“The holiday shopping season is upon us – the National Retail Federation says $23 billion was spent at stores nationwide last weekend – and the choice of a gift computer might be in your sights. Two recommendations of computers to buy, with one machine earning my annual ‘Computer of the Year’ designation, and another being an impressive runner-up, though a different kind of product,” Mark Kellner writes for The Washington Times.
“And the winner is … Apple’s iMac G5. It will cost close to $2,100 to get the supersized 20-inch model with extra RAM and a wireless keyboard and mouse. That’s a relatively high price in this age of far-less-expensive Windows-based machines. But Apple Computers iMac G5 is a very impressive machine. It earns top honors from this column, and might well earn a top spot on your holiday shopping list,” Kellner writes.
“Beyond its Space Age looks – stark white plastic frame, suspended on a metal easel, with a supersharp LCD display — is some Space Age technology. The PowerPC G5 chip is a supercomputer-in-waiting with 64-bit processing power that cuts through applications like a hot knife through butter,” Kellner writes.
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