At a special press event Apple unveiled several new products today. They updated the entire iMac line, equipping them with 1.9 to 2.1 Ghz G5 processors, iPod-like 6-button remote control, built-in iSight and thinner enclosures. Apple also introduced new iPods, capable of playing 320x240 MPEG4/H.264 video, and it has a video-OUT. iTunes 6 is available now, and already there are 2000 music videos available in the iTMS. You will also be able to buy TV shows from the iTMS. Update: Sad news for the fans of the original CRT iMac: it seems that the eMac has been phased out. It is no longer available on the Apple Store website.
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3. With the current price/performance ratio buying an iBook or a Powerbook is like burning dollars on the floor. You can get this new iMacs instead, same or less price, more power per Dollar.
WTF! What if you want a portable pc eg. a laptop!
If price is so important to people, they can go and buy a black box from Dell...
Member since:2005-07-06
Of course you are right, if you really want (need) you can buy a laptop, but remember that the intel switch as many analysts pointed out, it's because the Apple laptop line is into a certain stagnation. At the same price not Dell, but Toshiba offers very good Centrino Laptops and despite the fact that they might be running XP they work fine and even slightly faster. An iMac is nothing more than a big big laptop. You have to dispose the monitor it cames with when you change it, as with any other laptop, simply bigger.
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2005-07-06
If I take a look at the current situation I see :
1. Some Minis are shipping with 5400RPM HDD and 1.5Ghz
PPC, this comes from Powerbook relics...
2. After the Nano introduction the Shuffle would suffer, then the remote control of the new iMac resemble some parts coming from unsold shuffles...
3. With the current price/performance ratio buying an iBook or a Powerbook is like burning dollars on the floor. You can get this new iMacs instead, same or less price, more power per Dollar.
4. The new iMac update is a price update (reduction) plus a case volume reduction with some more software
5. Clearly Apple is investing in a bright Multimedia future, with new iPod lines. The iTunes Video on Demand feature is really a big deal.
Innovation is driven by unsold stocks. Sadness.