Buying a New Computer

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tacojohn44

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OK, so. I am about to buy my first computer as a graduation present, and I want to hear everyone's opinion on the computer I have in mind. I am looking at the iMac 20' 2.66GHz. I chose this one because it has the highest graphics card w/out pulling out 3 grand for a desktop, or somewhere along those lines. I have used macs a lot seeing as its the leading computers in my household so I am very pleased w/ them. Now the only down side to this is that the only windows computer I have is about 10+ yrs expired, running windows 2000. Its horrible. But I understand its just an old computer. I am mainly purchasing the computer for garageband, because I love this software and ... i love it. But I also want to do some minor gaming on it. Battlefield 2, Final Fantasy XI, etc. I realize these games are pretty outdated so I believe the mac would run them fine under Bootcamp. I have not used bootcamp before and do not know how well it wrks. I installed virtual PC on a (whatever the laptops before macbook pros were... G5 something?) mac laptop and hated it. So horrible. Yet I know that bootcamp is not an emulator... much like parallels. And I pretty much want this to be an all around good computer that will last me. For word documents, bootcamp will come in handy.

A major down fall I see in the iMac though is that you can not hook something into it and use the monitor (gaming console, tv, etc). I belive you can do a monitoring from the computer, say onto a tv but thats about it. Pretty selfish and dumb.

I am looking for a completely unbiased response from anyone intelligent enough to not simply put...

mac rulez or windows owns all



the specs of the imac are as followed:

2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
2GB memory
500GB hard drive1
8x double-layer SuperDrive
ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO with 256MB memory


for roughly $1,700.

I'm not too computer savy but I believe the specs are up to today's standard. And I believe the graphics card is on the upper end... but not amazing. If I am wrong please correct me.

Thanks.
-Tacojohn

EDIT: I just built my own Dell w/ all the same specs with one more GB of memory for $1,850'ish.
 
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That iMac would be great. From what I've heard, Boot Camp is pretty solid. I've only had experience with Parallels myself and it works very well. The 2600 shouldn't have any problems playing those games with good settings. I'd pick up the iMac and a copy of XP or Vista, instead of the Dell.

Hope that helps you out a bit,
m0nk3ys1ms

EDIT: On second thought, I would spend another $150 on the iMac and get the 24" with the 2.8Ghz CPU with a 500GB HDD for $1849.
 
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^^ Yeah what he said. If you have the money then go for the iMac. Plus, I have and many other people have had bad experience with Dell.
 
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