Apple brings back the PC jr keyboard to life (or the new iMac thread)

[LordShiva]

Do Macs even have BIOSes? (BIOSi?)

[Kuciwalker]

The Intel Macs use EFI instead of BIOS.

[Kuciwalker]

And the keyboard looks beautiful but also like a PITA to use. Form over function FTW.

[DaShi]

This does look better than the old iMacs. But the keyboards look cheap and flimsy. Not ergonomic in at all.

[Agathon]

Originally posted by LordShiva
Do Macs even have BIOSes? (BIOSi?)

No. That is an ancient and crappy technology. Only a lame and antiquated company would still use that rubbish.

I wonder how many people are going to claim that these are ridiculously expensive computers after the last attempt to do so when the Mac came out quite a bit cheaper than its competitors?

[Kuciwalker]

I'm going to hazard a guess and say you're not qualified to comment on the technical merits of EFI vs. BIOS.

[DaShi]

Originally posted by Agathon


No. That is an ancient and crappy technology. Only a lame and antiquated company would still use that rubbish.

I wonder how many people are going to claim that these are ridiculously expensive computers after the last attempt to do so when the Mac came out quite a bit cheaper than its competitors?

I thought it went the otherway around.

[Agathon]

Originally posted by DaShi

I thought it went the otherway around.

You might want to read the rest of the thread. The Apple machines turned out to be cheaper. People were "forgetting" to put in the equivalent power supply on the competing machines. The truth is that Dell's and HP's workstations are pretty expensive.

[Nikolai]

Man, some crappy bad prices on those macs.

[Nostromo]

Oh dear, there we go again

[Nikolai]

What? You must admit that the prices are steep. I don't like the whole MS thing, but at least I don't have to buy my computer by a monopolist. I could get much more hardware for that price than Apple gives you.

[DaShi]

Originally posted by Agathon


You might want to read the rest of the thread.

Oh god no!

[Nikolai]

Take a look at this one, a random computer I found on the first e-shop I looked at:

*Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz Socket LGA775, 8MB, BOXED m/vifte

*Corsair TWIN2X 5400 DDR2, 2048MB PC5400 Kit w/two matched CM2X1024-5400C4 Dimm's

*Western Digital Caviar SE16 500GB SATA2 16MB 7200RPM

* XFX GeForce 8600GT 620M 256MB XXX GDDR3, PCI-Express, 2xDVI, 620/1600Mhz

*USB2 multi card reader 3.5" sort, for CF I/II,SM,MMC/SD,MS,xD (bulk)

*Creative SBS380, (Sub,2 monitorer) Retail

*Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium Norsk

*LG 19" LCD L1918S-SN TCO-03 Silver 1280x1024, 5ms, 700:1, LightView

Price: ~10.000 NOK, included 25% taxes and such. $1 = ~6 NOK. Which means ~1600 USD. Much more than the equivalent from Apple, and I'm sure I can find better trades if I look harder.

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by nostromo
Oh dear, there we go again

[Wiglaf]

Nikolai, this debate has been done a million times before. Spare us your bible thumping and your Mac bashing.