Finally I have almost paid back this mac on the apple finance 6 month interest free MBNA deal and I have to say I love this mac! If i didn't had a girlfriend, i would take this to bed with me to keep me warm! this originally cost me £1200 from apple but you can buy refurbished ones from the apple.com/uk site under the store. i bought the apple care extended warranty but my feeling is i never will have to apple things rarely break down.
It is almost as sexy dare I say. LOL. if anybody wanted a computer with a superfast brain in an all in one kit then this is it. It is a flatscreen with a helluva lot of power stuffed inside it. the Intel core duo 2.16ghz cpu is super fast and the 16.9 screen is a marvellous addition. This is the quietest machine i have ever seen. I got the fright of my life one night when i left the machine turned on overnight and i woke up tin the middle of the night to the noise of a cockerel screaming out its morning chime! i realised it was my mac annoucing to me it was morning!
The keyboard is simple and elegant along with the mightymouse which comes either wired or wireless for you to choose and a pc mouse like wheel which lets you scroll up and down and also left to right which is superb, apple think of everything. the wireless/wired ethernet settings are easy to set up, simply enter your password/wep key and you are onto the home network.
OSX Leopard is soon to arrive in October which will be fantastic with the addition of the time machine which lets you recover old files (photos,movies etc) that you deleted by mistake.
This mac comes with frontrow and a apple remote which sticks neatly to the right side of the imac magnetically so to not lose it in places! you have ichat on the mac which you can connect to aol instant messenger with and obviously you can download all the additional things you require like msn messenger or mozilla firefox.
I have this machine connected to a Dell W3203MC tv monitor via a mini dvi cable and play my movies through it with quicktime or idvd and they are perfect.
the photobooth (webcam) is also highly amusing with the various filters and effects you can do on it (fish eye and warp people faces) also you can connect this to you xbox360 via connect360 so you do not just have to have a media center pc to connect nowadays.
P.S. if you feel you would still like to have a windows pc aswell you can install Parallels Desktop 3.0 on here and get windows xp on your machine running simultaniously, ideal for connecting hardware that isn't mac complaint or simply for playing those pc games you thought you would have to sell on ebay!
Thank you for taking the time to read. hope you havent fallen asleep. :)
10/10
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Advantages: Very fast, great screen quality, lots of storage space, loads of pre-installed software. Disadvantages: OSX takes up quite a lot of HD space!
Jun 8th, 2007
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