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1.5 stars
"Rated down for poor comparison,"
Pros: good specs, good screen, good looks
Cons: no hardware upgradability, no word on OS upgrade package in future.
Summary: Look if you are going to compare it, do so price wise and hardware wise. One of the main things they do not do is match the graphic cards. For those that do not believe, take a look at the specs of the other machines.
I looked at most of the others and they have last years video cards and are rated along side the mac with a new video card.
CNET check out the reviewer and tell him off please enough of the ******* propaganda again! More expensive with lesser ability.
It's from Apple, what's to be expected!?
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To reduce a computer experience to hardware specs comparisons and bare-boned price comparisons is to take a real shallow view of what's possible in someone's computing experience.
What I'm really saying is that people too often forget that you're getting an amazingly ergonomically designed computer here and an iLife Software suite along with the "hardware".
In the case of this iMac, to reduce this computer to a hardware specs comparisons so completely misses the point. Not that this poster does it, but some who are determined to "miss the point" are just too stuck on how much something might cost.
If it's just about cost, we could go buy an old system and put Linux on it. (nothing against Linux per se). It's free !!
When you combine all this with excellent product and phone support, the price makes plenty of sense. -
You should really only rate products that you have had a chance to use. If I wanted to play games in 1080p I would use my Xbox. Why would you be complaining about graphics cards in an iMac. Apple is not into gaming by their own admission, see press releases. Try again an I'll forgive the last review.
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I hate when people post a review on something they clearly do not own or have even never even used.
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This is not a high-end monster machine. C|Net points out that is the case, noting it's not for hard-core gamers. It's also not for high-end 3D rendering. Though new benchmarks I saw at Arstechnica.com today blew me away at how good it really is.
So please, Microsoft and Dell astroturfers, stop posting anti-Apple propaganda everywhere and get yourselves some lives.
This machine is so much more than all but the highest-end PCs that it's certainly worth consideration. Apple hits the sweet spot of usability and capability like no other. With style that other computer makers' spreadsheet jockeys would never allow.
They have their quirks, and maybe graphics cards are one of those areas (for hard-core gamers/over-clockers, etc.) but for most people that's irrelevant. -
We can see you are a PC lover and that is fine. If you like machines that constantly crash and constantly have to upload drivers that fine. Here is a quarter buy yourself a clue
