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Post by Will Green on Aug 26, 2007 18:36:54 GMT
More British Mac goodness!
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Post by mabsey on Aug 27, 2007 18:28:09 GMT
Quick correction for Will: Arnold Schwarzenegger was born in Austria, not Germany.
As for Macs, I now have two MacBook Pros (one is with my mum), a new iMac 24" and I've replaced my PPC Mac Mini with the latest Core 2 Duo Mac Mini (I use this mainly to run my network iTunes from but I found the old Mini too slow to run more than a couple of apps at once).
I love the new iMac and the new keyboard is really good too. I use the keyboard with the Mac Mini and have an older wireless keyboard for the iMac (I wanted a number pad so a new wireless keyboard would be no good).
I, like Will, was worried about the glass screen on the iMac but it gives such a rich picture - so much better than my 17" matte MacBook Pro. I've not seen any noticeable reflection issues except when the iMac is switched off. The whole machine is gorgeous.
As for what to buy, I'd say steer clear of the non-Intel machines now. More and more software manufacturers will only be making apps for Intels and unless you can get a good deal on a PPC machine, it's worth future-proofing yourself as much as possible and not buying yesterday's technology. We've even seen Apple start pushing people off the older, weaker systems with iMovie requiring a decently powered G5 PPC (iMovie 08 requires a Mac with an Intel processor, a Power Mac G5 (dual 2.0GHz or faster), or an iMac G5 (1.9GHz or faster).
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Post by cornishwomble on Aug 28, 2007 16:03:55 GMT
I bought my imac just before the intel processor came in (story of my life) As a non-mac owner before so still learning this may be a daft question, but can my Mac be changed to an intel processor or are the gubbings inside too integrated that you can't update your existing machine?
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Post by mabsey on Aug 28, 2007 17:21:06 GMT
Too integrated, I'm afraid. It's one of the reasons PC-users dislike the Macs - only the Mac Pro is capable of anything more than a hard drive and memory upgrade.
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Post by mabsey on Aug 28, 2007 20:29:58 GMT
MacNN have posted a link to benchmarks showing that the new iMac 2.8 GHz is nearly as fast as quad-core Xserve:- www.macnn.com/articles/07/08/28/faster.than.quad.core.g5/According to a new series of benchmarks released by Primate Labs, the top-end Mid-2007 iMac is faster than the Power Mac G5 (Late 2005) with two dual-core G5 processors at 2.5 GHz, and only slightly slower than the Xserve (Late 2006) with two dual-Core Intel Xeons at 2GHz. The Mid-2007 iMac with a dual-core Core 2 Extreme running at 2.8GHz posted a Geekbench score of 3740, significantly faster than the Power Mac G5's score of 3298, and only slightly slower than the Xserve's score of 3831. The mid-range 2007 iMac, featuring an Intel Core 2 Duo at 2.4GHz, put in a score of 3213. For comparison's sake, 1000 is the score a single-processor Power Mac G5 at 1.6GHz would receive.
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Post by cornishwomble on Aug 29, 2007 13:42:48 GMT
I didn't think you could upgrade. I'm not going to be in the market for a new mac just yet as mine is only 18 months old. I just hope that Apple don't forget too much that there will be a lot of pre-intel users for a couple more years yet! btw Top show Will really enjoyed this weeks
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Post by documentally on Aug 29, 2007 23:04:58 GMT
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Post by mabsey on Aug 30, 2007 6:38:22 GMT
I'd guess these would come out at Macworld Expo in January. I can't think what else Apple can announce at Macworld - they've just released new iMacs, we have new iPods next week, it is probably too early for a new iPhone and a new Mac Pro doesn't warrant a Macworld Expo announcement.
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Post by scott on Aug 31, 2007 7:34:16 GMT
... I wouldn't want a touch screen, especially if the iphone coatings are wearing off.. I think this rumour about the coating on iPhones wearing off has already been shown to be false. The rumour was started because of a company that Apple bought out that had technology for touch screens that used a coating of some sort. The screen on the iPhone does not use a coating of any sort it works by some sort of capacitative feedback.
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