If the iMac offers enough performance for your needs I would look at
this differently. The iMac costs roughly half as much as a Mac Pro
tower, give or take, but the iMac includes a monitor. Bonus!
The Mac mini is another option, of course, and is fairly cheap. The
iMacs do offer great bang for the buck, however, and it is nice to do
away with some of the cabling that clutters up the conventional
arrangement.
Plus, the cost of LCDs is so lower these days that you aren't losing
so much in relative terms when you retire the iMac and its display.
Still kind of odd to pitch a capable monitor along with an old CPU,
but the cost dimension is less and less of a factor as time goes on.
-Greg
On Mar 16, 2007, at 12:07 PM, Lucia Greco wrote:
> however I would not
> choose I- Macs. I would go with towers. I like the idea of if the
> monitor
> goes the hole computer is not a loss.
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