Damn, relax people (& take an i**** if necessary ;) (please excuse the irreverent humour), I never thought that calling the iMac an iCrap would generate this much vehemence in the responses. It is a computer! One with built-in obsolescence at that (& anyone who believes that Apple didn't build obsolescence into it... I have some Nortel shares to sell you at $50 @). The responses I've seen that are indignant seeing the iMac called an iCrap resemble the responses I'd expect to see with the irrationality that comes with belief [in absolutes]. Dare I say it, I love my Mac OS but it's only a tool. If a better OS comes along which suits my needs (especially if it matches/beats its capabilities at a lower price) I will ditch Apple as fast as I would scarf down a sourcream doughnut (& I'm *hungry* right now)!!!
BTW I responded to the Wintel vs. Mac Tower e-mail but the e-mail got rejected (too big). on 17/10/01 15:19, Andrew Macklin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I bought a rev. B iMac on the day they came out. I used it for two years for > everything from book keeping and email to graphic design and flash animation > for the film industry. That computer is now being used by my brother for > surfing, email and writing. Even though I used it as a portable, lugging it > to and from work it never had a problem. > > I find it hard to call that machine anything but a total success. I've called it many things (including a success) but the one that has stuck and that I and my compatriots find most descriptive (and amusing) has been the iCrap. For those of you with the original iBooks skip this paragraph or else hold you tirades to yourself: there's also the iToiletbook :) :) :) Or, for those of you with crude minds (if you're of the prudish persuasion skip to the next paragraph) a friend of mine dubbed the Snow coloured iMac the CumMac. BTW remember the whole kerfuffle about Canadian Tire trying to gain control over www.crappytire.com (which went down under threat of lawsuit from Crappy Tire) under the claim that Crappy Tire fell under their trademark. Their was that "younger people" refer to the store that way, and not in derogatory terms. I refer to it as Crappytire, sometimes simply to refer to Canadian Tire (which often sells good products) but also to refer to some of the low-quality "crap"py stuff they sell. <http://dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/Domain_Names/Disputed_Domain_Names/crapp ytire.com/> > Anyone else had a good experience with their iMac? Yeah, I did (Rev A) (used in 99 from a friend). Had I paid full, new price I would've been peeved at Apple. It was a good machine, fast performance and I could hook up a USB CD-RW but it was *flimsy* and had no CPU upgrade path and the CD-ROM failed. I saw a friend go through *three* iMacs because of the upgrade syndrome (I bought the first one off him for a little more than he would've got on a trade-in on his next iMac) before going to a heavy duty PC (much, much cheaper PC with more horsepower than any iMac offered him... he wanted a gaming machine) Windows ME machine (big mistake... should've gone 2000) and is now supplementing his Win computer with a white iBook (which wasn't as big a mistake in my opinion as buying an iMac (he'll still want to upgrade in a few months)). The slot-loaders were a marked improvement over the Rev A/B/C but they still suffer from (a) small screen (17" & 1280*1024 IS the standard now) (major problem), (b) no CPU upgrade (major problem), (c) limited RAM slots (minor to no problem), (d) no PCI slots (minor problem as there's USB and Firewire). As for hardware... I've seen a number of HDs & CD-ROMs fail in iCraps (that's how we started with the nick-name). BTW *my* first Mac (SE accelerated to 16MHz 68020) is *still* in regular use at home: my dad has it hooked up to a 20" B&W monitor for his spreadsheet (& he uses the lemon (it does suck but it works) 5200/75 as his main machine). L8r -- Mac Canada is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Shop Canadian, visit Mantek Services <http://www.mantek.mb.ca> Low Prices That Will Keep YOU and Your MAC Smiling Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Mac Canada info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/mac-can.shtml> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-canada%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
