Comments on: First Impressions: 24-inch iMac

By: M

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:40:36 +0000

Hi,

Can you tell me more about the USB hub you have in the background of the last photo?

Thanks.

By: Tom

Tom — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 18:38:21 +0000

Oh.. Erm
i would never have a refurbished Mac…
Take it back to whoever you bought it from.
Al I can say tbh.

By: cheesepasties

cheesepasties — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 23:34:36 +0000

OMG, i bought a refurb 24″ imac a few days ago, using it now, but it has serious problems. I cant run leopard at all. It has a kind of strange thing where some applications make black dots appear all over the screen. the computer then crashes, and tells me I need to restart it. when it does eventually succeed in starting up, the message appears, telling me that “mac OSX unexpectedly closed” and asks me to send a report or see more details, yet whatever I do after that, I never see any new details of the incident, or any report. anybody know why this is happening, or whether it is fixable? please help, i want a functioning mac, not a dysfunctional cinema block taking up half of my room!!!

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 20:49:24 +0000

Paul, Nice iMac you got there. Im getting the new 20inch iMac as a christmas present. The 24 is a bit big for me :). They say size doesnt want…. It does in the computer world. I cant wait too get it. I wont be running boot camp on my mac, I rather stay away from Windows for once. Ive been using it for years and its nice too have a change.

By: victor ilascu

victor ilascu — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 07:43:35 +0000

Salut,
Mi se pare ca stii romaneste.
Imi pare rau ca nu stau asa bine cu engleza de aceea te-as intreba daca poti in cateva cuvinte sa-mi spui impresia ta despre acest iMac.
Intentionez sa-mi cumpar si eu unul la 24″…
Sper sa pot traduce cu alta vista comentariile de mai sus.
Cu stima,
victor ilascu

By: Micahville

Micahville — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 22:00:15 +0000

That looks so hawt. Hardware pr0n ftw.

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 21:37:07 +0000

Since the 24″ iMac has been out now for almost a year, does anyone have an educated guess on when they will be coming out with the NEXT version of iMac? Maybe a 30″?

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By: Kaipo

Kaipo — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 22:45:37 +0000

Just got one. 2GB ram upgrade well worth the money. HD on iDVD smoother play on this model. This unit was replacing an older G4 iMac. Amazing difference in performance. The Mac Pro must be twice as amazing.

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By: Amit Sharma

Amit Sharma — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 19:05:36 +0000

I just bought one refurbished from the apple web site, man it’s awesome. Amazing for watching movies and stuff, plus gives front row a new name.

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Julian On Software » First Impressions: 24-inch iMac - PaulStamatiou.com — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 09:30:34 +0000

[...] First Impressions: 24-inch iMac – PaulStamatiou.com “With 24-inches you get the 2nd largest Apple display ever (with the 30-inch sitting atop the throne), running at a widescreen resolution of 1920Ã—1200. You can finally play those 1080p HD trailers on Quicktime.com! The display also has a viewing angle of 178Â° from side to side allowing you to turn your room into a cinema.” [...]

By: Carl

Carl — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 04:30:00 +0000

I have been enjoying my 24 inch iMac/ 2G RAM/ 7600 GT for a couple of weeks now. It is HUGE.
I think the only way someone would send this back and trade for a mini is because they saw their Visa bill and “came to a sad realization”.

$3500 Canadian after taxes. Not cheap, but probably the most amazing machine I have ever owned. Very fast. Runs Windows.

The hum complaints seem to unwarranted. I upgraded from an eMac, and it had a fan blasting away. Now that this machine is so silent, you can’t help but hear the juice flowing through it. It must have a larger PS than the Cinema displays because it is so bright.
My machine is always set to the lowest bright setting, and yes there is a slight hum. It is a giant screen though using lots of power. It is only noticeable because it lacks the standard fan noise.

The ports on the back are fiddly to get to. They should be on the side so that you can put a USB stick in. Designers sometimes forget that people use these machines as well as look at them. A little practicality please.

It’s a 10.

By: Jacob Schultz

Jacob Schultz — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:02:34 +0000

My new Imac 24 has very poor airport reception (about 50%).
Apple support tells me, that this is due to insufficient drivers for new 802.11-n-cards. Drivers work for some chipset, not for others.
They keep saying that they are working on int, but latest airport update i received did not help.
For me, this means that I cant stream tv from my Mac mini server :-(

By: John H

John H — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 08:31:40 +0000

The review makes it sound better than an orgasm! Mine just arrived today – so looks like lots of fun tonight…. :)

By: WilcosWorld.co.uk

WilcosWorld.co.uk — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 00:07:08 +0000

iMac + iPod…

I think I am turning into an Apple fanboy! About a month ago, I bought a new Apple iMac because my Mac Mini, (although serving me well), was struggling with me running all the programs I needed to do my work simultaneously. So I dug deep in my pocket…

By: Matty

Matty — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 19:53:33 +0000

Hey Paul, or anyone else..I got the 24inch imac today and it looks great…one thing…when u watch a dvd on full screen does it look a bit pixelated to you? also i have the elgato tv tuner hybrid, and full screen close up looks not great through a roof ariel…

By: Paul Stamatiou

Paul Stamatiou — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 05:46:27 +0000

Kenny, no the video card is far from user upgradeable/accessible. While it does use MXM, you may theoretically swap it with another MXM graphics module but those are OEM only and hard to find. The module is hidden well within the iMac so you would completely have to disassemble it. If you want fast graphics, just get 7600 as a BTO option from Apple.

By: Kenny T.

Kenny T. — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 04:49:56 +0000

HI Paul,
Great reading your artical on the imac 24″. Dou know if the video card 7300GT is user aassessable. Can you upgrade it yourself.
Thanks

By: edward

edward — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 08:47:44 +0000

“The Core 2 Duo in the iMac is the latest creation from Intel, featuring 2MB of L2 cache per core for a total of 4MB, which is mammoth compared to â€œregularâ€ processors.” Actually it’s cleverer than that, the chip has a 4MB L2 cache shared between the two cores dynamically. If you only have one busy thread and it’s a cache hog, that core will get the whole 4MB. Each core gets what it needs within the bounds of the resources available. Also when idling parts of the cache can switch off to save energy, this is after all a chip aimed at notebooks / media centers. I measured my iMac taking 81W idling, 102W under load, both with minimum brightness. Dual NetBurst Xeon (not dual core) in the office takes 160W idling, excluding the screens!

By: edward

edward — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 08:43:58 +0000

Got my iMac 24″ two days ago. Great machine, migration assistant makes my day, but I do have that annoying hum. I like to work in a fairly (not completely) dark room, so I use the brightness on minimum except when watching video. Thus I get the hum. An engineer is coming round next week to look at it – AppleCare offered me a replacement, but I like my dead-pixel-free screen.

By: iMike

iMike — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 00:58:10 +0000

I am now on my second iMac 24. The first one arrived with the SuperDrive DOA. The local store must not have tested it before calling me to come pick it up.

Now I am experiencing multiple crashes! My wife’s iMac 20 never had this many problems. I believe this system is still pretty green. I love the Mac and th eiLife software, but if the chashes continue I may sour on the core duo pretty fast!

iMike

By: dc3p0

dc3p0 — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 20:35:05 +0000

I have received my imac on the friday and I must say that it is incredibly impressive. I also went for the 7600gt card and o/c this to get a considerable boost in performance. The thing that surprises me is the heat that the display gives off as I have just swapped from a trinitron crt. I must admit that the system is running well but i feel tthat certain things are not quite right if i compare this to my g4 powerbook which is slow but very stable. I tried to rip some dvds with macripper no probs then I used ffmpegx and all of a sudden all the films that I converting suddenly have artefacts in the image though I feel that this may be a software issue i hope. Overall very impressive but the few slow quirks do aggravate me a little and I dont get the full satisfaction that I once had with my 3200 64bit and 6800gt pc.

By: Brian Lund

Brian Lund — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 15:54:05 +0000

The apple chat board is alive with imac 24 / winxp issues. It appears to be a hit/miss issue, machine-specific. The issue is that during the winxp install, the screen goes blank and won’t return. Some think it’s a driver issue. In some cases, the machine dies completely and has to be returned to apple (they’re taking them back, don’t know why if they think the machine was busted by installing BootCamp and winxp, says right on their website ‘use at own risk, unsupported, etc etc’). Makes me think that apple knows darn well what the issue is and are scrambling their ‘please God, not something as bad as the Lithium Ion battery issue again’ arses off to fix the problem. Looks like a manufacturing issue to me, given that some users report BootCamp 1.1.1/winxpsp2 works slick as s%^& sliding out of a duck. All configurations too (hopped up RAM, 256M video card, you name it). This is more of a relations issue than a tech issue for apple, hope they get on this one quick and deal with it, there’s a lot of users not pleased. I am going to wait for Leopard, haven’t got time to debug a computer for Apple, wasted too much of my life already doing same for free for Bill.

By: Gerard

Gerard — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 09:34:27 +0000

Had my iMac 24″ for 3 days. Great machine but it also suffers from the humming sound when the screen is dimmed. Goes back to Apple this week :-(

Poor quality control.