Thursday, July 6th 2006
Apple Introduces New 17-inch iMac
Apple today introduced a new $899 configuration of the 17-inch iMac designed specifically for education customers. Available immediately, it features a 1.83GHz Intel Core Duo processor which is two to three times faster than the previous iMac, a built-in iSight video camera, and iLife '06, providing students and teachers everything they need to learn and create in today's digital classroom, all in the ultra-efficient iMac design. If you need even powerfull iMac you can pay $1,199 for the 17-inch version with 160GB Serial ATA HDD and ATI Radeon X1600. If that's not enough third 20-inch(1680x1050 pixel) version is also available but the price raises to $1,599. Click here to learn more about Apple's new iMac.
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16 Comments on Apple Introduces New 17-inch iMac
An Apple, have power:laugh: even that is an over-price computer.
.... or a little weenie mac... yeah, no thanks (eRRoR) :slap: (Steve)
Do we really need apple stuff posted on this site, I don't see it being very important anymore. Since its basically confirmed that apples are propriety PCs now. Malware is apple payin you off? J/k :laugh:
I don't see how anyone can consider Apple a good computer company. They lie to their customers, cheat them out of warranty claims, deny all claims that their products are defective even when they clearly are, and offer no help to the customer when they have problems due to the defects. Yeah, that is one hell of a good company...:banghead:
On the other hand Dell is cheap, has better support, better warranties, and when comparing the same hardware XP actually runs a lot of business apps(like the ones students would be using) faster then OSX. There are things like Photoshop CS2 running 50-60% faster on XP then OS X when run on the exact same computer. To be fair, OS X is no slouch, I don't want it to sound that way. It does do some things just as fast or faster then XP. In the end though XP comes out slightly ahead overall in terms of speed when run on the exact same hardware both from reading people experiences on the internet and my own short time with a Macbook Pro.
I don't miss Macs at all... not one bit :D
his grafx card is slowely dieing, gets random BSOD's from it, hes tried reinstalling windows and everything... cant even update drivers anymore as the computer doesnt even recognise it as a nvidia card, tried getting it fixed, called dell(alienware) they say he "voided" hes warrenty, he hasnt even taken the computer apart, all he has done was reinstall windows lol... its not "dells" problem its "nVidias" dell says... "there nothing wrong with the computer"
I'm complaining about price, not performance, somehow, I don't see schools all over the country jumping to get a $950+ computer for the price of 1.5 or even 2 PCs with similar hardware configuration :slap:
The only thing apple has going for them is OSX, but unfortunately, most students are better off using WinXP based PCs, that's what the vast majority of them will be using once they get out of school anyway :rolleyes:
As for Dell not being better then Apple, I don't think so. Dell doesn't publicly deny that a defective part affecting thousands of its customers is actually defective and then turn down every single warranty claim made by said users. Only to later turn around and say that it was a defect and they knew it was when they were turning down warranty claims. I worked at an all Dell University, I know their computers inside and out. They do have their problems, like the faulty power supply problem that took down 100+ computers in a single month, but we never had a problem, and I have never seen a time when Dell did not take responsibility and replace the defective parts...and complete care is God's gift to warranties. Oh and Dell also doesn't go to a sweatshop, see that it is a sweatshop, then pat the people running the sweatshop on the back and say "keep up the good work making our ipods."
Also Alienware, while owned by Dell, is not dell. They are still 100% separate companies, Alienware is still run by Alienware execs, not Dell's and to fault Dell because Alienware wouldn't replace your friend's video card is wrong. Besides that I have seen alienware replace parts in a machine simply because the user reported them as acting funny, so I don't know why your friend couldn't get is video card replaced.