launch an anti apple protest

[adolescent]

@HopperJF

1.  Yes there is.  They are guilty of price fixing and other monopolistic tactics.  (ie. the iPod battery incident, the suit against Musicmatch for daring to load songs "illegally" onto iPods, etc.)  They're no better than Nintendo, Sony or Microsoft.  

2.  Best?  That's too subjective to say.  Most reliable?  Care to back that up with actual facts?

3.  Again, subjective.  I'd say that some of the real time OSs would be more advanced and a helllllll of a lot more stable.  (Kernel changes while running without a reboot ever...  I don't think Mach can do that).

4.  I agree.  

[adolescent]

david wrote:
Unfortunately, since Apple has exclusive rights to the G5, Amiga users cannot have the current hardware. Also Amiga will always fall behind ht eMac is no one cares, like you two.

Apple does not have exclusive rights to the G5.  IBM and others offer PowerPC 970/970fx based workstations.  

Edit:  Yes, they probably have rights to the G5 name, but that doesn't mean much since they made it up.  :-D

[adolescent]

@HopperJF

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3.  No viruses?  B.S.  There aren't as many, but there are Mac viruses and worms.  
4.  30000 games?  More B.S.  The Mac library isn't near that, probably <1000 games for the platform.
5.  Really?  How do I upgrade an iMac to a 17" screen?  Newer video card?  Etc.  Sure, the high end Macs are upgradable and you can stick a CPU card in most of them but the consumer models are not upgradeable.
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[adolescent]

Lando wrote:
If you want to use a 17" screen on your iMac just plug in an external monitor.

That'd be attractive.  The iMac with an extra screen sitting next to it.  

You can upgrade an iMac with a new CPU, hard drive, memory, optical drive.  If you want to completely upgrade your old iMac you should just sell it on Ebay (Macs hold their value extremely well, unlike PC's) and get a new model - it would probably work out cheaper than buying all the bits yourself, even if that were possible.

CPU?  Where?  I have yet to see a CPU upgrade for the iMac.
Hard drive and memory sure...  
Optical drive?  Again, I've never seen an internal upgrade, perhaps they are out there but they are not cost effective (example buying an OEM superdrive)
Video card?  You didn't answer this, because again it's not offered.

You proved the point.  The only way to upgrade the consumer models is to trash them and buy another one.  They are closed systems, which in general is bad.  On a laptop I can understand, because they are specialized components.  But, on a desktop computer it's unacceptable.

[adolescent]

@Dan

I realize there were upgrades for the CRT models, even G4s.  But I was talking about modernizing a modern computer.  There are no worthwhile upgrades for the iMac G4 (well, besides scrapping your 2 year old comptuer and spending another $2k on an iMac G5).