays safe in their little niche market with the their safe crowd who forgive them anything and pay any prices.
Yes, I know Apple is a hardware company, but they shouldn't be. Microsoft didn't do too badly as a software company, did they?
Come on Apple, get a clue and, to quote someone, "think different". Get out of your comfortable limited world and enter the big world.
Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.
I use a logitech optical mouse - easily available, cheap and effective. I don't really care what mouse comes with the machine, and am not sure why anyone else does, either. At least Apple's mouse is better than the cheap-ass $6 mice that come with most PCs these days.
-- Two men say they're Jesus. One of them must be wrong. - Dire Straits
I suppose at $600.00 it should provide identical equipment to a $10,000.00 DVD studio? What about the fact that most DVDs are mastered to DLT tape before publishing? It's not quite the same as the GM system for data and music CDs.
For the record, it also doesn't support more than 90 minutes of video per disc. This isn't the holy grail of consumer video recording; but it's a convenient, powerful way to preserve your own video.
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That would be a nice combination and a real pleasure to compare the two best graphically-Unices in this world running on the same machine :-)
...can it run Windows XP?
*duck*
Asikaa
Come in, twenty-seventy-seventy, your time is up.
I'm aware that different processor architectures perform differently at the same clock speed, but I'd like to see some hard numbers on this. People repeat the 30% and "one third" numbers a lot, and I'd like to know where they come from.
t ml
Mac processors are RISC, unlike the CISC x86s. RISC is much more efficient. I recommend this site, which will answer most of your questions: http://www.gcn.ou.edu/~jahern/comp_aps/ciscrisc.h
d/\ Gooberguy
Karma: Meh (Mostly from meh.)
It's quite simple. I switched from Macs to PCs 4 years ago b/c you can get much cooler hardware for the PC. I naively thought this was about to change. Looks like Apple will be lucky to retain market share until they start thinking about THE SPECS of their machines (and not how cute they look).
I am a poor unemployed Network Tech. Right now for all of my gaming needs I have a Power PC 66mhz machine and you know what... I play Starcraft on in as well as some of the PC I used to play it on with 4x the specs. I can just imagine what I will games I will be playing on an 800mhz machine when yet another Bush has f'd up the economy a dozen years from now.
That's the nice thing about the space bar for scrolling in Explorer. I've found I can sit back on the couch and smack the spacebar with my foot. That or pull the keyboard into my lap and left-hand it....
Is Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer, drinking the bong water again? Apple's new iMac boasts a flat panel display (which Jobs may be surprised to
hear have been an option for PC users - remember them, Steve? The ones with choices about their hardware? - have been using for some time). Yippity-do-dah.
The new iMac/desktop-lamp is "the best thing we have ever done" according to Jobs. What the hell is wrong with this guy? A 700 - 800 MHz G4 CPU, 32 MB GeForce2 MX card, and other options long available for PCs is the height of Apple's engineering prowess? Jobs further pontificates that "this is the official death of the CRT today". Wow.
More idiotic babbling: "Pretty much, us and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by
innovation,"... a desktop lamp-shaped underpowered OS-limited Mac box with a crappy video card is innovative?
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releasing a ground-breaking product; Apple threatens to sue/kill/maim various web
sites for publishing pictures in advance of Jobs' keynote address; Long-neglected
Mac users hold hands and watch the webcast with saucer-wide eyes; the whole
thing turns out to be another color/shape of iMac. Hurray.
Just like the rum-soaked father figure who says "this time it's going to be
different" every time he blows the family savings and crashes the car, Apple has
issued a statement that this is, indeed, going to be different. Instead of stuffing
the relatively slow iMac guts in a new candy-colored shell, Apple has stuffed their
relatively slow iMac guts into a candy-SHAPED shell, specifically a Hershey's Kiss.
full story: Honey I Melted The iMac