“Demand for Apple Computer’s new all-in-one iMac G5 has risen sharply over the last 3 weeks, according to information gathered from internal company data. The surge in demand is currently far exceeding available supply of the computers, and shows few signs of slowing, leading insiders to believe the iMac is poised to become a hot seller this holiday season,” AppleInsider reports.
“The company’s iBook consumer laptops are also in strong demand after being refreshed last month. However, the iBook remains a G4-based computer and will likely see a supply and demand balance before G5-based iMac, due to constraints associated with the G5 microprocessor,” AppleInsider reports.
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i know they’re not the same, i’ve got a 1ghz imac, but I bought it two years ago not last week. I understand that the powerpc chips perform much better per clock cycle than x86 but you cannot tell me that a 1GHz is as fast as a 3.4 Ghz.
Anyway thats not really the point I was making, the point is, apple do have some good hardware in the offering but its just not available in the shops (UK)
Think Bush’s re-election is bad? Wait until Arafat dies.
As for Apple, at least Mac OS X is secure.