Why I just love the new iMac (and why you might, too)

ZD Net Anchor Desk ^ | 2-4-02 | David Coursey

[gratefulwharffratt]

And the ZD Net Anchor Desk can hardly be called "Pro Macintosh."

[College Repub]

no barf alert?

[Commie Basher]

I've been using laptops as my "full time desktop" since 1993, when I bought a 486-33 Toshiba with gas plasma screen. ALL laptops in the past decade have made fine desktops. The only Mac I've used was at Kinko's, and it crashed, same as any Windows computer. I see no difference between Macs and Windows PCs. I don't know why Mac users think their systems are so much different & better than those of us Win users.

FWIW, I currently use a 3-year-old Pentium II-366 laptop, which fits all my needs. Might be several years before I upgrade again.

[D-fendr]

The "poor" quality of the Microsoft fonts… As a long-time Mac and PC user, the weakest part of my computing is when I have to use Microsoft Apps - on either platform. Adobe and Mac are at least an order of magnitude superior software developers.

[gratefulwharffratt]

You MicroSloth shills are showing up by post number two these days...

You are becoming ever more diligent in your Kool-Aid drinking.

[Sabertooth]

no barf alert?

How can you be so right about the Middle East, and so wrong about this?

But I still want an iMac with a 17" monitor.

[College Repub]

PCS!!!!! Macs give me headaches...I hate the keyboad, the mouse, and the generic application layouts...anything good they offer over pcs beyond that totaly escapes me due to those 3 initial pains in my ass..

[gratefulwharffratt]

It's been a week since I started using a new iMac as my full-time desktop and a PowerBook G4 as my portable PC, all as part of my month-long challenge to see if I, long a loyal Windows user, could make Apple the center of my computing universe."

"So that's where things stand after the first week of "Mac Month" here in my office. About the only thing I am still using the XP box for is some instant messaging (especially during the radio program) and to keep the Outlook telephone directory open when I need to make a quick phone call.

Hmmm, if it only takes a week for the FULLY indoctrinated Winbloze user to see the error of their ways, then the conversion must be nearly instantaneous for people who DON'T derive their income from using and pushing MS products.

[primatreat]

iphoto does a great job of preparing JPG's for email. It takes a huge tiff file or JPG and compresses it to a JPG that is about 200K Looks a 10+ on the receivers end..... I have 24 Macs running my company

[eno_]

I find this very strange. One of the best parts of using Windows XP is ClearType. If you have a laptop and XP, not using ClearType is a crime. It is on the Effects dialog on the Appearance tab in the Display Properties. The sans-serif fonts in the FR page headers look super-clean with ClearType on.

[montag813]

The iMac is but a toy, for fairies and Democrats. Real men and Republicans use Wintel.

[boris]

Yeah, yeah, and the Betamax format was much better than VHS. I guess this guy is still gushing over his Beta tape collection.

Apple is--and will continue to be--a niche market inside another niche market, a cult rather than a culture. It's verrry "in" with the Chardonay-and-Brie crowd in Marin County. "Quantity has a quality all its own," and the quiche-eating mob at Apple will never get it.

--Boris

[KarlH]

Coursey did admit in a previous column, sometime last year, that he voted for Algore. Like the line in the movie Shrek, "Well, that explains a lot."

[D-fendr]

What about kerning (letter spacing), tracking, ligatures in PowerPoint, fontography and cursor selection of text in Word? I've used the same programs for thousands of hours on both platforms. The Mac is faster, cleaner and runs better. And any mac or adobe text or graphic handling is superior on either platform.

This would seem odd with text since TrueType is a Mac/Microsoft product. Still the more Mac and the less MS, the better it looks and the better it operates.

Adobe Postscript fonts are more hassle, but if you want top quality, they are still the standard.

[zog]

--I use both, and I just last week started fooling around with redhat. I'd say they all have plusses and minuses, although I'd also say mac os is more more user friendly out of the box on that list of three. I haven't used osx yet though, so can't comment.

I'd also say real men are able to look at 'computers' as just being good tools, and different tools for different purposes. I have yet to see an adjustable wrench be able to substitute for the whole tool box. These OS neener neener flame posts and wars are beyond stupid. I wish the moderators would ban and delete them immediately on sight, and ban the posters if they persisted. All brands of computers are owned and used by all differering people's political belief structures and pronouncements of same, it's not one or the other, and to insist otherwise is called 'lying through your teeth" and 'trolling"..

[Libertarianize the GOP]

bump

[RedWing9]

Oh, I guess just because I prefer to have control over my hardware, software and upgradeability of my computer hardware, I'm a "MicroSloth Shill"?

Tell me, can I play NHL 2002 on an iMac? How 'bout Medal of Honor? Links 2001? Command & Conquer?

Can I modify the image quality of the video card like this? Can I change the video card?

Can I modify the case, like this or like these?

Can I tweak the bios to improve performance? Maybe even overclock the processor to gain more speed?

These are things I do as a hobby, which I cannot do to this machine. Therefore a Mac of any sort is not for me. Does this still make me a "MicroSloth Shill"?

[gratefulwharffratt]

The iMac is but a toy, for fairies and Democrats. Real men and Republicans use Wintel.

Who are the Linux users then??

BTW, I have built well over five hundred Intel based PCs, with various Winbloze flavors on them, and have sold way more than a million bucks worth of HW at the WHOLESALE level. That means that the questions given me by MY customers, were from the CONSULTANTS.

Strangely enough, they always took my advice, despite my being a Mac user.

[gratefulwharffratt]

These are things I do as a hobby, which I cannot do to this machine. Therefore a Mac of any sort is not for me. Does this still make me a "MicroSloth Shill"?

Considering that you have just trotted out the same old tired laundry list of 'shortcomings' as all the rest of the Shills, I would say:

YES!!!!!

[Mr. Thorne]

Windows is, was, and always shall be, the choice of the crowd, the herd, the masses; steered on by IT professionals, who, like the Jesse Jacksons of the world, would find themselves out of a job if they ever solved the problems they complain about...

While the niche market chugs away.