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Originally Posted by Veljo I wouldn't know one person who had a PowerMac and didn't have a career in video editing or graphics. |
Sure, what home user needs two G5 processors, a graphics card with 256MB of RAM, four PCI slots, 8GB of RAM, dual DVI displays and multi-hundreds of gigabytes of storage?
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Originally Posted by Veljo Point is, the all-in-one computers are fine, but towers are better for expansion. And at the moment Apple is kidding itself by promoting how powerful the PowerMac G5 is, yet its AU$5000+ price tag is something they don't mention. |
True... but let's take a look at who needs expansion beyond RAM and hard drive:
Professionals who invest a lot in their computer and a lot in their peripherals and need a stable system. Once configured properly, all their SCSI cards and FireWire cards and audio cards and graphics cards all humming along in rhythm, it's money down the drain to buy a new computer and cross your fingers that everything's compatible. Apple hits 'em up for a good sum of money in the beginning and it's well worth the investment to the professional.
Home users, on the other hand, need a card reader, an inkjet printer, a microphone and a place to dock their iPod -- all available as external USB or FireWire devices.
Apple isn't Wal-Mart... they don't have the revenue and cash flow that Wal-Mart has to completely dominate a market and offer "something for everyone." Yet, Apple does offer the best array of novice-to-pro hardware. If you're a pro, don't kid yourself with an iMac. If you're not a pro (you don't make a living with your computer), then having a PowerMac G5 tower is like driving a Ferrari to and from work in rush hour traffic. Too much horsepower for what you intend to do with it.
And the low-end PowerMac G5 is completely affordable if you intend to really use the computer, not just brag about how fast your computer can go yet never get around to actually
doing anything with it other than creating half-ass desktop pics in a pirated version of PhotoShop.
I think Apple has done a damn good job at selling the customer an adequate computer that will last a long time and fit their needs and budget nicely. Pros spend more, and they get more. Home users can go anywhere from a G4 at about 1.25GHz up to a 2.0GHz G5 processor and have plenty of expandability in terms of RAM, hard drive and peripherals.
Don't mean to be rude, but everywhere you go some home user is complaining that they don't have enough money to get the absolute fastest Macintosh available. It's just not realistic... the home user shouldn't and can't afford the latest and greatest and fastest Macintosh available, just like home users shouldn't and can't afford the latest and greatest dual-Zeon-processor 4GB RAM 300GB hard drive 256MB video card 800MHz FSB 5.1 surround in a tower case that sounds like a jet taking off from Dell or Gateway or Alienware or whoever. They get to choose from crappy, "look like they're expandable on the outside but are really just pieces of crap" mid-size towers that they'll never bother expanding anyway from those companies -- why not give 'em an Apple iMac with a great processor and the perfect amount of expandability instead?