Posts by GregM

Quote: Originally Posted by Kakaze They're not far faster, but they are faster. In real world situations the new iMacs are found to be about 20-30 percent faster than iMac G5s. 20-30% is huge. Just imagine an...

If you showed people it was a cow, and they all said it was a horse, it would still be a cow...

Quote: Originally Posted by optimo ...its not carbon fiber. its plastic on top... It is a carbon fiber/ plastic "alloy" - same as the W3V, Z70's, etc.

It is on the latest platform - everything is current. It just came out in June, and since you add your own CPU, HD, RAM, etc, there isn't anything I can think of that they could update.

Yeah, comes with an 8 cell battery. As for the HD, you can choose any you want. You could get a 7200 rpm if you'd like, but it would probably be hotter than the rest. I went with a Seagate 60/5400, which seems to run cool and has a 5...

Well, I only have the DVD/CDRW in my Z63A, so I haven't burned a DVD. However, I don't think the GPU has anything to do with DVD burning. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong. The video editing might be an issue though.

Most vendors say it doesn't do a darn. If applied poorly it could even be bad and void your CPU warranty.

There is no way a similarly configured Z63A would be more $ than the W3V. In fact I just configured a Z63A (just to confirm) @ ISTNC with W3V specs (no GPU, of course, 60/5400, 512, wireless) and it came to $1478 W/ XP Pro, or $1318 W/O...

Yup, I would also highly recommend the Z63A, as long as she doesn't need a video card. Bought mine from ISTNC - great people.

ISTNC has been great to me.