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4.5 stars
"C-Net needs some common sense"
Pros: Elegant design, price, feature set, mac
Cons: not fully upgradeable
Summary: CNet cons - don't know how to upgrade to Leopard? With a DVD, of course, the same way everything has been upgraded for all of history. Why is this a con? Why is this even mentioned? You might as well say - Cons: Don't know how to plug power cord into wall. C-Net needs to hire new editors with legitimate cons. Phone support is weak? Maybe you had a bad rep. In general, Apple has some of the best phone support available.
Unless you need multiple hard drives or extremely powerful graphics processing, this computer is the most compelling desktop on the market.
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"don't know how to upgrade to Leopard? With a DVD, of course"
DUH- but there have been many issues with in-place upgrades! This is well documented and tested. Many more issues with OSX in-place upgrades than vista!
"Phone support is weak?
Yes it is VERY weak as they have idiots on the other end of the line that would happily wipe your computer clean with a format then find the problem!
"Unless you need multiple hard drives
or extremely powerful graphics processing, this computer is the most compelling desktop on the market."
Or a better screen or more memory in case you want to run 64 bit apps that are intensive, unless you want to add a separate graphics tuner card, ....the list goes on with an all-in-one cookie-cutter machine! -
I am about to buy an imac, but I will not until the new OS has been released; why would I spend $1500 on an imac only to spend another $150 a month later to upgrade it?
Everybody knows how easy it is to upgrade the OS; the point the editors are making is why should we spend more?!?!?!
God forbid I am singing the praises of Micorsoft, but months before Vista came out, new PCs were sold with a free upgrade; Why cant Apple to the same? -
I believe what CNet was addressing was cost-point for migrating to the new OSX release in October.
Question Posed: Will new purchasers of the iMac be entitled to a gratis, discounted or full price upgrade to the up coming OSX?
No predictions here. In the past, Apple has offered upgrades (w/in a time frame window) for a nominal fee. We'll just have to wait and see. -
I suspect the "con" regarding Leopard upgrades has to do with the price Apple plans to charge people who buy an iMac now and are facing a new OS within the first 60 days of ownership. Be that as it may, the fact that the "cons" have nothing to do with the iMac itself simply confirms that it is indeed (as Calvin Hobbs says), the most compelling desktop on the market today.
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CNet was curious as to the release of Apple's next operating system Leopard. Not the form in which the upgrade was coming in. They were only suggesting the idea of holding off on buying a new iMac until the release of Leopard.. Other wise you would be buying the computer, and an upgrade to the Operating System. I think you need to get an upgrade to your life.. or just re-install it. I think you might be running the Vista version.
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Please think and read before you post. I knew immediately what CNet was on about as it was the first question in my mind as soon as I heard of a August release date for the iMac. The day of release I called Apple and was told there currently is NO cheap/free upgrade plan and I would have to pay full price for Leopard. They stated that after a firm date was given for Leopard release they may offer a cheap upgrade option, (cost of the DVD's should be about $10) as they did with Tiger.
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I actually laughed when I saw this comment. Who's common sense are we missing?
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you'll find this: "...we also have questions about about the lag between the iMac's release and the launch of Apple's new Leopard operating system two months from now."
It's not so much the mechanism for upgrading we're worried about. It's the timing, and ultimately how much or whether a new iMac purchaser will have to pay for it when it arrives.
