My iMac 17 " Review

Hello, this is the first time ever I post in these Apple Discussion Forums. I have recently bought a new iMac Intel Core Duo 17 " and I'm feeling pleased with it. So I decided to write some of my thought about it. This is the first time I have a Mac and I am happy with it.
Okey lets start. It's an iMac 17 " with all default configurations, not added any RAM yet. I ordered it on tuesday night and got it friday (that's quite fast!) The box with the computer was quite small and the iMac Box was packed in the box.
Well we got home and I opened it. My first thoughts was WOW! This looks real great! The computer it self, the keyboard, the mouse and yeah everything in the box is cool. I decided to take the 17 " because it is a better price and I'm sure I will be pleased with it. However I started to plugin everything to get it work, turned the computer on and it starts a great guide easy for configuration of your computer. It gone quite easy but I had some problems to connect to internet, didn't knew that you had to put a $-mark before your connectionkey (it just told to write your password not key) and I didn't see a $-mark on the keyboard. I thought, what the heck and searched all over the Apple website to find how to do it. Asked in a macforum at the same time how and got the answer that you just click alt + the euromark and it becomes a $-mark. So that went ok. Went throught the guide well and the Mac OS X started, were some WOWS there aswell. You did not even had to put a DVD/CD into your iMac, it is just to plugin and go. One of the first things I did was to update to Mac OS X 10.4.5 and it went ok but a little slow. Of course it took a while to get used to the operatingsystem, but right now I'm feeling quite so. I had some connectionproblems with the Airport network to my router, slow download speeds and nah that don't work great. Some days after I connected it instead not using wireless and the internetspeed is great. One big disseapointment is that movietrailers don't work right now on Front Row, else it is a good program. They will probably fix it.
The screen is bright, very bright. The iMac is thin, doesn't use so much space of your desk and it just looks great. The screensize is good. It is just to put a DVD or CD in the iMac and it works good. You can for exemple put a good CD in there and it will automaticly (you can choose options for that) open iTunes and you see all the songs there. You can easily import them to your iTunes Libary and listen whenever you want. The keyboard is good and the mouse is also good. The built-in iSight webcam is very cool, have lots of laughts when using it, was one of the first things I did when first time using my iMac. Photobooth is great and fun and the quality is quite good. It's cool that the apple remote you get can sit on the right side of the computer.
Pros:
The computer is in the screen and the computer looks nice.
Built in iSight with Photobooth and Front Row.
You can connect it to a 23 inches screen.
It is fast and works good.
Games tested runs good on it (World of Warcraft for example).
It is quiet.
Mac OS X
Cons:
The price, could be cheaper.
Not options to connect it to bigger screens than 23 inches.
They should have 1 GB RAM atleast as default not only 512 MB RAM.
Bad wireless internet speed.
Overall: I like it! I would reccomand to buy the new iMac 17 " to anyone, it works and looks great. Buy it!
//ImAlexander
iMac Intel Core Duo 17 " Mac OS X (10.4.5)

I have a 17" model also and after initially setting it up I thought that I should have gotten the 20" model. After about an hour I realized that the 17" is perfect for me.
I actually don't think the price is too bad. I just saw the new Alienware Area-51 5400 (all-in-one PC) in Wired magazine. It has a 17" LCD, Intel Core Duo, built in wireless and Bluetooth, built in camera, 128mb of Vram, maximum of 2GB if RAM and maximum HD size of 160GB and it's priced $700 more than the similarly setup 17" iMac.
I don't think that PC fans can claim that the iMac is too expensive now.
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Sorry to hear about that however once Apple ships the product it's in the hands of the shipper and Apple loses all control the same as Dell, HP, Acer etc... All the manufacturer's go to great lengths to ensure machines are packaged adequately so they can take the rigors shippers put them through however there are always going to be individual cases where contents are damaged. For example most computer manufactures make their packaging so the computers can be dropped from 10 or more feet onto a concrete floor. However there is no way they can protect a box if it's kicked in or crushed.
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I'll try and answer your questions as best I can.
Qn 1 Which Mac.
Ans:- As I understand it both units will run Adobe CS6.
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          It is true that if you look down this form, like any other and I am thinking about the Apple discussions forum, you will find numerous instances of problems.
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Ans:- I do not believe you do. Once you have set up your Creative Cloud account you go to the apps site and download the apps for each machine.
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          It is true many unfortunately have had all sorts of problems, including me with Acrobat X.
          That said, Creative Cloud in my view has been a major advance in how Adobe delivers software. I have no regrets with signing up to Creative Cloud and I expect to remain with it.
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