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Purchasing a "i-mac" need your advice
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Join Date: Jul 2003
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Recently visited the Apple Store, and fell for the i-mac. I have been a MS-PC user for many years, haven't owned an Apple since the Apple IIC days. I have no experience with the OS operating system, what problems can I expect going from a Windows system to the OS system?The i-mac would be used for home use for myself, wife and kids, we are all OK with Windows, is the OS system easy for them to learn? I use Word, Excel, Power-Point (MS-Office) on my home PC as well as Quicken and Turbo Tax, is Office available for i-mac? As you can see by my questions, I know nothing about the i-mac, any help or suggestions is appreciated.
Where's the best place to purchase? The system I looked at from the Apple store is aound $2150.
Futher i-mac owner.
Rwulf 
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Join Date: May 2001
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They do have office for mac- its often rated better than the windows version.
http://www.microsoft.com/mac
I think you can get quicken and turbo tax both for mac too.
If either one of your kids in in college or going to be you can get an educationial discount on apple hardware.
OS X (O.S. TEN) is really easy to setup and use. My mom has an iMac and all she uses it for is e-mail and web basically- she loves it.
Good luck and welcome!
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Join Date: Jun 2003
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I too made the switch. I hated Windows though. Everything you want to do works with Mac. I suggest macmall.com or macwarehouse.com whichever offers the most free stuff. The price will be the same everywhere. They offer discounted prices on office with purchase of a Mac.
Good Luck and have fun!
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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Apple has their own advice on how to switch, which discusses the nitty-gritty of how to move files over.
http://www.apple.com/switch/howto/
They also answer most of the questions you asked:
http://www.apple.com/switch/questions/
They also address popular misconceptions about moving to the Mac from Windows.
http://www.apple.com/myths/
Using the Operating System is much like using it on any other computer known to man, from a broad perspective.
Windows has a control panel. Mac OS X has System Preferences. When you close an application in Windows, that application has quit. In Macintosh, the convention is that the application is still running and you've just closed that one particular window.
There are some bigger differences under the hood, but from a user perspective things should pretty much work for you without much adjustment on your part.
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