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To: Cogito who wrote (31817)	1/16/2002 1:00:43 AM
From: Artslaw	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 213182

I agree that that site tends to skew things Mac-ward (although they do recognize that the AMD XP chips are superior), but none of those systems includes an LCD flat-panel monitor. As a side note: I'll take a 1.7MHz P4 coupled with RDRAM {as they have in that comparison} over an XP 1700+ w/DDR any day, and they both run circles around a G4--but I realize that computing power has never been an Apple strong point and never comes up as a critical comparison point (for some reason). However, my beef is this "great" LCD. I'm loving all these plans about burning movies onto DVDs, etc with the new iMac with the great editing software, etc. Eventually the realization will set in that all these masterplans have to be done within the confines of a 15" screen? In the examples on the pro-Apple page, every single "competitor" is a 17" (15.9" viewable) monitor. I'll take that 0.9" on the diagonal any day--15" is too small do do any of these editing projects. The maximum resolution is 1024 by 768 pixels (look it up on the Apple page). I have a 19" monitor at home (running at 1280 x 1024) and a 24" at work--you would want at least the 19" (18" viewable) if serious about video editing, and at a better resolution than 1024 x 768! A 15" LCD monitor is a novalty item--it's what you get stuck with on a laptop for portability, not something you choose unless you live in a Japanese tube apartments and really need the space! (Perhaps THAT'S why Apple is so popular in Japan?) Anyway, that's the joke of that URL (http://www.aapltalk.com/shootouts/desktop_1800.html). They make it sound like having a tiny monitor is some great benefit. It isn't, although Mac users have perhaps gotten used to small monitors from the ol' days! Now, tag an 18" flatpanel w/"letterbox" dimensions and a real nVidia graphics card (instead of that oddly crippled one they are using--at least from the specs), and we are talking about something worthwhile (but--hey--on longer price competitive). Regards, Steve