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[Renegade Muskrat]

At work we recently purchased 8 of the new 17" G5 iMacs. They were only 
about $1200 each, and well worth the cost. They are very nice machines. 
If i could afford a new machine right now, i'd seriously consider 
getting one, even though (in my experience, which admittedly hasn't 
been terribly recent) Macs don't run Linux terribly well and so i'd 
stick with OS X. Some of the other tech people on campus who haven't 
ordered or received any yet seem a bit envious. The $2350 figure quoted 
below is because in the free giveaway they are including a printer, 
digital camera, and digital camcorder.

The iMacs use comparable components to a laptop, though they are more 
powerful. The iMac for instance has a G5, whereas Apple laptops only 
have a G4 (for now). The monitor is also larger than what would be 
comfortable to carry around as a laptop; the low-end model is a 17" 
widescreen.

Sorry... after working with Apple hardware and software as much as i 
could the past year, i've become a fan of their stuff. Used to be that 
i couldn't stand Macs, but OS X changed that. I still prefer Linux as a 
desktop OS and OpenBSD for servers, but i could be happy using an OS X 
machine as a desktop platform, and possibly as a server.

At 01:51 PM 11/5/2004 -0600, you wrote:
 >It costs $2350, but is it really worth that much? :p
 >
 >I admit that the new G5 iMac thing is neat looking, but it's 
essentially
 >
 >a laptop with external keyboard. I'd rather have the laptop and plug 
in
 >
 >a usb keyboard when I need it. If I bought a desktop PC for that much 

 >money, I would expect to be able to update the video card so it's not 

 >obsolete in a year.
 >
 >p.s. YellowDog Linux just had a new release...
 >
 >http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/05/1744249&tid=107&tid=10
 >6
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