3. Apple iMac (24-inch, 2.8GHz)
Editors' rating: 8.1
The good: Industry-leading design; big, beautiful display; excellent application performance.
The bad: Higher-end model features same midrange graphics card of lower-end models; free phone support ends after 90 days; might want to hold off another month until Leopard is released to save yourself the cost of an OS upgrade.
The bottom line: With the same elegant design as its 20-inch, 2.4GHz sibling, the 24-inch, 2.8GHz iMac offers 30 percent more screen area and a modest performance boost. The iMac competes with the PC desktop market now better than perhaps any previous Mac to date, but the added cost of the larger, faster model might put off some buyers--especially if you are a gamer or an upgrade enthusiast.
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Price: $2,299 for the above specs; $1,799 system includes a 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo processor, 1GB of memory and a 320GB hard drive
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