Apple iMac 2 G4 Review

Overall Rating

Small and compact, Easier softtware to use than Windows, Excellent Software package, Beautiful fully poseable flat panel screen.
The most ergonomically designed computer ever. OSX is so much friendlier than Windows

Not as many games as PC's......Buy a PS2 as well!!!

I bought this six months ago, and I never knew how easy computers were to use before. I still use Windows machines at work, but they're slow, take up too much space and just aren't intuitive. Many people are put off Apple's for three reasons.
1. Lack of software. Not true. Apple has all of the major big releases, it doesn't have as many games (but that just means you don't get the bad ones), and Apples own software is so good you don't really need anything else.
2. The MHz myth. More MHz doesn't increase power, apple use different chips and it's software works so well with the hardware that a 800MHz machine is actually faster than a 2Ghz PC! Shocking but true.
3. Everyone else has a PC and the guy in PC World said that PC's are better and chaeaper. Think different, don't go along with the crowd. As for the guys in shops (they work in shops, is a guy in a polyester tie really an expert? didn't think so). As for being cheaper, you are buying a plastic box with a bunch of chips that have no manufacturer, no design and no imagination. Apple always use quality parts, are cheaper than you think, and won't be out of date buy the time you get home.
Buy an iMac and an iPod and get more than a computer, it's like a member of the family!

Members' Comments onHawaii Steve.'s Review

• Greg. on 1st Aug 2003

  I own a 17" 1GHz iMac and I have to agree with the comment about the iMac and the iPod becoming a part of the family. I am a graphics designer and love this computer. It is true that this computer is more expensive than it's PC equivalents, but this one will surely last you longer and you will have less problems with it (if any!). Macs all the way!

• cat1not2 on 29th Oct 2003

  Was going to write my own prosaic review of the 17" mac but it's all been better said. I would add however that I came from a non computer background with practically no knowledge and would regularly avoid using those baffling pc's in work...with the mac I found that after no time at all I was zapping around the net listening to and burning cd's and have just finished my first movie. If someone had told me I could produce a movie onto dvd 9 months after buying a computer I would have scoffed in their face...the truth is apple software makes it so easy and you could do it in 9 weeks...I still avoid the pc's in work!

• jamesgray22 on 15th Feb 2004

  Yes, excellently put Hawaii Steve. I want to add my two pennies worth.
  I have just graduated from a Film and Video course at Derby University, and I found Apple hardware and software so usefull for editing my films, that I bought an iMac with 15" monitor and 1Ghz processor. Im never going to even share a room with a PC any more! When we would screen our films at the university, it became instantly obvious as to who had edited theirs on PC. Their sound would be out of sync, the image would jump a little. It was horrendous. But mine were perfect because I had put my film through Apple. Thank you Apple. And I do feel like a member of a little community of Apple iMac users.

• DomSum on 13th Mar 2006

  Thanks to their imagination and courage Apple design have turned computers into household love-objects, huh? My wife bought me a 800mhz 17" 'sunflower-inspired' iMac w/ 80Gig HD, from new in '02. I recently bumped it up to 1gig ram (£50). It's not easy to consider upgrading to G5 JUST yet, as this serves my needs...although the thought of one of those new G5's (one day with a blu-ray drive...?) makes my mouth water - I wonder if that's on the horizon, wouldn't surprise me. I use a Maxtor 300GB Firewire external HD which is a sublime system for editing your holiday movies, works well. For those who want to keep the whole thing oiled, I use a free application called Onyx to keep HD optimized.