Product Description

More than ever before, iMac allows you to live a digital life. Loaded with iLife, this all-in-one iMac makes it easy to turn your photos, movies, and music into blogs, podcasts, books, and calendars. All the other essentials are built in as well, including an iSight camera, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth. Just plug it in, turn it on, and youre ready to create something great.Main Features:Apple iMac All-in-One PC 20 inch ScreenIntel Core 2 Duo (T7200) 2.0GHz Processor with 667MHz FSB and 4MB Shared L2 Cache1GB memor...

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #37349 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Apple
• Model: MA876B/A
• Released on: 2007-08-09
• Dimensions: 20.06 pounds

Features

• 2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
• 1GB RAM
• 250GB Hard Drive
• 8x Dual Layer Superdrive
• ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT with 128MB memory

Manufacturer's Description
Setting new standards for elegance and simplicity, the all-new, all-in-one iMac packs all its components - from processor to video camera - into an astoundingly thin, anodized aluminum frame. The advanced processors that power every iMac are faster than ever - delivering greater performance for everything from enhancing photos to playing games and more. Your photos, movies, and games will come to life in rich, vivid color thanks to the glossy widescreen display on every iMac. With new versions of iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, iWeb, and GarageBand included, you can create a photo book, make a movie, build a blog, compose a song, and much more. Have a video chat with friends or family, record a video at your desk, or take fun pictures with Photo Booth - everything you need is built right in.

Customer Reviews

Triumph of Style over Substance
Bought this first Mac on impulse in Nov 07 with all the hoo-hah over the launch of Leopard (thankful that I didnt fall for Vista!)...so far its been a mixed bag. It certainly is an incredibly sleek and stylish machine, with everything packed into the monitor. The screen is sharp and good enough to watch movies. The iphoto software is incredible and user freindly. The speakers are crysal clear. Other neat and useful touches are Dashboard that allows you to bring up handy bits of info and software; Photo Booth and Time Machine. The latter is especially an advance as it saves your complete computer configuration and all data as it were at any point in time to an external drive...it also has a star wars style futuristic interface! Pity I took so long to set it up....cos...

My imac hard drive crashed/died/expired/self-detonated/KAPUT after just 3 months.....had to be replaced under warranty . Now I have back up on back up! The other flimsy and unreliable bit is the "mighty" mouse. Its buttons have given up and it's now been replaced by my old PC mouse with the "Microsoft" label sitting uncomfortably in front. Also, the image viewer Preview is not a patch on the Windows image viewer. I've had to install a program called "Just Looking" for jpeg files.

In short, I dont regret buying this but i havent really found this machine to be leagues ahead of a PC (but then I havent tried Vista!). Maybe its for folf heavy into graphics and webpages but i'm not sure if only for browsing and the usual tasks. It ceratinly is a stylish machine with a huge "wow" factor and were it not for signs of unreliability, i would've given it 4 or even 5 stars.

Well worth the money
Hadn't even heard of imac until my better half dragged me in to the computer shop and showed me this computer.We were only shopping for a PC to replace the old unreliable desktop.I am fairly used to PCs etc but this thing is in its own league.No viruses or firewalls to worry about,open up more than a couple of windows on the old computer and you may as well go out and make dinner while it decides to do something.Easy to start broadband loaded automatically and basically like it says on the box plug and play.Slightly different icons but you soon pick it up and poor old Bill Gates must be quaking in his boots because if I was him I would be worried because if I ever buy another PC it will be the imac mk2.

Excellent, but some flaws
I bought this on the spur of the moment to replace my old white G5 iMac.
I've been using Macs since the early 90's and owned an iMac since 2000, so I'm familiar with the plus and minus points of Mac ownership.

The first impression of any Mac is cracking open the case and marvelling at the packaging. This iMac is no exception, Apple have surpassed themselves, all the accessories and manuals fit inside a keyboard sized box. You'll have the machine up and running in minutes.

Next the migration assistant was so nearly excellent, it copied everything across from my old Mac and only let itself down by getting stuck in the last minute or so of copying.

So how does the machine work? There are really only surface differences so far between my old machine and the new one. The Leopard iCandy
is nice but often gets in the way, Time Machine is excellent but I've not had to recover anything so far. I've also had two kernel panics in the early days of using this machine, mostly I think because Time machine and my anti-virus package don't play well together (make sure to exclude all your backup drives/ partitions from TM's preferences).

The look of the new machine is great, but as noted elsewhere the keyboard is probably a step backwards, the Mighty Mouse is a huge improvement over the one button mouse Apple used to ship. The screen is HUGE compared to the my old 17" iMac and this is also a big improvement, although the screen isn't suitable for Professional work - it's fine for what I need to do.

The only place this iMac really lets itself down is the miserly approach to RAM (memory), 1Gb simply isn't enough. I've upped it to 2Gb, but I think it's such a memory hungry beast that I've got 4Gb on order. Don't buy Apple's RAM it's extortionate - check Crucial first.

I'll also need to replace office 2004, as the emulated speed is quite painful.

So overall very good, with just a few minuses.