I've been excitedly holding out for the newest Imac release.

I am now at the point in my growing business that it is finally time to upgrade all of my equipment. Skip ahead about a decade, I have my own small graphic design business, I currently have 3 Mac computers: I have a 24' white Imac as my main business tool I have a titanium laptop for meetings and presentations, and a white Macbook laptop that my high school-aged daughter uses for school and socializing. This was the only way I could take my homework home and work while my daughter slept. My young daughter and I lived off my student loans, but they weren't enough to buy a Mac, so I asked my dad to co-sign a student line of credit so I could get a Mac to be compatible with the computers at school. I even had a Mac as a single mom struggling as a full time Communication Design student at Emily Carr University of Art and Design. When my mother finally retired, I talked her into getting the same 24' white IMac I currently have, because that way I could walk her through the setting up and use of it, and now we can skype each other and it's like she's here in the room with me, not a whole province away. The 'Paint' program that it came installed with initiated my humble beginnings as digital designer - even on the small black and white screen, with it's limited capabilities, I could see the potential. My father was a high school teacher and brought home a Mac Plus when I was in high school. I created a game using DOS code in grade 5.

My first experience with Apple was in elementary school - on the Apple IIE. Let me first say, I'm a long-time, loyal Mac user (and defender). I just helped someone set up a 2009 Mac mini, and they are very impressive little Macs. In fact, you can add two of then, since the 2009 Mac mini's have both a Mini-DVI and Mini DisplayPort. It would cost less than the iMac and you can add any DVI (or VGA or even HDMI) display of your choosing. It has the same graphics, 4GB of RAM, and can now go up to 2.66 MHz Core 2 Duo. If you were considering the NVIDIA 9400M model (21.5-inch display), you should look at the Mac mini. There have been some fuzz filters that adhere to the glass cover, but those are not that effective in this case, because the glass cover creates a some space between the actual LCD and the filter. You'd have to not only replace the LCD with a matte version, but also create a new bezel to go around the display. The problem is that the LCD is covered by a thin sheet of glass, so it is not just a glossy LCD. There have not been any after market screen options for the previous glassy screen models, so I doubt there will be one for the new models.

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