Once very expensive, the price of laser printers has fallen dramatically over the past several years mainly due to major improvements in speed and print quality by inkjets, which are less expensive than laser printers.
Laser printers have three advantages over inkjets.
They consistently print crisp, clean black text.
The cost per copy is lower usually lower.
When printing multiple copies of the same page, they are faster than inkjets.
Virtually all inkjet printers are color printers, and these days they’re all pretty speedy, and they print images and photos well. So what differentiates one model from another, and what should you look for if you’re in the market for an inkjet?
Inkjet advertising stresses the print quality of pictures and photos, but in the real world we all print pages of plain black text much more frequently than pictures and photos. Crisp, dark, easy to read black text is the hallmark of the laser. Many inkjets …
The MacBook line is aimed squarely at business users, students, and those who prefer a laptop home computer. They’re easily portable, comfortable to use, and have a superb 13” LCD screen that’s plenty large for word processing, spreadsheets, email, web browsing, iPhoto, iTunes, audio production, and watching movies on DVD. If you need a larger screen (for graphic arts or video production work, for example), look at the MacBook …
The MacBook Pro line is aimed at heavy duty computer users who also need portability. Among the lightest weight laptops in this class, the MacBook Pros feature an aircraft aluminum exterior, however their 15” and 17” screens mean they’re physically larger than the 13” MacBooks.
The MacBook Pro line features an extensive list of standard features: built-in wireless networking; built-in BlueTooth for wireless …
XServe an extremely reliable, very fast, dedicated workgroup server. It contains many components typical of any computer: microprocessors, RAM, and hard drive. Since it’s not designed to be a desktop workstation, however, the accent is not on large hard drives, optical (CD and DVD) drives, or fast video cards with plenty of video RAM to drive multiple large monitors. Those things, which are so important in a desktop workstation, ...
The Mac Mini is an inexpensive, complete, home computer that’s only 6” x 6” x 2.5”. Small size is the Mac Mini’s best feature.
The Mac Mini line features an impressive array of standard features: built-in wireless networking; built-in BlueTooth for wireless keyboards and mice, or syncing handheld devices and BlueTooth phones wirelessly; iLife, Apple’s suite of entertainment programs including iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, ...
The Mac Pro is at the top of Apple’s desktop computer line. Available with a minimum of four or a maximum of eight processors, the Mac Pro handles the heaviest video, audio, and graphics production, as well as making an excellent file server for small to medium size companies.
Unlike all other Macs, the Mac Pro is based on Intel’s Xeon line of microprocessors…a line Intel designed for servers rather than desktop …
Simply elegant. It looks like a flat screen display, but it really is a workhorse computer with a great screen.
Offering fast Intel Core 2 Duo processors, 20” and 24” screen sizes, huge hard drives, Apple SuperDrives, and the ability to accept up to 4GB of RAM, iMacs have become our most recommended Mac models for home, business, and graphic arts production. But what’s really remarkable is how affortable they are.
