- AHHH, Now i can make my photo Album 24" WIDE, AHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Apple has released their new line of popular-to-people-who-want-to-be-cool-but-actually-aren't computers.
YAY!
This time, they have done nothing to improve the actually computer. And besides making it look good, which it does, it has failed to actually make a computer that educated people would use. Basically its a big camera and a photo album in one package, too bad you pay through the teeth for it. Though, i guess to make users, they think 2 in 1 is a good deal.
The new iMacs are starting 1,199 for the base model (POOP), not worth getting in any stretch of the imagination. The "beefed" up version (just a bigger piece of POOP, but still POOP regardless) costs 2,299, both American prices.
The computer itself is less then stellar. For 2,299, you can build a top of the line PC. But if you like Apple, you can settle for something that is middle of the pack, at best. Processing power got bumped up in the new models. The 20-inch model will be available with Intel Core 2 Duo chips up to 2.4-GHz, while the 24-inch iMac will have the option of a Core 2 Extreme 2.8-GHz at the highest end. Graphics are also bumped up thanks to the inclusion of ATI's newest generation of graphics cards. The 20-inch iMac will include a Radeon HD 2400 XT (ZOMG HD!!!! MUST BE GOOD) (128-MB GDDR3 memory), and the 24-inch model will rock a Radeon HD 2600 Pro (WHA!!!2600 is better then 2400, MUST BE GOOD) (256-MB GDDR3 memory) - IGN
Problem. For a computer that boasts itself on the smoothest and best graphics around, what are they thinking? This is nowhere close. How are they going to make complicated photo albums? 128 MB GPU's are a thing of the past, and 256 ones are joining that group. Where is a dual video card option? Where is a better processor? Even the RAM is less then what most PC's come with these days.
Why do Apple charge so much for something you can build for a grand. Do you pay an extra $1,300 for the name? Or the cool looks?
This is pathetic. Like most Apple computers, this will be eaten up. Just because it looks cool, people will give limbs to have one. If PC users are nerds, Apple users must be retarded. At least a nerd can pick out a rip off. You can say what you want, but you get nothing for the price you pay. Apple users will contest that their computer don't crash, or that their photo albums are so nice. Well I have had my comp for 4 years, and not once has it crashed. The problem i think is Apple users cant handle simplistic operations, so they have to revert to Apples childish controls. Fisher Price anyone?
Like all Mac's though, you get something that is overpriced, and underwhelming. When will they make a computer that is half decent, for a good price? That's the million dollar question.
3 comments:
The Mac and PC debate is kinda pointless because each targets a different market. I don't think any intelligent, non-Mac Fanboy, will totally agree that the raw computing power of the PC is much higher than a Mac. PC's are far more advantageous for running programs like games and high level CAD programs.
But the Macs offer some things the PC does not. First off, the Mac offers a very good, very different initial software package. It comes with iLife which has an excellent music editing and recording program (Garage Band), a good movie editing program in iMovie, Mac was the innovator behind iTunes (pretty much the only music organization program anyone uses these days), and it does have iPhoto (which is EXCELLENT for making photo albums if that's your thing (and it's actually A LOT of people's thing)).
It also has some fantastic secondary programs like Comic Life (which I've used way more than I ever thought I would), comes with a serviceable camera and mic (from factory), and iDVD.
Furthermore, the Mac is ridiculously reliable. Sure, you can make a PC run relatively smoothly if you take good care of it, but Mac's are basically designed to be idiot proof, which isn't a negative but a testament to the quality engineering put into the product. My Mac has crashed far less than my work PC (good for a total crash once every two weeks and I don't push that thing at all).
I liken the Mac to the Toyota Corrola, which is a very popular car in the market. It doesn't have the power of a lot of other cars, but its efficient, reliable and does what it does extremely well. I don't need the extra power and iLife has all these fantastic programs that would cost me well over $500 to buy for a PC so why shouldn't I get a Mac.
At the end of the day, though, we Mac users are a well hung bunch and we don't need oodles of computing power that other (nerds) need to make up for other particular umm.....SHORTcomings.
Macs are for Children.
iMac 2.8GHz
500GB, 4GB RAM, Performance Test
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