What I am waiting for in an iMac2 rev.b
all hype aside and the fact that the new iMac is growing on me too, I have to say that much of the component technology can be easily upgraded.
The video chipset seems ok for now, as well as the HD.
But come on, lets at least have 133Mhz bus, FW2, USB2, and as a cherry on top, the ability to rotate the screen 90degrees. Also better G4 chips... like high-end 933-966 at least. And please, someone do something about the ridiculous 2 different RAM slots. Thats just dumb. Give us normal, cheap DIMMS.
I wouldn't mind a nicer monitor as well. It seems really rough on the back... not smoothed out. Granted, you will see it from the FRONT but Apple usually never leaves out details.
What do you guys want from the new iMac?
The video chipset seems ok for now, as well as the HD.
But come on, lets at least have 133Mhz bus, FW2, USB2, and as a cherry on top, the ability to rotate the screen 90degrees. Also better G4 chips... like high-end 933-966 at least. And please, someone do something about the ridiculous 2 different RAM slots. Thats just dumb. Give us normal, cheap DIMMS.
I wouldn't mind a nicer monitor as well. It seems really rough on the back... not smoothed out. Granted, you will see it from the FRONT but Apple usually never leaves out details.
What do you guys want from the new iMac?
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I have a buyer for my DVSE, and I will see if I can work with my iBook until September--at which point I hope that the iMac has:
A larger HD (100GB)
A 1GHz processor
More RAM
But, if it is unberable working on my iBook day-to-day, I'd buy the new iMac immediately.
(pity my radius eventually fell apart after swining that crt back and forth; at least it was the company's, so i never had to pay for it).
<strong>I don't think pivot capabilities will make it into the rev b model as the arm was the most complicated piece of the new iMacs design. (This is a fact.) Modding it so that it could rotate would require a redesign and, while it is quite cool, I don't think the added cost would fly.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Forgive my ignorance, but how hard could it be to mod it to turn 90 degrees??? The cable must have some give in there for the tilting, just anchor it before and after the twisting point with a little wiggle room inbetween. The biggest thing would be setting it so you had to push past a catch to rotate it and using a switch to detect it and automatically adjust the display for the proper orientation (the imac is supposed to be ease of use so you wouldn't want people to have to manually change page layout).
But then again, I've never seen a pivot display or read up on them so I could be completey wrong.
Woops!
What do you mean doesn't this take standard PC100 SDRAM?
Anyway, I'm with everybody here. Let's see USB2, FireWire 2, GigaWire (they are different), faster bus, gigabit ethernet, and REGULAR, inexpensive PC100/133 SDRAM in this iMac. SO-DIMMs blow. And of course by the time this happens, there will probably be much faster G4s, bigger HDs, more RAM, maybe even a slot-loading and much faster SuperDrive (it's slow!). I'd even wager that Apple will continue to add AirPort as a standard feature on products, a la the top PowerBook model. It just makes sense.
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Woops!
What do you mean doesn't this take standard PC100 SDRAM?</strong><hr></blockquote>
IIRC from the pictures, the user-accesible RAM slot on the bottom is the same type of RAM thats in the Rev A (and 550 Rev
<strong>What iMac user is going to need more than a gig of RAM? Damn guys, if you need that much RAM you should be getting a tower. 1 gig is plenty for iMac users.</strong><hr></blockquote>
The way the new iMac's memory is arranged is incredibly annoying.
The "internal" slot (Which can only be accessed by a qualified technician unless you want to lose your warranty) takes one 168 pin PC100 DIMM.
The user-accessible slot takes one 144 pin PC100 SODIMM.
Guess which is cheaper?
From <a href="http://www.crucial.com"; target="_blank">Crucial</a>:
512MB 144 pin SODIMM $215.99
512MB 168 pin DIMM $119.69
So if you want 1GB in your iMac, you have to either order from the Apple Store and pay an extra $200 for the BTO option of 1 512MB DIMM, then buy a 512MB SODIMM for almost twice the price of a DIMM, or buy your two different 512MB modules and get a qualified technician to install one.
It's incredibly stupid.
You mean iMac users like Genetech? or those iMacs going to faculty at universities?
The SO-DIMM is a braindead Apple move.
Of course, you won;t actually get to use a computer during that time, but such petty considerations are below the truly Zen.
In other words; there is always something better around the corner.
SdC
besides, if you cant afford the extra $100, then you cant afford an iMac. 60gig IS PLENTY FOR AN IMAC! If you disagree, perhaps you should learn about something called firewire or buy a Powermac.
IF ONLY THERE WERE A WAY TO BACK UP 4.7GB OF DATA ON A SINGLE DISC FOR ONLY $5.
OH WAIT....
Older iMac (well, before last Monday) RAM was SO CHEAP! If it would've kept that (and two EASILY accessible RAM slots like the slot-loading iMacs), I would've easily outfitted that puppy with 1GB RAM.
As it is, I'll buy the SuperDrive model at the San Diego Apple retail store and try my best to get a 512MB DIMM to add, for 768MB total.
Otherwise, I'll stick in another 256MB and just go the 512MB route.
Damn, they're making it VERY tough to go over 512MB, aren't they?
Maybe this RAM will eventually start scootching down a bit in price in the coming months?
Using 384MB at home right now, so I guess anything above that (512 or 768) is nothing to whine about, but still...
<strong>wah wah wah, stop bitching
besides, if you cant afford the extra $100, then you cant afford an iMac. 60gig IS PLENTY FOR AN IMAC! If you disagree, perhaps you should learn about something called firewire or buy a Powermac.
IF ONLY THERE WERE A WAY TO BACK UP 4.7GB OF DATA ON A SINGLE DISC FOR ONLY $5.
OH WAIT....</strong><hr></blockquote>
the way you make that statement you make it out as if the iMac is strictly a "consumer" machine. and a lowend one at that.
It's most certainly not. especially now. pros are going to be using these machines and they may need bigger hard drives. some consumers will even like bigger hard drives. I'm no pro but I fill up 80Gbs on my 2 hard drives very easily with a little video editing work using iMovie 2. If the drives are out apple should offer them as BTO. there is no reason they can't. I would love Maxtor's new 160GB HD in the iMac (although it won't work with the ATA/66 interface
Now if I recall correctly, the original was very quickly upgraded early in it's life. This will probably happen again here. Apollos are coming to this machine. So is a 133 bus (I think the current bus speed is a way of avoiding teething troubles untill they manufacturing process is 110% bullet-proof. And, nVidia even has some low power embedded desktop solutions nearly set to release.
Remember this is a rev A machine! And as such, a very good one. I think a truly mature LCD iMac will arrive by the end of 2002. The things mentioned here, RAM and HDD will be easy enough to fix. I sure hope they fix the RAM issue. (BTW where is it stated that only one slot is user accessible?) As ussual there is a price to be paid for being an early adopter.
PS. I wonder if 1GB is truly the limit for this machine or if it is the limit only insofar as Apple ussually defines it: biggest module (512MB) times the number of slots (2). I'll bet in 12 - 18 months time a few users will be plugging in 1 GB dimms for 1.5 and 2 GB configs. :eek:
This machine is probably not going to be updated until MWNY.
<strong>Who needs this kind of RAM in an iMac and how important is it really after a certain ammount?</strong><hr></blockquote>
MySQL servers like ram, and ISPs like small computers.