Nice retro desk lamp but where is the iMac???
Posted on 02/06/2002 7:02:35 AM PST by toupsie
Purr!
Nice post, toupsie. Mine's on order..... CAN'T WAIT!!
Cheers, CC :)
Where? Spam? Why is this spam?
What's your major malfunction? :)
I think the desk lamp behind the CPU looks more modern than retro.
What is the price?
What are the expansion possibilities and costs for this (still) "closed" proprietary system?
Mac's ultimate undoing will be that it does not license it's operating system to other manufacturers. Despite innovations like this, most home computer users will continue to select PC systems because of the price and variety of products available.
Similarly software developers will continue to concentrate on the PC market, because of the larger number of potential users.
I see this as much like the situation of the Sony Beta video system competing with the rival VHS system in the early 1980's. VHS won out not because of having superior features or better quality, but that consumers could buy VHS machines from an increasing number of manufacturers at an increasingly lower price. Pre-recorded video producers simple followed this market and Sony Beta simply disappeared.
Thank you.
About 50% more than an equivalent PC.
And expansion hardware is probably 200% more.
Must be nice...
With 2 firewire ports and 4 USB ports you can add literally hundreds of items to an iMac. As for being proprietarty, I don't know what you are talking about. MacOS X has an "Open Source" core called Darwin that anyone on the web can download the source code. You can't do that with Windows XP. There is not one chance in hell that Bill Gates will let you read the source code for the core of Windows XP.
At $1,200, an iMac is cheap compared to buying a base PC and adding all the features that the iMac supports such as firewire, Nvidia graphics card, 15" LCD, dual monitor support, 60 gig HD, 384MB Ram (can't find one with 128Mb to buy -- all the stores give you 256MB with purchase for free), etc.
That's right! We had to suffer through this pap about the new iPaperweight 2 days ago. The consensus being that Macs are for fairies and Democrats, and that real men and Republicans use Windows. 'Nuff said.
Can you present a PC with the same features of the top of the line iMac (w/ 15" LCD & DVD-Burner) for the same price. So far, Ziff Davis has only come up with a Compaq that cost $2,200 that had the same features.
I would be interested in what you come up with. Most likely a computer that you have to build by hand with noname Taiwanese parts. Nothing you could buy at Best Buy, etc.
Are you calling Rush Limbaugh a fag?
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