Apple iMac G5 Desktop with 17" M9248LL/A (1.60 GHz PowerPC G5, 256 MB RAM, 80 GB Hard Drive, Combo Drive)

Apple iMac G5 Desktop with 17

Apple iMac G5 Desktop with 17" M9248LL/A (1.60 GHz PowerPC G5, 256 MB RAM, 80 GB Hard Drive, Combo Drive)
Manufacturer: Apple Computer
Product Type: Personal Computer

Editorial Review:
Product Description
The iMac G5 offers all-in-one elegance that's delightfully affordable. Take in the view on a widescreen flat-panel display. Proudly display the iMac G5 in any room of your house - it's lightweight enough to move from your kitchen to the den or bedroom. The 20-inch model shows more than two full pages of text and graphics side by side while the dazzling 17-inch provides the same screen area as a 19-inch CRT - with twice the brightness, sharpness and contrast. Hidden behind the display, you'll find the entire computer: central processing unit (CPU), logic board, hard drive, speakers, microphone and power supply. But you'll actually find that the computer just fades away as you organize music and photos, or compose tunes and edit movies with the iLife suite of integrated applications for your digital lifestyle. What's more, since the iMac is wireless-ready, you don't even have to place it near a phone jack. Simply pop in an AirPort Extreme Card (optional), hook up an AirPort Express to your DSL connection or cable modem, and you can surf the Internet wirelessly, listen to tunes in another room and print remotely.y.int wirelessly.

Average customer rating:

The perfect computer
Innovative design, its an Apple!
Heat problems
Do not buy- looks aren't everything
Simple to set up and use.

Apple iMac G5 Desktop with 17" M9248LL/A (1.60 GHz PowerPC G5, 256 MB RAM, 80 GB Hard Drive, Combo Drive)

Manufacturer: Apple Computer
ProductGroup: Personal Computer
Binding: Personal Computers

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Sennheiser MX500 Lightweight In-Ear Headphones (Blue)
Memorex 700MB/80-Minute 52x CD-R Media (100-Pack Spindle)
Apple 15 GB iPod M8946LL/Aß(3rd Generation)
Apple Wireless Pro Keyboard
AppleCare Protection Plan for iMac/eMac M8851LL/B - 3 Years

Product Features:

1.6 GHz PowerPC G5 running Mac OS X version 10.3 "Panther"
256 MB DDR SDRAM, 80 GB hard drive, CD-RW/DVD combo drive
17-inch widescreen TFT active-matrix LCD, 1440 x 900 pixels
Two FireWire 400 ports; three USB 2.0 ports, two USB 1.1 ports (on keyboard); VGA output; S-video and composite video output
Built-in 10/100BASE-T Ethernet and 56K V.92 modem

ASIN: B0002OG6PM

Product Description

The iMac G5 offers all-in-one elegance that's delightfully affordable. Take in the view on a widescreen flat-panel display. Proudly display the iMac G5 in any room of your house - it's lightweight enough to move from your kitchen to the den or bedroom. The 20-inch model shows more than two full pages of text and graphics side by side while the dazzling 17-inch provides the same screen area as a 19-inch CRT - with twice the brightness, sharpness and contrast. Hidden behind the display, you'll find the entire computer: central processing unit (CPU), logic board, hard drive, speakers, microphone and power supply. But you'll actually find that the computer just fades away as you organize music and photos, or compose tunes and edit movies with the iLife suite of integrated applications for your digital lifestyle. What's more, since the iMac is wireless-ready, you don't even have to place it near a phone jack. Simply pop in an AirPort Extreme Card (optional), hook up an AirPort Express to your DSL connection or cable modem, and you can surf the Internet wirelessly, listen to tunes in another room and print remotely.y.int wirelessly.

Customer Reviews:

The perfect computer.......2005-05-21

I'm on my second iMac. It's such a pleasure to use. In a parallel universe everyone uses one. I'd like to go there someday.

Innovative design, its an Apple! .......2005-02-26

The best computer I have ever owned. Just read various reviews and you will know why many Windoze users switch to the Mac OS X platform. Granted Macs are not used in the business world but that didn't stop me from buying one (heck i also own an iBook G4 12"!) There is one small problem with the model I bought, it has one Stuck Pixel in green. Its on the far right corner of the screen but it still bothers me. Some say to massage it to bring it back to life some say it will come back on its own, its no biggie. This design is just wonderful. I mean come on, its beautiful!!!!!

The iMac G5 is a very powerful computer even with its 1.6Ghz processor. Make sure you add as much RAM as possible as the OS X loves it. I put in 1GB of RAM and it flys. The 256 is unacceptable!!!! you MUST have at least 512 in there to make everything run smooth. iLife '05 is fine but I don't need iDVD as I do not have a Super, maybe in the future I will buy an external DVD burner. I have edited a few movies on it so far and it works great. I edit them using iMovieHD and then save them on my iPod and bring the project over to my friend's house who has the 20" iMacG5 with Super. Hook up iPod - transfer movie project to his HDD - and bam, we're burnin' Don't you just love Macs!!!

A word of advice, try not to buy Apples from CompUSA, if you have an apple store nearby please go there. CompUSA from what I have been told get some "old stock" Apple computers that have been sitting around or may have been dropped and they try to sell them. Apple Store always has fresh stock and good service. CompUSA has poor service and the so called Apple Rep does not work for Apple, he's just a CompUSA employee that went to a class on Apple products. There are many complaints regarding CompUSA selling Apple computers all over the 'net so buyer do your research.

If you are thinking about getting this, BUY IT NOW. You will not be sorry, no way!

Heat problems.......2005-02-24

I work in an office where everyone uses Macs, and I work on a G5 iMac. It's not technically mine, so I can't speak to the buying experience, but I have noticed that out of around 15 of these things that we've had in our office, three of them have fried their chips within around three months of use. That said, these machines were left on all the time and so may have suffered from the constant strain of running 24 hours a day. But computers are supposed to be able to take that--I've never before had a computer die on me from being left on. I talked to my company's tech support people (they've been installing hundreds of these things), and they seem to believe that the G5 iMac has heat dissipation issues.

Consider: The screen, hard drive, motherboard, chip and graphics card are all shoved into a small space with very bad circulation. The large grille on the bottom off the computer can't possibly work as an effective exhaust--heat travels up. And the small slit towards the top of the computer on the back? I'm not sure what it's for, but it's not big enough to promote decent airflow. Anyway, I'm not really a lover of the Macintosh operating system in the first place, but I've always believed that's a matter of taste for users. However, if you are going to buy this computer, I would at least advise you to turn on all the power saving features so that it automatically goes into sleep mode if you're not using it for a while. That should keep it cool. I haven't heard any official word from Apple on the heat issue, so I'm just speculating here, but a little precation is warranted.

Do not buy- looks aren't everything.......2005-02-05

First of all, this computer dies after three months. That's just how first generation Mac products are. Don't buy first generation- it WILL die. This thing freezes literally every time I use it.
Secondly, Apple doesn't help at all. Tech support doesn't do anything for you. They refuse to honor my one year hardware warranty, and I've talked to customer service AND tech support, and all they do is try to sell you Apple care- why would I want to extend coverage for a product that they already refuse to honor service for? Their service team isn't a service team at all. They are a group of trained salespeople who try to sell you their product. Why should I have to buy Apple care for something that should already be covered?
I've grown up on Macs, and loved them all my life. But the company's integrity is going down hill, and this was the last straw. Between the horrible products and the sleazy "support," I'm never buying an Apple product again. Linux, here I come...

Simple to set up and use........2004-12-30

I bought this for my wife who wanted her own computer. She hates dealing with the technical stuff associated with PCs and just wants to be able to sit down and use the computer. I opened the box, installed an Airport wireless network card (which took less than 5 min. start to finish)and handed it to her to set up. Within 10 minutes she had everything up and running including a printer, memory card reader and access to the internet over our existing wireless network.

The 17" flatscreen is beautiful, the fans in the back are quiet and the computer is relatively fast. Perfect for digital photography, web surfing (no popups or spyware attempts so far), email, and managing a digital music collection.

If you don't have to use a bunch of programs written only for Windows machines why subject yourself to all the extra (viruses, spyware, popups, adware, system crashes and constant security downloads and updates) hassles?

Windows XP has come a long way but based upon my experience it is still quite a few steps behind Apple and OS 10 for making computing more enjoyable.

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