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vivid white Posts: 324

Okay I am ordering a Mac today and have decided on this one (see below) but need to know whether the price is good or not? Its £545 delivered. Please help.

APPLE IMAC ISIGHT G5 20" 2.1 /2.5GB/ 250GB MA064

•Superb conditions imac G5
•Mint screen - no marks or dead pixels
•isight camera
•faster G5 imac ever made @ 2.1GHZ
•128mb PCI express Video card
•20" 1680 x 1050 TFT screen
•USB 2.0, Firewire "400",
•AirPort Extreme,
•Bluetooth 2.0+EDR
•Gigabit Ethernet.
•BRAND NEW Apple Mighty Mouse
•BRAND NEW Apple Aluminium keyboard
•Apple Remote
•Leopard 10.5.6 and iLife 08 Loaded
•250.0 GB (7200 RPM) hard drive
•6 months Warranty

Many Thanks & if anyone can suggest a better model etc so similar price please let me know. I dont mind refurbished/new/second hand etc.

Regards

James
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Posted: 2009-06-28 21:58:02
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hihihans Posts: > 500

Looks fine to me. Are you sure you dont want an intell based Mac.
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Posted: 2009-06-28 22:32:20
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Ace Mccloud Posts: 95

the keyboard and mouse are wicked, brilliant look and formfactor. they have those at my university. looks like a pretty good deal to me!
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Posted: 2009-06-28 22:36:46
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vivid white Posts: 324

Whats the benefits of having a Intel based one? Are they similar prices?

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Posted: 2009-06-28 22:40:45
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arien617 Posts: > 500

On 2009-06-28 22:40:45, SEP990i wrote:
Whats the benefits of having a Intel based one? Are they similar prices?

Intel is future-proof, as PPC was killed off a few years back. They're unlikely to switch to other hardware.
If I'm not mistaken, Snow Leopard will not run on PowerPC processors.
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Posted: 2009-06-28 23:10:31
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hihihans Posts: > 500

With intell you have dual-core, yes it works quick and the prices are almost the same. SnowLeopard will make even more advantage of the dual-core.
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Posted: 2009-06-28 23:37:14
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vivid white Posts: 324

Any links to a place for buying one?

Regards

James

P.s. Is updating the OS easy?
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Posted: 2009-06-28 23:48:02
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arien617 Posts: > 500

On 2009-06-28 23:48:02, SEP990i wrote:
Any links to a place for buying one?

Regards

James

P.s. Is updating the OS easy?

Apple's refurbished store could be a good place?
And the OS is very easy, just pop the DVD in and go! Takes under an hour.
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Posted: 2009-06-29 00:03:15
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