About the All - new IMAC (Intel)

hey all,
i wanted to know if i could leave my new imac on all night,
i heard that the new imac has little gap in the computer therefore it heats too much and wrecks your computer whhen you over-use it (On whole night)
ty all

Macs are made to be left on continuously. In fact, many of the UNIX optimization routines won't run as designed if you DON'T leave it on, since they run at night.
I have a G3 original iMac that has been on basically ever since I bought it in 1998 (except for a power outage or two and after software install reboots).
Sleep mode ensures that they use VERY little energy since they are Energy Star compliant. But, the best part is that they are ready and waiting for you to wake them up and get right to work--or play!
Keep in mind that if the exterior feels hot, that it is designed as giant heat sink to help dissipate the heat. Plastic does not do this and instead traps the heat inside. If you are very curious about temperatures, try installing iStat from this website: http://www.islayer.com/ . It will show you all sorts of internal temperatures.
Enjoy!!
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Hi there,
I have a new iMac Intel computer.
Welcome to the Mac community.
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with it; however, as I have many spreadsheets (Excel)
and documents (Word) on a Windows XP computer I want
to be able to bring them over to and work on them on
the iMac. I want to keep the iMac as clean as
possible and am not sure I want to use the Office for
Mac that came with a 30-day trial. What I'm
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(2006) will allow me to update my existing Word
documents. What might I lose? Eventually I'd like
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