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Read more.27 inch all-in-one PC announced alongside Compaq L2311c Notebook Docking Monitor.
1920x1080 display? Bit of a let down for a machine that size, the iMac has it beat there.
Under the first image - "starting prices excepted"
I am getting sick and tired of these playschool vertical resolutions. I had a 2048x1620 CRT display in 2001. What with things like ribbon interfaces, overcrowded status lines, launchers, nearly all the vertical resolution is gone before I've found somewhere to type in.
Come on, HP, sort things out.
Not sure about the 27" iMac but my missus 21.5" one has 1920x1080 resolution...Originally Posted by Platinum
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27" iMac is 2560x1440
But it's not worth comparison really, those specs read as not really in the same ballpark as the iMac
System:Atari 2600 CPU:8-bit 6507 (1.19MHz) RAM:128 bytes Colours: 16 (4 on screen) Resolution: 192x160
Yeahh the imac cant compete, cant even offer an internal blu-ray player, dont think the imac offers usb3 or the option of am 8 core CPU.
Its got thunderbolt though, there will even be an adapter tomake it usable for a few ££££££
Neither can the HP from all the specs currently out.
As for Blu-Ray, I know, I mean God, my VAIO is over a year old and has a Blu-Ray drive in it !! Stupid Macs don't know what they're missing, I mean i've used my Blu-Ray drive... er... never
But seriously, the CPU/GPU Intel graphics and Fisher-Price resolution mean this really no challenge at all to the iMac, and that's shame as it could have been so much more.
System:Atari 2600 CPU:8-bit 6507 (1.19MHz) RAM:128 bytes Colours: 16 (4 on screen) Resolution: 192x160
Surely that depends on the price.....But seriously, the CPU/GPU Intel graphics and Fisher-Price resolution mean this really no challenge at all to the iMac, and that's shame as it could have been so much more.
To be fair, it seems pretty ridiculous to produce a 1080p+ computing / entertainment system and not include a drive that can at least play blu-rays. Even if it was an upgrade option and they charged swingingly for it I could kind of understand (it fits apple's business model, after all), but no, you're stuck with optical technology from the last decade.... Stupid Macs don't know what they're missing, I mean i've used my Blu-Ray drive... er... never
Unsurprisingly, the apple website makes no mention of how great the iMac is for watching HD movies. HP can happily slap "Watch blu-rays in full HD!" on the Omni27's marketing blurb, and *bam* - keyword heaven for selling to the masses.
But Blu-Ray technology has not really made any entry into the computer market, DVD did, the computer market was crying out for the 4.7GB discs for archive and storage at the time, but these days portable HDDs have it covered so Blu-Ray offers nothing more than movies really. So why put in technology that's not going to be around for long (relatively speaking) and achieves nothing that can't already be done cheaper without physical media. That's a more accurate appraisal of where it fits with the Apple business model with the push for all media to be held on, and delivered via, the Cloud.. sorry iCloud
Of course it does, the Apple website talks about viewing HD video on the iMac plenty, with screenshots from HD movies all over the place. Apple just don't believe in investing heavily in the Blu-Ray devices for the Mac hardware, firstly because the standard is still changing (BD/BDXL etc) and secondly because they believe that physical media is on the way out. And to be honest, IF I was an Apple nut why would I buy a Blu-Ray disc when I can rent the movie once on iTunes and then have it available to watch on my iMac, iPad, iPhone, and TV (via AppleTV) for half the price of the Blu-Ray.
Last edited by Barakka; 09-01-2012 at 03:29 PM.
System:Atari 2600 CPU:8-bit 6507 (1.19MHz) RAM:128 bytes Colours: 16 (4 on screen) Resolution: 192x160
Perhaps, but that's a *huge* market for a "nothing more". So whilst people looking for a "computer" might not care that much, people looking for an entertainment centre will see blu-ray as a selling point.
Looking at the "features" page for the iMac on the UK Apple store website:
HD's mentioned quite a lot. Movies aren't mentioned at all (and I specifically said Movies, not video or content). I'm sure Apple have their own, very good, reasons for not getting behind blu-ray as a technology, but it's hardly a new technology and it is gaining traction in the film industry as a content delivery format.
I'm not going to get into an argument about physical media vs. downloads here, as it's not really relevant to my point, which that if you are going to make an all-in-one with entertainment centre credentials and a 1080p screen, and you're going to equip it with an optical drive, it makes implicit sense that you make it available with an optical drive that can handle the current standard optical media for HD content. It'd almost make more sense for the iMac to not have an optical drive at all...
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