But if I wait I don't know if I will be able to get the g4 considering it is pretty much sold out now.... Or do u think they may be available in the future?
well, if i were you, i would look around at your local apple resellers and see what their stock is like. if they have a bunch now, i would bet they will still have a bunch in 2-3 weeks from now.
it's also likely that you'll find used ones on the internet when the new models are announced/available.
there are probably people on this board much more capable of giving you a straight answer on this, though especially in terms of how older models are handled when new ones are introduced-- i have always tried to buy macs soon after they are introduced. in my mind, the g4 is old news. i am sure that the new iMac will be just as worthy as the old one, and probably significantly faster. it's just too near to release to rush out and get a soon-to-be-outdated model, in my opinion. but hey, what do i know?
geez, apple had better get that new iMac out soon, or people are gonna start hating everyone around them.......... pardon this newbie for saying so, but this (FH) used to be a very civil board... like a month ago! watching it slowly decline in terms of treatment and handling of others, is really saddening. it feels like a chicken coup. come on, people-- where's the love?
Apple seems to be very hung up to their detrimate in keeping pro and crippled consumer line. iMac will come in colors and i guess will either be aluminum with maybe colors as mini pod or a changeable color case made of clear plastic.
You think its reasonable for Apple to try and hit the "sweet spot" Fred Anderson talked abut them missing by offering a $999 machine without an optical drive and with a 3 year old GPU?
The machine without the optical drive and with the GF4MX is for educational institutions only. It's for things like an Internet terminal in a library. Used for research, looking up books in the library catalog, and e-mail. For such a machine, you don't need an optical drive, and you sure as hell don't need a high-end gaming card! About the last thing you need in such a setting is the library catalog being unavailable to students because a bunch of kids are playing a tournament of Doom III and taking up all the computers.
If you go to the Apple Education store and shop for your school (not for yourself as an individual), you'll see that there's already an eMac model with no optical drive. Apple is just making an equivalent model in the iMac line for schools that want the same kind of thing, but with an LCD screen.
Hey, leaving specs aside for a second, do you think the iMac will have a white enclosure or an aluminum one, like the PowerMac?
I think it's gonna be white again.
i don't want it to be white, but it probably will be. how else would we be able to tell the iMac and powermacs apart?
i'd like an aluminum one. it's the sexiest color for a computer ever. well, actually, ruby red was, but i don't see them going back there anytime soon. hmm, actually as i type this on my ti-book, i'm thinking thaT the light-greyish color of the border is pretty nice too-- darker than (ack) white and not power-aluminum.
but really, it's the design and shape of the thing, and maybe the material too, that will dictate it's color.
The machine without the optical drive and with the GF4MX is for educational institutions only. It's for things like an Internet terminal in a library. Used for research, looking up books in the library catalog, and e-mail. For such a machine, you don't need an optical drive, and you sure as hell don't need a high-end gaming card! About the last thing you need in such a setting is the library catalog being unavailable to students because a bunch of kids are playing a tournament of Doom III and taking up all the computers.
Exactly. Of course, the 'sexier' 'more serious' form factor will also make this a natural fit for enterprise terminals now. The TCO of maintaining these beasties will be much less than a comparable XP filled business, all other things (HW quality, etc) being equal. Ghost those puppies from a central Xserve with a good sized NAS unit, and you're looking at a rock-solid business network for not much money.
Hey, leaving specs aside for a second, do you think the iMac will have a white enclosure or an aluminum one, like the PowerMac?
I think it's gonna be white again.
I hope it's going to be white. I know a lot of people would prefer aluminum, but I just prefer the white look myself. I also suspect that it will be white given that their regular iPod is white and it seems like that's the standard Apple "consumer" color, at least for now... of course, that could change as early as September I guess...
I also think the current iMacs are a work of art. Mine is too slow and too small a screen (15"), but man do I like looking at it. Nowadays I pretty much exclusively use my 17" PowerBook for reasons which should be obvious, but I'd really rather be using a nice fast white iMac with a big screen
Of course knowing Apple, whatever it looks like it will be beautiful, they haven't disappointed me yet style-wise.
In the News Comments board in the thread "Apple burnt by iMac G5 heat issues" you said something awhile back and I was wondering if you ever elaborated on the statement and what you saw? Did I miss your explanation?
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Matsu
I've just been shown something very intersting. I do believe we have reason to be cautiously optimistic.
I'm sure the whole point of future hardware is speculation. I might be simple and stupid, but I damn sure I know that future hardware is about speculation.
Obviously not, taking TS's rumors as gospel. I mean, that's just silly.
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But, keep apologizing for Apple's decisions to under-deliver to their customers so they can maintain forced turn-over.
Provide supporting evidence for this assertion.
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Its also sad that you think its OK for a thousand dollar machine to have no optical drive AND a three year old GPU. If that seems reasonable to you, you need to get out more.
blah blah blah
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You think its reasonable for Apple to try and hit the "sweet spot" Fred Anderson talked abut them missing by offering a $999 machine without an optical drive and with a 3 year old GPU?
blah blah blah
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You think that is reasonable? That sounds "good?" It might be reasonable in a $699 box with a CD-R/W, PCI slots, and sitting in an AGP slot. Its not reasonable in a an non-upgradeable AIO. Unless you think trashing perfectly good computers every year or two is reasonable just because you can't upgrade the GPU.
And... you're back to this non-argument. You seem to have this unsubstantiated belief that low-end terminals for labs and enterprise need to have the most kickin-ass latest graphics hardware, and anything over a year old is just oh so useless. Been to a large company lately? How about an educational institution? Machines are regularly *several* years old. There is no 'forced upgrade cycle' here, except in your own mind, I'm sorry. Secretaries and accountants do not need Quake capable GPUs. Neither do students using lab machines for general purpose work. There is a *definite* market for low-end machines with fast networking, a good CPU, a chunk of RAM, and a reasonable local hard drive. In such environments, an optical drive is a *liability*. Do you know how hard UNC had to fight to get a contract with IBM that would let them *remove* the optical drives from lab machines without voiding the warrantee? See, they were ordered en masse via a state contract, so the BTO was... non-existent. No optical drive is a *plus* in these situations... provided you have a strong infrastructure support. Which MacOS X Server provides in spades. It's a solid solution, period. The 5200 is *fine* in these environments. Hell, in 99% of the cases, it's overkill, regardless of how old it may be. In fact, the very point that a good deal of previously CPU-intensive work is being offloaded to a capable GPU means that these machines are now relatively more powerful than they would have been before... they can do more, with a lesser CPU. Previously, if you wanted to boost image editing, you simply had to boost the CPU... now, there's a choice. A reasonable CPU + reasonable GPU = low-end machine.
For this market, yes, a flat panel (reduced footprint), reasonable CPU, reasonable GPU, optical-*LESS* machine at $999 (less in bulk) with serious infrastructure support is a rather good deal, when you look at the entire package, and stop focussing on spec A or spec B to the exclusion of the larger picture.
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I'm sure you'll move the focus of the argument once again, since you can't obviously respond with any logical defense. Ad homs are the last resort of the intellectually impotent. [/B]
I wasn't the one that brought up this supposition that Apple will just screw over the users with some heretofore unknown technology that will, at a stroke, apparently make their machines stop working, and into dead paperweights. That's just paranoid hand-waving, and you know it. As I stated before, please indicate with any degree of factual basis, what technology you can see coming down the pipe that would make a CoreImage/Video capable GPU suddenly useless. Come on, give it a whirl. CoreI/V was a gimme three years ago, nice to see them getting it out there... the fact that it works on a chip as low as a 5200 is a stroke of genius. It wasn't unexpected. What *was* was how low the GPU could be and still take advantage of it. Nice bonus.
So give us a clue into your crystal ball, as to what specific technology you see coming down the line, and a rough estimate as to the timeframe. See, without that, your argument regarding 'forced upgrade cycle' rather dries up. If you *have* an answer, I'd love to hear it. I mean what the hell, maybe you have years of graphics research under your belt too, and can see some neat trick that I'm missing. If not, well... just admit it, and we can end this idiotic pissing match.
In other words, please show the logic and facts behind your so far unsupported claims. You have mine, either reciprocate, or concede that your argument is lacking in substance.
See, this is what I get for peeking into a post of someone on my ignore list... learn from me kids! Don't peek! It's not worth it!
I'm one of the people who was initially shocked and disapointed with the possible nVidia FX5200 chip that may arrive in the new iMacs.
Well, until now, kind of...
On an airplane trip last night, I opened up my Dell laptop which I bought about 2 years ago and played "Colin McRae Rally 2" at a pretty good resolution and with alot of the effects turned on. It looked good and it ran without a glitch, very fast. This morning I checked the video card I have in this machine, and wow, it's only a GeForce2 Go with 32MB RAM. I'm not a big video card buff, but isnt this quite a bit slower than the FX5200 w/ 64MB?
So maybe the video card in the consumer level machine aint so bad afterall. Of course, I have a Ti4200 w/ 128MB in my current desktop and I'm hoping the new iMacs gfx cards will have comparable power. The bigger hope, and I think a very likely outcome is that the new iMacs will come with upgradable video cards.
I'm one of the people who was initially shocked and disapointed with the possible nVidia FX5200 chip that may arrive in the new iMacs.
Well, until now, kind of...
On an airplane trip last night, I opened up my Dell laptop which I bought about 2 years ago and played "Colin McRae Rally 2" at a pretty good resolution and with alot of the effects turned on. It looked good and it ran without a glitch, very fast. This morning I checked the video card I have in this machine, and wow, it's only a GeForce2 Go with 32MB RAM. I'm not a big video card buff, but isnt this quite a bit slower than the FX5200 w/ 64MB?
So maybe the video card in the consumer level machine aint so bad afterall. Of course, I have a Ti4200 w/ 128MB in my current desktop and I'm hoping the new iMacs gfx cards will have comparable power. The bigger hope, and I think a very likely outcome is that the new iMacs will come with upgradable video cards.
I have a Ti4200 w/ 128MB in my current desktop and I'm hoping the new iMacs gfx cards will have comparable power. The bigger hope, and I think a very likely outcome is that the new iMacs will come with upgradable video cards.
The Ti4200 is likely to be faster in some games but even the 5200fx has an advantage of it because the Ti4200 doesn't have the necessary Pixel and Vertex support.
I think many complaining about the 5200fx fear that they will be locked out of future games but honestly the Mac is no hotbed of gaming activity so I get a kick out of this.
I guess I'm just an old fart...hell, I drive an 18 year old car. :P
-M
Oh yeah, it looks alright and it's not bad at all. But no-one is going to buy an iMac G5 with the intention of playing 3 year old games, they want to play new and upcoming ones. That's the people that want to play games anyway.
Personally i want an iMac G5 to use the digital hub, surf the net, experiment with low-level video and image editing and just general usage.
If i want games i'll play them on the 3 games consoles i've got.
But no-one is going to buy an iMac G5 with the intention of playing 3 year old games
I've done that. hehe. When Sim City 3K was too heavy for my PCs, I had to can the game for a couple of years till I got a computer capable of running it. Same thing happened when I bought Sim City 4. It ran real ugly so I'll just put it away and I'll play it again in a couple of years. That's why I love consoles.
I've done that. hehe. When Sim City 3K was too heavy for my PCs, I had to can the game for a couple of years till I got a computer capable of running it. Same thing happened when I bought Sim City 4. It ran real ugly so I'll just put it away and I'll play it again in a couple of years. That's why I love consoles.
heh... okay, not many people will buy iMac G5s to play 3 year old games
I think many complaining about the 5200fx fear that they will be locked out of future games but honestly the Mac is no hotbed of gaming activity so I get a kick out of this.
Yes! If you want to game seriously then get a PowerMac or a build a hot PC with all the right stuff. I have a new G5 1.8dual at work and it has the GeForce FX 5200. Guess what? I play Halo on it all the time and even serve Halo games on our LAN (yes I know the card has nothing to do with serving a game - shut up in advance). I have absolutely no complaints about it's performance. There is nothing wrong with this card and it will probably be good for at least 3 more years.
So for all the 5200 complainers I think Kickaha said it earlier: "Blah, blah blah" And I might even add "Blah dee farkin' blah"!
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Originally posted by Nobby
But if I wait I don't know if I will be able to get the g4 considering it is pretty much sold out now.... Or do u think they may be available in the future?
well, if i were you, i would look around at your local apple resellers and see what their stock is like. if they have a bunch now, i would bet they will still have a bunch in 2-3 weeks from now.
it's also likely that you'll find used ones on the internet when the new models are announced/available.
there are probably people on this board much more capable of giving you a straight answer on this, though
Originally posted by hivemind
geez, apple had better get that new iMac out soon, or people are gonna start hating everyone around them.......... pardon this newbie for saying so, but this (FH) used to be a very civil board... like a month ago! watching it slowly decline in terms of treatment and handling of others, is really saddening. it feels like a chicken coup. come on, people-- where's the love?
we're all in this together, right?
Sadly, it has been like this for a while.
I think it's gonna be white again.
Originally posted by mooseman
You think its reasonable for Apple to try and hit the "sweet spot" Fred Anderson talked abut them missing by offering a $999 machine without an optical drive and with a 3 year old GPU?
The machine without the optical drive and with the GF4MX is for educational institutions only. It's for things like an Internet terminal in a library. Used for research, looking up books in the library catalog, and e-mail. For such a machine, you don't need an optical drive, and you sure as hell don't need a high-end gaming card! About the last thing you need in such a setting is the library catalog being unavailable to students because a bunch of kids are playing a tournament of Doom III and taking up all the computers.
If you go to the Apple Education store and shop for your school (not for yourself as an individual), you'll see that there's already an eMac model with no optical drive. Apple is just making an equivalent model in the iMac line for schools that want the same kind of thing, but with an LCD screen.
Originally posted by monkeyastronaut
Hey, leaving specs aside for a second, do you think the iMac will have a white enclosure or an aluminum one, like the PowerMac?
I think it's gonna be white again.
i don't want it to be white, but it probably will be. how else would we be able to tell the iMac and powermacs apart?
i'd like an aluminum one. it's the sexiest color for a computer ever. well, actually, ruby red was, but i don't see them going back there anytime soon. hmm, actually as i type this on my ti-book, i'm thinking thaT the light-greyish color of the border is pretty nice too-- darker than (ack) white and not power-aluminum.
but really, it's the design and shape of the thing, and maybe the material too, that will dictate it's color.
Originally posted by CharlesS
The machine without the optical drive and with the GF4MX is for educational institutions only. It's for things like an Internet terminal in a library. Used for research, looking up books in the library catalog, and e-mail. For such a machine, you don't need an optical drive, and you sure as hell don't need a high-end gaming card! About the last thing you need in such a setting is the library catalog being unavailable to students because a bunch of kids are playing a tournament of Doom III and taking up all the computers.
Exactly. Of course, the 'sexier' 'more serious' form factor will also make this a natural fit for enterprise terminals now. The TCO of maintaining these beasties will be much less than a comparable XP filled business, all other things (HW quality, etc) being equal. Ghost those puppies from a central Xserve with a good sized NAS unit, and you're looking at a rock-solid business network for not much money.
Originally posted by monkeyastronaut
Hey, leaving specs aside for a second, do you think the iMac will have a white enclosure or an aluminum one, like the PowerMac?
I think it's gonna be white again.
I hope it's going to be white. I know a lot of people would prefer aluminum, but I just prefer the white look myself. I also suspect that it will be white given that their regular iPod is white and it seems like that's the standard Apple "consumer" color, at least for now... of course, that could change as early as September I guess...
I also think the current iMacs are a work of art. Mine is too slow and too small a screen (15"), but man do I like looking at it. Nowadays I pretty much exclusively use my 17" PowerBook for reasons which should be obvious, but I'd really rather be using a nice fast white iMac with a big screen
Of course knowing Apple, whatever it looks like it will be beautiful, they haven't disappointed me yet style-wise.
In the News Comments board in the thread "Apple burnt by iMac G5 heat issues" you said something awhile back and I was wondering if you ever elaborated on the statement and what you saw? Did I miss your explanation?
Matsu
I've just been shown something very intersting. I do believe we have reason to be cautiously optimistic.
Originally posted by mooseman
I'm sure the whole point of future hardware is speculation. I might be simple and stupid, but I damn sure I know that future hardware is about speculation.
Obviously not, taking TS's rumors as gospel. I mean, that's just silly.
But, keep apologizing for Apple's decisions to under-deliver to their customers so they can maintain forced turn-over.
Provide supporting evidence for this assertion.
Its also sad that you think its OK for a thousand dollar machine to have no optical drive AND a three year old GPU. If that seems reasonable to you, you need to get out more.
blah blah blah
You think its reasonable for Apple to try and hit the "sweet spot" Fred Anderson talked abut them missing by offering a $999 machine without an optical drive and with a 3 year old GPU?
blah blah blah
You think that is reasonable? That sounds "good?" It might be reasonable in a $699 box with a CD-R/W, PCI slots, and sitting in an AGP slot. Its not reasonable in a an non-upgradeable AIO. Unless you think trashing perfectly good computers every year or two is reasonable just because you can't upgrade the GPU.
And... you're back to this non-argument. You seem to have this unsubstantiated belief that low-end terminals for labs and enterprise need to have the most kickin-ass latest graphics hardware, and anything over a year old is just oh so useless. Been to a large company lately? How about an educational institution? Machines are regularly *several* years old. There is no 'forced upgrade cycle' here, except in your own mind, I'm sorry. Secretaries and accountants do not need Quake capable GPUs. Neither do students using lab machines for general purpose work. There is a *definite* market for low-end machines with fast networking, a good CPU, a chunk of RAM, and a reasonable local hard drive. In such environments, an optical drive is a *liability*. Do you know how hard UNC had to fight to get a contract with IBM that would let them *remove* the optical drives from lab machines without voiding the warrantee? See, they were ordered en masse via a state contract, so the BTO was... non-existent. No optical drive is a *plus* in these situations... provided you have a strong infrastructure support. Which MacOS X Server provides in spades. It's a solid solution, period. The 5200 is *fine* in these environments. Hell, in 99% of the cases, it's overkill, regardless of how old it may be. In fact, the very point that a good deal of previously CPU-intensive work is being offloaded to a capable GPU means that these machines are now relatively more powerful than they would have been before... they can do more, with a lesser CPU. Previously, if you wanted to boost image editing, you simply had to boost the CPU... now, there's a choice. A reasonable CPU + reasonable GPU = low-end machine.
For this market, yes, a flat panel (reduced footprint), reasonable CPU, reasonable GPU, optical-*LESS* machine at $999 (less in bulk) with serious infrastructure support is a rather good deal, when you look at the entire package, and stop focussing on spec A or spec B to the exclusion of the larger picture.
I'm sure you'll move the focus of the argument once again, since you can't obviously respond with any logical defense. Ad homs are the last resort of the intellectually impotent.
I wasn't the one that brought up this supposition that Apple will just screw over the users with some heretofore unknown technology that will, at a stroke, apparently make their machines stop working, and into dead paperweights. That's just paranoid hand-waving, and you know it. As I stated before, please indicate with any degree of factual basis, what technology you can see coming down the pipe that would make a CoreImage/Video capable GPU suddenly useless. Come on, give it a whirl. CoreI/V was a gimme three years ago, nice to see them getting it out there... the fact that it works on a chip as low as a 5200 is a stroke of genius. It wasn't unexpected. What *was* was how low the GPU could be and still take advantage of it. Nice bonus.
So give us a clue into your crystal ball, as to what specific technology you see coming down the line, and a rough estimate as to the timeframe. See, without that, your argument regarding 'forced upgrade cycle' rather dries up. If you *have* an answer, I'd love to hear it. I mean what the hell, maybe you have years of graphics research under your belt too, and can see some neat trick that I'm missing. If not, well... just admit it, and we can end this idiotic pissing match.
In other words, please show the logic and facts behind your so far unsupported claims. You have mine, either reciprocate, or concede that your argument is lacking in substance.
See, this is what I get for peeking into a post of someone on my ignore list... learn from me kids! Don't peek! It's not worth it!
Stupid rant post deleted by yours truly.
Well, until now, kind of...
On an airplane trip last night, I opened up my Dell laptop which I bought about 2 years ago and played "Colin McRae Rally 2" at a pretty good resolution and with alot of the effects turned on. It looked good and it ran without a glitch, very fast. This morning I checked the video card I have in this machine, and wow, it's only a GeForce2 Go with 32MB RAM. I'm not a big video card buff, but isnt this quite a bit slower than the FX5200 w/ 64MB?
So maybe the video card in the consumer level machine aint so bad afterall. Of course, I have a Ti4200 w/ 128MB in my current desktop and I'm hoping the new iMacs gfx cards will have comparable power. The bigger hope, and I think a very likely outcome is that the new iMacs will come with upgradable video cards.
-M
Originally posted by moazam
I'm one of the people who was initially shocked and disapointed with the possible nVidia FX5200 chip that may arrive in the new iMacs.
Well, until now, kind of...
On an airplane trip last night, I opened up my Dell laptop which I bought about 2 years ago and played "Colin McRae Rally 2" at a pretty good resolution and with alot of the effects turned on. It looked good and it ran without a glitch, very fast. This morning I checked the video card I have in this machine, and wow, it's only a GeForce2 Go with 32MB RAM. I'm not a big video card buff, but isnt this quite a bit slower than the FX5200 w/ 64MB?
So maybe the video card in the consumer level machine aint so bad afterall. Of course, I have a Ti4200 w/ 128MB in my current desktop and I'm hoping the new iMacs gfx cards will have comparable power. The bigger hope, and I think a very likely outcome is that the new iMacs will come with upgradable video cards.
-M
Colin McRae 2 is a 3 year old game...
'nuff said.
Originally posted by Maffrew
Colin McRae 2 is a 3 year old game...
'nuff said.
Still looks good. :P
I guess I'm just an old fart...hell, I drive an 18 year old car. :P
-M
I have a Ti4200 w/ 128MB in my current desktop and I'm hoping the new iMacs gfx cards will have comparable power. The bigger hope, and I think a very likely outcome is that the new iMacs will come with upgradable video cards.
The Ti4200 is likely to be faster in some games but even the 5200fx has an advantage of it because the Ti4200 doesn't have the necessary Pixel and Vertex support.
I think many complaining about the 5200fx fear that they will be locked out of future games but honestly the Mac is no hotbed of gaming activity so I get a kick out of this.
Originally posted by moazam
Still looks good. :P
I guess I'm just an old fart...hell, I drive an 18 year old car. :P
-M
Oh yeah, it looks alright and it's not bad at all. But no-one is going to buy an iMac G5 with the intention of playing 3 year old games, they want to play new and upcoming ones. That's the people that want to play games anyway.
Personally i want an iMac G5 to use the digital hub, surf the net, experiment with low-level video and image editing and just general usage.
If i want games i'll play them on the 3 games consoles i've got.
Originally posted by Maffrew
But no-one is going to buy an iMac G5 with the intention of playing 3 year old games
I've done that. hehe. When Sim City 3K was too heavy for my PCs, I had to can the game for a couple of years till I got a computer capable of running it. Same thing happened when I bought Sim City 4. It ran real ugly so I'll just put it away and I'll play it again in a couple of years. That's why I love consoles.
Originally posted by monkeyastronaut
I've done that. hehe. When Sim City 3K was too heavy for my PCs, I had to can the game for a couple of years till I got a computer capable of running it. Same thing happened when I bought Sim City 4. It ran real ugly so I'll just put it away and I'll play it again in a couple of years. That's why I love consoles.
heh... okay, not many people will buy iMac G5s to play 3 year old games
Originally posted by hmurchison
I think many complaining about the 5200fx fear that they will be locked out of future games but honestly the Mac is no hotbed of gaming activity so I get a kick out of this.
Yes! If you want to game seriously then get a PowerMac or a build a hot PC with all the right stuff. I have a new G5 1.8dual at work and it has the GeForce FX 5200. Guess what? I play Halo on it all the time and even serve Halo games on our LAN (yes I know the card has nothing to do with serving a game - shut up in advance). I have absolutely no complaints about it's performance. There is nothing wrong with this card and it will probably be good for at least 3 more years.
So for all the 5200 complainers I think Kickaha said it earlier: "Blah, blah blah" And I might even add "Blah dee farkin' blah"!
Originally posted by Maffrew
heh... okay, not many people will buy iMac G5s to play 3 year old games
Yeah, I'm just a weird case. I should read the recommended system requirements instead of the minimum ones before buying