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

Ziff Davis ^ | Feb. 4, 2002 | David Coursey

[spodefly]

Oh Dear God, please ... not another Mac vs. PC thread ...

People, they are all good, OK? We are one, and we are all together, kookookaachu, all right? All is love. For anyone here, it's just TCP/IP, and they all do that ...

Save the bits, and get back to work on your machine of choice. The world will just keep right on a spinnin' ...

[js1138]

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.

You guys can argue with some justification that Macs are easy to use and are certainly more reliable than Windows 95, a 7 year old OS that certainly needed improvement.

But when you get into price, you are lost. The might 256 MB of SDRAM has a retail value of $40, less if you shop. It's also obsolete. PCs are running DDR and RAMBUS memory, which is 3 to 4 times a fast.

I will give Apple full credit for pushing technology -- USB, Firewire, LCD monitors as standard. But they can do this only at a premium price.

[isthisnickcool]

The Mac OS X is based on BSD Unix. The OS is very mature and very stable. Pretty cool. And open.

[pt17]

Where? Spam? Why is this spam?

If it looks like spam, tastes like spam and has old meat, it's probably spam.

[Weimdog]

The Mac OS is the most user friendly operating system going. Always has been, always will. Drag and drop!

[Publius6961]

At $1,700 with a DVD burner I think everyone should own one. I plan on having one by Summer.

At $1,200, an iMac is cheap compared to buying a base PC and adding all the features that the iMac supports

You guys ought to get together; Which is it?

[Libertarianize the GOP]

bump

[dighton]

[GreaserX]

I have noticed that Mac folks are really friendly, creative people! We have taste and style and aren't rude.

[GreaserX]

Does PC stand for Pukey creeps? All the PC folks are so angry and rude!

[Mixer]

You guys ought to get together; Which is it? <>PMy price quoted is with a DVD burner. His was without. Also to reply to your other comment about this being 50% more then a PC for an equivalant PC. No way!!! Do not compare the MHZ of a PC to that of an iMAC it isn't the same thing at all. If you were to take an 800MHZ iMAC you would need a 1.4GHZ PC to even come close.

[Mixer]

You guys ought to get together; Which is it?

My price quoted is with a DVD burner. His was without. Also to reply to your other comment about this being 50% more then a PC for an equivalant PC. No way!!! Do not compare the MHZ of a PC to that of an iMAC it isn't the same thing at all. If you were to take an 800MHZ iMAC you would need a 1.4GHZ PC to even come close.

[Mixer]

Please delete my reply 32 as it was a dupe posting...Thanks

[js1138]

Since you have called me rude, please quote the place in my posts where I have been rude.

[general_re]

Oh Dear God, please ... not another Mac vs. PC thread ...

Why not? It's Wednesday - time for the obligatory "Two Minute Hate", the target of which depends upon what you're typing your posts on...

[js1138]

If you were to take an 800MHZ iMAC you would need a 1.4GHZ PC to even come close.

Without extensive price shopping, I found a dual AMD 1.9 gHz motherboard with processors and 1 gig DDR error-correcting memory for under $1000 total. About @500 more would fill out the system. DDR memory is twice as fast as SDRAM, which is what the Macs use.

Any number of web merchants will allow you to pick the components you want for a PC and will assemble and install the OS for free.

The Superdrive (DVD burner) is currently selling for about $500 for PCs. By summer it will be around $300.

Argue convenience and beauty all you want, but be careful about arguing price/performance. And please don't keep comparing the wonders of OSX with Win95. It has been 7 years since Win95.

[toupsie]

You guys ought to get together; Which is it?

Well since you appear to be unable to read, I don't know how we will be able to get the point across. It has been clearly state that there are three different models of iMacs with three different price points. Would it hurt you to actually learn something before posting?

As my 1st grade teacher used to say, "Shut your mouth and open your eyes or you will continue to make a fool out of yourself, young man".

[toupsie]

Ha-ha!