Advice on an Apple Purchase

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Which Option?

iMac
5
45%
LED Cinema Display
3
27%
Mac Mini and 24" Display
3
27%
 
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Re: Advice on an Apple Purchase

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We wanna see some pictures of your 27" iMac.... :)
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sure this weekend, I only have it on the iPhone, and the lighting is crap
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Alrite...will be waiting for the pictures. Can you change my username??
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dicecca112 wrote:Ended up ordering and receiving today the iMac 27" and damn this thing is big, dare I say too big for the desk. But its nice to work on. And I really like the magic mouse, doesn't have the issues like the Mighty Mouse were I didn't click to the side enough to do the right click. And the swipe motion is really nice to scroll.
Awesome! It looks like a very fine piece of hardware :)
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I would like to buy one myself! How is yours configured? My wife needs to run windows for work, is it hard to do and can it run windows 7? I plan on buying one this weekend, seems like a very quiet and space saving computer. Maybe I can just use a adapter or something to plug in my pc to the apple monitor. Can I do that? If it's good enough for you then it is for me as well. :)
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vbironchef wrote:I would like to buy one myself! How is yours configured? My wife needs to run windows for work, is it hard to do and can it run windows 7? I plan on buying one this weekend, seems like a very quiet and space saving computer. Maybe I can just use a adapter or something to plug in my pc to the apple monitor. Can I do that? If it's good enough for you then it is for me as well. :)
Just by Parallels and run it that way, in Coherence mode its all integrated or you can just BootCamp (Dual Boot essentially)
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I placed my order today and it will be delivered Dec 4. My order is IMAC 27"/4850-512MB Z0GF $2,399.00 1 $2,399.00
With the following configuration:
PROCESSOR 065-9233 2.8GHZ QUAD-CORE INTEL CORE I7
MEMORY 065-9265 8GB 1066MHZ DDR3 SDRAM - 4X2GB
HARD DRIVE 065-9411 1TB SERIAL ATA DRIVE
GRAPHICS 065-8981 ATI RADEON HD 4850 512MB
OPTICAL DRIVE 065-9410 8X DOUBLE-LAYER SUPERDRIVE
MOUSE 065-8412 APPLE MAGIC MOUSE
APPLE SOFTWARE - IWORK 065-7672 NONE
APPLE SOFTWARE - FINAL CUT EXP 065-7674 NONE
APPLE SOFTWARE - APERTURE 065-7673 NONE
APPLE SOFTWARE - LOGIC EXPR 065-7675 NONE
APPLE SOFTWARE - FILEMAKER 065-8307 NONE
APPLE SOFTWARE - MS OFFICE 065-8198 NONE
APPLE KEYBOARD & USER'S GUIDE 065-9381 WL KYBD & USER'S GUIDE
COUNTRY KIT 065-8447 COUNTRY KIT,IMAC 27-INCH
APPLE REMOTE, NOVA PARALLELS 5, APP FOR IMAC - COL/AE

Thank you dicecca112 for all your help :)
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I like Golden Delicious and Fuji myself.
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My favorites are honeycrisp or pinkcrisp :lol: This is the first Apple I am buying, will tell you what I think after I get it. If Parallels Desktop 5.0 for Mac works well, I should be very happy with that awesome monitor. :supz:
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vbironchef wrote:I placed my order today and it will be delivered Dec 4. My order is IMAC 27"/4850-512MB Z0GF $2,399.00 1 $2,399.00
With the following configuration:
PROCESSOR 065-9233 2.8GHZ QUAD-CORE INTEL CORE I7
MEMORY 065-9265 8GB 1066MHZ DDR3 SDRAM - 4X2GB
HARD DRIVE 065-9411 1TB SERIAL ATA DRIVE
GRAPHICS 065-8981 ATI RADEON HD 4850 512MB
OPTICAL DRIVE 065-9410 8X DOUBLE-LAYER SUPERDRIVE
MOUSE 065-8412 APPLE MAGIC MOUSE
APPLE SOFTWARE - IWORK 065-7672 NONE
APPLE SOFTWARE - FINAL CUT EXP 065-7674 NONE
APPLE SOFTWARE - APERTURE 065-7673 NONE
APPLE SOFTWARE - LOGIC EXPR 065-7675 NONE
APPLE SOFTWARE - FILEMAKER 065-8307 NONE
APPLE SOFTWARE - MS OFFICE 065-8198 NONE
APPLE KEYBOARD & USER'S GUIDE 065-9381 WL KYBD & USER'S GUIDE
COUNTRY KIT 065-8447 COUNTRY KIT,IMAC 27-INCH
APPLE REMOTE, NOVA PARALLELS 5, APP FOR IMAC - COL/AE

Thank you dicecca112 for all your help :)

Wow that's better than mine. I personally didn't need the i7 but I did need the 27 inch screen.
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Re: Advice on an Apple Purchase

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where are the picturess?????
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Re: Advice on an Apple Purchase

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I have been reading this forum http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jsp ... 0&tstart=0 and I am getting a little worried that I will receive a bad unit. Are you having any issues with your 27inch imac?

Edit: After showing Natasha this thread, we both deceided to cancel our order. I will wait til the intel 6 cores to come out for our next computer. No point in buying something that doesn't work right.
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