I may have to try a Mac sometime, but right now I'm having fun playing with these old Windows machines. (Well, there is one I use for serious things but the others are my toys). 

The new iMac is pricey, but it should have excellent performance. The older PowerPC/RISC based Macs held some surprises also. A few years ago I had a friend who worked at the local recycling center, and people would bring in all kinds of stuff that still had some useful life left in it and they'd line them up by the building until the end of the day so anyone who wanted them could get them. One day this guy brought in a Power Mac (the older desktop style with handles on the corners) and my friend grabbed it and set it inside the building.

When I came by for a visit later on he hooked it up to an old monitor he had laying around and we tinkered with it a bit. We found it to have pretty impressive performance, especially considering it had a 200 MHz CPU. That's right, 200 MHz. It played DVD movies as well as a Windows machine with a much faster CPU. I'd seen Windows machines play DVD movies with 500 MHz CPUs, but they couldn't do much of anything else at the time. I don't recall ever seeing a Win machine with a 200 MHz CPU that could play a DVD movie.

Of course, the PowerPC CPU and the Pentium II/III CPU were completely different architectures, but still the performance gap at the time was amazing.

DR

Sure glad you got a refurbished unit...I'm amazed at the price of a new one...


Is Apple's new iMac Pro, with a starting price at $4,999, overpriced?

Just how overpriced is Apple's new iMac Pro?

The new $5K iMac Pro also is the first foray Apple has made into making their computers non-upgradeable like their other iThings. The RAM is soldered to the motherboard, as is the discrete graphics card.

DR

So happy for you Ms. Queen !   You know what your talking about and was a big help for me when I bought my Mac for Xmas.

Give 'em 'hale' LOL

Oh hail yes.

So happy your loving' it !    We all deserve to treat ourselves. LOL

The heat and humidity are just beginning to get cranked up here in SC... I went out around 3 PM to do some errand running and it was 94. Sometimes I wish we could use evaporative coolers here, since electricity is fairly expensive ($0.11/kWh), but the summer humidity would render them all but useless.

I expect us to have some 100 degree days ahead, but TX seems to get stuck in it and bake for extended periods. Stay cool however you can manage, Sharkky...

DR

yeah, but, that humidity in the South would stagger a buffalo.