Warming up to the new iMac (or my computer's cooler than your computer).

[monolith94]

But by then there'll be a new imac...

[Imran Siddiqui]

But by then there'll be a new imac...

By next year? They are totally redoing it every year?

[Asher]

Originally posted by monolith94
But by then there'll be a new imac...

UT 2003 is due out in July, IIRC.

[Asher]

Whoops, I was wrong.
June 19th Unreal Tournament 2003 goes on sale.

[Triped]

Word is, Apple puts most of their R&D into short-term projects and other features that make Macs a "pleasure to use" , so the new Mac next year will be even farther behind.

[Gatekeeper]

Monolith94:

I, too, have an (older) iMac that I purchased in May 1999. It's a 333mhz machine that fulfills my needs more than adequately (which might not be too demanding, since I don't have this compulsion to keep up with the Joneses nor do I play much 3D gaming).

I'll probably acquire an 800mhz iMac sometime before fall. And a printer, some software and (maybe) scanner ... so the whole package will probably total $2100 to $2200 (shipping and miscellaneous expenses will be extra).

Here's to hoping you never have a kernal panic.

Gatekeeper (a soldier of the Apple Nation )

[Imran Siddiqui]

I'll probably acquire an 800mhz iMac sometime before fall. And a printer, some software and (maybe) scanner ... so the whole package will probably total $2100 to $2200 (shipping and miscellaneous expenses will be extra).

OUCH! That's ****ing expensive for an 800mhz!!

[Grrr]

Shi!te, I can buy a 1800mhz athalon in NZ dollars for that

[notyoueither]

I could have mailed you a 2.2G P4 Asher. According to your chart that's what you should have bought.

Of course, it would have cost more than your mother board and CPU combined.

[Mr. President]

I love Macintoshes! They're so much friendlier than PCs.

/me burns picture of Bill Gates

[Gatekeeper]

Imran:

It's my understanding that Apple calculates their speed differently from PC companies. RISC vs. CISC or something like that. All I know is that an 800mhz machine would be more than sufficient to handle anything I could throw at it. Besides, isn't it common knowledge that you get what you paid for? I think a $600 PC machine (particularly a Gateway) might be a bit, eh, cheap on the inside.

Gatekeeper

[Imran Siddiqui]

They are very similar, GK... 800mhz isn't anything like a 1Ghtz P3... and since you said the 333 mhz was adequate, if you going to drop that much cash, get some quality!! Like a PC.

I mean, for that much money you can get a PC with 2.0 Ghtz chip!! About twice as fast.

[notyoueither]

Dollar for dollar, PC is more for less.

However, the deciding factor for anyone's purchase should be what they will be happy with. Prejudices are a large part of what make people happy.

[Provost Harrison]

Well paying that much for such sh*te performance is ridiculous. The dinosaur should die!

[Ari Rahikkala]

Bah... here I'm stranded with an AMD k6-2 of 500 MHz without the money (or will?) to buy a new one... Heck, it's even so unreliable it can't do a kernel compile without crashing gcc... Maybe some of you would like to switch an "old" 1GHz CPU+mobo of any kind with this C64 of mine that already has antique value ...