iMac Refurb
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- graphikboi
I'm planning on changing from PC to Mac... it's been a long time coming... but i'm not sure what to do? I've found a good deal on Apple's Refub site... it's for the
Refurb iMac 17" 2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo/ 512MB/ 160GB/ SD/ ATIX1600-128MB/ BT/ AP - Apple Certified
for £699 - is this good enough? And has anyone brought any refurbs?
what am i likely to upgrade in a couple of years time...
can anyone give any advice? cheers!
- rafalski0
I wouldn't look at iMacs below 20". You can upgrade everything in them but the display, so I'd say it has some importance..
- ********0
go with a 20' iMac .. the 17 is on laptops now and too small imo
if you can afford it take the 24' iMac
- OSFA0
I would also recomnd the 20' or 24'. No experience with Apple's refurb. yet.
- alkanenine0
yeah 17" is too small. i have had no problems with my mac refurb stuff.
- paraselene0
my flatmate swears by the refurbs. he gets his from cancom.co.uk and has never had any trouble with them. definitely go for the bigger display if you can.
- tkmeister0
my old g4 pb is refurb. i used it for 4yrs. had one hd failure otherwise no problem.
this time around, i bought a new because i hear more problems lately with mac and didn't wanna take a chance. if anything is wrong, back to the store.
- Chief0
actually, i'm pretty sure the only thing upgradable in the imacs is ram. they don't sell gpu's for imacs, and i believe removing the hdd is a major pain, though possible.
- rafalski0
HDD is standard, intel processor can be swapped as far as I read - people have done it. Probably the video card isn't easy to upgrade, if at all. On a budget, I wolud go for a cheapest 20" intel, max out ram and a year later put the fastest procesor that fits plus a 10000rpm hard drive.
- shutdown0
bought a refurb mac mini early this year (two days before they released the intel version...bastards!)
the spec indicated it was fully loaded in comparison to a new one but it actually had no airport or bluetooth installed...but apsrt from that no other problems
- graphikboi0
Some great advice here, thanks guys - i think i'm going to pay the extra for a 20"
- mirrorball0
go for the 24" nothing better than not having to zoom in all the time on an A3 page, even better designing an A4 page with all your palets open beside it!
Plus when Leotard comes out that new window trick will be great on it!
Plus u can let me know what its like to work on as Im thinking of seliing me G5 to get a new Intel 24"
- mybrokenshoe0
Yep go for biggest screen you can.
"Plus u can let me know what its like to work on as Im thinking of seliing me G5 to get a new Intel 24""
I have a 24". I upgraded from a 733 g4 so it seems silly-ly fast even on non native stuff (ps, illy etc) Don't know what it would be like from a g5 though?
- Soler0
I found on my 20" iMac G5 that the screen quality is compromised. towards the top, the colors are darker then those on the bottom. If I draw a green box in Illustrator it becomes a gradient from the screen, even though it is a flat color.
Kinda sucks- I think it's the heat or something...
- monkeyshine0
I've never bought anything BUT refurbished computers and have never had any problems. I also bought a 20" iMac. No worries.