Computerworld has a new review out, of the latest Penryn iMacs, used at home in the author’s (Scot Finnie) home, complete with 3, 6 and 16 year old kids to give it a workout.
Scot relates the experiences of his kids getting used to the new machine…
I barely had it set up before the younger two were locked in a battle to gain control of the wired Mighty Mouse and svelte aluminum keyboard. The 16-year-old nonchalantly leaned over and pushed the On button, which is located in an out-of-the-way spot behind the one-piece
and discusses the history of the iMac briefly.
After a description of the new models, he remarks on performance of his test iMac (24″ 2.8GHz):
As far as speed is concerned, the iMac chugged through a variety of daily tasks — surfing the Web, e-mail, text editing and viewing digitial photos — without a hitch. Its performance was generally on par with the 2.4-GHz 17-in. MacBook Pro I use, though, not surprisingly, it boots up a bit faster. It certainly offers all of the performance most users will need for the foreseeable future. The only upgrade I might consider at some point would be doubling the RAM to 4GB.
and goes on to mention the small footprint, and some personal gripes he has with the Mighty Mouse.
Scot says that his kids insist that they have to get a new iMac, so I guess we know how the liked it. He closes with:
Sure, you can buy a less expensive Windows machine for home or office desktop, but as Macs go, the new iMac is a great deal. And by using Apple’s Boot Camp software or Parallels or VMWare, you get the best of both worlds: You can install Windows XP for full application flexibility, giving you essentially two computers in one.
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