In reply to a post by Zadeks:

Which is why plenty of competitors copy the hardware design.

What? Are you talking about basic aesthetics rather than actual hardware?

Macbook Air is probably the latest Apple product which encouraged a bunch of copycats to jump on the bandwagon.

The one good thing about the growing popularity of Macs is the increase in the number of game developers using OpenGL. That will eventually mean that popular games can be released to linux as well. DirectX is one of the last areas were microsoft's monopoly has stifled innovation. It is closed and proprietary, but has been made into a de facto standard by years of misinformation and aggressive advertising by MS. The sooner it goes the way of IE6 the better.

We got a few in at work, mainly because they look nice more than anything. Industry I'm in is all about the bling

Mine was used mainly for Xcode, an iPhone app specifically that never really materialised, with the increasing surge in HTML5 compatibility on mobile devices, multi platform was the way to go (it's all content based) and Xcode got resigned to the bin.

Don't get me wrong, as a basic OS it's fine, it just fails (for me) on too many other levels.

Long gone are the days when the Mac ruled the roost in the design world, now it's all Intel they've lost the edge. There's no reason to buy into Mac now unless you like the bling, you can do everything a Mac can do on MUCH cheaper kit.

Bootcamp creates another partition on the hard drive to so you can install other OS's and boot into whichever you want.

I can work on either OS, just much prefer the wider choices of W7.

Sorry, that turned out longer than I expected

Not a chance - it was saved for, and paid for by me. Thank you for your kind words.

Should stick a pic of your iMac - look forward to seeing it.

Glad you got one T2iD (your NEW name!) - The 'closest' that .|34lous-64y would EVER get to an iMac is when [s]he is using is immac - Don't you just love Arabic!

In reply to a post by time2die:

In reply to a post by Zadeks:

Which is why plenty of competitors copy the hardware design.

And why most graphic artists ,movie makers,designers.game developers also use a Mac and thats just a few.

He has been successfully pwnd.

Learn to ignore him. Let him dro-ool some more.., then ignore. Easy.

Yeah there is a good program out called screenflow but i am not paying £70 for it,its what those YouTube video people use to make how you do that videos and stuff.

Unless you tell me otherwise i am guessing that i have to use my digital camera to take some pictures,don't tell me that this iMac does it?...Joking matey.

Don't think people would be that interested Guesty and i think you can see many thousands of pictures of what i have on the internet and in the Apple shops.

No probs matey i like listening to others that know far me about these things than i do,i get by mate and i doubt i will ever use this iMac to its full potential and most programs on it will go way over my head.

I like my games,videos and Music so programs as far as they are concerned will be what i use and download.

Ah but the GPU manufacturers, not to point any elbows *ahem AMD*, haven't been producing great drivers for OpenGL nor Linux, hence why Directx had taken the lead.

It is described as the result of a network effect by this article on the subject, well worth a read.