Apple iMac 24-inch Desktop PC (2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2 GB RAM, 500 GB Hard Drive, SuperDrive)

I've had my 24" iMac Extreme for a year now and have to say that Apple has outdone themselves. The big 24" display is a joy and quickly spoils you if you have to work on smaller screens. I've increased the RAM to 4GB and this makes a huge difference in the work I do, mostly Powerpoint and Photoshop. I often forget that this thing can chug along with Photoshop, Powerpoint, iMovie, Safari, Entourage and iChat running simultaneously. I have two 500GB external hard drives, one to take care of TimeMachine and the other to archive photos.

I've been a rabid mac owner since 1984 (still have my original and one of the first sold in US, Mac 128 machines -it still works and has never darkened the door of a service department! ) How many IBMs are still out there from this era in operating condition??? Macs are a quality, extremely well integrated, stable platform. They are not for everybody and we will never see Apple dominate the market (except for mp3 players) for the same reason you don't see BMWs and Mercedes sitting in every driveway. Macs are a cut above and will always be the driver and innovator in this industry. If you want the best, if you want stability, if you want perfect harmony between software and hardware, if you want to live/compute virus and spyware-free--- GET A MAC! And if you just HAVE to run a Windoz program, no problemo, Macs run Windoz better and faster than PCs do! Macs also have a little trick up their sleeve that PCs can't perform- it's called Firewire Target Disk Mode. Say you want to transfer large amounts of data/files from your notebook to your desktop or vice-versa. Just connect the two machines with a firewire cable, start up the target machine while holding down the "T" key and on the host machine, the target machine's hard drive pops up on the desktop. It's then an easy and very fast process to drag and drop files between machines. This is not doable on any PC. At work I'm forced to use a Dell so I'm well acquainted with Windows XP and find it very user unfriendly and prone to virus attacks. PCs keeps our IT guy very busy. We have quite a few Macs too, but they almost never need IT support to keep them productive. Any computer company that can build a machine that can run for 24 years, without breaking down, sitting in a repair shop, or locking up is doing things right.
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