New Imac v Old Imac: Do you have an opinion?

> New:
> 20", 2 GHz, 250 GB HD, SD, ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO video....$1049
>
> Old:
> 20", 2.16 GHz, 250 GB HD, SD, ATI Radeon X1600 video.....$1099

Let me add that Low End Mac regards the second (old imac) deal as HOT,
but not the first one (newer imac at lower price)!
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nospam <nospam.TakeThisOut@nospam.invalid> wrote:

> it depends what you want to use it for and if the glossy screen bothers
> you. the old imac has a noticably better screen, and that could be
> very important if you plan to use it for photo editing. on the other
> hand, if you regularly run a lot of memory hungry applications and ones
> where colour accuracy is not critical, the extra ram might be more
> important, and that also assumes you will max it out. if you plan only
> to install 2 gig of ram, it doesn't matter that one imac can exceed 3
> gig.

Not much photo editing (so far) but we'll view a lot of those. The
glossy part doesn't bother me, but my SO does find the white look more
elegant (but not a decisive point according to her).

Does the glass cover on the new screen make it more secure?

RAM being cheap now, I'll probably max it out on either computer but we
don't do much RAM intense computing and it is unlikely that we'd notice
the difference on any app we run.

All in all I think the screen being the face of the computer you
interact with it all the time. So screen quality is in your face and
definitely has the impact. Behind the scene changes are less
noticeable. Don't know if many small incremental differences like
system bus (667 -> 800), dvd (2x -> 4x on dual layer), and graphics
card (ATI x1600 -> ATI HD2400 PRO) add up to be noticeable.
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Michelle Steiner <michelle DeleteThis @michelle.org> wrote:

> There are other differences; the new iMac has a later version of the
> processor. It can handle up to 4 gigs of RAM; the older one can handle
> only up to 3 gigs, even if you put two 2-gig memory cards in it. The
> new one has Firewire 800; the old one has only Firewire 400.
>
> On the other hand, I prefer the keyboard that comes with the older
> model, and vastly prefer its Bluetooth keyboard to the newer model's.

Thanks. And darn! Looks like the old one is better in things one deals
with all the time---the screen, the keyboard---while the new one is
better in subtle invisible internals.

What Apple needs is a modular like between Imac and Mac Pro, where I
could have chosen the computer, the screen and the keyboard
independently! No harm fantasizing.

I'll try to find some place that has both models (maybe difficult) to
see them together and pass this hard decision to my SO, if she prefers
the screen or cosmetics of the old one, for those you are always
dealing with.

If no preference there, I might pick the newer one for invisible
internal improvements.

Our present computer is a 667MHz G4 PB (titanium): We tend to stay with
what we have, rather than upgrade constantly. So whatever we choose
will likely be our computer for a few years.
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AKT <akt RemoveThis @null.void> wrote:

> The
> glossy part doesn't bother me, but my SO does find the white look more
> elegant (but not a decisive point according to her).

> All in all I think the screen being the face of the computer you
> interact with it all the time. So screen quality is in your face and
> definitely has the impact.

Well, if your SO prefers the white I would go for that. Not just to
please her, but because the new iMac has a poor screen.

Actually, quite a lot of Macs have the problem with the screen, and it
is just that it happens to be more noticeable on the new machine,
because of screen size, viewing angle, etc.

Definitely DO NOT get the new iMac without taking a look first. Set the
desktop to a solid colour, sit down (if you can) in front of it, and
compare the colour at the top of the screen with that at the bottom.

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