Originally Posted by
Scott Shepherd
Isn't implying that they are nothing more than pretty to fit in with your furniture saying it's nothing more than hype?
Exactly my point. Guess what's not "high end graphics work" these days. Digital photography. You take a photo with a DSLR, it captures the colors, you open Photoshop on your $129 at Staples on sale monitor, think "I need to adjust the colors". You adjust them, send them to be professionally printed and they come back and you say "Humm...the colors aren't quite like I remembered".
Design a logo for someone without a high end monitor and wait until it gets printed. You're not actually seeing what the end result should look like. You have to have a very good monitor, you have to have the tools (hardware and software) to calibrate the monitor, and you start from there. So if you are into digital photography, or graphic design, you can't, with the $499 complete system from Dell, even come close to doing professional work. So yes, you got a $499 computer, but what's it good for? Surfing the internet? Typing spreadsheets? Reading email? If that's all you do, then you are 100% correct, you don't need the Mac. But to repeatedly state that the $499 Dell is in the same category with an iMac is completely false.
The iMac is ready for digital photography and graphic design. What you see on the screen is what you will get when it prints, because it will calibrate. If you've never experienced the new Apple monitors, you need to. They are stunning.
And you may not have gotten a virus, but millions of your counterparts have. You should realize that not everyone is a techno-head and understands what you should and shouldn't do on a daily basis. For 90% of the public, when the box pops up and says "You have a virus, click here to clean the virus", they have no way to know that it's anything other than something cleaning the virus. They don't know it's actually the virus. You do. Most people don't.
I'll gladly have a beer with you any time :) In fact, I'm thirsty now :) I'm buying, pony up to the bar!