I'm a long time custom PC user and those grudges you have with the iMac really took me awhile to look past. I built 3-4K custom PCs and used HP's 30 (ZR30W) for my screens. I dumped all of that for my new iMac. It was a big shock but I'm finding that I can be happy on an iMac. lol. My friends and business partners hardly believe it. Now they walk into my home office and they see an iMac, iPhone, and iPad2, and with these 3 devices I am more efficient running my business and enjoying more free time with my family. Over the weekend I was easily able to move my iMac upstairs to do some work while playing with the kids (wife was out of town), a luxury that I was not able to do with my custom PCs. As far as a monitor for gaming, you can use the 27" screen for gaming with an add on piece of hardware. I myself just use a 32 led sharp 1080p for ps3/apple tv and leave my iMac just for computer use.
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iMac Vertex 3 "My Upgrade"
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I'm a long time custom PC user and those grudges you have with the iMac really took me awhile to look past. I built 3-4K custom PCs and used HP's 30 (ZR30W) for my screens. I dumped all of that for my new iMac. It was a big shock but I'm finding that I can be happy on an iMac. lol. My friends and business partners hardly believe it. Now they walk into my home office and they see an iMac, iPhone, and iPad2, and with these 3 devices I am more efficient running my business and enjoying more free time with my family. Over the weekend I was easily able to move my iMac upstairs to do some work while playing with the kids (wife was out of town), a luxury that I was not able to do with my custom PCs. As far as a monitor for gaming, you can use the 27" screen for gaming with an add on piece of hardware. I myself just use a 32 led sharp 1080p for ps3/apple tv and leave my iMac just for computer use.
It's working great. I do wish I had 2 SSD's one for each OS. I don't like sharing OS's with 1 drive. lol. I may convert the 256GB into latest Lion build and just use the stock 1tb for WIN7. i'm a big fan of win7, but i'm finding myself liking osx more everyday. i use google apps mainly it's nice cause any OS everything synchs up so swapping between OS's are devices all the info is the same.
That's not really my issue. With a 2010 iMac I can use it as my gaming PC monitor using the MDP and slap on a SSD with no issues.
I don't mind not being able to use it as a monitor for a gaming PC but being able to add a SSD without issues is a big deal. I don't want to take it apart to only have it 99% working with temp/fan issues. I would get it with the SSD option but I don't want what Apple provides.
Will Boot Camp allow you to choose between both internal drives when partitioning, or only the primary?
