http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/ Engadget Comments for Updated iMacs coming next week? http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/Apr 24th 2008 4:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/Apr 24th 2008 4:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/Apr 24th 2008 4:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/Apr 24th 2008 4:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/
The iMac uses a TN-panel for the 20" model and an H-IPS panel for the 24" model, which by far is the one to prefer.]]>Apr 24th 2008 4:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/Apr 24th 2008 5:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/Apr 24th 2008 4:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/Apr 24th 2008 8:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/Apr 25th 2008 11:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/Apr 24th 2008 4:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/Apr 24th 2008 4:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/Apr 24th 2008 4:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/http://www.sonyericsson.com/x1/default.aspx?cc=GB&lc=en&lc=en&cc=US]]>Apr 24th 2008 4:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/Apr 24th 2008 4:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/Apr 25th 2008 12:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/
EW!
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I personally like the current design a lot though. ]]>Apr 24th 2008 4:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/Apr 24th 2008 6:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/
Really? Engadget, admitting you have a problem is the first step to recovery...]]>Apr 24th 2008 4:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/Apr 24th 2008 4:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/Nope, they spend much more time peering into Steve's belly button.]]>Apr 24th 2008 4:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/
You may not be one to peer into, but you definitely hump the shit out of it.]]>Apr 24th 2008 5:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/Apr 24th 2008 4:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/Apr 24th 2008 4:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/
You just can't enable anti-aliasing--framerates are dramatically reduced.]]>Apr 25th 2008 11:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/Apr 24th 2008 4:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/Apr 24th 2008 4:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/ iMac ]]>Apr 24th 2008 5:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/Apr 24th 2008 11:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/Apr 24th 2008 11:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/
Oh God....

*Hides in corner, shaking*]]>Apr 25th 2008 2:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/Apr 24th 2008 4:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/Apr 24th 2008 5:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/Apr 24th 2008 5:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/Apr 24th 2008 4:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/
Anyways, I refused to pay "full" price on an 8 month old computer, so I have been waiting on this, and since it has a screen I can have two monitors now :D .]]>Apr 24th 2008 4:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/Apr 24th 2008 6:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/
Must every Apple-post be ridden with whiny comments like these?]]>Apr 24th 2008 4:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/
Offer me a sub-$1000 iMac (I'd even let you consider a 19" screen) or, better yet, a $500 EeePC / HP 2133 subnotebook killer and we'll talk.

Till then - nothing to look at here people...move along.....no need to (further) pad The Stevo's wallet....]]>Apr 24th 2008 5:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/Apr 24th 2008 5:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/
Apple reported a 36% increase of profits over the same quarter last year, making $1.06 BILLION in the 2nd quarter alone.

There's been a 51% increase in Mac sales over the same period, while Apple is now building their computers with the same old bits that any Intel computer manufacturer can get (and here's a hint, ASUS, the manufacturer of the EeePC, builds for Apple), so please don't use the 'Apple is no cheap-ass product' to me - and that Apple can't / shouldn't afford to build competitively priced products.

The premium Apple users pay for their products these days (and I've had them in the past) does nothing more than prove 'there is a sucker born every minute' and that The Smug B*stard From Cupertino knows it.]]>Apr 24th 2008 6:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/
Now go ahead and tell me R&D doesn't cost money. Tell me aluminum costs the same as plastic, tell me designing and manufacturing custom logic boards costs the same as buying them pre-made. And why don't you go ahead and tell me how Apple's custom designed parts are the same bits that any PC manufacturer can get.

I mean according to your logic I should be able to go to Fry's, pick out a bunch of generic PC parts and build an iMac. Why not, right? They all use the same parts. Right?

Again, Apple is not in the cheap-ass computer market. If they were, they would be building computers CHEAPLY. The way Apple builds computers is not cheap, and that's their choice to make. If you don't like it, buy from somebody else. it's that simple.]]>Apr 24th 2008 7:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/Apr 24th 2008 9:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/
If you want to pay an extra $500-$700 for a desktop computer built with generic laptop parts, that's your choice. If you want a desktop that has circa 2005 graphics, a serious overheating problem, and no PCI slots, that's your choice. If you think brushed aluminum is some sort of expensive, brilliant artistic breakthrough, that's your opinion.

I'm just going to drink another designer Coors out of a custom-built aluminum can, which I purchased with all the money i saved on my Hackintosh. Coors doesn't make cheap-ass beer: THIS IS A CUSTOM CAN!

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I use a 40-year-old Mt. Blanc fountain pen when I write by hand. I like the way it feels and the way the ink flows. I feel creative when I use it and I think it helps me write better. I don't really care about what parts the pen is made of. That's exactly how I felt when I switched to a Mac. Some people will never understand this, others won't respond to the Mac as I do and on this blog I'll have the pleasure of being called an iTard or sheeple for using crapple. Sorry, but to me life is an experience, not a spec sheet.]]>Apr 25th 2008 8:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/
Hardware can cost as much or as little as you're willing on paying, and one can be pretty sure Apple ain't paying retail for their parts - while the cost of assembly in China mean they're likely paying their contractors around $75 month per person.

As for software, well, as Psystar and many private hobbyists have shown, with the right tweaks, any modern Intel box will run OSX. While I'm seeing reports of OSX installed on even the EeePC, more often than not, the hobbyists are running spec'ed out boxes with hardware far superior to anything Apple offers - at the fraction of the price.

R&D at Apple is limited these days to making the software look 'insanely cool' - certainly nothing in their design internally suggests any sort of research or engineering (see the abovementioned overheating, PCI slots, etc) goes into their products any more than anyone else.

Genuflect to The Stevo if you must, but accept the premium you pay for Macs is the Ego Tax.]]>Apr 25th 2008 8:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/24/updated-imacs-coming-next-week/Apr 25th 2008 10:01PM