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Look at those choppers 

24 iMacs for $ 1499.   That my friends is the sweet spot.   Those will be the hot sellers.

I'm still waiting for my new 17 mbp to arrive, only been waiting since Feb 19th and it said 2-3wks when I placed my order. The wait is pissing me off. (was in the apple store this past Friday and they just got their display units in stock earlier that day, but not any resale units)
So at least its nice to know that the new minis and iMac for the time being are shipping same day as the order.
Since the delay of the 17" people have been buying out the stock of the high end 15 and now their is a delay on that 2. I wonder if we are ever going to find out what delayed the 17" for near 2 months in the 1st place.

Last edited by Aaron_R (2009-03-03 9:18 am)

I must be missing something. When I take the 3rd imac and bring it's cpu/hdd/videocard up to par with the 4th one, it's 20 bucks cheaper (apple.ca)

i'm going to skip to the bottom without having read the rest as I want to rant. Please forgive me if this has been stated.

WTF is with the Geforce GT 120? I have been able to find very little information about this card other than saying it's comparable to the 8800 series. Really Apple? No GTX260 or even 280 for a premium priced tower? Really Nvidia a smurfing nother confusing name change in an already craptastic line of name changes? the 9000 series is a joke as the 8800gt and gts are comparable for price to performance and the gtx 2xx series is overpriced (although now come down due to lackluster sales b/c of the overpricing) and then you had manufacture probs, etc. WTH is going on?

I prefer Nvidia due to better drivers and more support for high-end 3d apps with the CUDA and what not but god they are practically telling me to go ATI!  Their 300 series better have a mac equivalent out the gate.

WTF!!!!!!

/rant

now to go read more about the upgrades and your posts.

you can buy a single quad core tower.

This is certainly a heat issue with iMacs - they are part of Steve's quiet computer philosophy and depend primarily on convection-cooling. Actually a nice feature in the iMacs.

The Mini is finally not a stepchild in terms of performance, but it's hardly priced correctly for what you get.  $599 and no keyboard and mouse (much less a monitor)?  For that price, they should at least give you the keyboard and mouse.  Otherwise the price point should be more like $449 and $649 or better yet, $399 and $599.

pregnant N proud wrote:

Aaron_R wrote:

I'm still waiting for my new 17 mbp to arrive, only been waiting since Feb 19th and it said 2-3wks when I placed my order. The wait is pissing me off. (was in the apple store this past Friday and they just got their display units in stock earlier that day, but not any resale units)
So at least its nice to know that the new minis and iMac for the time being are shipping same day as the order.
Since the delay of the 17" people have been buying out the stock of the high end 15 and now their is a delay on that 2. I wonder if we are ever going to find out what delayed the 17" for near 2 months in the 1st place.

had my 17inch macbook for about 2 weeks now, got yours?

Its pretty impressive. the most powerful computer i have ever bought. Which is strange, cause compared to the first computer i ever bought, a DELL desktop, the macbook pisses all over it. It's amazing how technology advances.

The old DELL had a 1.8mhz processor and 512mb of RAM. The macbook has 2.93ghz processor, 4gb RAM. But i am waiting for crucial.com to update their stock so that i can upgrade to 8gb of RAM and go wild.

I got mine on the 19th, where in the world are you aaron?

How is it strange that your new high-end laptop is better than a desktop you bought 10 years ago?

http://www.apple.com/macmini/specs.html
$599 & $799
http://www.apple.com/imac/specs.html
$1199 for the 20"
$1499, $1799, & $2199 for the 24"
http://www.apple.com/imac/specs.html
$2499 & up for a quad
$3299 & up for an octo
http://www.apple.com/timecapsule/specs.html
$299 & $499

personified8 wrote:

WTF is with the Geforce GT 120? I have been able to find very little information about this card other than saying it's comparable to the 8800 series. Really Apple? No GTX260 or even 280 for a premium priced tower? Really Nvidia a smurfing nother confusing name change in an already craptastic line of name changes? the 9000 series is a joke as the 8800gt and gts are comparable for price to performance and the gtx 2xx series is overpriced (although now come down due to lackluster sales b/c of the overpricing) and then you had manufacture probs, etc. WTH is going on?

NVidia is unifying their product naming scheme. The old 9400-9600 midrange cards were rereleased as the GT 120/130. The 9800 is the GTX 250, and the 26x/28x are new tech. The 295 is basically a pair of 260s on a card.

It actually makes a fair amount of sense, since the 1xx series are the low end cards and the 2xx series are the high end cards (although imho, the 9800 almost deserves like a 220 rating, considering the performance difference).

I am also rather disappointed in the continuing lack of cutting-edge GPUs in the tower. But if you're not used to it by now...

personified8 wrote:

why the hell isn't there an iMac with a quad core processor yet? Apple's only quads are doubled up in a tower. There is no medium build for these guys!

A 3+ GHz Core Duo really is still a pretty medium build. As a multitasking addict, I'll pimp quad core to anybody who will listen, but I'm honest enough to know that there are very few circumstances where having the 4 cores makes that much of a difference, my usage habits are atypical and giving up single-threaded performance to maintain price point or thermal specs leaves a bad taste in some people's mouths.

If you do 3D rendering, Apple wants you to buy a Mac Pro.

ScifiterX wrote:

Former Windork wrote:

The Mini is finally not a stepchild in terms of performance, but it's hardly priced correctly for what you get.  $599 and no keyboard and mouse (much less a monitor)?  For that price, they should at least give you the keyboard and mouse.  Otherwise the price point should be more like $449 and $649 or better yet, $399 and $599.

Why should it be less than the cost of a Mini minus the cost of a wired mouse & keyboard (~$100)? (That totals out to $499 to $699.)

Well, because I actually think the price point is too high even with a keyboard and mouse included.  It's especially high with neither.  If I was being honest with what I think it's worth without the kb/mouse, I'd say $399/$599. 

ScifiterX wrote:

Some1 wrote:

Given the option between a hackintosh netbook, and Mac Mini, what would you take?

If I wanted the challenge of fighting to make an OS supported on hardware with no warranty of it working right in the first place or lasting a year, I would have done it by now. If I needed or even wanted a laptop I would have got one and one with a bit more juice than a typical netbook by now.

Same here.  I have no desire to dink around just to get the damn thing to work right.  That's what Ubuntu is for.  And I don't really enjoy that either.

It's just time for everyone to complain that Apple doesn't offer the most fastest bestest hardware available for $8.42.