Marcus Hamaker is The Sleepy Geek

There have been rumours floating about that say Apple is updating their iMac line today. OOOOoooo exciting :)

Low and behold, the store is down. I am a little pumped because my brother is shopping for a new computer and he had his eyes on the iMac. An update would be nice!

(update) Info:

http://www.macrumors.com/2009/10/20/rumored-product-introductions-today-mac-minis-imac-airport-time-capsules/

http://mashable.com/2009/10/20/rumor-apple-imac-macbook/

(second update)
Looks like they have made changes to the MacBook, the Mini and most notably the iMacs. They are now finally wide-screen, they have updated hard discs and memory configurations and they still have  a price drop. Well done Apple. Only problem is that I still can afford one :P
more info: http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2009/10/20imac.html

There is a lot of buzz about this new commercial that Microsoft has made that seems to be drawing a lot of attention in the blogsphere. I have taken a moment to go and watch the video and I am not sure I have a hard opinion either way.

First things first the commercial does what it is designed to do. Microsoft’s sole intention with this commercial is to point out that Macs are more expensive than are Windows based machines. This is true if you look at each other’s low end price point. In US pricing the lowest prices Mac is $1000 and we all know that you can get a Windows based HP or Toshiba for $500-$600 at the entry level.

The issue I have with this the comparison of unlike hardware. The base laptops at these prices are not the same specs as the Mac computers at their entry level. I really am going to watch what people are going to say about this one. I don’t fault Microsoft for the ad, it does what they need to do.

I just wonder if they could have gone about it by talking about features of Windows rather than specifying hardware limits off the bat. The woman in the ad right away says that a 17″ screen is a must. Well they don’t talk about the resolution of the screen, it could be a very poor resolution 17″ screen and that makes a difference. If you look at a 13″ Mac with a high res, then again we are comparing apples to oranges.

What do you think?