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Blazing Review of the New iMac
boxturtleme writes "Despite the sometimes lackluster reviews of the new Intel iMac over the past several weeks, what with speed tests and hardware bugs, the New York Times sure seemed to like it. And beyond the blazing review, the Times seems fully confident that someone will soon have Windows and OS X dual booting."
No kidding. Journalists for the NY Times were probably rich kids that weren't smart enough for law school.
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David Pogue is one of the biggest tech-idiots I've ever read.
He's been technically wrong about the Prius, iPod, HDV cameras, the software that I personally work on, and likely a raft of other things...
A prediction from him isn't worth as much as the (digital) paper it's printed (read: displayed) on.
Hi, my name is David Pogue. I obviously have no technological knowlege on this subject, hinted by the use of made-up word "Intellese."
But please take my word, that "someone will write a driver pack" that will make windows boot on this new iMac, since obviously the current drivers dont speak "Intellese."
I don't think you're going to see much in the way of faster processor speeds over the next year. Yes, the Intel chips will still be dual core, and move from 32-bit to 64-bit processing, but don't look for a faster processor to bail you out.
You sound a bit like an Apple Apologist. Apple releases a system that isn't that good, but just wait until the next one arrives. Frankly, Jobs didn't have to release anything at this time. Nothing was promised until June 06. The fact that he released a rather substandard pair of Macs falls strictly on Job's shoulders, and you should be attacking his decision to do this now, rather than defending it by saying the next unit will be better.
That's unless you're one of the Steve Jobs can do no wrong crowd, in which case you have nothing at all useful to say.
The real reason to wait until 2H06 is why get stuck with the last of the 32-bit Intel Macs, when 64-bit lower-heat Intel processors are only a few months away.
And as for web-page loading, it's hard to understand the delays. The processors are already far faster than most broadband connections can deliver the data. It's pretty strange that these new units render pages 25% faster, unless the previous rendering code is really junk.
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