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Updated Power Macs at Apple.com

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the insert-lust-here dept.

Gropo writes "Same old 'scary cyclops' quicksilver face. Up to 1.42 Ghz, FireWire 800, 802.11g and entry-level pricing has dropped. " With the SuperDrive and one of those massive LCD screens, you have a one highly desirable chunk of hardware.

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  1. Re:Yeah... by kraksmoka · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    or you could buy my imac, and get a few other imacs too.

    in fact, anyone looking for an imac, with some goodies, just email me. mine's for sale.

    please, tell me how your ImacOwulf cluster works.

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  2. Re:"Expandible"? (Obligatory spelling snipe) by andih8u · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    yep, -50 suave points for misspelling something I was making fun of for misspelling

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  3. Re:Lower your prices, Apple by Chazmyrr · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    And it still doesn't even come close to the price/performance of an Intel or AMD box. Plus corporations use Intel based platforms because of that price/performance. So therefore corporations want to employ people who know how to use said Intel based platforms. Plus the higher cost of computing hardware means higher tutition for students or higher taxes for their parents or both.

    Explain to me again how a school buying more expensive hardware that isn't generally used in the real world is going to help my kid get a better education?

    Sure, you want to trick out a graphics arts lab at a University with some PowerMacs, great. But for general educational use, Apple is playing catch up and they need to slash prices to the bone if they want to compete.

  4. Re:I do. by Junks+Jerzey · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    There are competitive GPL'd apps for all of those (saving you even more $$$), or you could run Wine and get the Windows versions of any of them to run.

    Sigh. This kind of misguided advocacy gets so tiring.