Apple iMac G5 M9845B/A

I've owned an iMac G5 for about 4 years now. It was my first machine transferring from using Windows consistently in the past and to be honest at first it was a little confusing to get my head around. That said after several internet forum visits and likewise a couple of books (David Pogue - brilliant!) I started to get my head around it. The operating system is now like second nature, it all just seems so instinctive. There's an application for most things straight out of the box, iLife allows you to manage your music, photos and video files with ease, and to search through them equally easily. The iWork (or MS Office) trial allows you to see how easily the ...  Read the complete review

The Apple Imac G5 is a great computer. It not only looks good, with its large slimline monitor, but it also saves space as there is no tower taking room up as this is built into the monitor. If you are used to a Windows computer, there are quite a few things that you will find different about an Apple, but you soon get used to this as it is very user friendly. On the Apple, it doesn't have internet explorer, for example, but comes with an alternative internet access called Safari. I wasn't too keen on this, so changed to Firefox, which is available on the internet for free. One problem we did have with this computer, was other people using Windows could ...  Read the complete review

This is my first Apple and there really is no going back. It's so simple to use, reliable (well the OS anyway), sexy... there just aren't enough superlatives. It does everything a Windows PC does, it just does it with more style. Compatibility isn't a problem; there are some websites that don't play nicely with Safari, but Firefox takes care of that. There is Office compatible software , including Office itself, although I have to say that the Microsoft Mac software is probably the least friendly software that I've used on a Mac, but there's no surprise there I guess. The one complaint that I have had is that the long term quality of the hardware ...  Read the complete review