The New iMac G5

[Happydude]

hmm, that looks pretty nice, i like the way Profile 5 loks more than the G5 because it doesn't have the wire stand thing, which, IMO, looks bad. either way i would get the Profile 5 because i don't like the mac interface.

[Rubber Kitty]

I'd set my testicles on fire if I spent $1299 on a computer that only came with an FX5200

[Jonbo298]

Exactly what I was thinking. All that and you only get a 5200

[thatmariolover]

[rant]You know it's really funny. This is pretty much the first time that Apple hasn't come up with a design that's completely innovative and people blame Apple for copying.

I mean, people have been copying Apple for two decades and I haven't heard any of you bitching about that. What do you call the iPaq? Gee, that could be used to mislead people into buying it instead of the iMac that came out shortly before the first iPaq. Or the Mac OS that has been copied by pretty much every other OS.[/rant]

At any rate, I agree an FX 5200 is kind of lame, but you have to keep in mind that you're not going to be doing any serious gaming on your Mac. It's not designed for that. You're going to be making/editing music, digital video, and everything you do on a computer other than game. And for that, an FX 5200 is just fine.

[Rubber Kitty]

Originally Posted by thatmariolover

At any rate, I agree an FX 5200 is kind of lame, but you have to keep in mind that you're not going to be doing any serious gaming on your Mac. It's not designed for that. You're going to be making/editing music, digital video, and everything you do on a computer other than game. And for that, an FX 5200 is just fine.

This of course is presuming that you get the higher-end stuff like the 160gig drive vs. the 80gig. God knows how much RAM the thing comes with too, plus lots of the old presumptions about Macs being better at things like music and video editing are severly outdated. And if you think you're gonna escape OS problems by going Mac then you're sorely mistaken.

Macs are expensive ornaments. Sorry to all the Mac-heads

[thatmariolover]

Originally Posted by Rubber Kitty

This of course is presuming that you get the higher-end stuff like the 160gig drive vs. the 80gig. God knows how much RAM the thing comes with too, plus lots of the old presumptions about Macs being better at things like music and video editing are severly outdated. And if you think you're gonna escape OS problems by going Mac then you're sorely mistaken.

Macs are expensive ornaments. Sorry to all the Mac-heads

Yeah. Somehow I doubt you've used OS X, but if you have I'd inquire what you didn't like about it. And an 80 gig hard drive is going to be fine for people doing video editing. I got along on 12GB just fine for years. You're not going to have a slew of games taking up a gig a piece on you're Mac (for better or worse), so space isn't such an issue.

I agree, it could use a RAM upgrade, but Mac OS X is generally very efficient when it comes to RAM allocations (*ix systems in general).

As for the Mac's not being better for music and video editing is completely bogus. The software Mac's come with are awesome - iLife comes with GarageBand. Some of the best music arranging software ever created. Not to mention Final Cut isn't available for PC, and I personally hate working with anything else.

But whatever. To each his/her own.

[Rubber Kitty]

Originally Posted by thatmariolover

Yeah. Somehow I doubt you've used OS X, but if you have I'd inquire what you didn't like about it. And an 80 gig hard drive is going to be fine for people doing video editing. I got along on 12GB just fine for years. You're not going to have a slew of games taking up a gig a piece on you're Mac (for better or worse), so space isn't such an issue.

I agree, it could use a RAM upgrade, but Mac OS X is generally very efficient when it comes to RAM allocations (*ix systems in general).

As for the Mac's not being better for music and video editing is completely bogus. The software Mac's come with are awesome - iLife comes with GarageBand. Some of the best music arranging software ever created. Not to mention Final Cut isn't available for PC, and I personally hate working with anything else.

But whatever. To each his/her own.

I ain't even gonna get started on a discussion about this or it'll go on for months

I'll just say that I've used plenty of PC software and I've used plenty of Mac software but the number of options available on the PC side on its own is more than enough to keep me there. Macs are, for the most part, nice if you want sheer simplicity, but try to go any farther and you hit a ceiling pretty quick. Just my experience, though

[manasecret]

Originally Posted by thatmariolover

[rant]You know it's really funny. This is pretty much the first time that Apple hasn't come up with a design that's completely innovative and people blame Apple for copying.

I mean, people have been copying Apple for two decades and I haven't heard any of you bitching about that. What do you call the iPaq? Gee, that could be used to mislead people into buying it instead of the iMac that came out shortly before the first iPaq. Or the Mac OS that has been copied by pretty much every other OS.[/rant]

Wah.

Innovative, cool ideas and designs are Apple's bread and butter. If they can't even do that right, then they should be called out for it. You KNOW they're going to tout this thing as their cool new idea (they already have on the website), but it's not warranted.

And I wasn't just getting at them for copying ideas. The design itself is much worse than their previous design, much clunkier and less smooth, in my opinion.

It's like the Nintendo mentality. You expect great things because you've been getting them for so long. Then when a product comes out that is perfectly great on it's own, but doesn't live up to Nintendo's standards, people get mad.

I ask you, what exactly is so great about this redesign? Why change it from the old one to this?

[GiMpY-wAnNaBe]

I love macs, but I personally don't like this new design at all, it looked MUCH sleeker and smoother when it was all in the base...