The upgradeability of the HD & RAM is a nice touch, finally. beats the old volley-dome model hands down. i will be stuffing mine with 2GB RAM as soon as I pay off the system itself (had to finance $1000CAN on the ol credit line).
As for motion, maybe dont expect too much out of it...
Motion Recommended system
* Dual 2GHz Power Mac G5
* 2GB of RAM or more
* Mac OS X v10.3.5 or later
* ATI Radeon 9800 Pro graphics card or better
although minimum is G4 867 w/512MB RAM, dare to dream
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Originally posted by Mr. MacPhisto
I got to look at a 20" for about 30 minutes today. It had 512MB of RAM. I put it through the paces as best I could, running several apps (FinalCut Pro, DVD Studio Pro, filters in Photoshop). It handled everything very smoothly. I never saw the beachball and all programs launched and ran very quickly. I was very impressed with Photoshop, though disappointed that I couldn't toy with Motion as it was not installed. I fiddled with Dreamweaver and some simple Flash animations that I could put together quickly. All in all, a very impressive machine. I was skeptical when I first saw it, but it is gorgeous. The gap on the bottom doesn't look bad at all, especially on the 20inch. It is the quietest machine I have ever heard (or not heard, as it were). I even convinced the Genius to open up the back for me. Wow. IMO, there has never been a machine engineered so well. Each piece easily slides out of the way. Didn't appear to have a video daughterboard, so that stinks - though the Genius did say they have been alerted to expect upgrade offers down the line and training on how to do them. I'm in the camp that wants a better video card, and should get it with the Rev B model, which I'll wait for.
I must say, though, the iMac is a step in the right direction. It's fast, sleek, extremely well designed, and the easiest AIO to service ever. I think Apple's finally realizing they need to offer people the ability and opportunity to upgrade if they wish. The HD is easy enough to do, as is the optical drive if you can find a drive to replace it.
As for the gap under the monitor, it doesn't look that bad. It looks like a monitor should. The screen itself is vibrant. It's hard to look at my 19 inch CRT now.
Regarding the much-maligned "gap under the screen" -- my formal educational background is in photography. It is very typical to print and/or matte a photograph with equal proportions on the top and sides, but with a larger border below the bottom.
This gives the photograph more "weight" at the bottom, which grounds the image somewhat, and looks much more natural. Photographs with a border/matte that is equal on all 4 sides tend to look weird when hung on a wall.
Whenever I look at the iMac G5, it looks classy to me, like a finely printed/matted photograph. Not sure if that was their intent, but it's certainly possible.
The larger "gap" at the bottom has been prevelant in the Polaroid print image for years. Also, if you have a signed art print and have it framed properly, the area beneath is always somewhat larger then at the top. I agree, it is a nice look and it works.
The upgradeability of the HD & RAM is a nice touch, finally. beats the old volley-dome model hands down. i will be stuffing mine with 2GB RAM as soon as I pay off the system itself (had to finance $1000CAN on the ol credit line).
As for motion, maybe dont expect too much out of it...
Motion Recommended system
* Dual 2GHz Power Mac G5
* 2GB of RAM or more
* Mac OS X v10.3.5 or later
* ATI Radeon 9800 Pro graphics card or better
although minimum is G4 867 w/512MB RAM, dare to dream
I don't expect it to fly on Motion, but was primarily interested in how fast it could run it. I also would like to play with Maya on one, knowing that it's renders will take some time.
I don't expect it to fly on Motion, but was primarily interested in how fast it could run it. I also would like to play with Maya on one, knowing that it's renders will take some time.
I went back to the store today and was able to play with it for a while. it was a 1.6GHz model with 768MB RAM and it was fast. I only had the iApps and standard software. but it had quicktime pro installed and some movies on the hard drive so i exported a few to mp4. certainly much faster than my 1ghz emac with 1GB of RAM, hard to say how much faster as I dont have the same movies on my machine. but just running the system profiler and itunes and basic system actions were flawless and fast. I have a clean install on my eMac right now because its being sold on sunday so this is a good comparison of two fresh machines. The emac is good, the imac is much better.
im having problems coping with an oct 14th ship date though. ive been thinking about forming a support group just to help me cope... i know there are others out there too... suffering... needlessly. you can make a difference.
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As for motion, maybe dont expect too much out of it...
Motion Recommended system
* Dual 2GHz Power Mac G5
* 2GB of RAM or more
* Mac OS X v10.3.5 or later
* ATI Radeon 9800 Pro graphics card or better
although minimum is G4 867 w/512MB RAM, dare to dream
Originally posted by Mr. MacPhisto
I got to look at a 20" for about 30 minutes today. It had 512MB of RAM. I put it through the paces as best I could, running several apps (FinalCut Pro, DVD Studio Pro, filters in Photoshop). It handled everything very smoothly. I never saw the beachball and all programs launched and ran very quickly. I was very impressed with Photoshop, though disappointed that I couldn't toy with Motion as it was not installed. I fiddled with Dreamweaver and some simple Flash animations that I could put together quickly. All in all, a very impressive machine. I was skeptical when I first saw it, but it is gorgeous. The gap on the bottom doesn't look bad at all, especially on the 20inch. It is the quietest machine I have ever heard (or not heard, as it were). I even convinced the Genius to open up the back for me. Wow. IMO, there has never been a machine engineered so well. Each piece easily slides out of the way. Didn't appear to have a video daughterboard, so that stinks - though the Genius did say they have been alerted to expect upgrade offers down the line and training on how to do them. I'm in the camp that wants a better video card, and should get it with the Rev B model, which I'll wait for.
I must say, though, the iMac is a step in the right direction. It's fast, sleek, extremely well designed, and the easiest AIO to service ever. I think Apple's finally realizing they need to offer people the ability and opportunity to upgrade if they wish. The HD is easy enough to do, as is the optical drive if you can find a drive to replace it.
Originally posted by endymionls
As for the gap under the monitor, it doesn't look that bad. It looks like a monitor should. The screen itself is vibrant. It's hard to look at my 19 inch CRT now.
Regarding the much-maligned "gap under the screen" -- my formal educational background is in photography. It is very typical to print and/or matte a photograph with equal proportions on the top and sides, but with a larger border below the bottom.
This gives the photograph more "weight" at the bottom, which grounds the image somewhat, and looks much more natural. Photographs with a border/matte that is equal on all 4 sides tend to look weird when hung on a wall.
Whenever I look at the iMac G5, it looks classy to me, like a finely printed/matted photograph. Not sure if that was their intent, but it's certainly possible.
Originally posted by CheapFrag
The upgradeability of the HD & RAM is a nice touch, finally. beats the old volley-dome model hands down. i will be stuffing mine with 2GB RAM as soon as I pay off the system itself (had to finance $1000CAN on the ol credit line).
As for motion, maybe dont expect too much out of it...
Motion Recommended system
* Dual 2GHz Power Mac G5
* 2GB of RAM or more
* Mac OS X v10.3.5 or later
* ATI Radeon 9800 Pro graphics card or better
although minimum is G4 867 w/512MB RAM, dare to dream
I don't expect it to fly on Motion, but was primarily interested in how fast it could run it. I also would like to play with Maya on one, knowing that it's renders will take some time.
Originally posted by Mr. MacPhisto
I don't expect it to fly on Motion, but was primarily interested in how fast it could run it. I also would like to play with Maya on one, knowing that it's renders will take some time.
I went back to the store today and was able to play with it for a while. it was a 1.6GHz model with 768MB RAM and it was fast. I only had the iApps and standard software. but it had quicktime pro installed and some movies on the hard drive so i exported a few to mp4. certainly much faster than my 1ghz emac with 1GB of RAM, hard to say how much faster as I dont have the same movies on my machine. but just running the system profiler and itunes and basic system actions were flawless and fast. I have a clean install on my eMac right now because its being sold on sunday so this is a good comparison of two fresh machines. The emac is good, the imac is much better.
im having problems coping with an oct 14th ship date though. ive been thinking about forming a support group just to help me cope... i know there are others out there too... suffering... needlessly. you can make a difference.
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