My 88 year old father's first Mac is this 24" iMac

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highly recommended

Apple iMac Desktop with 24" Display

A beautiful piece of equipment. A nice space saver and very fast and easy to setup. I've had no problems using the computer or adding additional programs to the system. Great Help program built in and also nice online Help and Forum programs available.

Apple has done it again

I own this mac and I have to say, it is amazing! Once you get one you'll never go back to windows! Everything is so easy to understand and simple. There is no separate PC tower thing, it is all inside the monitor along with the CD drive. You also get everything already installed on your dock like iTunes iMovie iPhoto and Mail. Also, there is a dashboard with handy widgets like language, speed, weight, energy, and length converters. You also get a built in camera for iChat, a program for chatting with other people that own macs. They are the best computers out there.

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My 88 year old father's first Mac is this 24" iMac

He's had a personal computer since the early 1980's so he is a Switcher rather than a Newbee. I've got a 2 year old iMac, and am writing this after setting up his new system and watching him use it.

Providing the technical support for him, including removing spyware once or twice, should now be much simpler. We've tried out iChat for video conferencing from my home to his, and I've helped him with some questions about Mail with the screensharing capability. It also seems to be a hit with other people in his retirement community. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED for parents you do tech support for!

The system is so quiet you can't tell if it is on. This is not particularly good because there no longer is the screensaver/sleep mode light on the front panel. It needs an indicator light.

The unconventional design of the keyboard and mouse were unsettling for him at first. (At 88 you do get set in your ways.) I didn't find it a problem. Some additional USB ports would be welcome, as would a SD memory slot. Why can't Apple put these on their consumer systems when everyone else does?

Bought an external FireWire drive and connected it. Within a minute had it backing up via TimeMachine. Backup worries solved!

His desk is much tidier with the iMac that it was with the Windows box. Should be fewer problems with things getting disconnected.

He's using Mail/AddressBook/Calendar just fine now, and will be using iWork. I visited last weekend and he had iPhoto viewing the 10,000+ images scanned from 6 decades of slides. He never got the hang of looking at them with his old Windows box.

I won't give this review 5 stars because of the need for Parallels for a few of programs (a genealogy program, WordPerfect, and a decent Quicken version) that require Parallels/Fusion that might cause confusion. Also it would be nice if display elements could be resized larger (Windows will do this, most of OS X can but it is a disabled feature -- maybe in January 2009 with the OS 10.6, Snow Leopard?)

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Quick and Quiet, I Love This Computer!!!

I have owed Macs for over 15 years now and the latest intel versions are great. I have vmware fusion and run windows XP on a virtual machine. These new Macs are fast. They boot windows faster than our HP!

I have a 24" 2.8 GHz mac from 2007 and I purchased this 20" 2.66 GHz for my business partner. I have been setting it up for her over the last 10 hours or so and I can say that the screen looks brighter and deeper than my 24" and it runs very fast. What impressed me most however was how quiet the hard drive is. Mine is a 750GB drive that makes a more higher pitched sound when read/writing. This Mac has a more lower pitched sound that is much quieter than mine. I really like this one.

The new keyboard has a very nice tactile feel and the mouse works great. Runs super smooth. Love it! This is going to sync up nicely with her new iPhone 3G!

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BILLY BOB CAN KISS MY ROYAL CANADIAN

I have been using PC's since 1981 and recently purchased my first MAC.
This is the way God meant for computing to be.
The transition was simple and easy. All other computers should be made illegal

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The all-in-one iMac packs a complete, high-performance computer?including the latest Intel Core 2 Duo processors?into a beautifully thin, anodized aluminum and glass design. The latest Intel Core 2 Duo processor runs at 2.6GHz with advanced 45-nm process technology and 6MB of shared L2 cache, allowing you to run your applications faster and more efficiently than ever before. iMac features a glossy 20-inch widescreen display and ATI Radeon HD graphics that gives a blow-you-away level of detail and realism in games, three-dimensional graphics, high-resolution photos, and high-definition video that comes alive with rich, vivid color. Built into the top of iMac is an iSight camera. You'll hardly notice it's there until you want to launch iChat, Photo Booth, or iMovie. iSight is easy to use and highly advanced. The remarkable picture quality and color accuracy make this tiny feature huge. With iLife '08, Mac OS X Leopard, built-in wireless, speakers, and ultrathin anodized aluminum Apple Keyboard, you'll be creating, sharing, surfing, and playing within minutes of opening the box. 20 Glossy Widescreen TFT Active-Matrix (1680 x 1050, 290 cd/m2, 800 - 1 contrast ratio, 160°H/V viewing angle) Liquid Crystal Display Built-in iSight Camera with Microphone ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO with 256MB GDDR3 Dedicated Video Memory Slot-loading 8x SuperDrive with 4x Double-Layer burning (DVD+-RW/CD-RW) Stereo speakers with 24-watt Digital Amplifier AirPort Extreme (802.11a/b/g/n) Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR 10/100/1000BASE-T (Gigabit) 3 x USB 2.0 (2 x USB ports on keyboard), FireWire 800, FireWire 400, Optical Digital Audio Output/Headphone out, Optical Digital Audio input/audio line in, mini-DVI with support for DVI, VGA, S-Video, and Composite Video connections via Optional Adapter, RJ-45 (LAN) Approximate Unit Dimensions - 18.5? (H) x 19.1? (W) x 7.4? (D) Approximate Unit Weight - 20 Pounds

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