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Originally Posted by Damien
frankly i think the new design is a joke, its big and ugly not at all apple. The bottom of the screen is horrid, makes you want to be sick! look how big the white space is! Then theres the thick backing, the only good thing is that you can mount it on a wall so you could have a wireless display set up with the computer on the walll!
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Thus spake a committed Mac hater.
If the worst you can say about it is there's lots of white space on the front, then I'd say it's a pretty good machine altogether.
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Originally Posted by Richard M
It's pretty incredible when you think about it, although they probably used laptop technology to make the thing.
Forget about upgrades if you buy one though.
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I bought an 'original' iMac five years ago. I've upgraded the memory twice without any problems. I've considered expandnig my available HDD space but kept putting it off - if I needed to, I would have to buy an external model, but that's no big problem for me.
The original iMac had ethernet, firewire and USB built in at a time when a great many PCs were lumbered with serial and parallel ports and a modem if you were lucky. It avoided the need for upgrading by being cutting edge.
The majority of PC users don't want to geek around inside their case and add new cards, drives and whatever.
They just want something that they can plug in, will work straight away and will keep working. That's what the iMac is designed to do, and that's what it does. Speaking as someone who has one, I can say it does it very well indeed.
We're thinking of buying a new one next year, by which time I think my indigo classic iMac will have more than represented value for money. I know exactly what I'm going to be replacing it with.
