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iMacs Freshened with 2.0 GHz G5, Bluetooth, WiFi
amichalo writes "Apple has updated the popular consumer level Mac, the iMac G5.
So better support the now standard Mac OS X Tiger, Apple has made significant improvements to all standard configurations including 512MB RAM, Radeon 9600 128MB graphics, and on 2.0 GHz models (17" and 20"), a slot-loading dual-layer 8x SuperDrive is standard. The 1.8 GHz 17" model includes a slot-loading Combo Drive.
Also standard are Apple's AirPort Extreme 802.11g WiFi and Bluetooth. Pricing remains at $1300, $1500, and $1800 respectively for 1.8 GHz 17", 2.0 GHz 17", and 2.0 GHz 20", though 2.0 GHz models include additional upgraded features.
These improvements are significant as this line has not seen a refresh in about a year and the upgrade to a Radeon 9600 graphics card will allow the new iMac to take better advantage of Tiger features such as Core Image, which is significant because the video card cannot be upgraded. Lastly, Apple is continuing the interactive chat and QuickTime support program for the iMac G5."
Thanks for the ad, and all that insightful commentary about this important (and not at all incremental) development. Your creative (ab)use of the English language was also particularly entertaining this morning.
A new /. troll named As Seen On TV will post ~20 posts to this story claiming insider knowledge of all things Apple and will subsequently get modded up as +Insightful or +Interesting. Apple fanboys will blast anyone who dares to question anything this troll has to say.
Furthermore, the Apple faithful, afraid of the truth, will mod this down as -Flamebait. That is all.
someone answer me the question, what exactly do you BUY for $1300 thats actually worth it?? what can you POSSIBLY do that you CANNOT do on a regular PC for $1300 ??
iPhoto, GarageBand, Keynote, iMovie, iDVD for starters...
But, because Apple is so retarded regarding video adapters (why stay with ATI if you're not ready to go to PCIe, dumbass Steve? NVidia is the only corp building decent AGP stuff anymore, sub in 6600GT/6800/6800GT for all that outdated ATI garbage for fucks sake!!!!!!!!!!!!!!), I am probably doing a handbuild for my next system. I can handbuild a hawt 2x6600gt GV-3D1 system _with_ 16ms 20.1" 1600x1200 LCD for less than just a 2.7ghz Powermac with crap video...
someone answer me the question, what exactly do you BUY for $1300 thats actually worth it??
A secure, mainstream operating system that kicks the shit out of Windows, and the hardware on which to run it.
what can you POSSIBLY do that you CANNOT do on a regular PC for $1300 ??
Go to any site on the net without fear of the machine getting owned-- WITHOUT running anti-malware and antivirus apps.
Buy a peripheral, plug it in, and have it just work-- WITHOUT dicking around with any stupid configuration wizards.
Delete the bundled web browser completely (removing all traces of it from the system), and use the one that I prefer to use instead.
I doubt that. You do realise there's more to the "bundled browser" than that little Safari icon in /Applications, right ?
/Applications and it's gone. Even MS Office manages to not fill your computer with worthless garbage in random directories.
Not really there isn't. Sure there's WebCore but you can delete that too. The great thing about OS X is 99% of the applications are self contained. Delete the little icon in
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Quartz 2D Extreme has been a long time in the making. It's more likely you clean the toilets at Apple than it is that you do any programming or OS design work.
You're trying to convince us that Adobe doesn't use Quartz 2D at all? Very funny.
http://kb.indiana.edu/data/ajeb.html?cust=760016.
http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/macosx-10.4.ars