[dizzydog]

I have a Dell inspiron 1545, its a nice bit of kit but seriously struggles under the pressure of running lots of programs at once (Very annoying).

A friend of mine is skint and wants to sell his iMac off it has the following spec:

20Inch screen
Core 2 Duo
2.66Ghz
2GB Ram
320GB HDD
GeForce 9400M/SD
and it has FireWire 800

All this for £400, he bought it for over £1000 a few months ago, it is in perfect working order.

Is this a gd deal??

Also i am making the change from pc - mac are their any annoying problems with this other than the Flash support or has this been sorted now?

[welshhuw]

Sounds ok...But 2GB is not good...You will need 4GB+.

[dizzydog]

Can i upgrade this myself like with a pc??

[andyl]

 dizzydog, on 22 September 2010 - 07:28 PM, said:

Is this a gd deal??

Also i am making the change from pc - mac are their any annoying problems with this other than the Flash support or has this been sorted now?

It's a good deal if it's working 100%, yes. I don't know what you're talking about regarding Flash support. I've been a Mac user for 5+ years and have always had a perfect, up-to-date version of Flash running. If you have software you've paid for, remember you will need to buy it again for Mac. There are a lot of differences, you will soon adapt.

 welshhuw, on 22 September 2010 - 07:30 PM, said:

Sounds ok...But 2GB is not good...You will need 4GB+.

I believe memory management is slightly different on Macs (or *nix systems). You'll find that 2GB will be enough to run a hell of a lot of programs, but it will eventually slow due to the old processor.

 dizzydog, on 22 September 2010 - 07:44 PM, said:

Can i upgrade this myself like with a pc??

You can indeed upgrade memory on Macs.

[dizzydog]

I was under the impression that some online videos dont work on mac's because of a type of software i thought was flash perhaps not.

[RobertG]

 dizzydog, on 22 September 2010 - 09:21 PM, said:

I was under the impression that some online videos dont work on mac's because of a type of software i thought was flash perhaps not.

not true.

Its all updatable just like pc so all video etc will work even if needs update of some type

[andyl]

 dizzydog, on 22 September 2010 - 09:21 PM, said:

I was under the impression that some online videos dont work on mac's because of a type of software i thought was flash perhaps not.

Everything that works on your PC will work, in a lot of cases better, on a Mac - excluding some fun/useless third party apps of course.

Edit: Having said that, Windows 7 is just as good as OS X in my opinion - if you manage to get yourself a completely clean install of it that is. It's the hardware and bloatware you get from people like HP or Acer which puts me off ever going back to 'PC'.

[Jock]

is it a G5?

[dizzydog]

Its this

http://www.amazon.co...85232134&sr=1-3,

I just need to decide if i want to sell my dell to cover the cost of the iMac.

[Jock]

well £400 is a good deal for that IMO.

[Frost Tear]

£400? Your friend could get a lot more for it, so snap up the deal before he realises that.

[andyl]

 Frost Tear, on 29 September 2010 - 10:57 PM, said:

£400? Your friend could get a lot more for it, so snap up the deal before he realises that.

Haha, what are friends for hey?

[Tommo]

 welshhuw, on 22 September 2010 - 07:30 PM, said:

Sounds ok...But 2GB is not good...You will need 4GB+.

I happen to have a Late 09 MacBook with 2Gb ram and it can run most of CS5 Masters Collection without slowing down

____________________

Great deal mate, snap it up before he rearlises.

[MacDesign]

This particular model's specs are very good and adequate for web graphic designing. And it can support up to 8g of ram. Some PC rams can actually work on a Mac like the Kingston brand since their price is way much cheaper than an Apple branded ram. If you can upgrade the ram to 4g or more would be good.

[Ste Hughes]

if you don't buy it give me his number!

**** hot price

[kingy da killa]

Dell inspiron 1545 are crap! i got one there pathetic

[alzer81]

i bought a 27" iMac with 4Gb's of ram from the Apple REfurb store for €1,000 last month.

[CityCM]

I just sold my 20" iMac with the exact same specs (but with 4GB Ram) and no keyboard/mouse for £540 so I'd say yes, it's a very good price.

[Sanspoof]

 andyl, on 22 September 2010 - 10:54 PM, said:

Everything that works on your PC will work, in a lot of cases better, on a Mac - excluding some fun/useless third party apps of course.

Edit: Having said that, Windows 7 is just as good as OS X in my opinion - if you manage to get yourself a completely clean install of it that is. It's the hardware and bloatware you get from people like HP or Acer which puts me off ever going back to 'PC'.

Well said!!

[cibgraphics]

Also a note that Adobe has a transfer program where you can exchange your PC version for a OSX version for much less than outright buying new software, unless you are running on CS1 or something.


http://kb2.adobe.com...5/kb405819.html

This post has been edited by cibgraphics: 21 June 2011 - 08:06 PM