Recent content by steelbom

The $1999 model should include the 7970M and the other models should still have good 7000M series graphics such as the 7850M and 7870M. It's not just that though, we've already had a couple of generations of Macs capable of playing games at a decent frame rate, and as the GPUs continue to...

Yes, that one. To be honest, it would actually exist at this point it just hasn't been announced yet. You did say an iMac doesn't have a great GPU though which is true, the 6970M in the high end 27 inch iMac is only decent. The 7970M on the other hand is a really great GPU. >>>>>...

What's retarded (and arrogant) is that you're unable to accept that other people have opinions different than your own, and your unable to be respectful about it either. It's no toy, and I'm not blowing money on anything. I'm investing in the best system for me right now, that does everything...

Ah well I wasn't taking into account sales or anything. Of course not, I'm talking about colour quality and uniformity, brightness and constrast uniformity, and yes viewing angles as well. Are you kidding me?! That's the whole point of a 120Hz display is so that you can see 120 FPS rather...

You seem to have this very strong misconception that the benefit is only a "slightly better quality" display. You get slightly better sharpness than a 23 inch 1080p display, and a substantial increase in workspace, but the actual quality of the display itself is so many leaps and bounds above...

That doesn't help. I know how to search for 27 inch 1080p monitors but I've no idea which one you looked at specifically, and I don't care to guess either. At 27 inches 1440p is much better -- said display has a PPI of 108 while at 1080p the same size monitor only has a PPI of 88. At 21.5...

It's no minor improvement. And shoot me the link to this 27 inch 1080p display you've found, I doubt it's the same quality as a 27 inch 1440p display. I don't know anything about games supporting that resolution but every game I've ever played on my 1440p iMac monitor looked great. I don't...

That's a common misconception. It's $999 for Apple's 27 inch 1440p LED backlight IPS display, and you're looking at about $799-$899 for something from Dell. Nonetheless I like Apple's displays so it's quite likely that I would purchase one again, although I would look at the other offerings...

It's very neat and tidy. It's also the only consumer desktop Mac. I own the iPad 3 and as I expected those "claims" were all hyperbole. It's got a dual-core Cortex A9 CPU and a quad-core SGX543 GPU so the bottom left corner where the A5X SoC is located does get warm, but never anywhere near...

Yeah, and then I need a display -- and a 27 inch IPS 1440p display would run me about $1k so that's $1800 already. Why not just get the iMac at that point? I get a nice display that I know I like, a great CPU, a great GPU, OS X (for work and general use), all in a very tidy all-in-one form...

It's well within thermal specifications so how is that horrible design? You're dealing with a very compact form factor, it's going to be hot unless you turn up the fans. But what would you prefer? Silent operation that's well within thermal spec, or loud operation that's cooler despite serving...

It's unlikely that Macs will ever become the choice system for gaming, but more and more high quality titles are coming to the Mac, which is just great. In a few years, hopefully many developers will be targeting both PC and Mac. An iMac is perfectly fine for gaming, and they're supposed to be...