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Offline Kamikaze

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on: August 31, 2004, 03:31:49 pm
... Apple's computers of course.

http://www.apple.com/imac/

They have the new design for the G5 imac up and it looks sweet. Nice and compact and stuff is easy to reach. :)

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Reply #1 on: August 31, 2004, 03:39:08 pm
The new apples have the simultaneously best and worst case designs of any current computer manufacturer.  Things are seperated and well-cooled, but some featured are in stupidly-hard-to-reach places.   On the G5 tower, for example, you have to take out the power supply to get at the motherboard, the motherboard to change out the front power button/usb assembly (!), and must change the entire case if your HD cable fails.  Some stuff is well positioned, others are not at all, and I suspect the same design ethos is at work here.  It looks cool enough, I'm just still a fan of a true tower design.
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Reply #2 on: August 31, 2004, 03:43:12 pm
real computers are desktop style, strat.

oh, and as I said on irc:
hmm... not a bad design.
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Reply #3 on: August 31, 2004, 03:49:17 pm
StratComm: I think it was assumed most users would just take it to their local Mac store for upgrades/fixes.

Although I do prefer a layout where I can fool around with the hardware. I took apart a G3 imac a while ago, those things are really monolithic. :p
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Reply #4 on: August 31, 2004, 03:54:37 pm
My point is that even the Mac towers are monolithic, though I admit I didn't state it in as many words.  Mac users tend to be software oriented rather than hardware though, so it does make sense that Apple would lean more heavily toward less accessable designs.  I don't consider a G5 tower to be a true tower, because you can't access every component without removing others (excepting the motherboard, which is by definition mounted under everything) the way you should be able to do with a tower.
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Reply #5 on: August 31, 2004, 04:04:59 pm
Eh, those look like a ***** to upgrade...
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Reply #6 on: August 31, 2004, 04:28:51 pm
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Eh, those look like a ***** to upgrade...

[color=66ff00]Upgrade an Apple?!? ;)

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Reply #7 on: August 31, 2004, 04:29:46 pm
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[color=66ff00]Upgrade an Apple?!? ;)

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LOL! So true... :p
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Reply #8 on: August 31, 2004, 04:34:26 pm
uhh, I'm looking at that, and I'm trying to figure out how exactly it turns into a laptop. I mean, the screen is on the outside, so unless it folds backwards, something is pretty wierd about it.
 

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Reply #9 on: August 31, 2004, 04:37:42 pm
I don't think it does.  iMacs are the computers that are supposed to be cheap, monitor+computer combo's that don't do much else, not the iBook which is the Apple laptop.  Anyone else notice that it only has 2 memory slots?
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Reply #10 on: August 31, 2004, 04:50:18 pm
That's the great thing about a Mac, whenever you want to upgrade you don't ahve to fiddle with cables and ports and screws...

You just toss it in the trash and go buy a new one!

But this design gets a thumbs up :yes: :yes2: or two... for being functional for the space it uses.  It's no mad gaming rig, it's not number cruncher...  but you can surf the web and write papers...
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Reply #11 on: August 31, 2004, 04:51:43 pm
oooh, OK, yeah I got a bit mized up there. Right, this is not a laptop. OK, it makes sense now.
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