Imac or PC?

[m3gt2]

Just after some input. I have never had a Mac but was thinking of getting my lad 1 for xmas. He is 7 do you think they will be easier for him than a PC? Also what else will I need to get with it? I'm looking at the basic 27 inch cheers

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[stimpy]

For ease of use and maintenance the iMac wins hands down.

Why not go down to your nearest Apple store and have a long play with one? You won't want to waste £000's of pounds to find out you don't like it.

Anything else you need to get will entirely depend on what you want to do with it. They are a pretty good spec out of the box with built-in bluetooth, webcam, microphone etc... The only option I would consider straight away would be an external hard drive to use as a backup device. It comes with Time Machine which automatically back-ups your entire hard drive incrementally so you can simply roll back to a previous day and recover any lost/deleted documents.

[blaggard]

A PC user playing with an iMac will likely be a put off, your lad will learn really quickly (more quickly than an adult) whichever you go for. That said, for me the iMac wins hands down.

[Sanj[UK]]

The only thing your 7 year old will have to bear in mind is the lack of games compared to windows and the not so great alternatives of MSN messenger.

A PC user playing with an iMac will likely be a put off

lol don't be so silly! I've had several friends, family members and customers do the switch after literally spending minutes playing on my macbook/imac and they have never looked back.

[m3gt2]

Cheers for the pointers, will have a play with 1,not bothered about the games, got ps3 and wii for that. Only other thing, you can view Flash on them can't you?

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[blaggard]

Cheers for the pointers, will have a play with 1,not bothered about the games, got ps3 and wii for that. Only other thing, you can view Flash on them can't you?

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Yes flash is fine, it's just iPhone and iPad with that restriction.

[m3gt2]

Yes flash is fine, it's just iPhone and iPad with that restriction.

Thanks, thought it was just on them.

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