http://www.macnn.com/articles/04/09/15/nyt.review.of.the.imac.g5/
NYT: iMac G5 'may be just radical enough'
updated 02:45 pm EDT, Wed September 15, 2004
NYT review of the iMac G5
David Pogue's notes the striking resemblance to the iPod, easy access to the internals, and innovative speaker placement, but says that Apple "muffed one detail: even the top-of-the-line model comes with only 256 megabytes of memory. That's typical for consumer computers these days, but on a creative powerhouse like the Macintosh, it's not enough." The article, however, says that while the design will lure iPod fans with its 'attention-grabbing' design, the "feature that will ultimately make them happiest has nothing to do with quiet fans or thin power cords. In the long run, they'll benefit most from the iMac's stealth feature: Mac OS X."
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RAM Configuration
I'm so sick of people complaining about the RAM configuration. Apple does this to save the user money.
They know that most people that add RAM to a Mac do not buy it from Apple because you can just plain get it cheaper elsewhere. I know that I am going to put 1GB at least into an iMac of this speed. I would much rather replace a cheap 256 MB stick than replace a larger more expensive configuration, it is plain wasteful.
RAM IS CHEAP! for the price of a dinner and a movie you can put an additional 512 MB in that iMac. With as easy as it is to add things like RAM to this machine; Apple is doing everyone a favor by letting them install whatever they want for RAM.