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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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That's a 1.6 or 1.8GHz G5 processor, 533 or 600MHz frontside bus, 256MB DDR SDRAM running at 400MHz and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra with 64MB graphics memory. So you'll be able to play Worlds of Warcraft, Doom III and other fantastic entertainment.
yes, I realise that this machine is definitely not designed for this purpose, but seriously though, how can they say that you can play Doom 3 on this?
I dont know about you guys, but what I love from my pc is the ability to be able to change parts whenever some new card comes out, etc etc. BUT...in those MACs, that's basically impossible to do. Its like buying a laptop, what you buy is what you get and "OH WAIT, its already old hardware" with which you will be stuck for ever and if you want to upgrade, then you have to buy a completely new one; not just the parts you wish to change. And also think about this, how many of you have had your monitor died on you on only 1 or 2 years of use. Imagine buying this and then the monitor buying, small problem i would say
Indeed, forget clones, try pricing an IBM at around this spec. An A50 with a 2.8GHz P4 ($599) and 17" monitor ($459) is $1,058.00. "Aha!" I pretend to hear you cry, "It's not an AIO, and it doesn't have a decent graphics card!" Well, yeah, it's not an AIO (that's an advantage to the IBM, and it ought to mean the AIO is cheaper anyway), and you can buy a $100 graphics card for it and still be under.
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
...check price of a 20" LCD monitor before trying to troll.
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... Apply have announced that their next generation laptop will feature a 600" inch screen, and will feature a keyboard/mouse that can be converted into a futon when not in use.
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So they come out with this model which will play games pretty well, especially the ones currently available for the Mac
Wow! Both Warcraft 3 and Halo?!
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Can anyone smell the bait and switch here?
I bought a dual 2ghz G5 that was supposedly "quiet as a whisper" - and it WAS, when I installed 10.2.
Except for the beeping and buzzing, which requires the user to disable NAP mode with a special developer tool (that function has been disabled in the latest version of the tool).
Since I upgraded to 10.3, the fans began running faster, and MUCH louder. It's not as bad as the "wind tunnel" G4 - but it's certainly not Whisper Quiet. And with each OS update, the Fan behavior has changed. Overall, the sound output of this machine could be qualified as "annoying as hell". 99% of the noise comes from the damn fans which can't seem to decide how fast or slow they need to run.
I'm afraid to install 10.3.5, because some folks tried it, and now their Macs won't sleep. Clean transition to and from sleep is really the main saving grace of this machine now. I really wish that Apple would address this problem in a workable way.
I sure as hell will not buy a G5 iMac from them, advertised as "whisper quiet" in the hope that it will stay "whisper quiet".
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WTF are you talking about?
Hmm.
Let me see if I can paraphrase this for you.
We're a mainly Apple institution. So 3/4 of our machines are Mac. We're very good at supporting Mac. So much so that we can get by with only 6 people total for 3800 machines.
However, we DO have a small contingent of Windows PCs as well. Which we're not so good at supporting. As such, we need to hire more people to deal with this unfamiliar environment. Also, since we're mainly a Mac house, we haven't really got a clue as to how to hire the proper personnel to take care of our Windows stuff properly. Thus, we hire more people than we actually need on the off chance that at least ONE of them will know how to fix a problem.
Also, your cost analysis is broken.
As stated, you're primarily a Mac house. You have fewer PCs than Macs by roughly a factor of three to one. Simply because your employer hired that many people to support the Windows side does not mean you NEED that many people. Nor does it mean that the existing staff couldn't support more than the current amount of systems.
Translation, you're ignoring your company's buying and usage habits simply to make your point because the numbers seem to say what you want them to.
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