Posts Tagged ‘imac’
Scams, lies and complete chaos!
Written by Arnan on July 11, 2008 – 3:17 amSo i took a good look behind my iMac today and under my desk. yup i was at it again, adding yet another cable to the pile.
And i remembered seeing an image on the Apple website picturing a Dell computer and the new iMac. How clean the iMac looked compared to the Dell with cables and stuff running around.
And i must say… It’s a lie! I have even more cables than the Dell in their image.
Apple’s vision of an iMac:
And here is the sad truth! Ofcourse, not everything is from the mac. But 80% of what you see here is either connecting to the mac, powering peripherals to the mac or otherwise involved for that iMac. It’s insane!
Behind the iMac it’s complete mayhem, headphone cable, sound cords, multiple USB and Firewire cables, ethernet, power cords…
Below the table is mostly the lengthy pieces hanging down, a whole lot of audio cable coming from the sound card (the LED box in the other image) and a bunch of power cables. Going to various devices in this area.
The iMac as a gaming computer?
Written by Arnan on May 14, 2008 – 4:34 pmI recently bought an iMac and kind of feared it would not outperform my previous PC in gaming. I had read on various large mac sites that the iMac “still was not capable of running games” and more of such stories.
Soon i discovered that that was not true at all. To properly play games you still need Windows installed so i installed Windows XP Pro SP2 with all updates and all that rubbish. And some recent games. Like ‘Rainbow 6 Vegas 2′ and ‘Supreme Commander’ for example. Both games are quite heavy on the graphics and memory part of the game and i can play both on 1680×1050 resolution all settings high without a hitch.
Also battlefield 2142 which is a bit older but still a heavy game specs wise runs fine with 64 bots enabled on Singleplayer. No problems there.
All fullscreen and high resolution and settings. I don’t see why the iMac would be a bad computer for games. It outperforms my guestpc which is a AMD Dual Core 4200 with a 512MB Vga. While the iMac is a Intel C2D 2.4Ghz with 256MB Vga.
Tags: apple, games, imac, mac, osx, windows xp
