Nickname: newxatl

Review: I have a brand new 17-inch iMac at my home. It works great. I use it for movie making. It is a great companion for Final Cut Express HD.

Date reviewed: Dec 13, 2005 10:28 PM

Nickname: Mac Addict

Review: If a 5 MHz machine does three operations per clock cycle on its processor while a 10 MHz machine only does one operation per clock cyle on its processor ... is it really accurate to say that the 10 MHz machine is faster because 10 MHz is faster than 5 MHz? It's time for the rest of the non-computer savvy people to understand the truth behind the MHz myth.

Date reviewed: Dec 7, 2005 3:21 AM

Nickname: H3ndrix

Review: The Imac is beautiful-its the only time i've thought beautiful applied to a machine-but really its excellent-I am thoroughly converted windows is just annoying for me now-it seems tacky and old fashioned in comparison to Tiger.ISights great,Garagebands great-the internal microphone is amazing quality-considering it is nothing but a pin prick sized hole next to the camera.

Date reviewed: Nov 30, 2005 1:16 AM

Nickname: Bert Sierra

Review: I had the opportunity to work with one of the new 20" iMac G5s for a bit, setting it up for a friend. I can't tell you how much I fell in love with this machine! The engineering is excellent, from the sleekness of the design (thinner), to the larger hard drive and faster processor, to the more user accessible memory slots. The only thing I don't like about the new PC4200 memory is that 2GB DIMMs are about twice as expensive as they should be from third-party outlets. That's sure to come down, though. The built in iSight and remote control hardware and software blew me away!! For those worried about CPU speeds, remember it's an iMac and is targeting a middle-end audience. If you have the need for speed, wait for the Intel-based Macs coming out next year.

Date reviewed: Nov 29, 2005 8:33 PM

Nickname: newling

Review: "Apple and manufacturer IBM (IBM) have pushed the G5 as far as it can go, and a lot of operations are slower on an iMac than on a comparable Windows PC." If they are comparable, how can they be better?! On the other hand, what is comparable for you, number of MHz or something else?

Date reviewed: Nov 29, 2005 11:01 AM

Nickname: makesmemad

Review: I hope it is better than the previous version which has some hard disk reliability issues which Apple support and Apple service seem unable to deal with

Date reviewed: Nov 28, 2005 9:38 PM

Nickname: Alex

Review: I have just bought a new iSight G5 with a 17" display, 1.9 GHz chip, and a wireless keyboard and mouse. All I can say is that it is great! It does everything I want.

Date reviewed: Nov 28, 2005 7:01 PM

Nickname: Tradewinds

Review: Ken - have a look at this: http://www.creativemods.com/content/view/98/39/1/1/. I use one with my G3 iMac and it's really great! Don't know of a similar keyboard.

Date reviewed: Nov 27, 2005 5:40 PM

Nickname: anonymous

Review: "Apple and manufacturer IBM (IBM) have pushed the G5 as far as it can go, and a lot of operations are slower on an iMac than on a comparable Windows PC." This simply isn't true, and is proven by numerous benchmarks. See http://www.anandtech.com/mac/showdoc.aspx?i=2436. The G5 is still an extremely capable chip, and I struggle to accept the validity of your argument without quantative data and a well documented method. Even between "identical" pieces of software on different platforms there are likely to be differences in code and compiler optimization. You say, "and a lot of operations are slower on an iMac than on a comparable Windows PC." What are you comparing? How can you be certain that the operations are slower on a Mac when you cannot be sure of the details of the actual algorithm? Be sure that you are comparing like with like.

Date reviewed: Nov 27, 2005 11:42 AM

Nickname: harke

Review: To Saturnalia: The name Linux stands for Linux. It is Not Unix. Linux is so called because it's a Unix-like operating system created by a Finnish CS student named Linus Torvalds. Linux was written partly to avoid paying the heavy liscensing fees that AT&T was charging for Unix back in the 1980s. Linus was looking for a Unix-like POSIX compliant OS that would run on his Intel 386-based PC that he got from his father, so he created Linux. That was in 1990-91. The NeXT system is the basis for Apple's operating system today, not Linux. At the heart of Mac OS X is Darwin, a direct descendant of BSD 4.4 Unix.

Date reviewed: Nov 25, 2005 12:43 AM