If the Apple Store in Shibuya has the new Intel iMac in stock tonight, I'm buying one. To afford it I'm going to have to turn a lot of tricks before my next credit card bill arrives. Contracting potentially deadly STDs and nursing raw, sore genitalia will be a small price to pay in comparison to finally putting an end to my video editing hassles.
BTW, there's a PayPal link on your right. Soon I'll be adding links for $100, $200 and $500 recurring monthly contributions. And be sure to check my Ebay auctions for my wife, children, and a few second-hand internal organs.
15 responses so far ↓
1 sakuradamon
// Jan 11, 2006 at 2:29 pm
I hope you can get the imac , I have a ibook and have been a Apple user since the 80s and I still don't know what the hell I am doing. I am from Apple Country but have since moved 4 hours north. My Favorite Sushi Bar is on the same street Apple is located. The basic iMac is $1299 here how much is it there ?
2 Kevin Lo
// Jan 11, 2006 at 2:51 pm
They won't be available until February.
3 Rich Pav
// Jan 11, 2006 at 3:01 pm
I was a die-hard Mac zealot until 5-6 years ago. I was forced to switch to Windows 2000 when I switched jobs and found it to be stable, tolerable and affordable. I've never used OS X but have heard nothing but good things about it, even from normal people.
The desktop Intel Mac is almost affordable, but it would make more sense for me to buy a laptop so I can use it on the train and cause all sorts of envy. I mean, let's face it–I'm about due for a midlife crisis, and a Mac is a lot cheaper than a BMW convertible and a montly membership to Gold's Gym.
If I stop cutting my hair, I'll save $10 a month, which means in less than 20 years I will have made up the cost. Also, I recently quit smoking, so if I stay quit for a year and a half I will have saved roughly $2000. And if I start eating only instant ramen from now on instead of food…
4 Rich Pav
// Jan 11, 2006 at 3:12 pm
What?! I read they're shipping today. But you're right, I just checked the online store in Japan. And in yen they're even more unaffordable: 309,800 yen for the laptop. That's about 25 years without a haircut.
5 sakuradamon
// Jan 11, 2006 at 3:20 pm
there will be good deals on used computers soon , that is the usual patern.
6 Rich Pav
// Jan 11, 2006 at 3:26 pm
I realize that, but the next computer I buy is going to have to last a while. Plus, it would be very convenient to be able to run Mac, Windows and Unix all on the same machine.
7 Matthias
// Jan 11, 2006 at 6:48 pm
They are available right now! The only thing, that is not available is the MacBook Pro. I'd like to buy one but… OK, my PowerBook is not even two years old, so I think there are more important things – like the year in Japan
But if you compare the ¥ prices to the € prices… 3% value added tax vs. 16% here in Germany (and next year 19%…) does make a difference.
The iMac surely is a great machine, though I don't like desktops at all. and I also would not like to be a beta-tester for Apple
But as soon as you've got one: Please write about installing Windows on it! Apple said it wouldn't work, but I don't believe in that, since Linux also runs on PowerPC Macs.
8 Lon
// Jan 12, 2006 at 1:00 am
Apple never said it wouldn't work (to install Windows on the new Intel Macs) — they only said they wont support it.
9 Matthias
// Jan 12, 2006 at 2:15 am
My mistake.
Yesterday one Apple employee told an interviewer, it wouldn't work, today Apple again said, that it would work and that there were no barriers in order to prevent installing Windows.
Sorry!
10 mike
// Jan 12, 2006 at 2:44 am
oh wow, apple is gonna rock the market
11 Rom
// Jan 12, 2006 at 3:35 am
When I switched to OS X from OS 9, there were some frustrations involved. I imagine there would be some with switching from Windows as well. But once you get past that, it's pure delicious gravy. These days, I can't even look at OS 9 any more. It is like ashes in my eyes. Windows is like ashes in my eyes too, plus a guy in a suit slaps me in the face every so often. But I have to use it at work, so I'm accustomed to it. I just go numb and try to hold back tears. If Windows sees you crying, then it knows it has won.
12 Counterfit
// Jan 12, 2006 at 4:53 am
The only barrier is getting Windows to support EFI, rather than BIOS.
Also, Rich, OS X *is* Unix (well, not certified, but damn close enough), so you'd only need OS X and Windows.
13 ed
// Jan 12, 2006 at 6:45 am
Wow that is a huge difference.
With today's rates of about 114Y to every dollar that is around $2717.
Now I have lived in the Kansai region before and I know some fruit can be expensive in Japan, but a $2700 apple even with intel inside is a wee-bit expensive. That's a lot of ramen you will have to eat.
14 Rich Pav
// Jan 12, 2006 at 3:32 pm
You're right about EFI. I read in a few places this morning that Windows XP doesn't support EFI, which means it won't run on Apple hardware. If the new laptop won't run Windows, then I'm better off either buying a used Mac or waiting for Vista to come out.
15 Rich Pav
// Jan 12, 2006 at 3:36 pm
309,800 with tax included, mind you. There's a law in Japan requiring venders to display all prices with tax included.