“We’ve tested the Mac Pro, MacBook, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, the iMac, the Mac Mini, and the XServe. There’s not a bad Apple among the bunch, and some are truly superb. We’ll help you choose one that’s right for you,” Richard Hoffman reports for InformationWeek.
MacDailyNews Take: We’d be remiss if we didn’t point out that the question “Which Apple Mac should you pick?” is a welcome upgrade from what used to be “Should you pick an Apple Mac?”
Hoffman continues:
Maybe that most recent e-mail virus was the last straw. Maybe you’ve been longing for a computer that “just works” and that you actually look forward to using. Maybe Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) Vista finally just sent you right around the bend. Perhaps it was that “Mac guy” on the commercials. Or maybe you are the “Mac guy.”
For whatever reason, you’ve decided to buy a new computer from Apple and want a little help sorting out the different models. Well, you’re in luck, because perhaps more than at any other time, Apple’s product lineup is clear, logical, and targeted at distinct types of users and uses. The entire product line is one of the strongest Apple’s ever had. Without hyperbole, it may be the best overall line of computers anyone has had, ever — there’s not a bad Apple among the bunch, and some are truly superb.
Plus, if you’re a PC guy or gal contemplating making the switch to the Mac world, the good news is that, if you have to, you can still use Windows on just about any new Mac. Parallel’s Desktop for Mac, VMWare’s Fusion virtualizer products, and Apple’s own included Boot Camp dual-boot enabler all allow Windows to run at native or near-native speed on your Mac. So, these days, your choice doesn’t have to be either-or, it can be both.
From design to function, from form to performance, you pretty much can’t go wrong with anything Apple is currently selling. We’ve tested them all in our labs over the past months, and they’re just that good. Read on and we’ll help you choose the right one.
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dennis M.” for the heads up.]
@ Apple Mac, Apple Mac, Apple Mac, aaaaagh!
What is redundant about Apple Mac?
Apple used to make Apple computers.
Apple now makes Mac computers.
Motorola used to make Mac clones. Sony made real Macs (PB 100).
You can’t call a new computer just made by Apple Inc. an Apple. It’s not an Apple, it’s a Mac. Calling it an Apple Mac is not redundant at all. It is very accurate, if anything.
Get over yourself.
I’ve recently made a short webpage with a guaranteed fast answer to this specific dilemna :
It’s easy to choose a Mac !
Tell me if it works for you.
@Apple Mac, Apple Mac, Apple Mac, aaaaagh!
Is that you ron? … you tard, you were never a Brit, you’ve never been there.
Get over yourself.
IKON,
personally I prefer the ACD to the ADC.
one more thing to improve the line. when i was with a friend yesterday shopping for a new iMac (his first mac) it was easy and cheap to upgrade to 2gb of ram in the shop (mediamarkt – that’s a big chain here in germany, most of them with apple shop in shops). it took 10 minutes and was a 25 euros upgrade. the same should be possible with the graphic-card. so the imac could appeal even to the high-end gamers. let me put in a 200/300 euro graphic-card, from time to time boot into windows and crysis or cod4 – here i come.
@@@@Brit. Is that you ron? … you tard, you were never a Brit, you’ve never been there.
Get over yourself.
Why do you give a sh-t where I was born? It was in Swindon, moved to Oxford after two weeks. Escaped England in the 50’s. BTW, the word ‘Brit’ wasn’t invented then. It was ‘English’ at the time. Get an iMac.
I helped my girlfriend set up her MacBook this weekend. She loves it! We have been dating for 4 months and I did ZERO pontificating about Apple and the Macintosh platform. It was her periodic use of my PowerBook that showed her the error of her ways. The contrast between using my PowerBook all weekend and then going back to her Toshiba laptop or her PC at work started to make the differences between the two operating systems abundantly clear. Now, she HATES Windoze.
Also, my friend Wes bought a MacBook this weekend. He lives in the apt. above me and has had many problems with his two Winblows laptops. One of them would power down every time he put a disc into the optical drive – any disc, including a Windoze install disc! For months now he has not been able to find a reason or a solution. Whenever this would happen, he would pop down to my place and use my PowerBook for whatever he would need to do. Fast forward a few months to this week, add in a tax refund check, and voila! A new MacBook! He is excited as hell, like a little kid at Christmas! Wait until I install iWork for him and he get a chance to use Pages and Keynote for himself (and not just see my end results).
Uncle Steve, can I get royalty checks from Apple? I’ve got about 2 dozen switchers under my belt!
Happy Easter and Passover everyone!!!
C3
tt,
Your wife says “hello” and hopes you that enjoyed your 3000 person LAN party, but, her mouth is a little, uhhh, full right now (as are a few other things) at our own little 3 person FAN(NY) party.
FWIW, Brit (above) is not me.
Get an iMac. Spookily, all my Macs have cost me the same amount – around £1000. I started with an LC (slow!), then I had a Performa 2500 (a dog). My (current) iMac is easily the best yet.
“One of them would power down every time he put a disc into the optical drive . . .”
That’s a feature.
“Which Apple Mac should you pick?”
They don’t make Macs anymore.
They don’t make PowerMacs anymore.
{Scowling smiley goes here}Everything on that list is an Xtel box. Funny, when Apple downgraded to Intel, everything became “Mac-” and “-Pro”.
This reminds Me of the “Performa” series. Fancy names are all the information We need to choose a computer–unless one is so stupid as to use Wintel!
Sure, “Apple Mac” is redundant! But if you are an idiot, then it has a comforting sound. Like “ATM machine”, “JBL Lansing”, and “FET transistor”! {Disgusted smiley goes here}
“Which Apple Mac should you pick?”
I like the one with fries and a Dr. Pepper.
The apples come with the kid’s meal….
Master
Is that like TSP-Phosphate Free?
I mean, wouldn’t that just be trisodium?
We don’t want too many people getting mac, then they will become, “the enemy”
-http://ThunkDifferent.com
“Apple’s product lineup is clear, logical, and targeted at distinct types of users and uses”
Yeah, but not for everyone. Where’s that mini-tower for the large number of us who want a lot more than an iMac but can make do with a lot less than a MacPro? You know, the one with a decent graphics card, room for at least 8GB of RAM, room for a second HD, and a honking Quad to drive it all? Apple tried to cheap it out with the Quad MacPro, but that’s a stripped down version of the bigger box and still keeps a lot of stuff we don’t really need. A second optical drive, for example. A Quad-based Mac midi should cost 2/3-rds what the similar MacPro costs, starting where the iMac ends.
I say get an iMac Apple Mac, or perhaps a nice Apple Mac MacMini will suit, or perhaps if you need the power, a Mac Pro Apple Mac would fit the bill (but break the bank), so just go with a neat and tidy Apple Mac MacBook in white, or if you are power hungry and on the go, a pro Apple MacBook Pro Mac would be perfect!