<strong>Well, I think Apple did a good job getting this machine out at the price they did. That superdrive and LCD both cost. As they come down, it will surely be possible to at least offer a bigger hard-drive. In six months an 80-120 GB drive will be in the same price range as a 60Gb unit is today. Expect an upgrade.
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: </strong><hr></blockquote>
So u wouldnt be suprised if you saw a minor bus update by march/april
But two threads are better than one, right? Moderators here are weird, they delete threads that are interesting, but the one's that suck always seem to remain.
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<strong>Well, I think Apple did a good job getting this machine out at the price they did. That superdrive and LCD both cost. As they come down, it will surely be possible to at least offer a bigger hard-drive. In six months an 80-120 GB drive will be in the same price range as a 60Gb unit is today. Expect an upgrade.
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: </strong><hr></blockquote>
So u wouldnt be suprised if you saw a minor bus update by march/april
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So u wouldnt be suprised if you saw a minor bus update by march/april</strong><hr></blockquote>
Right after the last one ships? <img src="confused.gif" border="0">
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But two threads are better than one, right? Moderators here are weird, they delete threads that are interesting, but the one's that suck always seem to remain.
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Right after the last one ships?
Yes welcome to the world of computer buying.