“A few years ago it looked like Apple would stay in its niche market forever, while Windows PCs ruled the world. But the latest Macs are competitive on price with high-end systems from companies such as Dell, and the new Intel-based machines will run Windows in a sandbox, helping people make the daring transition to OS X,” Crave at CNET reports.
“To top it all off, yesterday Apple released a gorgeous 24-inch iMac, the fastest iMac ever. If that doesn’t tempt you to switch, you clearly have an iron will (and possibly an ‘RTFM’ t-shirt),” Crave reports. “The 24-inch iMac (from £1,349) runs a 64-bit Intel Core 2 Duo processor at 2.33GHz.”
“As with previous iMacs, the entire system is embedded in the monitor — even though the chassis is impressively thin. Thanks to some crafty engineering, the iMac is barely thicker than a 24-inch Dell LCD screen,” Crave reports. “This is a pretty brutal tool for anyone who works with digital video or photography. We’ve used Macs that are half as powerful to edit full-frame HD video in Final Cut Pro and they’ve flown. Budding filmmakers take note: this is much more powerful than the Power Mac that Walter Murch used to edit Cold Mountain, and a fraction of the price.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Mike in Helsinki” for the heads up.]
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No problem, Mr. Hymen!
To be fair, the M2010 is more of a huge laptop. It also has much better media center capabilities(includes a tuner attachment and better remote), and comes with 8 speakers and a sub built in. I would still rather have the 24″ iMac, even if they were both free and i just had to pick one.
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Buster Hymen?
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MW: Inside, as in, ‘Intel Inside.” Yikes.
ashan, the Dell XPS M2010 is NOT “a huge laptop”. The thing weighs close to 20 pounds. It’s an all-in-one computer, with the ability to fold. Of course, the iMac doesn’t need to fold.
As for the “tuner attachment”, when I priced it out, that was an upgrade on the base price of $3500. Since I wasn’t adding an EyeTV to the iMac, I didn’t add the tuner to the M2010.
As far as I can tell, the subwoofer and 7 speakers is just about the only advantage the Dell has between the two systems, though I’ve read the iMac 24″ has improved bass. Of course, no all-in-one speaker system is going to outperform a cheap external one, as they don’t have packaging compromises that an all-in-one would have.
And, the significant advantage the iMac has is the 24″ screen vs the 20.1″ Dell. How does that make up for the $2100 price difference? You could almost buy two iMac 24″ for the price of one similarly configured Dell XPS M2010.