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To: Artslaw who wrote (31821)	1/16/2002 1:47:28 AM
From: Jeff Hayden	Respond to of 213182

A hell of a lot of professionally edited video gets done on a PowerBook.

To: Artslaw who wrote (31821)	1/16/2002 2:16:03 AM
From: Doren	Respond to of 213182

I realize that computing power has never been an Apple strong point Macs USED to kick butt on PCs, especially floating point calculations.

To: Artslaw who wrote (31821)	1/16/2002 8:06:51 AM
From: Win-Lose-Draw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213182

15" LCD monitor is a novalty item--it's what you get stuck with on a laptop for portability, not something you choose I absolutely and vehemently disagree with this statement. CRTs are huge and ugly and I will continue to NOT buy one. Period. I would rather have less screen real estate than a powersucking plastic pile of putrid ugliness in my home. Period. And since you're bound to ask, no, I do not own a television set, nor do I live in Japan. I'm not saying my choice is everyone's choice, I'm just saying there is a significant market of people either don't want CRTs or don't need big screens. Whether this is a viable market is, of course, a separate discussion. I'm just glad someone is building a PC that I can live with.

To: Artslaw who wrote (31821)	1/17/2002 4:06:01 AM
From: Cogito	Respond to of 213182

>>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.<< Steven - Have you compared a 15.9" viewable CRT with a good 15" LCD side by side? The LCD's perfect flatness, perfectly straight lines and crisp definition make it look just as big, if not slightly bigger. It's true that resolutions are limited, but on a 17" monitor anything higher than that results in text and icons so tiny you can't do anything. I surmise that's why you use a 19" monitor at home. It's always best to use an LCD monitor at its native resolution. Anyway, it doesn't matter. Once again I'll point out that the original iMac was roundly criticized on its introduction, right here on this thread, for not having a bigger screen. 15 inch monitors simply weren't big enough, some opined, and nobody was going to buy these things. Here we are less than four years and more than six million units later. Whatever your personal opinion about the machine may be, people are responding extremely well to it. All indications are that pre-orders are very strong. The sales will tell the story. - Allen PS: If you look at the specs of the machines in that shootout, you see that Dell machine with the 1.7MHz P4 with RDRAM has half as much RAM as the AMD-based Compaq next to it and only half the hard drive capacity. If you benchmark those machines right next to each other, the Compaq will come out ahead, even though its processor runs at a 300 megahertz disadvantage. If you want to take the P4, you're welcome to it. ;-) If your main application happens to be encoding video streams, the P4 is a better choice. For anything else, the Athlon XP rules.