Good choice?

[nylock10]

I was wondering if the specifications on this iMac are a good choice:

• 2GB 667 DDR2 SDRAM - 2x1GB
• 250GB Serial ATA drive
• ATI Radeon X1600/256MB VRAM
• SuperDrive 8x (DVD+R DL/DVD+RW/CD-RW)
• Keyboard & Mighty Mouse + Mac OS X - U.S. English
• Accessory kit
• 20-inch widescreen LCD
• 2GHz Intel Core Duo
• AirPort Extreme
• Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR


I'll be running Windows for these games:

Battlefield 2

F.E.A.R.

Far Cry

Call of Duty 2

The Movies

Joint Operations

America's Army

The games I'll run on Mac OS Tiger:

Quake 4

Doom III

Call of Duty 2 (If it doesn't work on Windows).

(I'm mainly a first-person shooter fan as you can tell).

Back in Tiger this iMac will be doing music recording, some games, iChat etc.

Is this a good choice for an iMac?

 

[Eraserhead]

I think so, people run oblivion on an iMac, that is far more demanding.

 

[mac000]

nope those are such bad specs

 

[nylock10]

Whats bad about them (Or are you just being sarcastic)? They are the best you can get for an iMac.

 

[mac000]

haha im being very sarcastic

 

[risc]

I don't mean to state the obvious but if you are buying the machine to play Windows games why don't you just buy a much cheaper and higher spec'd Windows PC? The things you said you wanted to do using OS X can be done easily enough in Windows, are you sure you are buying the right machine for what you actually need?

 

[nylock10]

I do have a lot of games for Windows, but I'm spending like 90% of my time in Mac OS X.

I'm 100% sure that I want a Mac, I've had too many problems with PCs and I'm ready to switch.

(Hey and thanks for the quick replies)

 

[risc]

In that case go for it, although if you have the money to spend on an uber-Mac you might want to wait until August 7 to see what Apple release in the pro desktop range (having said that there may be a huge wait after the keynote for delivery).

 

[nylock10]

I'm waiting untill like August 20th to buy, I may consider the Mac Pro.