She has been epic! 9 years of faultless service for £1000 and still going for £100 on eBay!

Replacement is a late 2008 iMac which I picked up for a favour.

 

There has been some cracking deals lately for macbooks at about £800 surely these must be a better option as the only reason I have a desktop is a downloading machine if it wasn't for that I doubt I would bother. It cost me enough to have a 2560x1600 monitor and gpu to support that res for games

 

I just checked the specs for that year model and what a piece of crap that is, I think a cheap phone would do more than that. If that spec lasted you as long you must only browse the web on it as it can't do much more?

 

It's not all about big numbers. It was the first Intel iMac, I did lots on it including running Windows. In it's final years it became a Radio or Netflix box with the odd bit of web browsing and email. It will still edit Go-Pro footage but it's painful compared to my old Macbook.

This new one feels like a rocket ship, runs Yosemite and the screen is massive! I'll use it a lot more.

 

I have a lovely Macbook and use it a lot but it's nice to have a desktop too.... and an iPad and an iPhone and...

 

I have all those and the ipods but even looking at the 2008 spec imac its still a piece of crap?

 

It does everything better and is bigger, runs Yosemite pretty well and if I find a SSD and a couple of stick of memory for a good price it'll be even better. Another couple of years of use at least.

 

My god what a cheapskate

 

I really am and that's why I choose Apple products. PC's and Android devices are just too expensive in the long run.

 

That's pretty good going, but my Thinkpad T60 is still in good use!

 

Good laptop. I loved my Thinkpad, it cost £7,500 and was still going strong when it was stolen.

 

i think you paid too much

 

That was a quick turnaround.

 

Surely something like this would be a better option for a used pc? there were cheaper but this just seemed like an ok spec.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Apple-iMac...item4188acacbc

 

That one would be awesome, but mine was free, tech budget blown this year.

My good friend moved to a 27" Retina, video munching monster, his Dad got his old 27" and I got his Dad's cast off which used to be his sons. The favour was making that happen and thankfully as it's Apple all three migrations were perfect with mine taking a bit longer due to the change of architecture.

My 2006 iMac is going to my brother in law, he currently has a 06 Dell desktop, it's a magnitude worse than my iMac, totally awful in fact, it'll be years until the '06 iMac is that bad.

 

Keep it in the family!

 

Thats good going, my 11.99 month old macbook retina's ssd drive has just failed, i've booked a genius bar appointment a day after its warranty expires, i hope they'll sort it else i may have to wrap it around them

 

You'll be fine.

 

They make you rent your ssd ?!

 

Read up on your rights and you will be ok, your warranty is with the retailer and luckily your retailer is the manufacturer as well


http://www.which.co.uk/consumer-righ...faulty-product

 

I always buy Apple stuff from John Lewis - free 2 year full warranty. Just replaced my 2006 Macbook with a new Macbook Air to use alongside my iPhone and iPad. Yosemite and iOS 8 means iCloud finally delivers what I want.

 

Agreed on iCloud, 79p a month, bargain.

I'm about to buy a Bluetooth dongle that lets this old iMac use Handoff, other than that it's running Yosemite like a champ.