How is your intel IMac ?

Hello all,
I'm soon to be leaving the MS world - I work with them daily as a system tech/MCSE and I have seen for yeard how they act/patches, etc....
I going to replace a 6 year old Gateway notebook which is runing ME and Linux. The notebook is really too SLOWWWW to run Linux, if not I would run Linux, and I can't do more upgrades.
So ---- I initially wanted an IMac once the Macbook came out I started thinking MB. But ----- I reas about alot of MB problems - run hot, random power off, white notebooks turn yellow....and I don't want to gamble.
How are your Intel IMac's ----- any problems - I'm not going to buy tomorrow, just want to get my options lined up. I may wait to see if the new Intel chips come on IMac.
Please share your experiences.
Thanks,
Bob

I just purchased my iMac this past weekend so I haven't had a lot of time to mess around with it. But so far I think it's great. I have Office 2004 for Mac installed and Photoshop Elements 3 and while they are slower than on a G5, they don't seem slow. If I didn't know they were running through Rosetta, I would think the speed was just fine. The UB versions should really fly.
All the normal apps that came with the iMac are fast - Mail, Safari, iLife '06, etc. I can add iWork '06 to the list as well. I thought my upgraded G4 was fast but I can tell a big difference. Everything is just faster on the new iMac.
Regardless of whether you get a MacBook, MacBook Pro or iMac, you should get at least 1MB of RAM.
Eric S.
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