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| Buying an iMac |
| By Thom Holwerda on 2012-09-27 19:36:05 |
| I bought a brand new iMac on Tuesday. I'm pretty sure this will come as a surprise to some, so I figured I might as well offer some background information about this choice - maybe it'll help other people who are also pondering what to buy as their next computer. |
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| Comment by MOS6510 |
| By MOS6510 on 2012-09-27 19:47:18 |
| Welcome back! |
 - Score: 2 |
| Comment by SaschaW |
| By SaschaW on 2012-09-27 19:54:58 |
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Enjoy your stay! Btw you can change the appearance of Calendar http://osxdaily.com/2012/07/16/r... |
| - Score: 2 |
| Lost soul |
| By zittergie on 2012-09-27 19:59:59 |
| Gone to the dark side? |
| - Score: 2 |
| REALLY? |
| By lucas_maximus on 2012-09-27 20:03:17 |
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Classic ain't going anyway, it might transform, but it still going to be there for years to come. Have fun with the Mac upgrade cycle. EDIT: What happened to your Windows 7 license? ... 2020 is EOL. There will be probably Quantum Computers by then. Edited 2012-09-27 20:07 UTC |
| - Score: 3 |
| Comment by smashIt |
| By smashIt on 2012-09-27 20:08:19 |
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> and the iMac can easily render 1080p videos and still dynamically allocate enough power for me to continue to do other stuff without even so much as a hiccup and that's something special? |
| - Score: 10 |
| Support and warranty |
| By TADS on 2012-09-27 20:15:47 |
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I now had to take things like service and proximity of authorised repair points into account. And you know the cold and harsh truth? Apple bests every other player in this business when it comes to this aspect. I chuckled a bit when I read this. Sorry, not even close. You're not an IT professional, so you're probably not familiar with, say, Lenovo's support and warranty services. Most Thinkpads sold in Europe come with a three year onsite warranty, and it isn't wildly expensive. That means that after a phone call and a quick triage someone will be knocking on your door the next day after your machine breaks down. Picking up your hardware and lugging it all the way to a repair point just isn't done if you're depending on it to make a living. Edited 2012-09-27 20:19 UTC |
| - Score: 16 |
| Something important missing |
| By bowkota on 2012-09-27 20:18:52 |
| I'm guessing (like most iMac buyers) you got it without an SSD and it's a shame. The difference in the experience between an HDD and and SSD is massive nowadays, I could never go back. |
| - Score: 5 |
| RE: Support and warranty |
| By zittergie on 2012-09-27 20:27:52 |
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Sony has a very good support too. The next workday after you call they pickup the PC and they have a commitment to bring it back in less then 8 workdays. They are however very expensive after warrenty, so taking an extended warrenty can be helpfull. |
| - Score: 1 |
| RE: Comment by smashIt |
| By lucas_maximus on 2012-09-27 20:30:21 |
| I was thinking the same, my main home PC has a mobo from 2005 and it never had problems with 1080p video, and of next week won't have problems with 1080p games. |
| - Score: 3 |
| RE: Something important missing |
| By lucas_maximus on 2012-09-27 20:32:01 |
| I am running a desktop (mobo from 2005 or 2006, first lot of mobos to support Core 2 duo) with RAID 1 SSDs for the OS (60GBs), and it just another world running SSDs. |
| - Score: 2 |
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