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CmdrTaco
on from the can-i-expense-one-please dept.
MrMiyagi writes "Apple VP of of Hardware Product Marketing, Greg Joswiak, discusses the new iMac G5's hardware design. Apparently it's light enough to carry around the house, and has special fans that run at low speeds making the cooling very quiet."
The thing is a
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Anonymous Coward
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Certified TOASTER. They run way too hot, hence the hundreds of holes in the case, and STILL they burn up. Apple, you goofed on this Underpowerd and overheating machine.
What's news to a mac user is ancient history for the rest of the world. There has been air holes on top of variuos computers since the sixties. The concept probably outlives you.
Nothing about Extreme Airport specs...
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-ing+AnonymousCoward
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So it's not going to be usable by Free Software operating systems which is a shame.
Apart from Sun boxes, nothing is better than a Linux on a Mac.
Re:Smart Design and Smart Engineering
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System.out.println()
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I suspect that the G5 Macs have the highest percentage of the engineering workstation market after the x86 boxes.
Do tell, what other options are there? That's like saying that my poodle is the largest of my dogs after the retreiver... doesn't mean that my poodle isn't the smallest dog I own.
Re:No explanation for crappy video card
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Prof.Phreak
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What is it then? Because if it doesn't game, do graphics or do Motion, then a $299 walmart box can do nearly everything it can do. Plus it runs Linux.
Yes, but nobody gets envious because of a $299 walmart box...
Not to mention that whole artistic/gay thing.
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Re:100 times on the blackboard!
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IntlHarvester
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In otherwords, Apple can't give people what they want (midrange desktop box), because they are too busy gouging someone else (low-end pros).
A headless G5 with a couple slots and a 17" LCD would probably sell for more $$ than the iMac -- it would be plenty profitable for Apple. The problem is that a lot of Photoshop types would be attracted to the machine along with the home/edu users.
I'd like to think that the PowerMac, with dual procs, PCI-X, huge memory bus, etc, could stand on its own in the marketplace. Apple apparently doesn't agree, and they've hollowed out the middle in order to drive users towards the most expensive machines.
You're right they don't "need" to do anything, if they're happy with their current sales/marketshare numbers. But they've got themselves into a strange situation where they don't sell a computer with "normal" specs (see average Dell or HP), and that has to hurt sales to some degree.
Video Card is an Nvidia 5200...
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NeedleSurfer
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For a computer this generation it is quite underpowered for the actual needs, don't expect to see big games on the Mac for a long time, there is not much motivation in producing games that will only run on the PowerMacs... there isn't much motivation for games on all mac anyway but this won't help much. I just got myself one big PC to get over my gaming needs, as much as my Mac does everything else (email, net, audio, budget and so on) it wasn't fit for gaming at all and I wasn't seeing decent gaming hardware coming on the Mac for a while, turns out I was right.
And BTW, being multiplatform is the best thing I could do to my computing experience...
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Certified TOASTER. They run way too hot, hence the hundreds of holes in the case, and STILL they burn up. Apple, you goofed on this Underpowerd and overheating machine.
And inducing third degree burns should you ever touch the case because it has turned into one giant heatsink?
What's news to a mac user is ancient history for the rest of the world. There has been air holes on top of variuos computers since the sixties. The concept probably outlives you.
So it's not going to be usable by Free Software operating systems which is a shame.
Apart from Sun boxes, nothing is better than a Linux on a Mac.
a fat laptop machine sells well.
What is it then? Because if it doesn't game, do graphics or do Motion, then a $299 walmart box can do nearly everything it can do. Plus it runs Linux.
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I suspect that the G5 Macs have the highest percentage of the engineering workstation market after the x86 boxes.
Do tell, what other options are there? That's like saying that my poodle is the largest of my dogs after the retreiver... doesn't mean that my poodle isn't the smallest dog I own.
I've got more mod points and GMail invi
What is it then? Because if it doesn't game, do graphics or do Motion, then a $299 walmart box can do nearly everything it can do. Plus it runs Linux.
Yes, but nobody gets envious because of a $299 walmart box...
Not to mention that whole artistic/gay thing.
"If anything can go wrong, it will." - Murphy
In otherwords, Apple can't give people what they want (midrange desktop box), because they are too busy gouging someone else (low-end pros).
A headless G5 with a couple slots and a 17" LCD would probably sell for more $$ than the iMac -- it would be plenty profitable for Apple. The problem is that a lot of Photoshop types would be attracted to the machine along with the home/edu users.
I'd like to think that the PowerMac, with dual procs, PCI-X, huge memory bus, etc, could stand on its own in the marketplace. Apple apparently doesn't agree, and they've hollowed out the middle in order to drive users towards the most expensive machines.
You're right they don't "need" to do anything, if they're happy with their current sales/marketshare numbers. But they've got themselves into a strange situation where they don't sell a computer with "normal" specs (see average Dell or HP), and that has to hurt sales to some degree.
Business. Numbers. Money. People. Computer World.
For a computer this generation it is quite underpowered for the actual needs, don't expect to see big games on the Mac for a long time, there is not much motivation in producing games that will only run on the PowerMacs... there isn't much motivation for games on all mac anyway but this won't help much. I just got myself one big PC to get over my gaming needs, as much as my Mac does everything else (email, net, audio, budget and so on) it wasn't fit for gaming at all and I wasn't seeing decent gaming hardware coming on the Mac for a while, turns out I was right.
And BTW, being multiplatform is the best thing I could do to my computing experience...