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Summary: I'm in love!!!!
Review: After four years with my old G3 iMac, which at the time I thought was the bee's knees, (all 333MHz, all 6GB), I can't believe the speed, the space, the screen size. Next week, the cable internet gets put in and I'll truly be in heaven. As a Mac user for many, many years, you can bet I'll be on board for as long as we're both around. This is a fabulous machine. If I can afford to keep upgrading every three or four years, I'll be happy, but any longer than that and I'll be sunk, both financially and technologically. Thank you, Santa Claus!
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Summary: Powerful, versatile, and user friendly too.
Review: Apple is quite simply the best and most innovative computer manufacturer. Their various Macintosh computers are very user friendly: easy to set up and use and (unlike most PCs) seldom crash or malfunction. Furthermore, the new iMac computers, although full-featured, are very compact and, thus, take up little desk space. The new iMacs all have adjustable flat-panel displays with exceptionally bright, sharp images. Now Apple has increased the processor speeds of these strikingly-attractive new iMacs and reduced their prices. This model has a 17" display -- which has about the same surface area as a typical 19" CRT monitor -- plus a 1.25 GHz G4 processor, yet costs less than its predecessor. Please don't be put off by the fact that the processor clock-speed is "only" 1.25 GHz. The G4 processor accomplishes more than twice as much per clock cycle as Pentium 4s do and, thus, is faster than a 2.5 GHz Pentium 4. All things considered, this new iMac is a terrific computer at a quite reasonable price. Highly recommended.
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Summary: Better than a kick in the head!!!!!
Review: Got your attention??? This machine is the greatest device ever. Nothing goes wrong, things just work, things make sense.....thats it! Very Simple. OUt of the box, even a computer idiot like me can figure it out. As far as set up goes, the instructions are a joke.....literally just like 3 pictures of a persons hand plugging in a few plugs......AMAZING!!! Couldnt be easier. As far as cool factor goes, it is the coolest design around. Man I wish I knew about this product a long time ago, I would have thrown my pc out the window back then!!
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Summary: I'm happy...
Review: I admit to being a little skeptical . . .the reviews have been almost too enthusiastic. Is there anything this machine doesn't do? Well, after using it for a weekend, I can say it's a great purchase (thought I take issue w/ another reviewer below who calls this machine "inexpensive"). It's an outstanding value for all that you get - great large screen, fast, super easy to use (not vastly different from Windows, if you're switching and you're concerned about such things), and world class software included (IPhoto, Itunes, IDVD, Garageband, etc). Garageband was the coolest surprise - it's a blast if you're into music. The only additional things you need to buy are Applecare extended warranty (you're crazy not to buy this on a $1800 machine) and the only things you'll want to buy are .Mac (webhosting and virus protection, among other things, on special now for $69 if you buy at Apple.com or store), and Microsoft Office (for better or worse, it's what the world runs on). MAC MS Office is fully interchangable w/ the Windows version, so bringing homes applications from my Windows PC at work to work on at home is not a problem. My only small complaint is that Itunes doesn't work easily w/ my Rio MP3. After several hours I made it work, but ITunes doesn't want to know you if you're not using an IPod. IPods are great, but don't lend themselves to distance running due to skipping. Get this machine and a fast internet connection, you won't be disappointed. Unless you have applications you must run that are PC based only, I don't know why anyone would buy a PC over this beauty. Two Notes:
1) If you have a student or teacher in the family, Apple.com and retail stores offer great educator discounts. 2) The website and Amazon customer service says the computer is shipping w/ the older "Jaguar" operating system. Mine however came w/ the reportedly superior "Panther" OS. A relief b/c the
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Summary: Everything you're reading - and more.
Review: I admit to being a little skeptical . . .the reviews have been almost too enthusiastic. Is there anything this machine doesn't do? Well, after using it for a weekend, I can say it's a great purchase (thought I take issue w/ another reviewer below who calls this machine "inexpensive"). It's an outstanding value for all that you get - great large screen, fast, super easy to use (not vastly different from Windows, if you're switching and you're concerned about such things), and world class software included (IPhoto, Itunes, IDVD, Garageband, etc). Garageband was the coolest surprise - it's a blast if you're into music. The only additional things you need to buy are Applecare extended warranty (you're crazy not to buy this on a $1800 machine) and the only things you'll want to buy are .Mac (webhosting and virus protection, among other things, on special now for $69 if you buy at Apple.com or store), and Microsoft Office (for better or worse, it's what the world runs on). MAC MS Office is fully interchangable w/ the Windows version, so bringing homes applications from my Windows PC at work to work on at home is not a problem. My only small complaint is that Itunes doesn't work easily w/ my Rio MP3. After several hours I made it work, but ITunes doesn't want to know you if you're not using an IPod. IPods are great, but don't lend themselves to distance running due to skipping. Get this machine and a fast internet connection, you won't be disappointed. Unless you have applications you must run that are PC based only, I don't know why anyone would buy a PC over this beauty. Two Notes:
1) If you have a student or teacher in the family, Apple.com and retail stores offer great educator discounts. 2) The website and Amazon customer service says the computer is shipping w/ the older "Jaguar" operating system. Mine however came w/ the reportedly superior "Panther" OS. A relief b/c the
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Summary: All I can say is WOW!
Review: I bought this computer because it was so inexpensive, but when i opened that box and smelled the factory sealedness, I laid my eyes on the best machine i had ever bought. The graphics are such a visual experience it will blow your mind!The sound is presidential quality! You will think you are dreaming, to tell the truth the only bad thing is that you will think you are dreaming and jump out a 5 story window because you think it is a dream! The computer itself is what dreams are made of! This computer has the memory of an elephant and they say an elephant never forgets. For high quality at low cost, this beautiful machine is what should pop into your mind!
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Summary: I am so glad I got this machine
Review: I finally bit the bullet and decided to try Mac because I got married and couldn't get my wife to do anything on my windows machine. Like many people she had tried to do things on a computer before and just ended up frustrated and confused. The most she would even try to do was surf the net and a bit of email. People were always saying things were easy on the Mac so I decided to try it out. Enter the Mac, now I can't get her off it. This machine really is the answer to a digital hub for the home. She manages our music with iTunes and buys new music off the iTunes Music Store. She burns special mix collection CDs for our friends now. We got a digital camera and she was worried that it would be complicated to use it with the computer. Well, all you do is connect the camera to the computer and the Mac automatically senses a camera is attached, starts up iPhoto and then asks if you want to download. Thats right ONE BUTTON to push to download pics from your camera. Things went so well with that we got a digital movie cam and now can edit our home movies in iMovie and burn them to DVDs with iDVD. My wife would never have imagined herself doing these things a year ago. Plus no worries about viruses or spyware or adware and no popups with the Safari browser. There are currenty Zero viruses in the world for Mac OS X. There are over 70,000 windows viruses. I always thought Macs were too expensive but when you figure that all of these programs come free with the machine and look at how much it would cost to buy software to do all this on a windows machine, the Mac turns out to be a better deal. I now understand why my Mac using friends were always raving about how they loved their computers. It is so refreshing to have one that is so easy to use and just works right and doesn't break down and have all those problems.
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Summary: Reliable Machine
Review: I have the 1GHz model from early 2003, but it is very similar. This is a machine that has not let me down. Although OS X took some getting used to after using the old OS since 1989 and was a bit frustrating to learn, I came to appreciate its Unix core. The latest model should come with iMovie 4, which is a great movie making program (sure beats Vegas and iMovie 3, which was a bad joke). I do recommend Office X and Virtual PC for compatibility reasons when you buy an iMac--plus Office X beats AppleWorks for word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation (although not for object-oriented drawing). This is also a good system for developing programs, using a scanner (iPhoto is a nice complement), working with audio (the 2003 model had SoundStudio but I don't think the new ones do), and burning CDs and DVDs. It's a big investment but it will be able to run new software for quite some time. This model is gone now but the G5 should be just as good plus faster.
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Summary: The Best Computer...Period!
Review: I own this computer... and take it from me. Whenever you here about Dell being the best PC in the market place, Mac's arent included in that search. Why? Because Macs are different from PC's. Another thing to look out for is comparing processor speed between Macs and PCs. A 1GHz Mac is equal to about a 2.3 GHz PC. Not only is Mac the easiest computer to use, but its software is outstanding as well. Forget those 25 icons on your desktop, use the Mac dock, a small, spacesaving way to hold important documents. Guess how many icons are on a Mac origionally... 1... the Mac HD. I highly recommend ordering more memory than the 256 included... believe me, you're going to need it! Macintosh... they think different.
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Summary: NOT fully compatible with Office; Chinese-users BEWARE
Review: I recently purchased an Apple Computer for my mother, who commonly deals with simple Chinese language documents, as a Christmas gift. Although the Apple web site prominently boasts, "[MS] Office documents are fully compatible between Mac and Windows," we quickly discovered that our machine did not perform as advertised, as our Apple was unable to accurately read MS-Office documents produced on Wintel machines that used Chinese language characters, regardless of software application used, incorrectly translating characters and/or changing the original formatting. After dealing with technical support on this issue for 4-5 hours, I then had to spend another 3-4 hours with customer and sales support getting Apple to waive its 10% restocking fee, with customer support wanting to blame the problem entirely on Microsoft and not admit our machine was unable to perform a simple task required by Chinese-language users worldwide and clearly did not live up to its advertising. In order to prevent other users from suffering the same difficulties, Apple should remove claims of ¡§full¡¨ compatibility with Office from its website and advertising campaigns (both English and Chinese-language) or make far clearer disclosure of this, as well as other potential incompatibilities. Second, Apple should classify such claims as falling within the set of conditions for which Apple accepts full return responsibility (i.e. waiver of restocking fee and payment of shipping charges). In the meantime, users who require Chinese-language support should think twice about making ¡§The Switch¡¨ to Apple from Wintel.
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