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Dear Fellows Mac Owners,
As the title states, I was thinking of purchasing a iMac as a Christmas present to myself but I have couple questions about it.
Would an iMac fit me?
I been a Windows user for over 10 years, and going for my second year on Linux but I'm more of hardcore gamer (From World Of Warcraft, AOE 3, Counter-Strike, COD4 etc) so Windows fits me best however I do realize that you could dual-boot Mac OS/ Windows which is nice, now I built my own computer so when technology moves on I could always swap couple parts (from motherboard - graphic card (much needed since I play many games) CPU) and "update" my computer hardware, but how about with an iMac? now that Apple is using Intel has CPU is it upgradable? and one of the most important hardware when it comes to games, could I upgrade the graphic card?.
Since I'm spending over 1,200 dollars on computer I do expect to be upgradable so it could be "future-proof".
Now I know by fact that Apple releases couple new "upgraded" version of their product in a short-period of time, for example, I have a friend that purchase an "new-at-its-time" iMac G5 but know he has un-outdated version, so I was wondering, if I buy the new iMac and Apple releases a new "iMac" then I would have to spend again those 1,200 for the new version? or I would get discount or something for the new product?.
Sorry if my questions seems to be noobish but since I'm spending something that is over 1k I'm expecting to meet my "requirements".
Thank you so much for your time.
As the title states, I was thinking of purchasing a iMac as a Christmas present to myself but I have couple questions about it.
Would an iMac fit me?
I been a Windows user for over 10 years, and going for my second year on Linux but I'm more of hardcore gamer (From World Of Warcraft, AOE 3, Counter-Strike, COD4 etc) so Windows fits me best however I do realize that you could dual-boot Mac OS/ Windows which is nice, now I built my own computer so when technology moves on I could always swap couple parts (from motherboard - graphic card (much needed since I play many games) CPU) and "update" my computer hardware, but how about with an iMac? now that Apple is using Intel has CPU is it upgradable? and one of the most important hardware when it comes to games, could I upgrade the graphic card?.
Since I'm spending over 1,200 dollars on computer I do expect to be upgradable so it could be "future-proof".
Now I know by fact that Apple releases couple new "upgraded" version of their product in a short-period of time, for example, I have a friend that purchase an "new-at-its-time" iMac G5 but know he has un-outdated version, so I was wondering, if I buy the new iMac and Apple releases a new "iMac" then I would have to spend again those 1,200 for the new version? or I would get discount or something for the new product?.
Sorry if my questions seems to be noobish but since I'm spending something that is over 1k I'm expecting to meet my "requirements".
Thank you so much for your time.