Tested out a G5

Me too.

Btw, to whom it may concern, Apple offers a 10 percent discount for educational transactions, ie. a student buying a computer. So, you could get a new iBook for as low as $949, or a dual G5 for about $2700. The low-end G5 (wow...that sounds like an insult) sells for $1800, and the powerbook I want sells for $3000 even. And as far as I can tell, they don't actually seek proof of enrollment at any school...

Interesting...

They also let you recieve other offers of theirs, like one now, where you buy a new laptop, and iPod, you get a $200 rebate.

So, if I bought that 17" Powerbook, priced originally at $3299, then recieve the educational discount, then buy an iPod ($269 for a 10 gb, $369 for a 15 gb), then I'd really be buying a new powerbook, and an iPod for $3069, as opposed to $3600 for both.

Chris, i have the new 17" iMac..

Viewing res is 1440*900...same as the laptop i just bought. It's not too big, no such thing. It's the sweetest machine i've ever used. Never crashes, still runs as smoothly as i bought it and i recommend it over any other computer on the market. Best buy of my life. Can't wait for Panther

Heh heh heh...

Yeah, there definitely is no such thing as 'too' big. I saw a 23" studio display the other day in a Compusa in my town. It was beautiful. that's all I can say

i sold my soul twice on ebay

Um...
How much did you make on that?
Because, and not to diss you, or make light of a potentially serious situation, you were just asking everyone for money, for what seemed to be an entirely serious and plausible reason, and it smears your credibility to do some stunt like 'sell your soul' on e-Bay.
If money's that easy to come by, why don't you just do something like sell shares of yourself. I'm not trying to be funny, or anything, but other people's money is a big issue when it comes to asking them to give it to you, while offering no return, or proof that the money was used for the reason that it was given.

i was just kidding, calm down

cyb, that's the 1ghz iMac? how much RAM, and how's the performance overall?

chris

I think it comes with something like 256 or 512 standard, but more can be added. Yeah, that's the one thing some people don't realize: You can actually open those cases.

As for performance, they're the shiznit. I don't own one, but I've worked on them, and found them to run great. Also, if you wanna go the cheap route, the eMacs are great too. The monitor's the only preference issue. And, I don't know how to open an eMac case. I know there is a way, but it's a more invasive process. The eMacs are what the first generation iMacs were. The new iMacs are more upgradable, and they have those freakin' amazing monitors.

BTW, there's some kinda big convention thing on the 16th, where Steve Jobs is the keynote speaker, and he's expected to make some kind of announcement. Re-designed 15" powerbook maybe?

1ghz iMac? No...i've got the top range one with 800mhz, 80gb HD, 512 DDR RAM. I swear to you, it's the smoothest running machine ever, it doesn't ever hang or need to 'think'...just keeps running. OSX runs so fast it will make you go 'ahhhh'. There's actually nothing bad i can say about the machine...oh yeah, the superdrive rocks too.

Cybling, the 800mhz might have been the best when you got it, but the top iMacs now have a 1.25ghz, the low-end model has a 1ghz now.

I spent about 15 hours last weekend with my buddie's new eMac, and it was quite fast. It was 1ghz with a superdrive, for only $1,300. And he got a couple hundred off that with a educational discount. I didn't have photoshop to test on it or anything, but I opened up all of the programs on it I could, and everything was still perfectly smooth. iTunes, IE, Safari, MS Word Suite, Omnigraffle, Watson, iChat, etc. Still flipped between programs without delay, iTunes never skipped, etc. And it only had 256mb of RAM.