Comments on: Hands On: Apple’s 27-inch iMac

By: Hands on: 2.26GHz Mac mini | The Loop

Hands on: 2.26GHz Mac mini | The Loop — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:06:49 +0000

[...] that’s a solid value for the money. It’s not as sexy as the new iMac that Jim Dalrymple recently looked at, but for Mac users on a tight budget – and who isn’t these days – the Mac mini [...]

By: zwei

zwei — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:16:12 +0000

but my borther’s iMac gets him chicks

By: Rick

Rick — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:18:53 +0000

My brother says: “I can build a hackintosh mini-tower for less and with higher end parts for cheaper so there’s no reason anyone should buy an iMac”. I’ve been thinking that maybe we all need to boycott them until they give us a Mini Mac Pro because the Mac Pro is too expensive but I need all that power to play my Windows games at full resolution.

By: Schiller: Apple’s holiday line-up is set | The Loop

Schiller: Apple’s holiday line-up is set | The Loop — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:36:13 +0000

[...] a new Magic Mouse, a new MacBook and new iMacs. We posted our review of the Magic Mouse and 27-inch iMac earlier this week.SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Schiller: Apple’s holiday line-up is set", [...]

By: Peter Cohen

Peter Cohen — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:06:43 +0000

“Those 350W peak are scaring me”

Build a wind turbine, hippy.

By: AdamC

AdamC — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:25:34 +0000

It is not a Mac but cheap plastic housing and wouldn’t blend in with the decor provided you have something which you are not proud to show around.

it also tells volume of your income and where you are coming from.

Get a Mac, pay more but you get back the value thru usage and resale and no virus.

By: Jim Dalrymple

Jim Dalrymple — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:45:10 +0000

And Apple posted full environmental specs on the new iMac as well. http://www.apple.com/imac/environment.html

By: Hairy Goomer

Hairy Goomer — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:48:42 +0000

@Kai M Zeise,

By my calculations, even if the iMac is running full-bore, eight hours/day using 2,800 Watt-hours of electricity, it is only going to cost me about 30¢ a day or roughly $9/month. Seems reasonable to me.

By: Dave Barnes

Dave Barnes — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:08:41 +0000

@Daniel,

If your iMac is either a Model 7,1 or an 8,1 then you can have up to 6GB of memory for under $200 USD.

http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/apple/memory/iMac

,dave

By: Jim Dalrymple

Jim Dalrymple — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:23:29 +0000

It says a lot that you’re running Luxology on an iMac. Wow.

By: Kai M Zeise

Kai M Zeise — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:22:52 +0000

No words on the quality of the display?
Also I would like to see some info on its power consumption in actual use. Those 350W peak are scaring me, that would amount to 1000 kW/h with 8 hours per day use

By: Daniel Swanson

Daniel Swanson — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:21:28 +0000

Happily, not too many of those people have discovered “Loopinsight.com” yet.

I love the 24″ iMac I bought a year and a half ago. Beautiful machine. Trouble-free.

I’m a bit hindered by only 4GB RAM, but it was a good step up and into the Intel generation from my G5. Luxology Modo runs pretty well on it, but you can never have too much computing power with 3D.

Modo is multi-threaded and displays “buckets” (square arrays of pixels it’s working on during rendering), one per processor. So I’m stuck watching two buckets at a time. The 4-core iMac may even show 8 buckets if it’s a Nehalem processor and can execute two processes per core.

But I’m gonna hold out for the next Mac Pro which may have 12 cores (24 buckets!).

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:18:06 +0000

I can build a hackintosh mini-tower for less and with higher end parts for cheaper so there’s no reason anyone should buy an iMac because we all need to boycott them until they give us a Mini Mac Pro because the Mac Pro is too expensive but I need all that power to play my Windows games at full resolution and full detail or I’m going to cry.

By: zwei

zwei — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:52:47 +0000

Patiently awaiting the “I can build a hackintosh mini-tower for less and with higher end parts for cheaper so there’s no reason anyone should buy an iMac because we all need to boycott them until they give us a Mini Mac Pro because the Mac Pro is too expensive but I need all that power to play my Windows games at full resolution and full detail or I’m going to cry.” comments.

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:12:59 +0000

The real news is the resolution & density of the screen. I had been using a 24″ iMac previously to this new 27″ and the increased screen realestate is huge. The fact that this has all the horizontal pixels of the 30″CD on a 27″ is crazy. I did have to resized the default point size of type in my applications for reading though.

By: Jim Dalrymple

Jim Dalrymple — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:04:15 +0000

What could you possibly say bad about the screen? It’s amazing! Lots of room for things like music production, even with the media library open. Multiple docs side-by-side, photos are brilliant. It’s great.

By: Mark P

Mark P — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:45:25 +0000

Err, where’s the rest of the review. you were just getting warmed up and then boom it’s over. So tell us about the screen…is it nice?

By: Jim Dalrymple

Jim Dalrymple — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:26:50 +0000

LOL — yes you’re right. I was looking at the old iMac that has an extra 4GB and was thinking about taking it

By: Dave Barnes

Dave Barnes — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:15:26 +0000

“My iMac can be upgraded with an additional 4GB of Ram”

Wrong.

My iMac can be upgraded with an additional 12GB of RAM.