I'm just waiting for a Dr. Evil reference... does anyone see it coming?
-Seamus
More generations than I can shake a stick at!
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I am only 25 and have already lived through more generations of computing than my father has calculators! With the rapidly expanding knowledge base of the tech industry, generations of computing can now be legacy before they ever hit the consumer market... a frightening thought indeed.
So where does this leave us? The people who can't afford the new systems, but yet need to keep up with the rapidly changing climate among the revolutionary new advances in order to keep some semblance of job security? We are caught in the middle. The lucky few actually get their companies to pay for the hardware and brainware (training), but the majority are lost in the ebb of the tide...
How soon will it be until Linux is considered a legacy system?
All this chat just makes me laugh. You all seem to miss the important point here: The iMac was and is being marketed for the first time user, NOT for those of us who like to tinker and play and upgrade and expand and put to use all the functionality we get with the systems we currently have. The person who buys the iMac will most likely never have the worries of having to upgrade their video card/ram/processor in order to render their 3d graphics for the first person shooter that they're coding. They just want to surf the web, get their e-mail, and PLAY the games. With the iMac they get just that. Nothing more, nothing less. Lest we forget, it is for the first time buyer/user, NOT the Guru...
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As if there isn't enough cheating in on-line FPS gaming already....
now there is a better reason than just bragging rights!
In the words of Charlie Brow- Good Grief
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I'm just waiting for a Dr. Evil reference... does anyone see it coming?
-Seamus
I am only 25 and have already lived through more generations of computing than my father has calculators! With the rapidly expanding knowledge base of the tech industry, generations of computing can now be legacy before they ever hit the consumer market... a frightening thought indeed.
So where does this leave us? The people who can't afford the new systems, but yet need to keep up with the rapidly changing climate among the revolutionary new advances in order to keep some semblance of job security? We are caught in the middle. The lucky few actually get their companies to pay for the hardware and brainware (training), but the majority are lost in the ebb of the tide...
How soon will it be until Linux is considered a legacy system?
You can get an iMac for under a grand now. $899 for a revision b flavour. Some rumours even have revision a's at $799.
All this chat just makes me laugh. You all seem to miss the important point here:
The iMac was and is being marketed for the first time user, NOT for those of us who like to tinker and play and upgrade and expand and put to use all the functionality we get with the systems we currently have. The person who buys the iMac will most likely never have the worries of having to upgrade their video card/ram/processor in order to render their 3d graphics for the first person shooter that they're coding. They just want to surf the web, get their e-mail, and PLAY the games. With the iMac they get just that. Nothing more, nothing less. Lest we forget, it is for the first time buyer/user, NOT the Guru...