[quote name='usickenme']top of the line? but hardly suxors. No. My iMac plays plays most PC games just fine in boot camp. I have one of the new ones (that Cheapy mentioned in the last show). However you won't find a Mac that can play games for under $1000. I really like having the 2 "systems" in one machine. A machine that has a nice clean footprint on the desktop.
One a side note, I've built my 3 previous PCs and you know, it is really not that fun a hobby. You are constantly chasing parts/ chasing upgrades and chasing viruses. I have better things to do with my time now. But to each their own.[/quote]
[quote name='usickenme']sure buddy, I believe you are the one windows user who has never had a problem.
Your anecdote aside, every windows user at some point has had to chase a virus. Facts are facts. I haven't been hit with malware or spyware for years myself but that doesn't mean it doesn't happen. Especially if you have kids or less tech savvy people using your system.[/quote]
Lol I don't know what your talking about ...
I'm a heavy PC user, this machine literally runs all the time, probably close to the 24/7 mark as well. The last time I had to deal with a virus was on a Dell machine about 10 or so years ago. I was around 10 myself so you could imagine how computer stupid I was. Started messing with important virus protection lets say.
Other then that one time, no problems, only a couple BSOD when I was new to OCing because I had done it wrong and that's it. Now all I run is Adaware and Norton, both after rebates was only about 25$. No problems, no nothing. Hell my computer only crashes when I push the hardware to far.
As to buying an iMac for any games would just be ... well we won't say it. For 1,500$ you can get a 2.4 GHz Core 2 duo and a ATI 2600 Pro
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http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APP...1024003/wo/AX4ZWAuIyiCw30vaas52K30W6OU/6.?p=0)
The 2.4 GHz Processor is ok ... though to play games now a days you're gonna want more. As for the ATI 2600 Pro, hell I'm ATI till I die but the 2000 series is awful. I can't stress how awful they are.
http://www23.tomshardware.com/graphics_2007.html?modelx=33&model1=1066&model2=722&chart=308
As you can see here, the 2600 is suppose to be newer and better, but my x1950 beats it out. It almost doubles any score! For being an older card and doubles the score of the 2600 in almost everything is bad. Heck, the card isn't even that old and it's already under 100$. ATI
ed up when it came to the 2000 series (sorry for anyone who bought one
)
Only 1 gig of ram too, another feature that's not to pretty to the eyes.
As for needing to chase upgrades and viruses for a PC. I recently built another machine, last August, because my machine that I built in 2001 was getting outdated. Yet you know what I did with it, gave it to my brother because it still runs games like WoW, CS, and such flawlessly. Didn't even recieve a RAM upgrade in those times. Probably a bad comparison but You do not have to chase upgrades for a PC. Nor viruses if you have common sense. I believe the Mac had huge virus problems back in the day and they are still able to get viruses on the newer OS's as well.
So yes, buy an iMac if you want to edit videos or have iTunes supposably run better for you. I'm sure the added 600 or so dollars for a machine that you have to upgrade, which I'm pretty sure your options are very very limited, before it leaves the factory. Or you can just take that 600 extra dollars and buy yourself something nice while having a machine at your desk that runs anything you throw at it for the next 6 years.
Sorry if I come off like I get heated about this stuff, but I do. I can not justify spending 600+ dollars on the Mac OS. I can also not justify having all these rumors keep going around about the PC. All the Mac does is provide us with false advertising at best.