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Apple iMac Core Duo (20-inch, 2.0GHz) user reviews

Apple iMac Core Duo (20-inch, 2.0GHz)

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4.5 stars out of 5

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Babz Choudhury's avatar
4 stars out of 5

Babz Choudhury 24 January 2011

Good: The screen

Bad: The white finish

Comment: It's a all round performer.

I own it
Neil Whitehead's avatar
4.5 stars out of 5

Neil Whitehead 3 August 2006

Good: Portability, screen, speed

Bad: RAM included

Comment: Having worked on PowerMacs for 8 years through 8600, G3, PowerBooks, iBooks, G4 duals, I was presented with the Intel versiom iMac. The 20-inch is a gem of a Mac. While writing this review I am running Mac mail, Dashboard, Opera, Firefox, Safari, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver 8, iTunes, Entourage and Nikon Picture Perfect. With my recent Orca memory upgrade of 1GB to 1.5 now this machine just purrs along and I really don't find the Adobe suite lagging at all. It did suffer majorly with the 512 installed RAM and I would highly recommend another gig. I used orca memory.

Highly recommended. I love the wireless receiver already installed to pick up Internet and also the smart inbuilt Bluetooth/infrared.

Ivan Marshall's avatar
4.5 stars out of 5

Ivan Marshall 29 May 2006

Good: The gorgeous screen, tremendous speed, the silent operation, the many features, cost.

Bad: Some programs are not universal yet

Comment: Unless you are a 3-D content creator, digital video professional, hard-core gamer, or a top-level graphic-designer, this is the best computer on the market for anyone. It beats dual and quad-core PCs in many areas of performance, and a lot of software isn't even optimised for the Core Duo chip yet! It is only going to get faster, without you having to do anything but update some of your software! You need at least a gigabyte of RAM, since the Intel chip is RAM-hungry! You'll be happy for 5 years!

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