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."

Comments

MSN

[metlin]

Web pages appear startlingly quickly: nytimes.com pops open in about 1 second (versus 2), Amazon is ready in 2 seconds (versus 4) and MSN appears in 6 seconds (versus 8).

*giggles like a little girl*

Uh, oh...

[__aaclcg7560]

Blazing...

I know the new Macs are fast, but does that mean the new CPUs are smoking (i.e., Oh God, oh God, the CPU is on fire and we all gonna die!). That would be bad.

PowerBook

[spac3manspiff]

"The next Mac to receive the Intel conversion will be the PowerBook laptop. The new MacBook Pro, as it has been renamed (to widespread befuddlement)"

Did they mean the iBook?

Re:PowerBook

[gpmcdermott]

iCanard??? I don't get it...

Forgive him

[spac3manspiff]

He suffers from "widespread befuddlement"

Re:Why Dont you people wait.

[argent]

You're kidding, right? Slashdot? Wait? That's crazy talk!

(Slow down, Cowboy!)

Re:Hi, My name is David Pogue

[BearRanger]

"Hi, my name is David Pogue. Prior to working for the New York Times I spent the past several years as a writer and editor at 'Macworld'. I know quite a bit about things Apple and Macintosh."

Which speaks to his technical knowledge (FSVO technical knowlege) but not necessarily to any personal bias he may have towards Apple.

Of course it's a blazing review!

[chrism238]

David Pogue's got forthcoming books to sell.

PowerBook : MacBook ::PowerMac : ???Mac

[paz5]

If the PowerBook has been renamed to the MacBook, does that mean the PowerMac will be renamed the MacMac?


I suspect that the PowerBook was renamed to remove the association with PowerPC that the word "Power" in the name provided. This leads me to beleive that the PowerMac will be renamed once the Intel switch reaches it.
Place your bets on what it will be named!

So the real question is

[Anonymous Coward]

will it copy a 17MB file in under 20 minutes?

Re:So the real question is

[slughead]

will it copy a 17MB file in under 20 minutes?

Did you seriously hold onto that blog entry for SEVEN YEARS to post it?

Re:So the real question is

[commodoresloat]

I don't want to start a holy war here but what is the deal with this seven-year-old Mac troll? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig browsing slashdot when I should be working for about twenty minutes while it attempts to to make me laugh 17 times. At home, while looking at the *BSD troll, which by all standards should be a lot less funny than the Mac troll, I'd be giggling in two minutes, if that.... From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Mac troll is a superior troll. 7-year-old Mac troll addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use the Mac troll over other faster, funnier, more reliable trolls.

Windows on Mac

[tidewaterblues]

From TFA: "Just turning the machine on is a joy, because starting up now takes 20 seconds instead of 60, like the previous model; you'll want to do it again and again." Sounds like we have yet another reviewer who is eager to run Windows on his Mac...

Re:Hi, My name is David Pogue

[commodoresloat]

David Pogue is a beleaguered writer.