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Apple Introduces New G5 iMac
peatbakke writes "Well, here it is. Looks like the rumors of computer+monitor combined into a sleek little case were true." It's mostly what you'd expect both design-wise and specwise. And I want it.
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So how long until we get a new slashdot icon that looks like this model?
It's a pretty rad computer considering what it is.
/application bundles for the mac.
Cue all the comments about 5200 geforce not being enough -- it's not meant for that.
"They should have had a 2 gighz in there " - that would eat into the market above it.
It is for offices and for homes -
The criticisms are:
If you are going to make it like a TV... they should have gone all the way and put a TV tuner in there - this is the killer app to beat microsoft on and to complete the iLife suite. An Apple (with all the associated easiness) TV center with maybe a grey one for corporate use with no TV.
The other critcism is that they should have a place in their product line for a headless box, so that all the hackers can get their grubby paws onto it and innovate on OSX - but really that constitutes competition with their other product lines, and constitutes competition with their own software so they won't do it.
They are family centric, gamers (yeah yeah, apple gamers, oxymoron, kekeke) can up the ante to a dual g5...so the only criticism left is that there aren't many good (I know there are options, but not outstanding ones) TV tuner
I hope I've cleared up alot of the "OMG only a 5200 nvidia" bullshit here - that's not it's purpose. But if it's purpose is that lazy kind of home desktop, it should have TV. But perhaps apple is thinking ahead to a TCPIP broadband world and a movie service along the lines of iTunes (pixar distribution channel anyone?) - it does leave a gap in their product line though.
Oh, and as slashdot still hasn't posted this story I'll add the "Looks like they were trying to get the g5 into a tablet/laptop but didn't quite make it" joke, which goes hand in hand with the "omg no g5 laptops yet". Slashdot is so predictable.
Sidenote - IBM should bring out said headless box, black alu case like the NeXT with a single G5 in it clocked a 2gighz and a 100% linux compat mobo.... That would soon become a cult item I imagine - but apple would have a fit because it would encorage all the unix geeks on their platform to swap and it would encorage a strong user base of a ppc linux to get going. So, like I say, not going to happen. Actually, can someone enlighten the thread as to who *owns* the G5? Could IBM do this?
speculation/discourse.... check
questioning of realworld performance combined with gamer
joke...... check
omg look the graphs on game performance have no scale.... check..stfu you are boring me....
g5 hotness jokes..... check
256 mem ram not enough.... check
wistfully wanting some other company to release a headless apple because apple won't.... check
questioning of apple users sexual preferences.... check
raise question of one buttoned mouse..... maybe they have a one buttoned mouse by default because it forces their app/UI designers to be creative - let those that want two buttons have them... but let all apps be designed with only one in mind (remember that gnome desktop designers who are hiding everything and anying, even if it should be there - although I don't mind spatial atm, I can see it going too far). Let us hear the end of the one buttoned mouse whinging.......
and wait for it...."I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Mac fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of one of the new iMacs (a 1.6gighz G5 w/256 Megs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Mac, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that."
exhausting most of the pointless cliched bullshit in a slashdot thread before it's begun.... priceless^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hprofit!!!
and hell, and I don't even own a fucking apple.
I guess when someone shoots the monitor and says they destroyed the computer I can't laugh at the movie anymore.
Leave it to apple to spoil my bad action movie jokes...
...You can't price style, baby! :)
"...Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg bacon and spam; egg bacon sausage and spam..."
...They'd like their design back:
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http://products.gateway.com/products/GConfig/pr
Seriously, a few models back they had a PIII based on a i810 platform complete with an all-in-one design, side loading CD-ROM/PCMCIA, etc. Not as slick, same concept.
What is old, is new again!
"...Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg bacon and spam; egg bacon sausage and spam..."
I was about ready to start cutting my wrists in despair at the thought of servicing it, but your picture has reassured me that Apple may be back on the right track for serviceability in the iMac models.
...does it come in blueberry?
What? You can open it up? And upgrade the RAM? And the hard drive too? This isn't an iMac at all!
laptop on a stick folks, laptop on a stick.
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The same thing that probably happened to your spelling.
I grew up with a Commodore64 where the keyboard was holding everything. Now it is in the monitor. I am wondering who comes up with an in-mouse architecture.
This is starting to make my Cube look not so cool. Must add more internal LED's. And where's my G5 processor upgrade card?
I drank what? -- Socrates
Disney's been there already:
http://www.engadget.com/entry/2622064540785942/
Apparently, you can.
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.
I just noticed on that picture that the electric cord goes into the back of the screen through a hole in the stand. This is guaranteed by Murphy to be eventually pulled out when you tilt the screen backwards.
:-)
If the Quicktime VR is anything to go by, it doesn't need that power cord anyway!
Tedious Bloggy Stuff - hooray?
I do not think that a man such as Jobs would ever let minor concerns such as sound engineering or the laws of physics get in the way of his vision.
Well I can't think of any reason you'd need more than 640k of RAM on a personal computer.
Er... wait...
To me it's plain, but not plain in that simple excellent design way, just a bit dull.
Ahh, but if it were to be in basic black, even the Amish would consider getting one.
Yeah, those 18 extra comments about homosexuals are really interesting and informative. What a jackass.
(Mmm... orange smoke...)
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I think that's where the computer goes.
-- I speak only for myself
Sure, marketing people never get carried away. I'm sure that all the drivvle to come from Dell, Gateway, NVidia, ATI, VIA, AMD, Intel, and Microsoft is perfectly accurate, and never EVER stretches anything.
Perhaps you like this better:
The iMac G5 offers mediocre built-in graphics capabilities. Like, for instance, the so-so widescreen display. Mac OS X version 10.3 "Panther," provides you with the world's most mid-range -- and most graphics-using -- operating system. And then there's the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra graphics processor with 64MB of DDR SDRAM. It's a combination that delivers middle-of-the-road 2D and 3D graphics performance and a semi-immersive, pixelated, and distorted gaming experience with half the frame rate of our professional systems.
Yeah, that makes me want to buy one. Hell, I'll buy two after that stunning writeup. Here's my credit card!!
Always remember that marketing people are SELLING product, and that by making a comparison to the last model, they can get away with saying things like "unparalleled performace"
Slashdot still doesnâ(TM)t support Unicode after it was added to the HTML standard in 1997.
"The new iMac G5 family features a removable desktopfoot."
I am concerned about any program, any piece of hardware, any treaty, any law that treats me as a consumer, not a citizen
Posting as AC 'cause I'm admitting where I work. . .
As a member of the Intel R&D staff I can immagine the lynching I'm gonna get if this shows up on my desk, but gawd I want one!
This is way too expensive. $2000 for the iMac, plus I have to buy MacPC, MS-Windows 3.11, and a 3.5" floppy drive just so I can load up my 40-floppy version of MS-Office 6.0.
Who are they kidding? I'd rather buy a Dell!
I bought a Rev A. iMac, it was my sixth Apple computer. It was also my last.
:)
You get what you pay for. iMacs are meant for grannies who would never upgrade the system.
Unlike you, I bought a tower Mac, which was obviously upgradeable. So years later it still runs great with more than four ATA/133 hard drives, an upgraded AGP video card, CPU 3x faster than the original, optical drive replaced with a DVD-RW/CD-RW from Pioneer. It plays games great, is awesome for DV video and sound editing, and best of all, posts on Slashdot quickly!
Those who laugh at you for you having a Mac.. are the people who constantly call you to fix their PC.
You're offended by a comment about programming languages? Geez.. Get out more.
Wow!! They made a dell desktop that runs OS X?!?!?!?
You probably want to fire that one. Problem solved.
Don't blame me; I'm never given mod points.
Apple: "The Display is the Computer"
Sun: "The computer is the network"
Microsoft: ???
SCO: "Profit!"
Assume I was drunk when I posted this.
I seem to have this thing with Apple that everytime I buy something from them, a newer model gets announced the next week
Could you do me a favor and pick a PowerBook here pretty soon. I was thinking of getting one in about 6 months or so.