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I mainly joined neowin because it seemed to have many mac users as well as pc users and everything in between so I consider neowin a walmart supercenter or a one stop source for information. Now to my questions I'm looking at buying a Mac in about 3 or so months and I can spend about 1000-1100 US dollars total including an extended warranty and tax as well as S&H if needed. To start I live in Florida and I found out that I can't get the apple care warranty so I'm looking at either buying online at Best Buy or online or in store at my local Compusa and getter the stores extended warranty. I don't have a whole lot of money so for at least for two additional years I can't afford to get it fixed just in case something happens. Also the iBooks are very nice products but I'm looking for a Desktop such as an iMac or most likely the eMac.

So I wanted to know what you all think I should get as well as if any of you know if their might be price drops and/or increase in specs on any listed products. If for example the PowerMac G5 might come down in price to within a couple hundred bucks of my budget I will save a little longer. I would do the same if a G5 chip would be put into an iMac and/or eMac but I haven't looked at mac products ever until a few weeks ago and I have the web or users to help make the right choice and get the best bang for my buck.

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I mainly joined neowin because it seemed to have many mac users as well as pc users and everything in between so I consider neowin a walmart supercenter or a one stop source for information.

Only we're not staffed by illegal immigrants :rofl:

I think your best bet is an eMac or maybe a refurbished iMac. You may even get a pretty good deal scouring ebay for a used PowerMac or something. It does kind of suck about the warranty thing, but I've always gotten by without them. Call me lucky, call me crazy, or call me Tim. :p

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Well there are members from other countries but who cares. Well I don't like Ebay and I do need a warranty so that is a must. I built my PC so I don't bother with warranties but with my mac being the type of machine it will be (all-in-one) with it needing specific parts that most likely will be expensive I would feel that the 150 buck investment would be worthwhile considering that I can't even find a refurb G4 not motherboard for 150 bucks and the fact that how would I know to put it in the all in one unit because that is very different than a PC Tower Case. If I could get a PowerMac G4 or G5 I might consider not getting the warranty but still the CPU alone costs more than 150 bucks so I want to be covered on that so if I'm going to cover myself on the CPU I might as well be covered for everything in there if you know what I mean.

I'm looking at the eMac and for those that have it or know about it is it a good decent machine for the price. Also the first thing I will do is buy a stick of 512MB PC133 SDRAM from Crucial since from what I read OS X is memory hungry but other than that is this a good computer or did they cut some big corners compare to the iMac (not counting the fact that one has a CRT versus an LCD) that I should know about. I don't play games much at all but mostly would do some home video editing and music playing and also surfing the web and not going to windows update as well even though XP is nice and stable it bothers me when I'm counting how many updates have come out since 10-25-2001. I just can't spend the time doing these updates everytime I try out new programs. At least with the mac I can try some linux software as well as try out some mac software and if I don't like it just delete the folder and there is no registry to be messed with.

So the point is would an eMac be a good choice for my needs and I might buy an external DVD Burner down the line but for right now the cost doesn't warrant the use.

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