Overall Rating: ( 5 reviews )

1. ( 0 of 2 found this review helpful ) Posted: Apr 16 2007

   instead of buying the imac 20", buy a mac mini, a 20" monitor from any half-decent manufacturer, and a keyboard/mouse. it will cost less than half as much and work just as well.

2. ( 6 of 7 found this review helpful ) Posted: Nov 10 2006

   Without a doubt, this is the best desktop computer on the market today. The price point is excellent, the software bundle is incredible, and the all-in-one design from Apple is beautiful. The only bad thing is is that if you go with the iMac instead of a Dell machine, you won't be able to spend time on finding device drivers, updating your virus software, and rebooting after every single program installation. Get a Mac! It just works.

3. ( 12 of 13 found this review helpful ) Posted: Sep 28 2006

   I was a Mac user until 1998, when it appeared Apple was as done as three-month old bread. I gave up hope and went with Windows, fought through 95, 98, NT, 2000 and XP (never bothered with Millennium), and pretty much considered defeat. Until the iBook G4, and then, my daughter bought the iMac. Yes, it is pricey, which will keep me out of one for a little while. But Windows users, the cost is WORTH IT! It boots up fast, it is sleek, when programs crash, they only crash the program, not the whole machine. Get this, Windows users: It runs Windows XP (with Parallel), but even better, it boots Windows FASTER than my Athlon 64 computer with 512 MB ram. Much faster! My daughter now has two solid computers for the price of one Mac. She has all the stuff she needs with her Mac, but also has a Windows machine for some of our software and programs we do not want to replace right now. I truly believe that the Mac's prices will drop significantly as more and more people buy it...and I really like not having to deal with virus protection. (Yes, I still have virus protection for the partition used to run XP on my daughter's Mac). Before anyone thinks I am simply on the Mac bandwagon, I was tech coordinator at my old high school for three years and work with both every day as a teacher and free lance journalist. As soon as I have enough money, I will buy a Macbook, and also replace my desktop with an iMac. They are worth the money, will be alive and kicking for a while to come, and for the first time since I first started using a Mac back in 1985, I believe Macs have made themselves a part of the landscape for a long time to come. Thanks to the addition of the Intel chip and the ability to use Windows, Macs are worth the cost.

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