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Apple Unveils 24" iMac
beren12 writes "Apple today announced a new model in the lineup of iMacs, a new 24" HD model. It comes with a 1920x1200 LCD, 2.16GHz or 2.33GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 1-3 GB Memory, 250 or 500GB SATA Drive, NVIDIA GeForce 7300GT or 7600GT with 128MB GDDR3 Video card. Also posted is a new lower end iMac, which looks very similar to the education iMac. Also available is a small speed boost to the Mini line, which now sports a Core Duo 1.83GHz Processor. "
"if the display dies, you loose your HDD and data when sending it back fot a replacment"
You've never heard of FireWire target disk mode, apparently? Typical for a PC user.
The Mac name was built on solid, easy to use home computers, not gaming rigs. Apple is not and likely will not be targeting hardcore gamers for a long time.
Ok, and what about our 3D, Video, and Graphic Designers that are being 'continually' POed at the low quality Video ALL Macs have offered for several years.
Why not buy a high end system if that is what you want?
Even the top of the line Macs over the past 5 years have offered middle of the road GPU Chipsets.
Ok, so you say OSX isn't strong enough to be a gaming OS, if that is what you want to believe fine. However I only used gaming as a reference, there are other industries that DO take advantage of the Graphical capabilities, and Apple is falling way short.
Besides I disagree if Apple can't pull gaming up to an acceptable and 'expected' level, even on their middle of the road systems, Microsot is going to continue to wipe the floor with the Home consumer market.
I pointed out the other day that some of our Graphic Designers are already drooling over Vista because the Redraw and Real-Time Render Rates are 10x faster than WindowsXP and OSX. Apple needs to take notice and stop slacking here.
As for this being a middle of the road machine, you don't drop an eye catching 24" 1920x1200 display on a machine and not put in even enough Video RAM to run an OpenGL game at its native resolution realistically. I have a year old Laptop that can out bench these Macs, and that is REALLY REALLY sad.
Maybe that is middle of the road for what people have come to expect from Apple, and if that is true, maybe the 'quality' that once the Apple logo enstilled no longer is relevant.
So if your conclusions are correct, maybe Apple should partner with eMachines afterall and become the 'good enough for people that don't know better' computer company.