Apple eMac

after buying one, second hand, for 25 quid near 3 years ago. i can honestly say this product has served me well. i brought it from a college, which had had it for 4 years. hailing from the ppc/unix days when mac was truly mac, ive fallen in love with this computer. it suffers from a small hard drive space (at around 40gb) and low ram. but for its day was one of the best computers. it is very compact, and fits nicely and efficiently into corners. people often complain that it is large, though this is not so. because its all in one, it takes up far less space than your average joe desktop. speakers have a good response, only issue i have with them is with very heavy bass ...  Read the complete review

Though I have only recently bought an eMac, I based my descision on countless opinions of people who use them everyday- the techies at an organisation. They said out of all the computers they had every used and had to deal with the eMac was the most reliable. They have over a hundred in constant use and only one has ever gone wrong (somebody forced a usb dongle in the wrong way). If you do get one get the 1.42ghz one with superdrive (dvd+-rw) which is dual layer and is an invaluable drive if you watch and record your own DVDs. It comes with Mac OSX Tiger (OS 10.4.0). iMovie HD and iDvd are bundled with this (neither are much worth shouting about) but ...  Read the complete review