Help choosing a Imac

fred246

I understand that Apples never break down. Where do all the refurbished Apples that I keep seeing come from. Surely they don't just grow on trees?

spud17

InsideInsurance wrote: »

There is also a good reason why you get so many threads on here about how someone's window machine is slow, not booting, keeps getting a BSoD etc and yet almost no similar threads about Macs despite the growing market share they have - 13% in the USA.

I've had Win 7 running 4.5 yrs, still as fast as day it was installed, kept an eye on it via benchmarking programs.

fred246 wrote: »

I understand that Apples never break down. Where do all the refurbished Apples that I keep seeing come from. Surely they don't just grow on trees?

And I've never seen a thread about a misbehaving i-device.

spud17

shopbot wrote: »

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If you are thinking of changing over...ask some friends who have done it whether they would go back to Windows. That's usually a good test!

Hope that helps
SB

Off course they're not going to say they're going back to Windows.

Imagine the embarrassment of admitting to spending all that money and then preferring the cheaper system.

shortchanged_2

spud17 wrote: »

Off course they're not going to say they're going back to Windows.

Imagine the embarrassment of admitting to spending all that money and then preferring the cheaper system.

Exactly. Mankind is a very proud beast and many are unlikely to admit that they've paid over the odds for an apple device. That and they convince themselves that they can live with the faults and niggles because after all, apple is perfect.

prowla

I like Macs.
I have a Mac.
It is very nice.

However, I wouldn't buy a Mac which has no end-user memory upgrade capability.

My Mac is a Mac mini.
The current Mac mini has the memory soldered in.
I wouldn't buy one of them.

I also have Windows systems.
Windows 7 is good.
Windows 8 is dire; a bigger turkey than the one I'm having for Christmas.

I also have Linux systems.
Ubuntu is of the same standard as Mac OS X and Windows 7.
Other Linuxes are a bit behind in the desktop usability stakes.

Contrasting Macs with equivalently powered Windows (or Linux) PCs is rather missing the point.
In the case of the iMac, it is a very nice looking piece of kit; if people can pay hundreds for a vase or a picture then why not pay a premium for a nicely designed and styled computer? (Actually, Apple took that one step further and made one of their computers look like a vase!)
Macs generally have a good feel to them, whereas you have to go high end to get that on a Windows/Intel PC, if indeed you can get equivalent build/style/finish.

And if you want to run OS X, then you need a Mac (unless you are prepared to don a pointy hat with a propeller on it and build a hackintosh).
Me, I find that OS X seems to do what it says on the tin, and I rarely if ever need to figure out why something isn't working; contrast that with piddling around in Windows or getting right in under the bonnet with Linux.
And of course, OS X is based on UNIX, so there is a real, powerful, decades of proving operating system underlying it all.

So I would rate OS X as the best overall desktop OS.

However, there are a couple of niggles; Apple computers aren't perfect, no matter what anybody says.
I've had the desktop freeze and display a spinning beech ball a couple of times recently.
My Magic Mouse eats batteries and occasionally loses contact.
The wireless keyboard has a silly shaped Enter key.
My Mac mini doesn't recognise my Microsoft mouse properly (I use it via a KVM switch, with a Dell keyboard and HP monitor, but the mouse doesn't work properly).

So, back to the OP; buy an iMac if you like; they are very nice pieces of kit.

InsideInsurance

shortchanged wrote: »

Fair point and balanced. However hasn't there been problems with apples latest Os update. So things aren't exactly perfect are they.
And when you dig a little deeper its amazing how many Mac users actually admit things aren't as perfect as many apple fan bois make out.

There have been problems with the latest iOS updates but the only issue that I recall with OSX was when retina display MBPs first came out but dont recall any widespread OSX update issues and certainly nothing that effected my machines

Of course this isnt all because of the genius of Apple nor that OS X is such an amazingly created OS, it is after all just another *nix variant, but their closed box systems and thus very limited hardware range makes it much easier to make a stable system -v- windoz that has to be able to deal with a near infinite different combination of mobos, cpus, graphic cards, sound cards etc etc

At the end of the day though, as a consumer, I am happy to have the more stable system even if that means I cant switch out the graphics card or plug in a new raid card etc as my priorities now are for stability rather than a desire to tinker which results in a requirement to tinker

I understand that Apples never break down. Where do all the refurbished Apples that I keep seeing come from. Surely they don't just grow on trees?

Clearly some do break down however a significant proportion of the refurb store is just unwanted returns, end of stock, trade ins etc rather than faulty units that have been repaired.

Order a custom build mac, get bored waiting and buy one in store, send the custom build one back under the DSR or their no quibbles return policy and that custom build goes into the refurb store.

On_Stanley_on

Thanks for all the replys,

I ordered my MAC over the weekend will see it early in the new year. I can't wait to get my hands on it.

Merry Xmas all

OSO

prowla

On_Stanley_on wrote: »

Thanks for all the replys,

I ordered my MAC over the weekend will see it early in the new year. I can't wait to get my hands on it.

Merry Xmas all

OSO

Hope your new Mac is as good for you as mine has been for me!

wongataa

On_Stanley_on wrote: »

Thanks for all the replys,

I ordered my MAC over the weekend will see it early in the new year. I can't wait to get my hands on it.

Merry Xmas all

OSO

It's Mac, not MAC. MAC is a networking address.

Enjoy your new machine.

On_Stanley_on

wongataa wrote: »

It's Mac, not MAC. MAC is a networking address. .

Did you know what I was on about? yes, then it don't matter!!

OSO