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About this siteFor six years, the Internet Nexus served as my technology blog, but I've since started blogging at the SuperSite Blog instead. If you're looking for the blog, please head there. --Paul Friday, September 10, 2004The New G5 iMac: A Reality CheckApplelust.com: "I'm not sure that the new iMac is perfect, and in some ways it is as compromised as the original Bondi Blue iMac. It comes with very little memory. The hard drives are small. The wireless keyboard and mouse aren't standard. Airport isn't built in. The video card is middling in performance. The base models lacks a DVD writer. The bottom line is that to really shine, the new G5 iMac needs a lot of upgrades, and all this [adds] up ... Max out the RAM to 2 GB and double the hard disk capacity to 250 GB, add the Airport card and the wireless mouse and keyboard, and the Apple Store price is a whopping $3302 ... Even the base model is considerably above the sub $1000 price point that characterised the original iMac line. Over the years, the iMacs have evolved from low-cost, low-spec, home user machines into mid-priced machines pitched at affluent home users and business wanting something balanced between power and price."I guess the odd euphoria that follows any Apple product launch has finally worn off. Frankly,the new iMac cuts corners in exactly the same places as a Dell or other PC. What makes the new iMac less interesting is the derivative design. A better solution would have been to separate the screen from the CPU, per the previous version. This is one thing the HP Athens PC concept got right, despite wrong-headed claims that it was too Apple-like. [ Posted at 1:12 PM | Permalink ]
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