“You probably know that I use PCs more than Macs. That does not mean I cannot be objective about Apple computers. If they work well, there is nothing to stop me from liking them. One such example is the new iMac G5, which is the ultimate compact computer,” Ian Tan writes for The Electric New Paper. “Everyone has been raving endlessly about how good it looks, since the complete innards of a desktop computer have been crammed into a sleek monitor casing just 5cm thick. But is it just a pretty toy like its two predecessors?”
Tan writes, “One newspaper writer in Singapore claimed that this latest incarnation could equal the performance of a top-end Intel PC, but he obviously does not use the latter very often. After using the iMac for a week, I can tell you it is probably the equal of a mid-range PC. You can throw almost any computing task (except for games) at it and the iMac G5 will take it in its stride. Now I can finally tell my sister, who has been clamouring for one since 1999, that there is an iMac actually worth buying.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Another, uh, glowing review of Apple’s iMac G5. Of note is that you can also throw adware, spyware, malware, viruses, worms, trojans, and other such Wintel PC niceties at Apple’s iMac G5 and nothing will happen, it’ll just keep on running fine.
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