Just bought the new Mac... Have ?

Hi gang, Yesterday, Monday, The new Imacs came out. So I went to BB and Bought the 24 inch, with the 2.8 processor, 2 gigs of Ram, and the ATI 2600 Pro... I asked this on the previous model that I had and it was within the 15 days trade in period.. Will this machine do games well.. Some one here asked what kind of games???? Chess??? No, Like Flight Simulators (Windows Or Mac)... Maybe Quake... thanks in advance.. Dan

Wow! The new iMacs are in the retail channel already? That is amazing. I thought that it would take weeks for that to occur. I may have to go check out my local Best Buy and my local Apple store and see if they are there.

They came out Monday... BB said they got alot of them in...

I believe it will run them Okay, I'm not too experienced but as long as the settings aren't cranked way up you should be good to go.

You should be able to play Crysis at full just fine*

*If you do in fact try this, keep a fire-extinguisher handy and don't sue me.

Heh heh heh, I would also suggest some plexiglass shields and what the heck why don't you kill two birds with one stone and get bill gates to come and "Watch" when he'll really just get taken down by the explosion of the computer.

If you where interested in gaming, you should have ordered a custom iMac from apple with the 8800GS video. It's not top of the like, but it's 2-3 times faster than the ATI card in 3D games and apps. It's a $200 upgrade, and only available on the new 24" models

Does anyone know if it will be possible to upgrade the previous 24" iMac to the spec of the newest one? I.e. taking my iMac apart and putting in the 8800!

slinki said:

Does anyone know if it will be possible to upgrade the previous 24" iMac to the spec of the newest one? I.e. taking my iMac apart and putting in the 8800!

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Probarly not since the iMac's are built like Laptops. But im not sure.

LeAstrale said:

Probarly not since the iMac's are built like Laptops. But im not sure.

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Well it would be an apple store job for sure, but I'd like to think an upgrade was possible

Radeon 2600 Pro vs. 8800GS:

http://www.gpureview.com/show_cards.php?card1=522&card2=551

8800GT (midrange PC gaming card) vs. 8800GS:

http://www.gpureview.com/show_cards.php?card1=544&card2=551

slinki said:

Well it would be an apple store job for sure, but I'd like to think an upgrade was possible

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It's a laptop video card, so it's almost certain that it's soldered on the system and non upgradable.