The New Imac 21.5-inch, 2.5GHz that I did not get offered from PCWorld

cooldaz

Hammyman wrote: »

And what will it spend most of its time doing? Like 99% of computers, Internet, Email, Facebook, MSN and Twitter with the odd photo manipulation, word document and spreadsheet thrown in.

And yes, they are faster in some benchmarks. Doesn't translate to real world use though as 3D Mark has proven time and time again.

And 288 whats? 580 whats? 439 whats? THEY ARE MEANINGLESS NUMBERS. How about showing the difference in the memory speed of MB/s for read and write, teraflops or MiPS for CPU performance etc? All you've done is proven you actually have little clue about anything by using some random program which gives meaningless numbers. If you've a CPU that does 20000 MiPS and gives a reading of 219 in that program and a CPU that does 20020 MiPS gives 288 in that program, does it mean the faster CPU is 40% faster or 1% faster? Hence the meaningless and pointlessness of such programs that give you meaningless numbers as a value. Its even worse when you use something like 3DMark to measure CPU performance with any meaning as you'll get an answer in frames per second. WHAT?

I'm only quoting whats in the current issue of MacUser magazine. For you to say that there is no massive leap forward shows how little knowledge you have about the new iMacs.

suicidebob

Hammyman wrote: »

Really? I wouldn't if I had old stock I was wanting to get rid of and I don't know any business that would.

Apple stores are usually pretty good at this.

almillar

I've bought plenty of Macs at PC World, cheaply too. They don't have big stocks, and once the new stuff comes in, the old stuff gets discounted, quite nicely sometimes. Like £380 for the last old shape MacMini when the new one was sitting beside it...
Bottom line is do your research before spending £1000. That's not too technical is it?

CoolHotCold

almillar wrote: »

I've bought plenty of Macs at PC World, cheaply too. They don't have big stocks, and once the new stuff comes in, the old stuff gets discounted, quite nicely sometimes. Like £380 for the last old shape MacMini when the new one was sitting beside it...
Bottom line is do your research before spending £1000. That's not too technical is it?

I'm not exactly sure what PcWorld did wrong in this case, its not like they had any to sell and it would be a hard push to find a saleman who says "Wait, don't buy that one were getting newer ones in soon". And what I expect has happened is the OP found out some time after purchasing it there were new ones afoot.

Cash-Cow_3

Always worth looking at the mac rumours website buying guide before buying iStuff from Apple as this gives advice as when updates to stuff are due.