My best Mac yet!
Written: Jul 22 '00
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Pros: inexpensive, very fast, lots of software available, Mac interface makes it easy to use
Cons: small screen, stupid round mouse, small standard keyboard (I replaced mine), no floppy drive
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| mikedoolin's Full Review: Apple iMac DV Indigo 15 in. (M7639LL/A) Mac Deskto... |
I have been buying Apple products since the original Apple II back around the dawn of time, and purchased my iMac DV around Christmas of 1999. This is my seventh Mac product and easily the best of the bunch by far. I am a professional advertising copywriter and in my business - the communications business - nearly everyone uses Macs, so buying a Mac is a no-brainer for me: it makes me instantly compatible with nearly every ad agency, graphics shop and printer.
I have loved Macs since I saw the first one (and bought it) in 1984. I write ad copy for techy and industrial clients, most of whom are on DOS/Win computers. While those computers and their interface have come a long way, they are still clunky and arcane compared to the way Macs handle the interface, and I'd go back to pencil and paper before I'd work on anything except a Mac.
As I writer I sometimes spend hours a day working on my computer, either writing or doing research on the net or creating graphics-based items like data sheets, brochures, prototypes for web pages, etc. The Mac is just simpler and more intuitive to use than the DOS/Win computers (even though they have basically stolen the Mac interface). I have had occasion to use Win computers, but they are still crude by comparison to the Mac.
If I was asked to make this computer better I would make the screen bigger and I would bring back the internal floppy drive that used to be standard on all Macs. Steve Jobs is obviously a very smart cowboy, but he blew it when he decreed that iMacs would have no floppy drive. The rest of the world still uses zillions of floppies to move info back and forth, and the absence of one in this computer is a major flaw.
With a 400 MHz processor and 128 MB or RAM (up from the std 64), this computer will do nearly anything I could ever want it to do. It crashes occasionally, but I have never seen a computer that didn't, and that seems to be very common in the Win world too. At $1300 it was a bargain when new, and I note that Apple has just introduced a new line of iMacs for even less money. It looks slick, runs well, there is tons of software available for it, and the USB interface means I can connect practically any peripheral to it in seconds without even turning it off.
My old Macs are always donated to my four daughters, and with the exception of a rebel daughter living in VA, the other three have all developed a fondness for Macs that mirrors mine.
Is the Mac perfect? No. Is it a great computer at a great price? Yes. It's easy to use, easy to understand for us non-computer-engineer types, and like every Mac back to the first one, has a personality. And that's a lot more than I can say about those clone me-too Win boxes I see on my clients' desks. It's no accident that the Win computers look and feel more and more like Macs every day.
Recommended:
Yes
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Member: Mike Doolin
Location: Rochester, NY
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