Thanks for the laugh...
I am getting a similar iMac to the one you listed. I just think its funny that after asking for people's thoughts that first person to reply gave you their honest opinion and then you said the 27in doesnt come with i7 nuff said. LOL. Sounds like your just trying to brag about your computer choice and not really willing to listen to others thoughts. Oh and a workhorse desktop computer that lasts 10 years easily? wow that is just so absurd I do not even know where to begin, but ill try, check out the 2002 iMac G4, with maxed out specs that thing had 1gb ram, 32mb graphics, 80gb hdd, usb 1.1, and a 800mhz processor. I sure hope the people who owned that computer did not plan on it lasting all the way to today. (10 years later)
Sorry, but I sit here thoroughly enjoying this post as I read it on my 2002 dual 1 GHz MDD
Power Mac G4 with a 40 GB hard drive and slightly better specs than the rest listed above. It turned 10 in September.
Sure, the Firewire ports are long dead (leaving me with an even slower USB 2.0 connection via an added PCI card for our 1 TB backup drive), the USB ports on the back of the Studio Display went berserk a few months ago, the power button on the front has long been broken (thank heavens for the ADC connector and Studio Display power button), it fights going to sleep more than a 5-year-old who just watched A Nightmare on Elm Street (due to the USB errors constantly thrown up by the aforementioned Studio Display), it has recently decided to sometimes power itself off when it does go to sleep and then require a break before it wants to work again, and we planned to replace it at the beginning of this year when everyone thought the new iMacs would be out
but it has been an awesome computer and we've gotten more out of it than I could ever have imagined. Yes, hubby is long past the ability to play games on it but the XBOX downstairs more than makes up for that and it still works just fine for me to do what I need and our kids to do their school work.
The value we've gotten out of our current Mac (and only the 2nd one we've purchased in over 16 years) actually concerns me because we're about to invest nearly the same amount of money in our very first AIO Mac and I know I have no hope of seeing such longevity ever again.
We will sincerely miss the upgradeability that we've long enjoyed but the successors to the Power Macs are well out of our price range and current needs.
I know I'm completely off topic but couldn't help responding given the humor of our current Mac situation.
Now, if you'll all kindly delay your online purchases until I can get mine in (we're on Mac life support here, lol), I'd be ever so grateful.
Actually, it's going to be a BTO 27" so I know I'm praying to the computer gods for several more weeks anyway.
Good luck to all who are about to drop a nice chunk of change into Apple's pockets...the freaking wait is over.