The iMac G5 offers all-in-one elegance that's delightfully affordable. Take in the view on a widescreen flat-panel display. Proudly display the iMac G5 in any room of your house -... more
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Advantages: Compact and runs fast Disadvantages: Apple Customer Care!
...and have always wanted an Apple Mac ever since doing a Media Studies degree. So when my Laptop blew up it seemed like a good chance!
So I ordered my iMac direct from the apple store costing a little over £1000 for the bluetooth upgrade but got my student discount and opted for the middle entry model.
2-3 weeks to be dispatched so I sit tight, to receive an email from Apple 2.5 weeks into the order saying that computer is ready and in Shanghai but ... ...So 13 calls later to Apple over 10 days they finally despatch my machine! It arrives on my last day of term and doesn't work!!!!! Spend over 6 hours over 2 days on phone to technical support charged at national rate and eventually they decide I need a new hard drive - fair play to them it arrives next day and I have to fit and then finally my machine works! No compensation though,.....apple are useless!
HOWEVER, their machines are not! This iMac ...
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Advantages: Good value for money Disadvantages: Need extra memory and a bigger HDD
I love the specs of the new iMac G5 but the main problem is that the computer itself is very noise. It's not noise all the time but when it start getting hot the fans go crazy and the noise is just to loud.
If you work on a job the requires concentration you won't be very happy with the new iMac G5 because the only way I found out to support the fan noise is to play some music along with whatever I'm doing.
All the rest seens to work well, I have ...
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Hard Drive: 1 x 80 GB - standard - Serial ATA-150 - 7200 rpm
Optical storage
Type: CD-RW / DVD-R - IDE
Read Speed: 24x (CD) / 8x (DVD)
Write Speed: 16x (CD) / 4x (DVD)
CD / DVD Rewrite Speed: 8x
Monitor
Monitor Type: Flat panel display - TFT active matrix
Diagonal Size: 17"
Viewable Size: 17"
Max Resolution: 1440 x 900
Image Brightness: 200 cd/m2
Image Contrast Ratio: 350:1
Graphics controller
Type: AGP 8x - plug-in card
Graphics Processor / Vendor: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra
Video Memory: DDR SDRAM
Installed Size: 64 MB
Max Monitors Supported: 2
Audio output
Type: Sound card - integrated
Sound Output Mode: Stereo
Speaker(s): 2 x right / left channel
Input device
Type: Mouse, keyboard
Audio input
Type: Microphone
Manufacturer's product description
The iMac G5 offers all-in-one elegance that's delightfully affordable. Take in the view on a widescreen flat-panel display. Proudly display the iMac G5 in any room of your house - it's lightweight enough to move from your kitchen to the den or bedroom. The 20-inch model shows more than two full pages of text and graphics side by side while the dazzling 17-inch provides the same screen area as a 19-inch CRT - with twice the brightness, sharpness and contrast. Hidden behind the display, you'll find the entire computer: central processing unit (CPU), logic board, hard drive, speakers, microphone and power supply. But you'll actually find that the computer just fades away as you organize music and photos, or compose tunes and edit movies with the iLife suite of integrated applications for your digital lifestyle. What's more, since the iMac is wireless-ready, you don't even have to place it near a phone jack. Simply pop in an AirPort Extreme Card (optional), hook up an AirPort Express to your DSL connection or cable modem, and you can surf the Internet wirelessly, listen to tunes in another room and print remotely.
Telecom
Modem: Fax / modem - integrated
Max Transfer Rate: 56 Kbps
Protocols & Specifications: ITU V.92
Networking
Networking: Network adapter - integrated
Data Link Protocol: Ethernet, Fast Ethernet
Features: AirPort Extreme ready
Expansion / connectivity
Expansion Bays Total (Free):
1 ( 0 ) x internal
1 ( 0 ) x front accessible
Expansion Slots Total (Free):
1 ( 0 ) x processor
2 memory - DIMM 184-PIN
1 ( 1 ) x AirPort Extreme
Interfaces:
2 x IEEE 1394 (FireWire)
3 x Hi-Speed USB - 4 PIN USB Type A
2 x USB - 4 PIN USB Type A
1 x modem - phone line - RJ-11
1 x network - Ethernet 10Base-T/100Base-TX - RJ-45
1 x audio - SPDIF output/headphones - mini-phone stereo 3.5 mm
1 x audio - line-In - mini-phone stereo 3.5 mm
1 x display / video - VGA
Display / video - composite video/S-video output
Miscellaneous
Cables Included: Modem cable
Compliant Standards: EPA Energy Star
Power
Device Type: Power supply
Voltage Required: AC 120/230 V ( 50/60 Hz )
Power Provided: 180 Watt
Operating system / software
OS Provided: Apple MacOS X 10.3
Software: Drivers & Utilities, AppleWorks, Apple QuickTime, Apple Hardware Test, Apple Mac OS X Mail, Apple iCal, Apple iLife, Apple iSync, Apple Address Book, Apple Safari, Apple Sherlock, Apple iChat AV, Marble Blast Gold, Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac Test Drive, Nanosaur 2
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