“Not only is the new iMac a spectacular example of computer jewelry — but you can now run Windows XP in addition to OS X on it. I have to admit, it will be very difficult sending this computer back at the end of the test period,” Gary Krakow writes for MSNBC. “Apple was kind enough to send me one of their new iMacs with a 20-inch wide-screen to play with. It just might be the best personal computer on the market today… Using the new iMac is a breeze. Everything you need to use a computer is presented right there in front of you. With all of the built-in software that comes with the latest version of the Mac OS (version 10.4.x) you are ready to do just about all the tasks most people need to do on their computer.”
“As for speed, OS X flies on the 2.0 GHz Intel T500 processor. It’s one of the fastest computers I’ve played with in a long time. For those keeping count, my test computer came with 1 GB (out of a maximum of 2 GB) of memory and a 240 GB hard drive. There’s an available 500 GB hard drive as well. As configured, the test computer would retail for $1,999. Did I mention that the 20-inch, high-definition color screen is amazing? Actually, what’s really amazing is that the entire computer is right behind that beautiful screen — and the enclosure is only and inch and a half deep,” Krakow writes. “As much as I like the latest version of OS X, like many people I need to use Microsoft’s Windows XP for work. The site’s publishing system, built in-house, is only available in Windows. (MSNBC.com is a joint venture between Microsoft and NBC.) So, before Apple’s release of Boot Camp, I was stuck using any number of PCs — some very good, others less so.”
“The result is the fastest version of Windows I’ve ever used. Please believe me, I’m not exaggerating. Windows XP flies on this machine. To be safe, Apple warns that not all Windows stuff might work as you expect under Boot Camp. Baloney! For me, everything works as well — or better — than on my very up-to-date, super-duper Windows laptop,” Krakow writes. “Deserving of special mention is the iMac’s standard, wired mouse. When you use it in OS X it’s a terrific one-button mouse. And when you navigate with it in Windows it performs as a two-button mouse.”
MacDailyNews Note: Wha? Mac OS X also uses the second and third-buttons (side squeeze) on the included Mighty Mouse. Extensively. More about Apple’s Mighty Mouse and how it interacts with Mac OS X here.
Krakow continues, “What you really need to know is if you’re in the market for a new Apple computer you should put the new iMac on your short list. Same if you’re looking for a new PC. With the advent of Boot Camp — which is also set to be included as part of the next OS X upgrade — Apple is marketing one of the best computers available today. Period.”
Full article with much more here.
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“Apple is marketing one of the best computers available today. Period.”
Yeah, they’ve been doing that for 30 years now…
religion was invented by the devil…… if you are going to spout religious nonsense and expect to be taken seriously, then can i proclaim the world is flat and be treated the same?
The big R causes far more problems than its solves and is yet another tool for bigots and lunatics to use in order find ways to hate other peoples.
Of course there are well meaning souls, but when i look at the world problems today they are in very short supply.
wake up and smell the coffee!!!!!!! life has no reason in it self, its up to you to give it value, the gods were created by control freaks and cowards.
oh PS i fear Apple you are getting a bit to close to the dark side of late…. be careful yeah?
“Do you ever stop to think what kind of pickle our country would be in if Kerry, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and the rest of the Democratic leadership were actually running things?”
bjr: We wouldn’t have been attacked.
bjr, do you REALLY believe this, you idiot? Yaaaah, riiiiiiiiight. Of course, it goes without saying that we WEREN’T attacked in 1993 — you remember, don’t you, Moron? The FIRST World Trade Center attack? Under . . . (wait for it) . . . CLINTON?
Dipshits like you are THE most dangerous — because you don’t even realize what you don’t know. Bush being President had NOTHING to do with the September 11 attacks. The training for that little Muslim endeavor had been going on for AT LEAST TWO TO THREE YEARS prior!
It wouldn’t have made ANY DIFFERENCE if it were Bush or Gore in the White House on September 11, 2001 — those planes flown by Muslim extremists STILL would’ve hit their targets. But if modern American Presidential races are usually about picking the lesser of two evils, we should consider ourselves lucky that it was Bush in the Oval Office and not that GIANT LUMP of a political weathervane known as Gore.
He would’ve been about as effective as Jimmy “I’m wearing a sweater and working late” Carter at defending our country.
and furthermore… I know all this ’cause with my head firmly lodged in my butt, I see all.
I pray within my life time that the truth will come out regarding 9/11, and I swear to God, I’m sure it won’t look anything like the ‘official story’.
“Beatings, rape, breaking of limbs, and denial of food and water are commonplace in Iraqi detention centers.”
…such as Abu Gareb.
I’m back – it’s looks like my late night musings really incited a small firestorm. In general, I agree that this forum should remain non-political and I apologize for causing this digression. However, I felt compelled to respond the previous poster’s comments as I’m getting tired of the ever pervasive Bush bashing that us conservatives have to routinely endure here in the “comments” section of MDN via seemingly inoccuous little jabs.
But, I want to respond to “gzero”, “w/subtitles”, “bjr”, “Mike Buonarrati”, and the others who have implied that the USA and it’s leadership is somehow evil. So, I will digress a little further (but for the last time):
Guys, I know from routinely having long discussions with my liberal friends that liberalism truly is a mental disorder that defies logic and reason, so I don’t say these things in hopes of swaying you left-wing die-hards to the side of righteousness. Rather, I mention these things for those who may happen upon these rants and have a more open-minded attitude (supposedly a liberal trait, but usually lacking in most liberals if the “open-ness” involves pondering conservative thought). Never mind that socialism has never worked (look at France); never mind that lowering taxes has always spurned economic growth; and never mind that America has never gone to war because it was “too strong”. I realize that you liberals out there are unswayable.
Somehow, you guys always see us as the aggressors and wrong-doers. Don’t get me wrong, I know that America has done some dishonorable things in the past and I certainly don’t assert that we’re perfect now. However, comparing Bush to a terrorist or suggesting that we’re imperialistic is ludicrous. If we wanted to act like a super-power and take over territoritories, we could do that, but we don’t. In fact, in Iraq, we’re fighting the insurgents on their terms with conventional weapons. Make no mistake, I’m not advocating using our nuclear arsenal in Iraq. But, if we were the war-mongering, oil-hungry, imperialistic tyrants that some of you guys suggest that we are, then why aren’t we sitting on our submarines in the Persian Gulf drinking Budweisers and pressing little buttons to split heavy atoms over Iraq. After all, the western world has harnessed the power of the atom – if we were truly the asses that some of you guys would lead us to believe wouldn’t that be much simpler and less costly in terms of American lives lost?
No, America usually does the admirable thing despite our own home-grown loons (i.e. the far left) always being erring on the side of our enemies.
Liberalism has been on the wrong side of history for so long that it amazes me that the liberal “intelligensia” exists. Don’t forget that Kerry voted against every bill Reagan tried to pass. He was always the appeaser that suggested that Reagan was a simpleton who was driving us to war. Remember the Europeans calling Reagan and Thatcher war-mongers for putting Pershing missles in Europe to counter the Russians / Warsaw Pact? Who ended up being right? Reagan did! Appeasement wasn’t the answer then and it isn’t now. We are not wrong for defending our ideals.
Taking another lesson from history; there are some striking similarities between our current state of world affairs and the state of affairs in the late 1930’s. At that time, no one would oppose the Facists, and the League of Nations was impotent to stop Hitler. In fact, they and most of Europe was readily appeasing Hitler in hopes of avoiding his wrath. At that same time, The NY Times ran editorials that chided our leadership for getting involved.
Sound familar? Why are you liberals such poor historians? The correlates are eerily similar between now and then. Heck, even France which is arguably at ground zero in this war just like they were for WWII, remains ever flakey and obstructionistic.
Look, Bush and the Republicans aren’t the problem (to assert that they are is sheer lunacy), but Islamofacists are the problem. Am I saying that all Muslims are evil and the enemy – heck no I’m not – so don’t put words in my mouth. Am I saying that the Muslim faith has problems in terms of “checks and balances”, yes I am.
Just my .02,
Mac Zealot
stupid
“never mind that lowering taxes has always spurned economic growth”
get a dictionary, nitwit
I know, this is no place for politics, but let’s clear up one glaring political misconception that most liberal Americans have.
There are social conservatives and there are fiscal conservatives.
In plain English, for my American friends, you can be an atheist and still vote Republican or you can be a God fearing, religious wing-nut and still vote Democrat.
For some it is not a religious choice to vote Republican or Democrat but a choice of small government versus the nanny state.
If you really know your history, you know that the Bush family was in bed with the Nazi party, and was successfully sued for it.
We now live under the biggest ‘nanny state’ this country has ever seen, they act so much like a parent, they listen on your private calls. Bush is not Christian, conservative, or responsible. He is a nasty, violent, bisexual(former lover was the ex-mayor of Knoxville, Tn), dry drunk, horse fearing, preppy, rich brat born in Connecticut.
Would the US military be in Iraq if their gross domestic product was Lima beans?
The terrorists killed 3000 Americans. The US gvernment has killed well over 2000 of its own military pursuing what? A western style democracy in an Arab land?
OBL was a pawn of the US government against the Russians in Afganistan.
Sadam was a pawn of the US government against the Iranians.
The Shah of Iran was a pawn of the US government.
It would be nice if the US government focused on issues at home like securing our borders, getting the CIA up to speed with good intelligence information and creating a TSA system that really works (they’ve never passed one of the secret smuggler tests completely after billions spent).
With a trillion dollars flowing out to support the Iraq war it’s pretty hard to talk about tax cuts spurring growth, instead, our children will be handed a deep legacy of debt that’s going to be impossible to dig out of without printing more money, which always spurs inflation in the US and devaluation of US currency in the world market.
Thank goodness we have Apple to talk about, at least there’s something good going on, because the gov stuff is way out of control and sickening. I know two people who were killed in Iraq and another who’s been blinded and horribly misfigured. Do you feel safer now that the WMD plants have been dismantled? Oh that’s right, there weren’t any. And the US sure kicked them terroists asses, oh wait, no they didn’t, now it’s worse than ever OVER THERE. Quit watching US TV news shows that are packed with VNR’s sponsored by the government, that’s not conspiracy theory, that’s the real truth.
Well, how bout those PPC quad macs, they’re pretty coool arn’t they.
This is a Mac site, not a forum for a bunch pin heads bent on preaching religion and politics. Enough of this BS already, save it for someone who gives a s–t about such drivel. The article was on Windows running on Intel Macs, not all this political and religious crap.
It’s because there is no Apple news except how to run Windows on a Mac. At least this week, we’ll have the latest financial disclosures to grouse about.
As I said before (or implied), this is a Mac/Apple forum and not a political free-for-all. No one is reading your 500 word diatribes on political issues. Save it for “Meet The Press”!
Mac Zealot,
The poverty rate in France, and in the rest of ‘old’ Europe is well below that of the U.S.
Britain has the highest poverty rate in ‘old’ Europe, but then they follow the US ‘system’ closer than the others.
Being morally shocked by torture is very postitve.
Being morally shocked by the torture perpetrated by Muslims and not by your own ‘christian’ compatriots is perverse and amoral.
All your posts are riddled with racism and oderous, self-righteousness patriotism.
Patriotism is, by the way, NOT a good thing. It has created more human misery than can be possibly conceived – i.e. most of the wars, suffering and torture in the history of the world – and the U.S. variety is no exception and is carrying on the evil tradition.
As the great 18th century British conservative thinker and writer Samuel Johnson wrote:
“Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.”
Have you any idea how it goes down in the civilized world, when countless U.S. politicians and other public figures (and people like you) holding their trembling hands to their hearts and with quavering, tear-filled voices say, “God bless America”,
“God bless this country”, “I’m proud to be American” and so on – AD NAUSEUM?
I’m almost sixty years old and I’ve lived all over Europe and I can tell you that most people I’ve met are sick to death of the chauvinism of right-wing America and I believe people of your ilk are doing irreparable damage to the image of your country.
Which isn’t very patriotic, is it now?
I meant to write ‘self-righteous patriotism’, of course.
Steve Jobs is a Democrat. (Obviously.) ‘Nuff said.
Oh–I should add: Michael Dell is a hard-core Republican. (Obviously.)
Want escapism?
Try morphine.
Charko,
Please don’t try and hold up Europe as the better socio-economic model. Depending on how you measure the rate of poverty, France’s cradle-to-grave entitlements might make them look statistically better than the US in this one indice. But, unfortunately, the French experiment in socialism is failing; this is obvious to any objective observer. To assert otherwise indicates ignorance or blind nationalism. The students are rioting in France against laws that would undoubtedly make for more jobs and a more internationally competitive France. For me, it’s just so very indicative of a larger cancer that threatens to undermine parts of western Europe.
I am morally shocked by torture and killing, and I am aware that these things have been propagated in the past by many religions, including my own (i.e. Christianity). However, to somehow morally excuse the thousands of beheadings and the ever constant killing of innocents by Islamofacists because prisoners at Abu Gharab were embarrassed, insulted, and beat up is, in my opinion, a bankrupt argument that is itself morally reprehensible. Christians are not beheading people or blowing children up.
I agree with you that extreme nationalism, like extremist religious views, is a bad thing. History has proven that time and time again. However, I disagree that patriotism is inherently bad or something that we should be embarrassed about. Why is it chauvinistic of us Americans to say “in God we trust” and why would that offend a European? I don’t understand?
Look, in about 4 or 5 decades, all these arguments will be a moot subject as France and Germany will be Muslim nations, and none of their constituents will be allowed to share views like this. Kind of ironic that liberalism (i.e. socialism) may ultimately lead to the least liberal society there is – one under Islamic law. So, enjoy the ranting and raving now.
Mac Zealot
P.S. Us conservatives are a little more forgiving, I won’t chide you for the “self-righteous patriotism” mistake. After one of my last diatribes, I had one of your guys point out my misspelled word – he didn’t offer any counter argument to my ideas (like you did), he merely pointed out my one misspelled word.
If you don’t like the political discourse, you have the editors MDN to thank.
The civil war started with the snarky comment about Dems in the iTunes tax thread.
If you’re reading this far you are about to read a post that is actually on topic:
“MacOS X defaults the Mighty Mouse’s right button to be a left-click, thus appearing to all accounts to be be a single button mouse. You need to change the system preferences to set the right button to act as a right-click.”
Yep -true.
I have to admit though – I HATE THE MIGHTY MOUSE. It’s cheaply made, the scroll ball sucks (you have to “flick” it to many times to scroll any real distance), and if you have the side buttons enabled, I for one keep accidentally pushing them when I lift up the mouse. Ugh…
Logitech makes great feeling (ergonomic) mice, but I hate the clicking tactile feedback on the scroll wheels (some people like it). I LOVE my Microsoft wireless optical mouse 2.0! You just plug the transmitter into one of your USB ports (don’t need to install ANY software), turn the tracking and scrolling all the way up to fast in preferences, and it’s excellent! The scroll wheel is smooth with no click and the shape is good for my hand – feels great. Plus it (of course) has 2 REAL buttons. Battery life is AWESOME – I get a minimum of 6 months with HEAVY usage (using Duracell ULTRAs). Microsoft makes a shitty OS, but they make great mice. Now if they would only make one in white………..
I think Apple needs to quit being stubborn about this and just make a freaking (real) 2 (separate) button mouse!
you can disable the side buttons in the prefs