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[Matthew.]

New iMac anyone?

http://www.apple.com/imac/
http://www.apple.com/imac/design.html
http://www.apple.com/imac/specs.html

Edited by Matthew., 07 August 2007 - 03:21 PM.

[Lastcrime]

yupp looks amazing i love the specs im getting one!

ive decided to get the new imac instead of a macbook.

The thing that i really love about the new imac is that your able to take the back off with ease to replace parts (just one screw!)

Edited by Lastcrime, 07 August 2007 - 03:21 PM.

[Lastcrime]

yah ive had similar problems with the stupid cd drive built in to my dads imac, a couple of times i thought the disc was stuck and wouldn't be able to come out and i was like o shit, but then eventually it came out. W/E still like it.

[Donna]

Looks pretty neat apart from the keyboard.

[Matthew.]

I would imagine that that's a problem on all slot loading drives not just the iMacs, but it's funny to see an obvious flaw that Apple have missed - generally I think they have the design of their products down to a tee.

I wonder if other slot loading drives have a manual way of removing the disc...I have never owned one.

edit:

Looks pretty neat apart from the keyboard.

What don't you like about it?

Edited by Matthew., 07 August 2007 - 05:59 PM.

[Lastcrime]

Well there seems there is a back up way of getting CDs out.
When you boot hold down the left (I am sure it was left) mouse button and the disk will eject before it boots.

O really ill have to give it a try.

Looks pretty neat apart from the keyboard.

I like the keyboard its nice and thin and has usb ports on the side perfect for a mouse.

[Donna]

Looks pretty neat apart from the keyboard.

I like the keyboard its nice and thin and has usb ports on the side perfect for a mouse.

Can imagine it'll do nice things to your wrists as well with no support.

[Lastcrime]

Looks pretty neat apart from the keyboard.


I like the keyboard its nice and thin and has usb ports on the side perfect for a mouse.

true i can see it hurting a little, but i dont think it will do much to me as im only 16 and am very fit.

Edited by Lastcrime, 07 August 2007 - 06:22 PM.

[Matthew.]

Looks pretty neat apart from the keyboard.


I like the keyboard its nice and thin and has usb ports on the side perfect for a mouse.

true i can see it hurting a little, but i dont think it will do much to me as im only 16 and am very fit.

Don't be too sure of that, it has nothing to do with fitness. I actually agree with Donna in theory, but the way i type i could not make use of a palm support/rest, it's the way I use a mouse that has impacted my wrist recently. Beware the carpel tunnel syndrome lol

[Pax]

I still don't get the point of the iMacs...its like a laptop you can't take with you. Why not spend a bit more and get the full shebang? A MacPro is much, much nicer, IMO. I may be totally wrong, but from what I understand, you can't upgrade the iMacs a whole lot after you've purchased them like you could with a MacPro. On the bright side, at least they don't suffer the same problems that the G5 iMacs did with the overheating/blowing power supplies.

[Mezzo]

Funny I just wrote an article about this. I personally don't like the iMacs. I agree totally with Pax, and while Apple has gotten better with the making of them...I still don't think they're worth it

[Lastcrime]

I still don't get the point of the iMacs...its like a laptop you can't take with you. Why not spend a bit more and get the full shebang? A MacPro is much, much nicer, IMO. I may be totally wrong, but from what I understand, you can't upgrade the iMacs a whole lot after you've purchased them like you could with a MacPro. On the bright side, at least they don't suffer the same problems that the G5 iMacs did with the overheating/blowing power supplies.

Yah its deffinately not as good as the Mac Pro but they also dont start at $2799 thats the big difference there.

[pirateXcore]

Getting the £949 one (Same price as my MacBook)

• 1GB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM - 1x1GB
• 320GB Serial ATA Drive
• SuperDrive 8x (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
• Apple Mighty Mouse
• Keyboard (English) + Mac OS X (English)
• 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
• ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO with 256MB memory
• 20-inch glossy widescreen LCD
• AirPort Extreme
• Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR

Ordering it when Leopard comes out, CANT WAIT!

HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAH Okay, seriously, that's TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS...wtf?
Here's a new PC that i've been thinking of getting...what's sad...is it's an HP and its BETTER than a imac.
The price they're showing on circuit city isn't right, it says $1500 there, but it's really $1150

HP Pavilion Media Center PC
featuring Intel Viiv™ Technology
Intel Core™2 Quad Processor Q6600
• 3GB DDR2 memory
• 640GB hard drive
• Burns and Plays DVDs and CDs
• Microsoft Windows Vista™ Home Premium
• TV tuner, personal video recorder, and media center remote
22" wide LCD

lol @ mac users
I've used a PC all my computing-life and have NEVER seen any reason to switch to a mac. In fact, everything I see tells me that i'd be an idiot to switch. The only thing i've ever seen saying that a mac is good, is apple fanboys. I'm sorry, but while that new imac is very awesome aesthetically, it's just a pile of crap in the end in comparison to the pc you could get for the same price. Hell, for $200 more you could make your PC look like that....you could even put the apple logo on it if you wanted.

Edited by tgs, 07 August 2007 - 09:20 PM.

[Lastcrime]

Getting the £949 one (Same price as my MacBook)

• 1GB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM - 1x1GB
• 320GB Serial ATA Drive
• SuperDrive 8x (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
• Apple Mighty Mouse
• Keyboard (English) + Mac OS X (English)
• 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
• ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO with 256MB memory
• 20-inch glossy widescreen LCD
• AirPort Extreme
• Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR

Ordering it when Leopard comes out, CANT WAIT!

HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAH Okay, seriously, that's TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS...wtf?
Here's a new PC that i've been thinking of getting...what's sad...is it's an HP and its BETTER than a imac.
The price they're showing on circuit city isn't right, it says $1500 there, but it's really $1150

HP Pavilion Media Center PC
featuring Intel Viiv™ Technology
Intel Core™2 Quad Processor Q6600
• 3GB DDR2 memory
• 640GB hard drive
• Burns and Plays DVDs and CDs
• Microsoft Windows Vista™ Home Premium
• TV tuner, personal video recorder, and media center remote
22" wide LCD

lol @ mac users
I've used a PC all my computing-life and have NEVER seen any reason to switch to a mac. In fact, everything I see tells me that i'd be an idiot to switch. The only thing i've ever seen saying that a mac is good, is apple fanboys. I'm sorry, but while that new imac is very awesome aesthetically, it's just a pile of crap in the end in comparison to the pc you could get for the same price. Hell, for $200 more you could make your PC look like that....you could even put the apple logo on it if you wanted.

I agree 3gb ram and 640gb hard drive is nice but when you have a shit operating system like windows vista, accompanied by a computer that is bound to break, its worth getting a mac. HP is not going to give you all that loaded stuff if they dont expect you to buy some more parts. ie. your computer is slow because you need to get a bigger power supply. They just feed you in with perks like those to try and get you to spend your money on maintanence and other stuff.

anyway thats just my thoughts to that comment.

O yeah im using a pc right now (waiting to get my new mac) and its decent dont get me wrong but when i start running photoshop, illustrator, and dreamweaver all at once it slows it down a whole lot, and i have some pretty good memory in it.

[Mezzo]

Getting the £949 one (Same price as my MacBook)

• 1GB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM - 1x1GB
• 320GB Serial ATA Drive
• SuperDrive 8x (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
• Apple Mighty Mouse
• Keyboard (English) + Mac OS X (English)
• 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
• ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO with 256MB memory
• 20-inch glossy widescreen LCD
• AirPort Extreme
• Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR

Ordering it when Leopard comes out, CANT WAIT!

HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAH Okay, seriously, that's TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS...wtf?
Here's a new PC that i've been thinking of getting...what's sad...is it's an HP and its BETTER than a imac.
The price they're showing on circuit city isn't right, it says $1500 there, but it's really $1150

HP Pavilion Media Center PC
featuring Intel Viiv™ Technology
Intel Core™2 Quad Processor Q6600
• 3GB DDR2 memory
• 640GB hard drive
• Burns and Plays DVDs and CDs
• Microsoft Windows Vista™ Home Premium
• TV tuner, personal video recorder, and media center remote
22" wide LCD

lol @ mac users
I've used a PC all my computing-life and have NEVER seen any reason to switch to a mac. In fact, everything I see tells me that i'd be an idiot to switch. The only thing i've ever seen saying that a mac is good, is apple fanboys. I'm sorry, but while that new imac is very awesome aesthetically, it's just a pile of crap in the end in comparison to the pc you could get for the same price. Hell, for $200 more you could make your PC look like that....you could even put the apple logo on it if you wanted.

I agree 3gb ram and 640gb hard drive is nice but when you have a shit operating system like windows vista, accompanied by a computer that is bound to break, its worth getting a mac. HP is not going to give you all that loaded stuff if they dont expect you to buy some more parts. ie. your computer is slow because you need to get a bigger power supply. They just feed you in with perks like those to try and get you to spend your money on maintanence and other stuff.

anyway thats just my thoughts to that comment.

O yeah im using a pc right now (waiting to get my new mac) and its decent dont get me wrong but when i start running photoshop, illustrator, and dreamweaver all at once it slows it down a whole lot, and i have some pretty good memory in it.

Scrap Vista, put on a Linux distro and you got yourself a kickass machine for half the price. I've been using a HP laptop for over 3 years and have only had a few problems (all I could fix in less than half an hour). I also have had 2 HP desktops with no problems

Edited by Mezzo, 07 August 2007 - 10:22 PM.

[Hayden]

I have an iMac and the thing that annoys me the moste about it is that stupid DVD Rom keyboard eject.
A couple of time the Mac running parallells has crashed with a disk in the rom and the only out is to power down. Then when you try to boot again it tries to boot from the cd and then just sits there. Hate that. You have to turn it off and wait for about 30 minutes before you power on again before it will boot back to OSX.
If there was a way to get the cd out other than that keyboard eject the problem would not be there.

iMac (Slot Loading): How to Manually Eject a CD-ROM Disc