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So my friend decided to get me an imac for my birthday (it arrived in the mail today) and while it was very kind and i'm very grateful...she still went for the cheaper route and got the most inexpensive one without any upgrades. (17" $999) - Basically she went to apple.com - clicked on the $999 one, typed in my address, and put it on her credit card. Specs are 18.3 ghz 4MB Shared, 512 MB RAM, 24x Combo Drive, and Intel GMA 95 graphics processor.
I'm a pretty standard user, ideally I will use the computer for downloading media (music,tv,dvd), will be picking up a tv tuner, storing pictures, using the internet, etc. I'm not big on gaming or anything, but will play one occasionally. The only thing I'm a little bummed about on this iMac is that it doesn't have the DVD burning drive, yet all other iMac's do....
I currently have a PC and am tired of the POS so would have gotten myself a new mac anyway (hence the surprise of this new mac) however I probably would have gone for at least the next level up 17" with the standard specs. Obviously my biggest complaint is with the optical drive. As for the memory and video, etc. - Are the specs for the imac I just got pretty crappy or are they perfectly fine for how I'll use my computer?
I'm pretty much looking for suggestions here. I haven't even taken the computer out of the box yet. Based on how I will use the computer and what I want to do with it - do you think i should try to take the computer to an apple store and see if i can just pay the $200 difference on the next level up (do they even let you do that?) or do you think I could just run down to best buy and pick up a new optical drive that burns DVD's and put it in myself?
Any other suggestions I'm not thinking of are definitely welcome!!
I'm a pretty standard user, ideally I will use the computer for downloading media (music,tv,dvd), will be picking up a tv tuner, storing pictures, using the internet, etc. I'm not big on gaming or anything, but will play one occasionally. The only thing I'm a little bummed about on this iMac is that it doesn't have the DVD burning drive, yet all other iMac's do....
I currently have a PC and am tired of the POS so would have gotten myself a new mac anyway (hence the surprise of this new mac) however I probably would have gone for at least the next level up 17" with the standard specs. Obviously my biggest complaint is with the optical drive. As for the memory and video, etc. - Are the specs for the imac I just got pretty crappy or are they perfectly fine for how I'll use my computer?
I'm pretty much looking for suggestions here. I haven't even taken the computer out of the box yet. Based on how I will use the computer and what I want to do with it - do you think i should try to take the computer to an apple store and see if i can just pay the $200 difference on the next level up (do they even let you do that?) or do you think I could just run down to best buy and pick up a new optical drive that burns DVD's and put it in myself?
Any other suggestions I'm not thinking of are definitely welcome!!