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Originally Posted by willravel
What's your budget?
A good replacement might be the 2.0 GHz 17 inch iMac. It has a full 8x superdrive, 1GB of RAM, 160GB HD, Radeon 1600 graphics card, and all the usual refinements (built in iSight, remote, and the amazing applications).
If you want a bigger screen, you can get the Mac mini and the monitor I linked above. My little bro has a Mac Mini, and I use one at work. The're cheap, quick, and fun. Also, you get the 'that's the whole computer?!' thing, which is fun (for a time).
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I wouldn't want to spend more than $3500 or so. I could if I had to, but at that point I would seriously start to wonder if I was going overboard. But I don't know if I need to spend near that much to get a computer that will meet my needs for the next few years.
I took another look at the Apple web site. I noticed that with the iMac with the 17 inch monitor you can upgrade the processor to 2.16 GHz. The models with the 20/24 inch monitors can be upgraded to 2.33 GHz. They also have 256MB video cards available. How much will this stuff affect performance for a casual gamer/internet surfer?
I was also looking at the MacBook Pros. How much faster would the model with the 2.4 GHz processor be than a 2.33 GHz iMac?