iMac questions

Nikumba

Nikumba

Nikumba

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I have been looking at getting the 15" macbook pro, however the longer I thought about it the more I thought I don't really use my current HP laptop, so my eyes started to wander to the 27" imac, the i7 version.

Now I have a PC that is 2.5 years old, but has a 285GTX in it as the 8800 got replaced under warranty, now I mostly use my PC for email, msn, watching movies/tv and some gaming.

Most of my gaming is done at LAN matches but then it tends to be things like Serious Sam, CoD4 played CoDMW2 didn't think much to it.

In terms of gaming performance of the imac, will the performance of the ATI Radeon HD 4850 be comparable to a standard desktop card in terms of reviews and benchmarks?

Also can you buy Applecare after you purchase an apple product?

Do any of the Apple remotes work with the new iMac? Or do you need the new iMac one?

Kimbie
 
Well gaming performance looks not too bad really for what the card it.

I am right in thinking that you can not upgrade the GFX card?

Good news about the remote, as we have a drawer full of the buggers, as we dont let our designers have them :p

Might seriously consider one for after Christmas now

Kimbie
 
Only the RAM on the iMac is user-upgradable.

If you have a lot of remotes, you might want to pair a certain one to your Mac. Will stop some sneaky begger turning on front row while you're working in a pseudo practical joke ;)
 
EVH said:
Only the RAM on the iMac is user-upgradable.

If you have a lot of remotes, you might want to pair a certain one to your Mac. Will stop some sneaky begger turning on front row while you're working in a pseudo practical joke ;)
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Well the imac would be for home to replace my PC, so don't have to worry about that :)

I didn't think you could upgrade the GFX but thought would ask the question anyway.

I know you can use Bootcamp to run windows and associated apps, but does this work in a dual boot way? Or does it load the Windows 7 in the background and run the app in OSX? Much like what happened with MacOS and the move to OSX?

Kimbie
 
Dual boots (if you use Bootcamp).

You hold a key on boot and choose your OS. From that point it will remember the OS you chose and keep booting in to that until you press that button and choose a different OS.

E.g. if you chose to boot in to Windows 7 and rebooted you'd come back to Windows 7 unless you specifically interrupt the boot and chose OS X.

You can get applications (VMWare and Fusion) which allow you to boot in to Windows in a virtual machine.
 
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