$399 Mac
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- gosche0
apple is anyway more busy whit selling music & TV & cellphones!
- gosche0
hope this is the future
- dskz0
firewire is over
- Yolo0
years back there were 'clone' macs from other manufacturers , but apple put a stop to them... my current mac is pretty good, just need a new video card, but that means getting a whole new mac
- vrmbr0
*and grind
- kona0
*bump
- SteveJobs0
Piss Tar... has a nice ring to it...
- Ianbolton0
you gotta admit it though, a 24" iMac does look great. It's an iconic piece of kit. Although since when has tech-geek ever been put alongside vanity.
- acescence0
read the bit about updates, you can't update the OS! and you know that apple will do everything they can to totally break if it you do.
- flashbender0
From the articles it seems like they are planning on selling them with leopard installed until the court forces them to stop.
I can't find any reviews or anything online though.
- lvl_130
so what if you were to just buy it today? i mean, would you actually get the machine, or would you just get a letter saying "you are out of luck. here is a refund" or worse "you are out of luck, we are filing for bankrupcy and you don't get a dime back"
- kona0
$399? Odd, when I built it the way I would a normal mac I'd use for design the price jumped to $1,044.99. Without a monitor of course.
- That still a bargain compared to the pro range.roundabout
- still less than half the price of a comparable maclvl_13
- i bought a 24" imac 2.4 ghz with a 500gb hd for $1300.kona
- what graphic card does your imac have? Building that case out is more comprable to a full blown desktopflashbender
- ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO with 256MB memory. (copied from apple site)kona
- i don't really think an imac is comparable. def. more comparable to a tower. upgradeable to the full extent unlike imacs.lvl_13
- ...unlike imacs.lvl_13
- then it better come with multiple processors, multiple hds, multiple vid cards to run 4 monitors, double digit ram....kona
- so on and so forth. not arguing here but comparable? really?kona
- rafalski0
This would be good, because it would promote the OS and it would gain proper market share and actually compete with Microsoft.
It would be bad, because it would harm Apple sales, Apple stock and OS experience quality (due to bad drivers and so on).
Apple licensed the OS (to UMAX and Motorola afair) in mid 90's and it was the company's darkest period, their stock going down below $4.
- roundabout0
Well sense apple have moved over to Intel hardware, mac are basically a PC running OS X in a nice designed box, and yet to get a mac you have to pay over the odd for the bloody privilege. If someone can bring out a cheap PC that can run OS X i will buy it in a heart beat.
- Lestrade0
I sincerely hope this somehow slips through legal cracks and is viable. I would love to order one of these; this is exactly what I've been bitching about to friends and colleagues for months now. The towers are nice-looking, too — and upgradeable! Who'd'athunk?
- rafalski0
They're challenging the license, that's the key point. Any PC can technically run OSX now, they claim to have a case, saying Apple is a monopoly Microsoft-style and cannot tell you what computer you can install the system you'd bought with your money.
- mrdobolina0
does anyone actually use firewire anymore? Seems so proprietary for not a lot of benefit.
- every day. across 4 drives. i know more firewire users than USB.madirish
- Iggyboo0
It won happen the licensing specifically is against this to happen.