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http://www.insanely-great.com/news.php?id=716
Cloning the eMac or the iMac?
By Remy Davison, Insanely Great Mac
July 26th 2002
The Mysterious Case of the Schitzophrenic PC Manufacturer.
Northgate may not have cloned the eMac or the iMac - but they''re getting relatively
close. Their Integra PC vaguely resembles the eMac, but features an LCD like an iMac.
More eMac-ish is the price: a mere $1,099.
The Windows-based all-in-one features a 15" XGA LCD, a 1.8GHz Celeron, DDR 266
support, built-in speakers, one FireWire port and four USB.
Northgate are touting the Integra''s "small footprint", but naturally it doesn''t have
the either the elegance of the eMac design, or the innovation of the iMac LCD.
All-in-one designs, while stunningly successful on the Mac plaform (the original
Macintosh; Plus; Classic; Color Classic; LC575; a number of PPC Performas and Power
Macs; the G3 AIO; original iMac and iMac G4, to name a few), have yet to achieve
widespread acceptance on the PC side. One criticism often made is the built-in
monitor, which makes upgrades more difficult, and also renders the machine a possible
boneyard addition if the display dies.
Northgate describe the design thus:
"[the Integra] is constructed with a simple "h" shape design. Its creative sliding
seat allows the users to push it backward, sit lower, further away from the screen.
Actually, to us, it looks like they couldn''t decide whether to pirate the eMac or the
iMac. Two design teams went and designed one prototype each. They apparently never
met, so Marketing took half of each design and stuck it together with duct tape.
Analysis: We don''t think Apple will be suing on this one, although several engineers
may giggle loudly and swallow their Buds the wrong way.
Northgate do lie at least once though:
"With the latest 1394 Firewire Technology downloading and editing you videos from your
digital camcorder is just a breeze."
On a Windows box? Fat chance. And the typo on ''you'' in their PR is their typo, not
ours. Would you buy a used car from them?
Or a new PC?
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http://www.insanely-great.com/news.php?id=716
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