Apple’s “latest iMac doesn’t fall into the pigeonholes of ‘business’ or ‘consumer.’ Its aluminum and black appearance can work in the home, next to your iPhone, or in the office next to your Aeron chair. With its Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows compatibility, it is certainly the ‘computer for the rest of us,’ making good on the promises put forth in the original ‘1984’ Macintosh ads. All that earns it our Editors’ Choice,” Joel Santo Domingo reports for PC Magazine.
“Finding any drawbacks to the newest Apple iMac is so hard it’s almost like splitting hairs. The new aluminum iMac is a desktop nonpareil in both senses of the word: It is without equal, and (like the candy) it is sweet,” Santo Domingo reports.
Full review here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Cathy” for the heads up.]
Just bought mine!
Well, these things seem to be coming more and more often from the ‘dark side’ press. Nonetheless; still sounds refreshing when someone qualifies negatives as ‘splitting hairs’!
Next step: 10% global market share (meaning almost 100% growth).
Nice .. but i want the Mac Pro!
“”Finding any drawbacks to the newest Apple iMac is so hard it’s almost like splitting hairs.”
No need to gloss over the details?
Bloody Glossy Screen $UCK$!!!
Does Apple listen?
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061018-8022.html
http://macslash.org/pollBooth.pl?section=&qid=192&aid=-1
http://www.macpolls.com/?poll_id=527
glass is glossy, people, get over it. I dont hear anyone complaining that the iphone’s glass screen is oh noez too glossy!!!!11
Enough already. The overwhelming majority of consumers aren’t bothered by the glossy screen or else a lot of other PCs wouldn’t have them too.
Besides, if you just absolutely cannot live with a glossy screen, you can always get a Mac mini or a Mac Pro and use any type of monitor you like….
@HURTS MY EYES!!
Have you used the new iMac, or just commenting on your over all preference, I have read they are using a special coating on the glass?? I have not seen one of the new iMacs, so I do not feel qualified to comment
@TJ
What is your opinion of the Glossy screen, since you own one and have experienced it 1st hand,
@Chrissyone
We are waiting to here what you think, after setting up Dads last nite
And all of this just because we went with Intel inside.
@jooop
The uses and needs between the iPhone and the iMac are very different.
People use the iPhone intermittenly throughout the day, they are not working on it for hours at a time like the iMac. Plus the iPhone is extremely portable so it’s easy enough to move or cover up a side if there happens to be a glare.
Eyestrain, headaches, fatigue and other negative medical symptoms are proven to result from prolonged exposure to glossy monitors.
The iPhone is the perfect device for glossy. A 24″ stationary computer, not so much…
@Hurt My Eyes
Your just trying to stir the pot here a little. Just like the links you provide. Hits are hits for them.
No one complained back in the day when CRTs had glare. All you did was get an anti-glare screen that you placed on the monitor.
I have had the new iMac since the day it was released. The glossy screen is NOT an issue for the vast majority of consumers the machine is intended for. As others have stated a simple anti-glare screen can likely fix the “issue” for the rest of the whiners out there. The new iMac is an excellent all-in-one offering that will not be everything to everyone. My advice is that if you don’t like it, don’t buy it. But PLEASE quit whining about the glossy screen – it looks simply fantastic under most conditions!
The complaint about the card reader seems to be a non issue for me. Doesn’t everyone own a printer with card reader slots? Why duplicate this function? Lastly, Just turn on your camera and then download. Is that so tough?
My wife is thrilled with her new “entry-level” iMac – my one complaint being that we need to order a second 1GB memory stick to minimize disk caching. OK, she tends to leave many programs open at once – Mail, two (or three?) browsers, an editor or two (or three!), and Skype. Add the overhead of two open accounts (I have Folding@Home running 24×7) and the memory gets tight with just 1GB. 2GB should be more than enough.
Glossy Screen? So she tilts it away from the reflected light. This is a problem … how?
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I set up my father’s machine last night. My first-hand experience with the new iMac:
The Keyboard – It is exquisite. I’m buying one asap. Action is short, light, and quick. It feels much more sturdy than I thought it would.
The Case – Someone said it was the same thickness as the white plastic iMacs (like mine), it was just a trick of the eye. THEY WERE MISTAKEN. The case is much slimmer, so much so that the remote no longer magnets to the side, because the remote is wider than the case is thick. Overall it’s very attractive and more solid feeling when you pick it up.
The Glossy Screen – If you watch a lot of movies on your Mac, then by all means you will love it. I, however, watch few movies compared to all the work I do. And for work, I am sorry to break this to you, it is simply miserably bad. In my father’s office it wasn’t that big a deal because of the orientation of the monitor to the windows, but in my office it would be a catastrophe. Right now, the sun in coming through the blinds making 80’s pop video-quality lines of light across my face, but in my monitors I see none of this. The new iMac showed it all off proudly. In short, someone had better come out with a screen cover or Apple would do well to give us an option, because I would not buy one of these.
The Mouse – I still hate the Mighty Mouse. My dad won’t mind it.
That is all.
-c
MW: ‘glass’ (no kidding)
@ jooop
There is a HUGE difference between the iPhone’s glossy screen and the iMac. The iPhone screen is tiny and IT MOVES AROUND FREELY – so you can easily shift it away from a reflection. If you hold it close enough to your face, the reflection of your head can cover the screen completely. Moving a 20″+ monitor on a stand is not so easy, and unless you have a freakishly enormous head…
They had the prices wrong in the review(high end is the 24″ price).. Also, the link for prices searches for the 20″ cinema display, not the iMac.
It is getting some glowing reviews though.
I expect that many people’s perceptions of the glossy screen will be strongly flavored by the lighting conditions where they see the screen (i.e., some won’t see anything — “What is everyone talking about???” — while others will see the most aggravating glare known to man — “How can anyone work like this???”). I do hope Apple offers a non-glossy option.
@chrissyone
Amen.
http://www.protectcovers.com/screen_protectors.htm I’m betting they’ll have a 24″ soon, they also custom cut them.
/me is waiting for someone with a freakishly enormous head to post.
Sis is finally ordering today, after procrastinating from last week. I think she freaks when making large purchases or something. Luckily, her office area should be great for not producing glare issues.
I’m waiting for someone to produce a nice, static-clingy glare filter perfectly cut to fit invisibly on the new iMacs. I doubt that it will be long.
MW: It’s only a matter of time.
See? ibookfast’s link is exactly what I’m talking about. Will everyone quit whining now?
“and unless you have a freakishly enormous head…” – Hat size – 8 3/4
Man C1, how did you know? When I was in little league I had to wear the coach’s hat. I looked like a bobble head doll.
My body caught up to the head in my 20’s. But when I take pictures with friends they’re heads look like they are in orbit around my head.
@ Jim – TIV
Well, I don’t know my hat size (because it’s not 1946) but I have to be pretty close. I have to special-order my motorcycle helmets because they don’t stock 4x in most places. One of them has a 3x tag because the factory didn’t print a 4x tag because they only made about 100 4x helmets.
And even MY HUGE HEAD could not blot out the reflections on the iMac screen. Consider yourselves warned.
@ Jim Tiv
Those screen films are nothing like a matte display.