The new iMac G5

[Lew]

Originally Posted by SMHarman

Another thought I had on this power lacking Mac bashing subject is that we don't actually need the processing power most of us have on our desks. Your average PC user probably does not play games, edit video, use postgrad level mathematics in excel spreadsheets or work with multi gig databases. They write the occasional letter, email, chat, surf the web etc. To do all these things a Pentium 1Mz is probably more than adequate, so while the Mac is less powerfull than a PC, it is like comparing a 1.8litre family car to a 2.0 litre one, both do the job to a level well in excess of the legal requirements, just the 2.0 litre one may do 130mph flat out and the 1.8 115mph. Taking this analagy a step to far, the OS and chip design of the Mac could be compared to something like the Honda vTec engine which although smaller outperformes the larger engine by design superiority.

Absolutely. My main machine is a 500MHz G3 which does everything I need it to (albeit a little slowly when I try to open 6 web pages simultaneously ). My iBook G3/900 basically does server duties and my 2GHz+ PC gets booted up when I want to watch the baseball

Originally Posted by scastle

True, I did have some problems with OS 9 (mainly because security wasn't worth a damn on it, and students were able to play about with parts they shouldn't even though I did lock it down quite thoroughly). I will say that I have only once had a Mac do an equivalent of blue screen on me..

Ooh, the 'bomb' message? I had that once or twice under OS 9 in the two years or so I ran it. Since moving to OSX I've never seen the 'kernel panic' screen (didn't even know it existed until someone posted a picture of it on here once). About the only thing liable to upset my Mac nowadays is iPhoto, which is notoriously clunky under OSX 10.2.8 .... this useful but badly-optimised app caused the machine to sort-of reset itself on me last week, insofar as it shut down all running apps, logged me out and took me back to the user login screen. It was quite happy after that. This is a known software issue though, not a problem with the OS, and in any case it's fixed in the latest version of iPhoto (which I can't have, 'cos I need OSX 10.3 )

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Originally Posted by Richard M

May I ask why you want one?

who wounldn't?? seriously tho the new mac is very stylish, the only thing that lets it down is the lack of games available for mac, i don't miss windows xp at all, yes i still use my windows xp laptop, but not very often