First Mac Machine? (Apple iMac G5 M9845B/A)

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Product:	Apple iMac G5 M9845B/A
Date:	03/06/09 (13 review reads)
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Advantages: Short learning curve, ease of use

Disadvantages: Lack of games, no office software as standard.

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 Mac handles standard office document formats such as .doc, .xls and the like. To my surprise it could handle just about anything that I could throw at it, although sadly I needed to buy a copy of iWork to use it as a permanent work machine. The only downside to it all is from a gaming perspective, people don't make games for Macs, which is a shame as with more quality games more people would buy them likewise with more people more people would make games. Still this wasn't my main use for it.

The machine has been very stable on the whole, hardly ever crashing, it took three years to get to a point where I needed to format the machine, an almost monthly performance on my old Windows machine, after which it all went beautifully. Suffice to say nearly 5 years on I'm a MAc convert and won't be going back.

Summary: Overall a sound machine and well worth the investment.

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