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Who is really satisfied of purchasing Aluminum iMac?
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I love my 24" Aluminum iMac. The more I use it and OS X, the more I wish I had bought a Mac Pro instead of building a $5000 PC.
I purchased my iMac last summer and am now just starting to use it heavily. software on the iMac seems so natural. and fun to use, and I can run Parallels 4 with Win7 and play my PC games.
I purchased my iMac last summer and am now just starting to use it heavily. software on the iMac seems so natural. and fun to use, and I can run Parallels 4 with Win7 and play my PC games.
After getting my iMac I wish I had never spent the $11,000 for a totally customised Alienware system that DIED a year after I bought it. Though I can't complain too much .. it's dying is what prompted me to buy the iMac and it was the best computer investment I've ever made.
I am totally Satisfied with my purchase of my Aluminum iMac probably one of the best Computers I have every purchased on both Windo$ or Mac side.
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That is true. Its not as much left to right but top to bottom. Make two Finder windows and place them on at the top and one at the bottom of your screen, then deactivate both of them. Shades of grey are totally different.
We bought 4 iMac's 20' to our studio and had to bring them back as they completely useless for any design, photoretouching work.
Screens in 24' are fine though. I think Apple just got cheaper screens for 20' with such an issue. Very dissapointing for a computer pretending to be #1 multimedia machine. There's a lot about it on the net.
That is true. Its not as much left to right but top to bottom. Make two Finder windows and place them on at the top and one at the bottom of your screen, then deactivate both of them. Shades of grey are totally different.
We bought 4 iMac's 20' to our studio and had to bring them back as they completely useless for any design, photoretouching work.
Screens in 24' are fine though. I think Apple just got cheaper screens for 20' with such an issue. Very dissapointing for a computer pretending to be #1 multimedia machine. There's a lot about it on the net.
I got my first 24" iMac 3 weeks ago, I can't believe I waited sooooooooooooooooooooo long to switch from PC to Mac.
I feel at peace now, it works GREAT!!!!!
I feel at peace now, it works GREAT!!!!!
Got my 24" iMac three weeks ago too. I love it!
I still have my 17" G5 model and it's still working like the day I purchased it 4 years ago. It did need to be replaced though. Needed the extra screen space and power of course.
I still have my 17" G5 model and it's still working like the day I purchased it 4 years ago. It did need to be replaced though. Needed the extra screen space and power of course.
I used to be rather mad about PC's. They new grpahics cards and the latest upgrades on a PC really took me ! I brought and iMac 6months ago I would never ever go back. It it really the only machine i will ever need !
For the most part I'm satisfied with my iMac however I have 3 things that really irk me
1) The polished glass screen is awful! I have to close the blinds & turn the main light off if I'm wanting to sit on the sofa & watch a full screen DVD etc.
2) Because of the USB/firewire port position I have to kneel on the desk to plug anything in directly or fumble about for a minute or so.
3) you can't turn the display off in a permanent way, sure you can set a hot corner to send the display to sleep but a nudge of the mouse or catching the keyboard with a book etc. wakes the display up again & hot corners don't work when the screen saver is active.
Besides those 3 things I like the iMac. It's a nice machine, fast, responsive, quiet & has a rich sounding low noise audio output.
1) The polished glass screen is awful! I have to close the blinds & turn the main light off if I'm wanting to sit on the sofa & watch a full screen DVD etc.
2) Because of the USB/firewire port position I have to kneel on the desk to plug anything in directly or fumble about for a minute or so.
3) you can't turn the display off in a permanent way, sure you can set a hot corner to send the display to sleep but a nudge of the mouse or catching the keyboard with a book etc. wakes the display up again & hot corners don't work when the screen saver is active.
Besides those 3 things I like the iMac. It's a nice machine, fast, responsive, quiet & has a rich sounding low noise audio output.