iMac 20" Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz,1GB,320GB,SuperDrive | 
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Category: CE
Buy New: £927.10
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Avg. Customer Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 49795
Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 20.1
Dimensions (in): 19.5 x 18.6 x 7.4
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MPN: MA877B/A
Model: MA877B/A
UPC: 885909152032
EAN: 0885909152032
ASIN: B000UZ7OKY
Release Date: August 9, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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Product Description
This all-in-one iMac packs a complete, high-performance computer into a beautifully thin design. Available in 20- and 24-inch widescreen models, it includes built-in wireless, Mac OS X, and the new iLife 08. So within minutes of opening the box, youll be doing everything from sharing photos to creating movies to building websites. iMac has everything youre looking for in a computer. Brains and beauty come together in this amazingly slim, desire-evoking, all-in-one design. With iMac, your workspace turns...
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 Brilliant machine June 28, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have been using PC's for over 25 years and have had my own for over 15. I got to know the PC fairly well, but hated the big box and ugly leads sticking out. Laptops are great, but it goes get a little uncomfortable after a while working on one. The iMac was the ideal solution, if was an all in one unit that looked great and was a small footprint. It was some time before I finally decided to go for one, and since then have not looked back.
The OS is fast and seems more stable than Windows (although I had only a few setbacks with Windows). The machine seems faster at loading from cold, loading files and working on. The screen is large so you can have multiple windows open, the mouse feels good (yes, the new macs have a 2 button mouse, the mouse is pressure sensitive for 2 buttons although you can only see 1) and the keyboard is nowhere as bad as some reviews have said.
I put in my old external drive and the Mac asked if I wanted this as my backup drive. A quick format later and my computer was backed up to the external drive. Every hour the computer checks to see if there have been any changes since the last backup, and only copies those changes, so you have a full backup that is no more than 1 hour old.
My Canon Ixus (which suddenly stopped working with Zoombrowser under Windows) was found straight away and pictures were copied over into iphoto. From there you can alter any photo such as straighten, remove redeye, colour adjust etc, and after the change it saves another copy, so you always have the un-altered original copy.
My files from the PC were copied with no problems (the Mac saw the PC, but the PC could not see the Mac) via wireless, as the Mac has built in wifi and bluetooth. My phone connects via bluetooth and syncs with the calender and address book, and can save my phone camera photos to the computer in minutes.
My wireless network was seen straight away and asked if this was the network to connect to. Just enter the password and you are connected. My printer was seen straight away connected to the network and I just had to download a Mac driver from the company website.
This is the only sticking point I can see, as there are still far more PC's out there, Macs are a minority and to get the best out of certain products, you need better drivers rather than standard ones. Although my printer was working with the standard driver, the dedicated one made it possible to see the toner levels and drum condition etc.
After only 4 months, I find that the Mac is so easy to work with, it feels like its the natural way of doing things, rather than trying to coax it along. I would certainly recommend an iMac if you are thinking of getting one.
Although there are games for the Mac, it is not really a games machine. If you want to play games, I suggest that you buy a games console.
 Stay with Bill! June 17, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
I've just bought a 20" iMac with wireless keyboard and mouse and the iWorks productivity software. There's no getting away from it, Its a beautiful piece of hardware and typical lovely Apple minimalist design. I do however wish I'd stuck with Windows and will go back to Bill as soon as the iMac is a couple of years old. The reasons for this that software support for this product is just not there, and frankly I'm sick of being ripped off by Steve Jobs. Also there is some inherent bug with WiFi access that makes the connection frustratingly unreliable. In what I now see as a typical Apple rip off, they now talk about the next OS, code named Snow Leopard, as being a bug fix OS to fix things like this. This is just not good enough. If you do go for the iMac, don't waste money on the second rate iWorks software, go for Microsoft Office 2008. The Apple software just does not compare with the professionalism and features of Office. Also beware of Apple if you need quality financial management software like MS Money. There is no really good equivalent in the Mac world. Quicken is as close as you'll get, and again its a very poor second to MS Money, and actually not available or supported in the UK. I got my version from Ebay. The iLife applications are good however and I use iPhoto extensively. Perhaps not unexpectedly, its a poor second to the Windows version of Adobe Elements, the Mac version not having the photo organisation features of the Windows implementation. My advise therefore is to think very carefully before you buy the iMac, and if you do buy understand that the range of software available is very limited, and in some key areas such as finance, effectively non-existant. Great hardware though!
Only for use in a noisy room April 15, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have succumbed to the hype and bought my first Mac. It looks and works great - the operating system is excellent and faster than Windows. I love the iMac in theory. But I had to send it back for a replacement. And then I had to send the replacement back too and get a refund, for the same reason.
The reason was that the screen buzzes as if there is a transistor being overloaded whenever the brightness is on anything but full (which is too bright to use without my eyes hurting). The noise is annoying enough, but it also sounded as though something was on the verge of stopping working. I can't tell you how disappointed I am. I hope this is just a faulty batch, rather than a general problem with the iMacs. I liked the Mac set-up so much that I am now considering a Macbook instead, but that's not what I wanted to buy.
You wouldn't notice the buzz in a busy open plan office, but for home use it wasn't bearable. Certainly not at 900+. What a shame.
Likely to become obsolete quicker than a PC March 28, 2008
2 out of 12 found this review helpful
I bought the equivalent of this machine (a brand new imac), just 3 years ago. I now find that no new ipod is compatible with the operating system of the mac I bought. You can plug a new ipod into it but it won't work - it's not recognised by the computer. The only way to make a new ipod compatible would be to buy the new operating system (mac leopard) for 80 extra. This is a real rip off, when you consider that a 3 year old PC is completely compatible with any new ipod without needing to buy any new operating system. Indeed, a 4 or 5 year old PC would be compatible with a new ipod.
This computer looks beautiful but will cost you extra money at every stage. Apple rip off their own customers.
LEOPARD UNSTABLE February 1, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
WAIT 6 MONTHS UNTIL MIDDLE OF 2008! Purchased iMac Dec 2007 supposedly with Leopard. Actually it had Tiger installed and an upgrade DVD for Leopard was provided. Very untidy if you take the upgrade route. Probably better to erase and install directly from the Leopard DVD immediately if this happens to you.
However Leopard appears to be relatively unstable (version 10.5.1) with the following problems that I have noted:
1. Bluetooth. Regular failures of the Apple wireless keyboard & mouse. Attempting to access bluetooth preferences creates a lockup leading to a hard reset of the iMac. I appear to have got around this by turning off the bluetooth wake from sleep facility.
2. Airport. Regularly losing internet access via a Netgear wireless router requiring either turning airport off & on or occasionally rebooting of the router. This used to happen approx. once every 2 months with my old powerbook/Tiger now I get it nearly every day. (did see comments that the bluetooth may be causing this)
3. Shutdown. Several problems shutting down/restarting. Today couldn't restart because Safari wouldn't close. Safari was not open. Recycled Safari then Preview woudn't close. Preview wasn't open. Eventually had to do a hard reset.
I hope these are just teething problems. For instance there is a lively discussion on the Apple UK forums about the bluetooth glitch. So I strongly recommend waiting a few months while Apple iron out the bugs.
On the plus side when it is working the iMAC/Leopard combination is brilliant. Just be patient a little longer.
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