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Summary: Intelligent life is out there....
Review: ...and it thrives in APPLE COMPUTER. What a jewel of a machine. Stunning, fluid OS and amazing hardware. What more can you ask - the price is reasonable for a remarkable MAChine like this. I have mine on order now and I count the days to get it like the new Star Wars EPII opening!!! - THINK DIFFERENT
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Summary: Best MAC yet... but its still a mac
Review: A (girl) friend of mine got this "pc". She is a typical college girl: rich, confused, vain... but she's still nice and a friend so I was helping her set up some aps.OK, the thing is damn simple and easy to set up, so if you're intimidated by the 5 cords you need to hook up a PC that isn't a toy, this MAC is for you. One thing that is nice is the SUPER-DRIVE... CD-RW and DVD-RW in one, that is something a WIN based PC doesn't have. However, both drives read and write at less than half the speed that is standard for AMD/INTEL PCs's. Good idea, but disgustingly slow. Right out of the box this little loaf was dangerously low on system resources. When I'm waiting for things to download and install I do other things. This revolutionary technique is called "multi-tasking" and will cause any MAC to get pathetically unstable. I was running about 4 windows of NETSCAPE (whatever the hell that is) and about 2 downloads. This POWER PC couldn't keep up and crashed. This was something I had no problem with on my P-celeron 366 4 years ago. Not to mention trying to navigate with that ... dinosaur, the One Button Mouse. OK so this MAC cost nearly twice of a INTEL-AMD PC. So for twice the money you get the following: less than half the performance, about 15% of software on the market that you can pay much more for (anyone worth their salt knows it), satisfaction of being in a vain, impractical and dying minority. One advantage this PC might have is good multi-media applications. I don't know enough about making my own movies. So if you're some kind of internet pornographer this MAC
might be for you. How can MAC still be around? I'll tell you how, people who don't know anything about computers support them. The fools who run the US public school system, people who drive VW's, people who have no business using a computer, a disproportionately high number of women, communists, people of less than 80 IQ, people who use AOL, people who can afford to fly around the world to protest "globalization". Unless MAC finds a way to keep up it will die, TV commercials manipulating the GAP crowd will only support a company for so long. So if your MAC can handle it, go ahead and give me that negative vote. I love it! ; )
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Summary: The Greatest Personal Computer On Earth
Review: Absolute breathtaking industrial design combined with Apple's mezmerizingly beautiful and absolutely crash-proof OS X operating system. Using this computer at home makes my Pentium 4 Dell with Windows XP at the office seem like cave-man technology. I will never buy another Microsoft-based second rate machine. My only complaint: Apple seems to have run out of these so quickly that I haven't been able to buy more of them for the rest of my family.
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Summary: This one brought me back to Macs.
Review: After doing quite a bit of research on these, and checking out the store demos, I decided to go ahead and pick one up. I lucked out and found one in a CompUSA that had just been stocked, snagged it and took it home. I have a lot of good things to say about this. I've always been a closet Mac person, but this one is worth bragging about. The screen is phenomenal, it looks very cool, and the performance is snappy. I do not experience the DVD playback problems I've seen mentioned (audio sync problems). Pros: Cool looks, good performance, OSX is great. Cons: For some reason the new keyboard doesn't have the power button anymore, and the button on the unit is toward the back. Would rather have USB/Firewire in front or on the side, more accessible, instead of on the rear. Not sure why Apple isn't including a scroll wheel/two button mouse yet, OSX is supposed to support it.
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Summary: New All-in-wonder iMac does it all.... at the right price
Review: Apple's latest iMac overhaul can be described in one word: breathtaking. The high-end model, priced at just $1799, packs dozens of useful features into a sleek UFO-styled chassis. Every one of these features is designed to spark the creativity and ingenuity of the end user. The built-in CD and DVD burner allows you to author your own discs (with the help of Apple's intuitive software). And the easy-access upgrade panel on the bottom allows even the most computer-illiterate Joe Schmoe to install extra RAM or a wireless AirPort card. I kind of wish the display had a larger resolution (it runs at 1024x768) but its hard to complain when the display quality is otherwise so bright, crisp pristine. Plus the iMac comes with a fairly powerful graphics chip which is more than adequate for today's 3D games. My only complaint about the iMac is lack of upgrade options. Yes, you can replace the hard drive if you wanted to (its not easy though) but you can't add any additional PCI cards as the iMac lacks internal expansion slots. But the iMac never had expansion slots and it's my opinion that consumers simply don't need this feature - nor would they want to mess with it. The iMac can easily be expanded via the USB or high-speed FireWire ports, which should suit 99% of the users just fine. I highly recommend the $1799 iMac to the "prosumer;" i.e. anyone interested in multimedia, DVD authoring, and graphic design. It makes a great machine for high school and college students too, since its svelte design allows the iMac to fit comfortably even in the tiniest of dorm rooms. Whether you're a current Mac user or a PC-convert, you can't go wrong with the new iMac.
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Summary: Best Mac For PC Users!!!
Review: Being a long time Windows user, I was completely floored by how happy I am with a product from Apple. This machine is absolutely awesome. Gorgeous, feature rich, and a real value for the money. This machine exposed all of my platform switching worries for what they really were: a bunch of fear, uncertainty and doubt that was baseless once I had the courage to open my mind enough and evaluate the machine honestly with a hands-on test drive. Software? I run Microsoft Office and freely and seemelessly exchange files glitch-free with my PC systems and PC co-workers (Macs can read and write to a variety of PC-formatted media like floppies, Zip disks, etc. - did you know that?). Adobe? Macromedia? I'm covered. Everything I'd ever want to do on a PC, I am doing better, faster, and far more worry-free on this iMac. For PC-only software that doesn't have a Mac version, Virtual PC 5.0 rocks! Even Windows runs better on a Mac - and when Windows crashes under Virtual PC, it takes only SECONDS to restore everything to normal. OS X with its UNIX base is also decidedly a more solid yet friendly OS than anything from Microsoft (sorry, Billion dollar Bill ... and I NEVER thought I'd say that). Finally, don't forget the Apple-only software that's included for FREE like iTunes, IMovie, iDVD, and iPhoto. They win the ease-of-use (and JOY to use) war hands down. And on top of all this, the iMac is a design dream. It just works.
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Summary: Great Mac
Review: Bought early thru Amazon; Got [a discount] (not presently offered), free shipping and saved [money] in sales tax. Got here earlier than would have direct from Apple or from Apple Store. This is a great Mac. I left Mac 7 years ago for PC and this is first trip back. Have been using about a month and have had no crashes, and love the included software including AppleWorks, iTunes, iMovie, iPhoto, and iDVD. I now burn my home vidios onto DVD (should last about a gazillion yrs. longer). These programs are easy to use and intuitive though I did cheat and read a couple books on subjects. I use iPod and at high quality MP3 get about 680 songs (some long classical or jazz) in unit (uploads that 680 in about 12 minutes total). Sounds great and simple to use and update with iTunes. Programs were immediatly compatible with my Dig. Camera and Camcorder. Could go on but ran out of time.
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Summary: Once you go IMac - you never go back
Review: Considering the new IMAC and you are a PC user. Well I took a plunge last week with this new unit. I got one of the first ones in Houston - yea for me. Since day one I have been able to learn the operating system, manage programs and files with NO difficulty. Its is more windows like then you think. Moreover , It has not crashed, given me a blue screen of death or locked up point where you have to pull the plug. The new OS X (the only apple OS I know) is wonderful. I added an extra 128 Megs of ram to the 256 that came with the machine and the performance improvement was terrific.
I am not a PC gamer, I use computers for a living. I have one athlon 1 gig laptop, a 1.2 gig athlon desk top both running xp, and a win 2000 600 MHZ corporate laptop. If only these other computers behaved anything like the mac. The mac is virtually silient and generates only minor heat (compaired to the blast furnace of the athlon desk top). The flat screen is all digital and so is the signal from the graphics card. This gives the screen its tremendous clarity (my other computer screens are all blurry and dark by comparison). The screen does not tire your eyes as an analog display does. Let me be candid for a moment at simply say for those using an analog display with a high end graphics card - YOURE MISSING THE BOAT. The graphic representations may be better but the limitiation in crispness and color defination is in your screen - not the graphic card - nothing you do will make your screen look better! BTW - you cannot use apple screens on PC's. Apple screens are designed with graphic card manufacturers for digital output. This is why apple tends to use "older generation cards".
For a compairson - I went to compusa and a PC DIGITAL flat panel monitor will run near 1100 dollars, then you need to purchase a card to support the monitor. This alone is closing in on the price of the IMAC - can you say BARGIN in the IMAC? For those who would like to see a 17inch monitor. The 15 has the viewable equalivent of a 17 inch standard CRT screen. If you are prosumer graphics specialist, you may opt for a power mac and a larger flat panel screen. The 17'' screen is 1000.00. For me the 15'' this is not a problem and I own a 19 inch viewable CRT screen . I love that the screen goes were you want it! A huge quantum leap in design and function.
Downside to the Imac: if you like to add on to your system you will need external devices. Software: there is a lot of it out there but not as much as there is for a PC. But how much do you use? Personally I use an office suite, photoshop and web design software and accounting. All done easily and effectivly Running applications and the internet: is there a difference: - I have run side by side compairsons with the internet. The only difference I see is the mac outperforms the PC's with streaming video - both speed of download and improved visual quality: Using the quicktime download movie trailer site and MSN's entertainment site. Applications - using ms office X is a far better experience then using windows office XP (Remember I am a PC person) In summary - quiet, virtually no heat, fast, a terrific adjustable screen, DVD - R and CD-RW, stable and sensible operating system - Wow we have a winner. It is really an easy computer to work with, and that my friends is the beauty of it. PS I have not touched my desktop or lapot in the last week unless I had to use specific software.
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Summary: The Computer As Modern Art
Review: Even though I had studied every picture available of the new iMac, I was simply shocked at how beautiful it was when I started taking it out of the box. The brochures and online pictures don't really capture the effect you get when it's sitting there in front of you. Once I had it all unwrapped, I just stared at it a few moments, stunned. (And that's before I even turned it on.) I plugged in the cords, pressed the on button (that's all there is to set-up) and sat back amazed as the opening notes started coming out of the speakers and the first images lit up the screen. For an instant treat when you first start it up (and to check out the INCREDIBLE quality of the flat screen) click on one of the songs preloaded in iTunes and turn on the visuals full screen - the colors and effects are amazing and beautiful! Other folks here will go in-depth into the features; I just wanted to give you a sense of those first few amazing moments with the new iMac. BTW, this is my first Apple product, I went from just curious to total fan in .001 seconds! The flat screen iMac really is a modern design marvel. When you unpack yours, invite a couple friends over because you won't want to be alone. I was, and it's really hard to pass on the wonder over the phone. When my friends did see it, they pretty much all had the same OMG reaction that I had. Enjoy, this computer is all about being enjoyed! (And so worth every penny, did I mention that?!)
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Summary: This computer is fast
Review: Everyone, you know, the new 2.2 ghz P4 computer?
well, I have news for all of you, the new Imac is just as fast as them, yup, just as fast, the G4 procsser just owns the pitiful P4, BUY THIS COMPUTER it is sooooo much better than a pitifully slow in comparison non-mac!
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