About Steve Jobs and his fear of buttons

[Nostromo]

Originally posted by snoopy369
The iMac was not made to be upgradeable. It was specifically designed for one market segment: people who want a very cheap functional computer that will work well out of the box and do everything they do - ie, browse the web, word processing, the kids' homework [hopefully done by the kids] - and that's it.

Making it upgradeable would have been a poor design choice for that segment of the market. People who want to upgrade their computers get PowerMacs

Have you seen the price on those things?

Here's what about 3K$ CDN (before taxes) gets you:

* Two 2.0GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon
* 1GB (2 x 512MB)
* 250GB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s
* NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT 256MB (single-link DVI/dual-link DVI)
* Apple Cinema Display (20" flat panel)
* One 16x SuperDrive
* Apple Keyboard and Mighty Mouse - French Canadian
* Mac OS X - French Canadian

I realize that Xeons and the special RAM they need don't come cheap, but its still a lot of dough. Maybe Apple should sell a cheaper Mac Pro.

[Chemical Ollie]

Buttons are sexy. At least the various buttons on my woman...

[Nostromo]

Originally posted by DaShi
Ok, that is the iMac then. What do they call their desktops?

iBook and Macbook Pro = laptops

iMac and Mac Pro = desktops

The current iMac

[DaShi]

Originally posted by nostromo


iBook and Macbook Pro = laptops

iMac and Mac Pro = desktops

The current iMac

Thanks. For clarity, my post was in reference to iBooks. And my coworker was a bit nutty to begin with.

[Blake]

I had always thought that the one-button mice was a statement about the average mental dexterity of mac users.


Has anyone on the internet ever made this parody image:
"What a human being would look like if designed by Steve Jobs?"

[Agathon]

Originally posted by DaShi
I worked with this lady who bought a new iMac. A few months later she bought another one because it was then available in black. I think it's pretty obvious where Apple's profits come from.

Nice lie.

You might want to check your facts before spinning such obvious BS.

[DaShi]

What is your problem?

[Agathon]

Originally posted by nostromo


Have you seen the price on those things?

Here's what about 3K$ CDN (before taxes) gets you:

* Two 2.0GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon
* 1GB (2 x 512MB)
* 250GB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s
* NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT 256MB (single-link DVI/dual-link DVI)
* Apple Cinema Display (20" flat panel)
* One 16x SuperDrive
* Apple Keyboard and Mighty Mouse - French Canadian
* Mac OS X - French Canadian

I realize that Xeons and the special RAM they need don't come cheap, but its still a lot of dough. Maybe Apple should sell a cheaper Mac Pro.

Apolyton nerds have no business buying one of those.

That is a computer for people who work with digital video or digital audio, or do heavy professional graphics work.

It is not a toy for video game geeks.

[DaShi]

My god, he is the Apple Asher.

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by Agathon


Apolyton nerds have no business buying one of those.

That is a computer for people who work with digital video or digital audio, or do heavy professional graphics work.

It is not a toy for video game geeks.

*breathes*

Heavy professional graphics work with an nVidia 7300 GT?

[Agathon]

Originally posted by DaShi
What is your problem?

I've never seen a black iMac.

[DaShi]

Originally posted by Agathon


I've never seen a black iMac.

Then it must not exist.

[Agathon]

Originally posted by LordShiva




*breathes*

Heavy professional graphics work with an nVidia 7300 GT?

Of course there are no options. Perhaps looking at Apple's site was too much for you.

The 7300 is fine for video editing, since FCP is not GPU accelerated.

[Nostromo]

Dashi meant the black iBook

[DaShi]

No, no. He's right. I'm a liar and should flog myself at the first opportunity. Aggie is always right.