“Once you’ve driven a Ferrari, it’s hard to go back to your Toyota Corolla. Not that I’ve ever driven a Ferrari, nor do I own a Corolla. But I imagine that’s what it feels like now that I’m back on my crappy HP laptop after a few weeks of test-driving Apple’s new iMac,” Peter Nowak reports for The new Zealand Herald. “The hype is true – the Intel dual-processor iMac is about as close to perfection as a computer can get. It’s enough to make a convert of a hard-core PC user like myself… I pulled the thing out of the box, plugged it in and was ready to go. No lengthy operating system or software installation. Same with internet access – I popped in my ethernet cable and was instantly connected. Waiting a few minutes for my PC to boot up now seems interminable.”
“It’s the first Apple computer with Intel’s new dual-core 2.0GHz processor, which means it’s fast, fast, fast. I’ll save the benchmark tests for the more techie-oriented reviews, but in practical terms, the iMac moves at blazing speed,” Nowak reports. “Overall, the iMac is something you may not want to try because if you do, you may never want to go back to your crappy old Toyota.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Sketchtrain” for the heads up.]
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we told ya so
Yea but the DP PowerMac G5’s which are a few years old are still faster and upgradable.
You might be able to get UT2004 to run at a decent frame rate now on iMactels, but it’s 2006 my friends.
I’ll be running Doom3 and UT2006 faster and better on my 2 year old PowerMac and the iMactel will seem like a slow piece of garbage.
The SP iMac G5 is slower, but the new Core Duals are not no great leap of processing power, the DP G5’s from 2 years ago still rule the roost.
Toyotas aren’t crappy!
The price at the end of the story was a shock to me.
I just bought a 20 inch with 2 gigs of ram and warrenty for 2,500.
The price in the story must be in NZ dollars.
Good solid story. An outsiders positive view of our beloved Mac.
He is obviously a man of substance and knows a good thing when he sees it.
leo
Surprise, surprise…
I don’t like the Ferrari analogy because Ferrari cars are very hard to maintain, very fickle, and are not regularly driven by little old ladies with blue hair. Yes a Ferrari is nice but its not a family car. Maybe a Buick analogy works.
Yes Megame, the price is in Kiwi Dollars, which means for about $20USD you can be a millionaire in the land of the long white cloud!
Leo
Hello! comparing his HP to a Kia would have been more appropriate than a Toyota. I own a Camry and it is as dependable as my Powerbook. Thank you very much!
To all my Kiwi friends I apologise for the money exchange gaff!
Good luck in this weekends Rugby Super 14 games!
For all the yanky doodle dandys out there, Rugby is a full body contact game that is played without full body armour at a fast pace by real men.
Go the Brumbies.
Leo
This is so lame – the guy probably has a 5+ year old PC running Windows 95.
A friend just bought a new PC, I wanted to see what he had to do to get it started fresh out of the box. It´s the same experience as a mac owner – Turn it on and it works. There is no “No lengthy operating system or software installation.” like this author claims. (He´s a reporter, he uses the computer the paper gives him.)
“Waiting a few minutes for my PC to boot up now seems interminable.”
He obviously has an old PC. My XP PC boots up faster than my Macs.
And to show what an idiot he is read this quote:
“Incidentally – the double processors also allow the iMac to play sound from two sources simultaneously. I had sound on a video going and an iTunes song playing at the same time. Not that there’s really a practical use for this, but it’s neat nonetheless. “
One´s eyes just roll back and you shake your head at who they employ as journalists…
“It’s the first Apple computer with Intel’s new dual-core 2.0GHz processor, which means it’s fast, fast, fast.” The optimum word is first, which means that they’ll only get faster and better and smaller and cheaper.
I wondered when someone would notice the “sound” comment.
Way to RTFA, Queezie.
I thought it neat when my first iMac was able to play two different sound sources as well.
…. it was a G3.
How much did your machine cost? It’s no news flash that a high-end machine does the job longer than a low-end machine. That’s why it costs more. And takes up a wee bit more space.
Re: the writer’s sound comment
He’s a Windows user. You expect him to understand computers?
Give him some time; he just tried his first Mac today.
Queezzie- I really don’t believe anyone that says their windows machine boots faster than my Mac – it is not possible – almost everyone I know with a windows machine doesn’t want to start it up because it is embarrassingly slow to boot up – then once it boots it has to load all of the antivirus stuff/zone alarms/spyware catchers – this is ridiculous.
MacDude, I can’t fit your PowerMac G5 on a small desk or kitchen counter with a 20″ monitor, can I?
By your reasoning, the iMac G5 is a piece of shit because it’s slower than the new iMac Core Duo. Not to mention of course, the price difference between an iMac Core Duo vs. a PowerMac G5/20″ Cinema Display/iSight combo.
I can’t wait to see what crap you spout when Apple replaces the PowerMac G5 line with Intel’s upcoming desktop/workstation/server class processors.
STFU already. We already know you are suffering from an inferiority complex because your machine isn’t using the latest and greatest architecture. You don’t even have PCI Express expansion slots! Don’t fret my boy, you still have a decent machine for years to come. There’s no need to bully the new kids in town just because they’re popular.
whatever: “almost everyone I know with a windows machine doesn’t want to start it up because it is embarrassingly slow to boot up “
Yeah,sure,blah,blah,blah – 97% of all computer users in the world (97% of all computers in the world are not Apple computers.) don´t start their computers because it is embarrassingly slow to boot up. So they never turn them on, right. LOL.
“antivirus stuff/zone alarms/spyware catchers”
zone alarms??? LOL
I own Macs and PCs – I know what my computers can do; don´t have to listen to heresay from a friend of a friend about something they read in a blog about a PC.
Apple computers are nice, but I get just as much work done on my PCs. (In fact, my Photoshop (and other programs) run faster on my PC than my Macs).
My first thoughts about the article were: “Wow! What’s the exchange rate between the US and New Zealand? Over $3,000 for a 20″ iMac. I really don’t want to see the price of a spec’d out G5.”
All this praise and he didn’t even talk about iLife. I’m sure he’ll have even more great things to say once he really tries the things people rave about on teh mac.
Not a bad article, but you wonder why anyone would complain about skype video when ichat already has video conferencing built-in and does not charge anything for its unlimited possible minutes of use.
I guess no one told him what that ISight camera built in to the frame of the Mac was for.
Toyota’s gotta love that one!
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He must be revering to the models from the 70’s and 80’s.
I should talk, I drive an 89 Ford.
Wey hey!! We have a new “Mac & PC Guy” out to tell us just how GREAT his PC is. Well, Queezie, shove your Winbox where the sun don’t shine because I know all about Winbox’s and you can’t tell me different. They are slow to boot up, they forever go wrong and take up valuable time to do even the most basic things…
I seriously question whether you really can be using both Winbox’s and Macs.