Right, I defo want a mac now. I want to buy one in 8 weeks, but have some questions..

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Hey there. Well if I pass my resits for uni in august, I've decided to treat myself to a mac.

Now, I was going for a mac book, but...the graphics card limitations might bite me in the *** at some point.

So I looked at the mac book pro. It's nice, very nice, but I couldn't see the point in having something so heavy, I wouldn't carry it for miles and miles around with me if it's going to give me back ache and a pain to carry.

Finally, I decided on the iMac. i'm getting HE discount, so I'm after the 24" imac, 4GB ram, 1TB hard drive, wired keyboard (i don't want to lose the numbric pad by getting wireless) , wireless mighty mouse (or I might just use my current microsoft wireless laser 8000) for just over £1500.

Now, here are the questions :p ;

How loud are the imacs? I will try to go see one in the 'flesh' but I'm not sure who sells them in york.

If I put my LG internal Blu-ray drive into an external usb enclosure, could I boot up into windows and play retail blu-ray movies in 1080p? (at least until apple decide that they want to support the software side of blu-ray themselfs).

Is now (well 8 weeks from now) a good time to buy, or will there be another incarnation of the imac out soon, or within the next 6 months?

Thanks all. ;)
 
Concorde Rules said:
MBP > iMac

Mainly because when you do actually need to move it, you can.
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I'm pretty much sold on the iMac mate. It's only going to stay in my flat for two years at a desk, I don't need to move it. Plus you can't have 1TB harddrive in laptop form.


On another note, will I be able to install vista MSDNAA 64bit edition on the mac? It's the only vista licence I haven't used up yet (home premium is tied to this pc oem).
 
GraemeUK said:
Have you configured that spec on the Apple site or are you adding 4GB ram and the hard drive yourself?

Only reason I ask if you get it off Apple it will be MUCH more expensive. Better getting the ram and hard drive yourself and installing it - very easy to do.
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Will this void my guarantee with apple? I was going to buy that uplift care thing for 3 years because it's only £40 with HE discount.
 
Right, well I couldn't wait any longer. I love macs now. =P


So I went and ordered it a few minutes ago.

Instead of getting the uplift, I got VMware fusion instead.

So here goes;

24" iMac
3.06GHz C2D
4 GB Ram
1 TB Hard Drive
geforce 8800gs
Wired keyboard
wirelss mighty mouse
VM ware fusion

£1505.78

I hope it's worth it. =P
 
NickK said:
But you are installing on a hardware platform that you bought the Vista Retail for - OEM licencing yes (locked to PC), but the Retail is different.

There's no VM running with bootcamp - just a loader at the start. Even the HD is a real partition unlike parallels/vmware with a file.

Also that would forbid any windows based VMs running windows VM instances too.
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Right, well my vista home premium, xp pro, and xp mce are all locked to this computer in terms of licencing.

I have a vista buisness 32bit and 64bit (2 seperate licences) that have not been used up yet via MSDNAA. I can also get ahold of XP pro and XP Pro 64bit edition licences if needs be.

Will one of these work for boot camp, legally?

Also, VMware fusion, I don't need a windows licence to use that? Or do i? :confused:

Cheers
 
ok. Well i'll install vista 64bit via boot camp and VMware will use that install for the virtual machine apparently? So good to go.


What do you mac users do for USB ports?

I want to connect my keyboard, laser printer, iphone 3g dock (when it's out), external blu-ray drive and external HD. :confused:
 
syke said:
Youve got 3 on the back, and 2 in the keyboard.

Or buy a small USB Dock.
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Will having a USB dock affect the bandwidth? The blu-ray drive is going to be hungry, although I can sacrifice speed when it comes to the printer and keyboard...
 
syke said:
Looking at what you need, the drive isnt always in? keep the keyboard ones free etc. And it shouldnt do, just dont have like 10 obviously!
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Thanks matey.

2 whole weeks till it's delivered. Expected delivery date is the iPhone release day too. ha.:p
 
NickK said:
I would think of using firewire for the blueray if possible otherwise the USB is going to get pounded hard. Not sure if the iMac does eSATA.
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Do you know of any caddys that have a sata internal interface and firewire for a 5.25" blu-ray drive?
I've found plenty for usb, but none firewire so far. :(
 
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