The iMacs are definitely looking like a bad value. Overpriced as usual. The $1299 iMac has no Airport Extreme, no 133 MHz bus, and a worse graphics card.
They will probably be updated soon (but then you will say that the eMacs look like a bad deal and so on and so on ).
Does anyone know how many education purchases an individual can make in a year?
In the U.S. for Higher Ed, it's one desktop and one laptop per school year (July 1st through June 30th), and, IIRC, two or three software purchases in the same time frame.
So, you could purchase an iBook on June 30th, 2003, and a PowerBook on July 1st, 2003 and be within allowed restrictions.
For Education purchasers, at the Canadian Apple Store:
Purchase Quantity
Eligible purchasers will be allowed to purchase one each of the following per academic school year: PowerBook or iBook; iMac; eMac; Power Macintosh G4; Display; iPod. One copy of each software title on the Educator Advantage Store.
It's Matsu, and his amazing dead horse! See him flog it!
He's right, to some extent, though I don't think the world really waits with baited breath for a headless eMac.
Very nice update, I thought, especially for one I wasn't expecting at all.
Well if Apple would just let it stay dead, but untill they build a proper marketshare grabbing machine, I'll keep whipping that bastard all the way to the glue factory.
And of course I'm right, you expect anything else?
And, if that keyboard has scissor action keys, I'm all over it. Can you order it seperate?
Mebbe Eugene is right, and a PRO version with backlit keys is on the way.
If you want scissor-action keys, you could just pick up a MacAlly iceKey. A friend of mine has one - the keys are amazing, and the whole thing is very stylish and flat. And since it's MacAlly, it has a Macintosh layout w/ the eject button and sound adjustments.
It used to be 72 Hz, and apparently now it's 75 Hz. A minor improvement - and the older Studio Display ADC CRT did 1280x1024 at 75 Hz so maybe they're using the same tube instead of a cheapened version like before. That must also be why the eMac weighs so much... I used to have an ADC CRT and it was SO incredibly heavy, significantly heavier than the blue 17" Studio Display, despite being slightly smaller.
Perhaps this is a cost cutting issue, and I think that the Pro Keyboard and Pro Mouse will continue to exist.
We're clearly seeing two different mouse/keyboard lines coming into life here. So maybe we'll see an updated pro-mouse/keyboard lineup soon. Maybe introduced with the new PowerMacs. So, will the iMac keep the "pro" keyboard or will we see the non-pro keyboard bundled with it in the future? Right now the iMac is a premium machine and deserves a premium keyboard (at least at the current pricepoint).
Maybe the "pro" lineup will get a real two-button mouse, or that goofy rotary thing Apple has patented.
I'd really like to see two buttons on the Powerbooks. The main excuse people give for Apple not providing 2 buttons is that "it's confusing for new computer users."
We can safely assume that not many new computer users will be Powerbookin' it, can't we?
We can safely assume that not many new computer users will be Powerbookin' it, can't we?
Not really.
Say you've never felt the need for a computer, and don't want or have the space for a big pile of beige boxes taking over the living room/study/bedroom. You get a laptop.
PS, Radeon7500 and GF4MX ***on the Mac*** are just about the same thing. DX performance means nothing on the mac, it's all about OpenGL. Or did the eMacs have GF2MX? iDunnaremember?
Speaking of performance the radeon 7500 is faster than a gf 2 mx but slower than a geforce 4mx.
The new e mac is a better deal than the old model. The 15 inch i mac will be updated soon ...
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Originally posted by hmurchison
There shouldn't be an $1700 eMac at all. That's crazy.
There isn't - that's a BTO model with 1GB RAM etc.
He's right, to some extent, though I don't think the world really waits with baited breath for a headless eMac.
Very nice update, I thought, especially for one I wasn't expecting at all.
Originally posted by Luca Rescigno
The iMacs are definitely looking like a bad value. Overpriced as usual. The $1299 iMac has no Airport Extreme, no 133 MHz bus, and a worse graphics card.
They will probably be updated soon (but then you will say that the eMacs look like a bad deal and so on and so on
Select the eMac at the Apple Store, then click the Photo Gallery at the bottom of the model selection page.
2 USB ports at the back near the cord...
Originally posted by Stoo
Does anyone know how many education purchases an individual can make in a year?
In the U.S. for Higher Ed, it's one desktop and one laptop per school year (July 1st through June 30th), and, IIRC, two or three software purchases in the same time frame.
So, you could purchase an iBook on June 30th, 2003, and a PowerBook on July 1st, 2003 and be within allowed restrictions.
Purchase Quantity
Eligible purchasers will be allowed to purchase one each of the following per academic school year: PowerBook or iBook; iMac; eMac; Power Macintosh G4; Display; iPod. One copy of each software title on the Educator Advantage Store.
Originally posted by mrmister
It's Matsu, and his amazing dead horse! See him flog it!
He's right, to some extent, though I don't think the world really waits with baited breath for a headless eMac.
Very nice update, I thought, especially for one I wasn't expecting at all.
Well if Apple would just let it stay dead, but untill they build a proper marketshare grabbing machine, I'll keep whipping that bastard all the way to the glue factory.
And of course I'm right, you expect anything else?
And, if that keyboard has scissor action keys, I'm all over it. Can you order it seperate?
Mebbe Eugene is right, and a PRO version with backlit keys is on the way.
Also the mouse is new. No more selecting the clicking stiffness.
75 is barely passable. 85 is the true flicker free zone to these eyes.
Originally posted by murbot
Also the mouse is new. No more selecting the clicking stiffness.
Perhaps this is a cost cutting issue, and I think that the Pro Keyboard and Pro Mouse will continue to exist.
Originally posted by JLL
Perhaps this is a cost cutting issue, and I think that the Pro Keyboard and Pro Mouse will continue to exist.
We're clearly seeing two different mouse/keyboard lines coming into life here. So maybe we'll see an updated pro-mouse/keyboard lineup soon. Maybe introduced with the new PowerMacs. So, will the iMac keep the "pro" keyboard or will we see the non-pro keyboard bundled with it in the future? Right now the iMac is a premium machine and deserves a premium keyboard (at least at the current pricepoint).
I'd really like to see two buttons on the Powerbooks. The main excuse people give for Apple not providing 2 buttons is that "it's confusing for new computer users."
We can safely assume that not many new computer users will be Powerbookin' it, can't we?
Originally posted by Gizzmonic
We can safely assume that not many new computer users will be Powerbookin' it, can't we?
Not really.
Say you've never felt the need for a computer, and don't want or have the space for a big pile of beige boxes taking over the living room/study/bedroom. You get a laptop.
Just an example.
Originally posted by Matsu
PS, Radeon7500 and GF4MX ***on the Mac*** are just about the same thing. DX performance means nothing on the mac, it's all about OpenGL. Or did the eMacs have GF2MX? iDunnaremember?
Speaking of performance the radeon 7500 is faster than a gf 2 mx but slower than a geforce 4mx.
The new e mac is a better deal than the old model. The 15 inch i mac will be updated soon ...