Editorial Review:Product Description:Includes: Apple Remote, Apple Keyboard, Mighty Mouse, Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger, iLife '06, Front Row,&Photo Booth.Apple iMac with Intel Core Duo - Never judge a book by it's cover. A very appropriate phrase when talking about the new Apple iMac. On the outside it looks identical to the previous iMac desktop computer. The difference now lies at the heart of the latest iteration of the iMac. Powering the new all-in-one desktop is an Intel Core Duo! Dual processors on a single chip that gives you double the speed of the old iMac. With the new iMac you also get unique software applications. iLife '06 is a suite of applications that will make your everyday life easier to manage than ever before. And Front Row, combined with the included remote, lets you enjoy the media on your iMac fromany seat in the house. Slot-loading 8x SuperDrive with 2.4x Dual Layer burning Write Speeds - up to 2.4x Dual Layer DVD+R, 8x DVD+R, 8x DVD-R, 4x DVD+RW, 4x DVD-RW, 24x CD-R, 8x CD-RW Read Speeds - up to 8x DVD-ROM, 24x CD-ROM Built-in 20 widescreen TFT active-matrix LCD Native Resolution - 1680x1050 Built-in iSight webcam ATI Radeon X1600 graphics with 128MB of GDDR3 memory Ports - 10/100/1000Base-T Ethernet, 2 Firewire 400, 3 USB 2.0, 2 USB 1.1 (1 on keyboard), mini-DVI, DVI Out, VGA Out, S-Video Out,&Composite Out Built-in AirPort Extreme 802.11g Wi-Fi wireless network adapter Built-in Bluetooth 2.0+EDR Module Unit Weight - approx. 15.5 lbs.
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works ok, but too expensive
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.
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Best desktop on the market
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.
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Windows, watch out!
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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Not just overseas Junk. High Quality Overseas stuff.
Anyone who know me by my Real Name, knows I'm a long time supporter of the Redmond Campus.
I wouldn't (again) touch a Mac til it could run XP/Vista. The day the Intel Mac's came out with (unsupported) support for XP, I lived to my word and bought that day.
It took 1 Infinity Loop in CA about 5 days to take the rug out of us geeks wanting to run with XP, using Boot Camp.
The funny thing... I still have not installed XP. I found speech software for OS X... (my holy grail)... I can talk to my mac... I can open Office formats with Open Office. I don't have to concern myself with the latest "Oh my gosh" security patch.
I hope my life long Redmond friends wake up and get *NIX type security in Vista or 2010 (Singular?), quickly. Else Steve and company will have the last laugh for a few decades.
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Fabulous machine
First let me respond to G. Crain (Houston). My Mom is 79 years old and loves her new iMac 20" Dual Core. She's not computer savvy but is able to do the basics quite well...even after a mini-stroke! Sorry you had problems.
For the gamer guy...get a life. You don't deserve a Mac until you get outside once in a while.
I own and operate a photography business and run all of my Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom (beta) and the new Lightzone programs flawlessly on my iMac. We have a PC as well but find use for it only on occasion. It is an archaic system. OSX is light years ahead of the Bill Gates monopoly curve and they are tripping all over themselves to get out a decent product. We'll see if Vista offers anything to challenge OSX's new Leopard when it's released.
For those who have problems just realize these are still just machines. They do break. When we bought our new Dell laptop it had to be replaced several times before we got one that worked. My son has replaced his new desk top Dell within it's first week as well. It happens, even in the Mac World, but certainly not as often.
For those sitting on the PC/Mac fence: Jump to the Mac side and you'll be glad you did. I promise.
