Would you buy an iMac?

[Anonymous]

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@jayman2143 wrote:

Thanks for all your replies! Ironically, I am typing this post on my brand new 27" iMac. I had no intentions in purchasing one today but I was at the mall today and had some time to kill so I wandered into the Apple store (bad idea). Got to talking to one of the employees and I just couldn't help myself. I walked out of the store with a 27" 3.4GHz iMac with 8GB of RAM. I bought the lowest RAM configuration possible since Apple wants $600 for an upgrade to 32GB and I can upgrade myself for less than half of that. 

The main reason I went with a Mac was because all of my computers were PC's up to now and I wanted to try something different this time around. Also, I can't stand the look and feel of Windows 8 (I know there is a way to keep Windows 7 but took the opportunity to try something new). 

On a MyFico related note, I did use my American Express Blue Everday card for this purchase. I still have about 10 months on the 0% APR intro offer so I decided to take advantage of that. 

I think it would be cool to keep this thread going, however, and just discuss the preferences of different members along with reasons for those preferences. 

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Well congrats!!! I'm sure you'll love it

[eddie84]

Congrats!  I have a Macbook Air and love it (use it when traveling).  At home I built 2 rigs with Windows 7 on both (get good deals on parts straight from Intel, Microsoft, etc). 

[JamesB95]

I thought about it before, but, I can't jusify the costs, currently.

I am happy with my HP laptop with Windows.

[Anonymous]

Stick to a PC, don't go after a laptop or Apple product...yes getting a Desktop PC would be something you keep at home, but outside of work and home, do you really use a laptop enough to justify buying one?

I have a laptop, Desktop, and phone. I use the phone outside of work and the home.

I use the Laptop (almost non-existantly) going to a friend's or meeting someone for coffee in my personal life ((I don't go out much))

I use the Desktop outside of work, and about 8 hours a day...basically being the time i get off work til i go to sleep that night.

The Desktop can be upgraded and renewed where an Apple product can't,

if one piece breaks, you have to drop another 2k on a new one.

A laptop can be fixed here and there, but not everything can be fixed.

Also, never trusted Apple products, they never last

[jayman2143]

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@Anonymous wrote:

Stick to a PC, don't go after a laptop or Apple product...yes getting a Desktop PC would be something you keep at home, but outside of work and home, do you really use a laptop enough to justify buying one?

I have a laptop, Desktop, and phone. I use the phone outside of work and the home.

I use the Laptop (almost non-existantly) going to a friend's or meeting someone for coffee in my personal life ((I don't go out much))

I use the Desktop outside of work, and about 8 hours a day...basically being the time i get off work til i go to sleep that night.

The Desktop can be upgraded and renewed where an Apple product can't,

if one piece breaks, you have to drop another 2k on a new one.

A laptop can be fixed here and there, but not everything can be fixed.

Also, never trusted Apple products, they never last

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For me personally, yes I do use a laptop quite often outside of the house. I travel a lot for work so I am constantly on the computer. I can't speak for longevity of Apple computers considering I have never owned one up until now. However, I did have an iPhone 4 for about 4 and a half years and now my mom is using it for about a month now. Still going strong with no problems. Sure, it is slower than all the new phones out today but it hasn't failed yet. 

So far (and by so far I mean a little over 24 hours) I am loving this new iMac. Much faster than my 5 year old laptop. And the 27" screen is huge to say the least. I enjoy reading all of these different preferences!

[Anonymous]

No.

[Revelate]

Personally unless you need the screen real estate I would've gone with a laptop.  Lot more flexibility both around the house and if you need to take it somewhere.

That said I started using Macs back in 2007 and have never looked back... and I used to work at both Dell and Microsoft in their support arms earlier in my career, so it's not like I'm unfamilar with all the details of Windows; however, my efficiency both in every day things and for my work-related items (heavy SSH usage and some open source products) improved dramatically without having to run a *nix distribution either dedicated or in a VM is a blessing.

That said Adobe Flash still sucks compared to the Windows based version; if you're heavy into web browsing / youtube / whatever, expect non-trivial CPU utilization though it seems to have gotten better under recent releases.  That's really the only downside I've seen, other than the more limited selection of computer games which I mostly stopped playing a while back anyway.

[Dalanar]

I would not buy a main desktop Mac, as I like to build my own PCs.  I can generally get better parts for less cost than an iMac

However, I am considering getting a Mac Mini for TV entertainment purposes.

[jayman2143]

I am really enjoying reading everybody's different preferences. Like I said in my previous post, I haven't had enough experience with the iMac just yet to name any cons. Everything I have experienced up until now has been a great upgrade from what I have been used to for the past 5 years. The large screen real estate has been a nice upgrade from my laptop because I usually have a lot of windows open when I am working. I also like to mess around with Illustrator and Photoshop which originally got me interested in the iMac. Depending on how my experience goes with the iMac, I may get myself a MacBook Pro in a couple months to use when I go on business trips. Who knows!

[jayman2143]

Ive also always wanted to build my own PC but I always scatched that idea because I'm just not all that familiar with the workings of a PC. Seems like a large learning curve