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Back in March I decided that it was time to get a new computer, and a friend suggested I look into getting an iMac. After doing a lot of reading on the Apple site I started to like the idea. My friend let me use his older iMac for a few weeks to familiarize myself. I found it easy to navigate around the os but didn't find too much to do. I started investigating some of the available apps, but I felt limited. I checked out some of the AV apps, and upon inquiring at the Apple iMac forum, I was told in no uncertain terms that I don't need an AV because iMacs don't get viruses. They actually had a tone of scolding me for asking. Then I considered that iMacs are built with pretty much laptop parts so it all fits in there.
Then I looked into price and what that includes, and I built an iMac on the Apple site including an additional 4gb of RAM to get a total of 8 gb. That was $200 extra if my memory serves me right. There wasn't much I could add, so after adding the Microsoft Office for students, the computer would cost about $1,600.
I decided to shop around the WIN 7 computers again and was able to build a DELL XPS8300 on line with a better i5-2400 cpu, sound blaster x-fi xtreme audio sound system, 8gb RAM, 1.5tb HD and a 1gb ati radeon hd 5450 video card etc. Then I added Microsoft Office business addition, Roxio 2011 for free, and Photoshop elements for a total of $1,400. I bought the DELL.