They change their website B4 they ship and call me, and I end up with the 24" monitor and 650 gb, 4 gb RAM at a slightly lower price. That was great of them as I'd have never known the difference. Think the price ended up at $1600 something, that would be on an old cc statement, not going there tonight.
Darn cat was on the imac keyboard, booted up the imac went bonkers. If I'm on the computer, he's on the imac side of the table. If I'm in another room, he follows me. Says Mac OS X, Version 10.5.6 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, Memory 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR 3 more info, enough of that. There are some updates I need to run, don't know how to start those yet.
Maybe the imac has builtin bootcamp. I don't know at this point. Too many people in so many months have told me more than I can digest right now. I might as well use Fusion since I bought it, but I still might have to designate so many gb for that, won't know until I get into it, read what came in the box and not ready to deal with it.
You have one of the high-speed Macs, and it can take up to 8 GB RAM. It’s easy to add RAM if you need it for Fusion. Don’t buy it from Apple. In the mean time, OS X runs fine if you give 1.5 GB to your Windows virtual in Fusion and leave the other 1.5 GB for the OS X. You do that in the Fusion settings for the virtual machine.
Boot Camp is the easiest Windows install ever. Hit Option-Space for Spotlight, start typing “Boot Camp Assistant” and hit Return. It will guide you through installing Windows. Once you’re in Windows it’ll install all the drivers you need from the OS X DVD automatically.
The 2.66 MHz version is the base model of the current 24" lineup. Unlike some PC vendors, there's nothing "low-end" about the base model. That's a sweet machine. And did you know you can hang it on the wall if the mood strikes? There's a VESA adapter for about 30 bucks.
There are some updates I need to run, don't know how to start those yet.
"Software Update" in the Apple menu (top left). Probably worth doing, as there have been some recent security updates and some updates to Safari that improve performance. I'm not even sure if your Mac shipped with Safari 4; if not, that's definitely a worthwhile upgrade.
Maybe the imac has builtin bootcamp.
It does, in Applications/Utilities. Fusion is a more convenient way to run Windows (or Linux), but it comes with a bit of a performance penalty, because your RAM and processor are shared between both OSes. Boot Camp lets Windows use the full resources of the Mac, but it requires a restart to go back and forth; I'd only recommend it if you really need the performance (e.g. for heavy gaming).