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I'm the last person to argue against putting Adobe up against the nearest available wall.

See, I'm 99% sure that the G5s with iSight use a different screen than the other revs. I thought there was a thread that mentioned this not too long ago, but I may be mistaken.

Originally Posted by jeff k   So the consensus is that because of the superiority of the intel chip, the new imacs are faster and don't require that huge box. No, the G5 iMacs were of a similar form factor. The Intel chips are much easier to keep cool, because they don't emit nearly as much heat. That's the most concise way of summarizing it, I think.

thanks, my 27" regular, is fairly quiet, but there is a hum... hummmmmmmm. So it's not dead quite, it's there. So the consensus is that because of the superiority of the intel chip, the new imacs are faster and don't require that huge box. Then curious why Apple keeps the same exact box for it's Mac Pro's which are not that much faster than the imacs.

Snikkers, If you are used to the Windows paradigm (multiple menu bars), then you have to re-learn things on a Mac. The menu bar will always be on top, and always only for the front application. You can not move the menu bar around. This might sound odd at first, but there is really no use of two simultaneous menu bars. You can always only work with one at a time anyways. You just need to get used to the fact that the menu bar changes...

Tests of the betas of Flash 10.1 on Mac report significantly improved performance, even if they still won't use the GPU like they do on windows. Will believe it when I see it.

Originally Posted by ajprice   Here I am with an Intel GMA MacBook, the fans kick in every time I play a Facebook game like Farkle or something. Then I look at new MacBooks and Mac minis and think that apart from the 9700 graphics, its still a Core2Duo, but 2.5GHz instead of the 2.16GHz I've got, not much of an upgrade . It is a substantial upgrade, but not measured in clock speed. The upgrade people got when they went from the...

Interesting. Not bad, but still seems a bit high. Flash seems to perform much better on even low end PC's than on high end Macs...

Originally Posted by Spheric Harlot   But the i7 iMac is fast enough that it no longer really matters that Adobe can't get their shit together. That screws over anyone who doesn't have an i7 which means a lot of Mac users. Not everyone is going to upgrade to an i7 since most people don't buy the higher end Macs so this will affect a lot of people.

Just checked MacTracker, you are correct.