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JohnHJ
First Class Passenger
Member # 30846

posted 01-04-2011 09:59 PM

Greetings fellow CT'ers. I am in the market for a new home PC and believe I now have paralysis by analysis. One computer I am seriously considering is the new Inspiron 2305 All-In-One touch screen PC. I have spec'd out a middle of the line version and with MS Office Home & Student edition it is about $870 including standard ground shipping.

Ideally, I would LOVE to get an iMac 27" i5, however; spec'd out I am looking at between 2K and 3K. I know many of you are heavy on the photos and videos, and if I am not mistaken I believe most of you use Mac's.

I need the PC for some basic home functionality (managing finances, light word processing and excel usage) plus I am a novice at the photo and video editing, however; I am wanting to learn more and use such a computer for hobby purposes.

Is this worth taking a look at? Should I just bite the bullet and get the iMac? Any thoughts, ideas, or suggestions are gladly welcomed.

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desirod7
First Class Passenger
Member # 1626

posted 01-06-2011 12:16 PM

My understanding is that upcoming MAC's will not have spinning hard drives but a gargantuan flash drive as the main memory.

I would love a MAC, but most of my business and design software is PC based only.

Windows 7 is a massive improvement over Vista, and XP home is an old workhorse with most of the bugs fixed.

Dell's commercial systems are good and robust, I have had problems with clones such as the out of business American Computech. Consumer Reports is a good place to start evaluation.

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JohnHJ
First Class Passenger
Member # 30846

posted 01-06-2011 02:38 PM

Thanks Desirod. As I got to looking at Apple I thought I might want to consider a Mac Mini and use an existing monitor and essentially have the same computer as an iMac at a fraction of the price.

I will probably head to Best Buy soon and spend A LOT of time looking around and comparing, especially since they carry Apple products now (at least where I live) since the closest Apple store is about 200 miles away. Anyone else have a Mac Mini and would care to share their experience?

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