Recently I received my new iMac. It has a 20 inch monitor, duo core 2.4 Ghz Pentium processors, 2GB of memory, 256MB video Card, and an extended warranty and support plan for three years. The whole package cost about $1850. Immediately my fiancee, Mercy, opened the iMac and set it up while I was on the road doing errands. She isn’t very computer savvy but she was able to set it up no problem. Without any further time wasted let me go over the immediate pros and cons of my new iMac:

THE PROS

  1. The GUI is much nicer, user-friendly, and clean. It takes a little bit of getting used to it, but it’s manageable.
  2. Applications are easier to install and mobilize throughout the directory structure. I don’t have to worry about an error message always coming up saying “this file is missing or that file is missing”.
  3. There are more graphical programs to edit video, photos, and music.
  4. Accessibility – I don’t have to look very far for the main and basic and most used programs in the OS.
  5. The entire unit doesn’t take up a lot of space. everything pretty much resides inside the flat-screen monitor.
  6. The keyboard is made of durable metal, doesn’t have keys that need to be pushed far to get a character typed. The weight of the KB eliminates the accidental movement of the position of the keyboard. That used to be annoying in windows systems.

CONS: 

  1.  For the most part the cons are mainly features that are not intuitive to a Windows user. For example I didn’t realize that the eject button on the keyboard is also used to play the music or video discs that are inserted. That wasn’t very obvious to me.
  2. When navigating between different windows. If the focus is on a certain window that is partially covering another window that you want to get at which has a visible link that is on the window which is behind, you have to click twice to get to that link. Click #1: To get the focus on to the window in the back. Click #2: To get access to the page that link links to.

That’s pretty much all for now. I will post more pros and cons as they present themselves.