Wintel's new iMac Killa!

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in General Discussion edited January 2014
Interesting how a Wintel maker can offer the same features as Apple's iMac for $1100. Apple says it's the LCD prices....I say it's the margins Apple needs.



Here's the iMac Killa, and it packs more processing power than any iMac will even a year from now.







<a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=4624"; target="_blank">iMac Killa</a>



Scary. Apple's got to do something about the performance gap NOW, not next year.



[ 07-25-2002: Message edited by: Junkyard Dawg ]</p>
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  • Reply 1 of 59
    squashsquash Posts: 332member
    No offense but that design sucks. I'd rather have an emac than that turd on my desk.
  • Reply 1 of 59
    eugeneeugene Posts: 8,254member
    Cons: lame design, probably a cheap LCD, lame SiS graphics, DVD-ROM drive, XP Home, one FireWire port, position of the speakers, etc.



    Nice try.
  • Reply 3 of 59
    cobracobra Posts: 253member
    Pure rubbish.



    Come on JYD, you can do better than that.
  • Reply 4 of 59
    tigerwoods99tigerwoods99 Posts: 2,633member
    What do you get a free bowl of soup when you buy that computer?
  • Reply 4 of 59
    squashsquash Posts: 332member
    High 5's Eugene...I think we slammed dunked the turd and flushed it
  • Reply 6 of 59
    It will probably fail like the others before it. Joe Sixpack will go cheaper and Hardcore Gamer will go for more power and expandability. They won't pay the extra $$ this type solution. Plus it is kind of ugly which will rule out the style conscious segment.



    [ 07-25-2002: Message edited by: CodeWarrior ]</p>
  • Reply 7 of 59
    emaneman Posts: 7,204member
    That thing's an ugly piece of crap.
  • Reply 8 of 59
    jante99jante99 Posts: 539member
    These things are so bad they do not even come with a graphics card! Instead they come with integrated chips. The RAM can only go up to 512 mb and some of the harddrives are ATA30! The G4 iMac would easily beat them in games and digital video editing.



    Northgates laptop looks even worse . . . the cheapest model comes with an external battery



    <a href="http://www.northgate.com/products/notebook_desktops/integra/"; target="_blank">northgate website</a>
  • Reply 9 of 59
    pevepeve Posts: 518member
    you just can't compare something like that with a mac.



    ...and i'm not talking about the design (or lack of).
  • Reply 10 of 59
    noexitnoexit Posts: 20member
    i bet it has no VGA out
  • Reply 11 of 59
    noexitnoexit Posts: 20member
    oh and the one thats $1099 is only a Celeron <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />
  • Reply 12 of 59
    jet powersjet powers Posts: 288member
    JYD, your trolling has sunk to a new and pathetic low.



    That.....thing offends the very nature of AIO design. Furthermore, as others have pointed out, it is missing some key features.



    On the one hand, though, it has USB 2. Whoopdee-freakin-doo.



    ting5
  • Reply 13 of 59
    xaqtlyxaqtly Posts: 450member
    Just for fun, some feature comparisons. The Integra model I'm using is the Integra 2, Starting From: $1399.00



    First of all, one of the most obvious features: The Superdrive. Integra don't got it. Care to guess where some of the price difference is coming from?



    The Integra's display is XGA. The iMac's is fully digital. They're both AGP 4X, but you can bet your house that the iMac's display looks better.



    iMac has two Firewire ports, Integra 2 has one. The 5.1 surround speakers are an option, not standard - so DD 5.1 ain't worth jack if you don't have the full speaker setup. Not a big deal, but it adds cost nonetheless.



    Integra 2 has 4 USB ports - the iMac has 5 if you include the ports on the keyboard.



    Integra can handle 512 MB of memory - iMac can do 1 GB.



    In fact I'd say the only thing the Integra really has on the iMac is the memory and bus architecture, and main processor speed. That may mean everything to a very small amount of people, but now let's get into what you're really missing if you get an Integra 2 instead of an iMac:



    iTunes. iMovie. iDVD. iPhoto. Sherlock 3. iChat. The Jaguar address book and its integration with everything else in Jaguar. Rendezvous. The ease of setup you get with every Mac with OS X. The way OS X doesn't crash. And of course the biggest reason to get an iMac instead of an Integra: OS X itself, especially Jaguar. That's the bottom line right there, boys - Jaguar has made a firm believer out of me regarding OS X. The cool factor is through the roof with this one, and you can't get it on any PC.



    So you can get the Integra with an inferior monitor, no Superdrive, an inferior operating system with inferior software if you want to - be my guest. But I'll keep my iMac.
  • Reply 14 of 59
    kidredkidred Posts: 2,402member
    Wintel's new Nut Licka!
  • Reply 15 of 59
    patchoulipatchouli Posts: 402member
    Funky little PC! Great options, great price. Perfect for dorms. I wish Apple offered these specs for the price of the iMac. I personally do not think that all things Apple are inherently superior (or vice versa). I have faith, Apple will hopefully get it together soon. OS and design are all a matter of personal taste. You may hate this design, just like many others hate the new iMac design. I have to say though, it's interesting to read the reactions here - very interesting.
  • Reply 16 of 59
    bigcbigc Posts: 1,224member
    Lifts leg and.....
  • Reply 17 of 59
    Whoa! I'm not saying this computer is something I would buy, sure it's LCD probably sucks, and it doesn't have as many ports as an iMac, maybe not as good of speakers (but iMac's have nasty speakers, don't use them for tunes!)....



    The problem is that this iMac killa DOES offer more performance than the iMac currently does. I bet it would even win a Photoshop bake-off with the iMac! That's bad! It's embarrassing to Apple.



    This is serious. Apple's got to do something. Their $3500 Powermacs are getting hammered by $1100 Wintel iMac knockoffs that really aren't all that bad.



    Most consumers without any experience with OS X are going to look at this iMac Killa and be impressed. They will compare the specs and prices and choose the Wintel. The ONLY reason to buy the iMac is for it's style, and most important to me, because of OS X. Apple needs to make performance a reason, again, and I'm not talking about MHz, I"m talking about real world performance. An 800 MHz G4 on a 100 MHz FSB is going to get wasted by a Pentium 4!! Even a 1GHz G4 would. Apple's staring into the abyss right now and they've got to pull a miracle outta their ass!
  • Reply 18 of 59
    fluffyfluffy Posts: 361member
    <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" /> <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" /> <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />



    Wow. It's almost as nice as those craptacular Compaqs with the colored faceplates.



    [quote]<strong>The problem is that this iMac killa DOES offer more performance than the iMac currently does.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    So what? It's a home machine. It doesn't offer more performance for games (the video sucks), so what else does it need it for? Nobody will ever use Photoshop on this thing. They will write papers and surf the internet and balance their checkbook, which makes the performance delta pointless.



    The ONLY place the performance difference is of any importance is at the high end.



    [ 07-25-2002: Message edited by: Fluffy ]</p>
  • Reply 19 of 59
    bigcbigc Posts: 1,224member
    The sky is falling again, I wonder who keeps lifting it back up.
  • Reply 20 of 59
    [quote]Originally posted by Junkyard Dawg:

    <strong>blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah THE SKY IS FALLING blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah APPLE IS DOOMED blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah ARMAGEDDON IS NEAR blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah THERE IS NO HOPE blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah </strong><hr></blockquote>



    Now back to your regularly scheduled JYD thread.
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