Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 9th Aug 2007 22:31 UTC
Ars has reviewed the brand new iMac. They conclude: "The Intel Macs are fast, the majority of apps have been released as Universal Binaries, and Apple's product line - including the new iMac - is in a good place. The iMac is also competitive on price with other all-in-one PCs, so if you absolutely love the all-in-one form factor, the iMac is one of lower-priced options available. If you've been holding on to your Power PC Mac and waiting for the right time to make the big switch to Intel, the appearance of the new iMac marks an excellent opportunity." CNet also has a review.
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2005-07-06
Yup. The actual human beings that buy the majority of these things will upgrade when they simply stop working, for whatever reason.
My primary reason for upgrading from my last PC (which was pushing 5 years old) was I needed more memory to run modern Java stuff. 768MB was just not cutting it, and I found that the MB simply wouldn't take any more.
The one before that, also 4 years old, I think the power supply or something imploded, so I took that as an opportunity. Same with the one before that, also 4 years old.
I crammed new hard drives in the things, added some memory, and upgraded the video card on the last machine (because the fan died on the one I had).
Now I have a Mac Pro that will, frankly, NEVER run out of disk space, and most likely NEVER run out of memory (if I ever max it out to 16GB). So, it's up to the power supply. And I seriously doubt in 4-5 years if/when that dies there will be a substantially better computer available to the consumer. With the current push to low power and more cores, I'm simply not concerned. I think the Mac Pro is the pinnacle of a home computer for some time. It will not surprise me if it lasts 10 years, assuming parts are available.
Maybe I'll get a better video card in a few years for it.
We have a G3 800Mhz iBook that my wife uses everyday for web surfing and stuff that we up'd to 640MB. We still get great life out of that battery. That machine is painless. It's still running 10.3. I debate on getting 10.4 for it, minimally for a better Safari, but I may be able to just get the WebKit version instead, or convert her to FireFox. That thing will just have to catch fire one day I guess.
To be blunt, I use these things everyday and I hate spending money on them. I'm a cheap bastard when it comes to this stuff, and sometime wish that I were a woodworker instead of a computer guy. If I had spent the money I've spent on computers over the years on shop equipment, I'd still 80-90% of it, and have a shop that makes Norm Abrams shop look under equipped.
Gamers are different, as their industry continues to push the envelope, but most folks aren't gamers.