http://www.macnn.com/articles/02/09/17/imac,.profile/
iMac, Profile 4 close competitors: article
updated 04:05 pm EDT, Tue September 17, 2002
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An AZcentral article attempts to determine which desktop PC -- the Apple iMac or the Gateway Profile 4 -- bests the other in performance, ease of use and reliability. According to the independently conducted testing, neither machine is able to declare outright victory. Both machines are built around 15-inch flat-panel displays. While the $1000 Gateway has larger RAM and storage allotments than the $1300 iMac, it narrowly edges the iMac in performance, despite including a CPU with a megahertz rating nearly three times that of the iMac. The machines' Quake III benchmarks differed by only four frames per second; Photoshop results revealed the 2.8GHz Gateway was only marginally faster.
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3 times the speed processor ... I don't care that their processor has to be 3 times as fast. Basically they're equal performing machines and the Gateway is CHEAPER by almost 25%!
Apple had to switch to the 'switch' adds because they can't do the toasting bunnies commercials anymore!
Hopefully they can in the future ... but like with most things with Apple, next year. What I hate, I'll wait until next year and be somewhat disappointed. I really think they have to rethink their consumer line.
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