I didn't have double the money to pay for a Mac...and I'm ok with that.
924427
Love my new TouchSmart. Haven't had any problems, runs fast, and dare I say, I even like Windows 8 too?! For the price, compared to some other brands I feel like I got a great deal. Everyone who has seen it is impressed. I'm not a gamer and I don't do lots of photo editing, which were some of the issues I read about in the reveiws before I decided to buy,  so it works great for what I need it for. Plus at 23" the screen is almost as big as the TV I have in the same room. I also read how the Touch Smart feature would freeze up and not work sometimes, I've had mine for almost a month and haven't had that problem at all. I gave it 5 stars, on style & price alone!
63241
I wanted an Apple, but it would have costed me $700 more.  But this All-in-One was as easy to start up as Macs have been famous for.  It boots up in less than a minute, thanks to Microsoft getting the memo that 10 minute boots are no longer tolerable.  The screen shows a beautiful picture when running video.  So, I got a good, space-efficient computer without stretching my budget to the limit.  Got to love competition, because I don't believe HP and Microsoft would have arrived at this without Apple setting the standard.
390144
Get it - you don't need a pricey version of the same thing.
2848315
at checkout time, there was a warning note at the top:
"This item currently supports Mac OS X only"

but that seemed hard to believe, and I was only paying 5 bucks just so I could turn on my ouya for the first time, so I took a chance.
(not sure why I got taxed 31 cents though, since this isn't a physical product or anything...?!)

anyway, I had to then download 1MB file "OUYA_5_Digital_Token_Online_Game_Code_Downloader.exe" (OSX only, huh? I'd be more worried what would happen if a Mac user buys this item...)

scanned the heck out of the exe with a couple different programs, then ran it. it phoned home to Amazon, and downloaded 2 HTML files into a new folder on my desktop - one was instructions for how to use the key, and the other was the $5 key itself.

I tapped the key into the waiting 'redeem code' screen on the ouya, and off it went!

bit of an odd process, but it worked and I can now use the ouya, so I'm happy and satisfied.

if I ever need to spend more than that 5 bucks on ouya games, I'll definitely come back to this process again. (prefer not to let them store my CC info, that's all)
4911177
This was my first Mac purchase (let alone MacBook Pro) ever.  Macs weren't windows and they are more expensive than comparably equipped (from a CPU, Memory, HD, etc. perspective) so I had never even considered purchasing one.  My son and I started talking about and looking at the MacBook Pros and he decided to buy one.  He loved his and I got to play with it and see how well it was made.  I still couldn't see me paying what he did for the higher end 15 inch model that he got but the entry level machine I could see, maybe.  Then I found this machine as a "Like new" and it had only 100Mhz less CPU speed than the current higher end 13.3" model and the price was lower than the current entry-level machine with the higher class i7 processor and 400Mhz higher speed.  The HD didn't matter since I was going to replace it with a 750GB 7200 RPM Seagate Momentus XT (hybrid with an 8GB SSD built in to improve performance to near SSD speeds).  I also opted to purchase 8GB of memory for $40.  Now this machine is a very good performer with good onboard graphics. I am playing Skyrim on native resolution (low graphics settings) with acceptable play for me.  Obviously, I have Windows loaded using BootCamp and have also installed Parallels.  This allows me to have very good performance from Office 2010 within MacOS.  Windows games have to be run from BootCamp.  I really love the gestures in Lion and the fact that I can use many of the most used ones in the same way under Windows.  I actually prefer to use Lion but enjoy Windows 7 more than I did on other Windows based machines due to the larger touch pad and the use of gestures that gives me much better control than I have had with any other trackpad device.

Swapping out the HD could have been really tough with a lot of configuring from scratch but with this MacBook Pro, I was able to backup using time machine, swap out the HD, boot the machine from the Internet (using Wi-Fi), restore from time machine, and then install Lion over the top again to create the recovery partition.  The process went smoothly and didn't take any longer than installing Windows, let alone doing a restore.  The last step could have been skipped if I didn't want/need the recovery partition on my internal drive.

This machine is the best built one I have ever seen and I have come to realize that they really hold their value because of that.  In short, this is the best Windows machine I have used and it is even better running MacOS X Lion.
4388165
Not a lot for what you pay, but I really didn't mind paying a few extra bucks for the 2 extra cards and the themed card containers.
4953720
It seems to work fine for what I paid for it.
4108147
Resurrected my 2007 20 inched iMac, running El Capitan. I had 3 gig of RAM, and El Capitan ran but my how slow everything was, even just typing into a window -- the computer was almost un-usable. I kept the old 2 gig chip in place (I have no memory where I purchased it from, or when) and slid in the new 4 gig chip from Komputerbay (a very simply task for this model iMac) and rebooted -- wow, what a difference! Now, to be honest, with the old dual core processor certain programs are a bit slow to launch, but other than that my eight year old iMac sings along without a hitch, switching from task to task, program to program, music playing in the background, no delays or lags anywhere. For my purposes was this was an excellent investment of $70.
6812
It works, just what I needed! at least I don't have to pay the $60
2938493
It was only $10 and it does the trick!  There's a little bit of space around my Apple MacBook Pro 13.3" with Retina Display but I'm still pleased.  I feel like I got a good deal.
2457946
Perfect combo, works with my Mac and was cheap.
1746871
I bought my Mac mini (1.42GHZ) just before Apple updated it, and aside from having to pay $75 for a 512Mb stick of RAM (third-party) I couldn't be happier with this computer.
I've been reading some reviews saying that the Mac mini is fine for basic tasks but not quite adequate for more powerful apps. I disagree. Is it a PowerMac G5? heck no.
It is however a powerful and capable computer tucked into a small package. The point I'm trying to make is that it will handle demands above and beyond "normal everyday use".Again I won't claim that the Mac mini is as fast as the more expensive G5 desktops, but unless you're into very heavy multimedia work, you should be just fine with this computer.
PROS: not as fast as a PowerMac but still quite fast and snappy, small, whisper quiet,  beautiful design, not as affordable as Apple would have you believe, but still very good price tag, OSX Tiger beats the crap out of Windows, good software package, that "Mac magic".
CONS: laptop HD - adding an external HD would boost speed, though I myself haven't done that yet, firewire 800 would be nice or an additional USB, more difficult than other computers to upgrade, only came with 256 MB of RAM (new models have 512) the graphics card isn't quite on par with it's other Mac siblings, though still better than decent in my opinion.
Overall, it's very simple - I love my mini.
431532
I needed a computer that had decent specs, but I did not want to spend a lot of money.  I bought 3 of these for work, and they have been great.  No problems.
977942
Honestly, Apple is really not that great, you're really just paying for the shiny metal, I went for a PC, HP instead, plus I even got 64GB RAM
2946862
Hard to imagine that a $150-175 printer can be hooked up to your network on the first floor and scan multi-page documents to your Mac upstairs, either from the scanner, or from the Mac.

Print quality and scan quality are more than adequate. I won't say "excellent" only because I haven't pushed it that hard. The photos we printed out look great though. The ADF duplex scanner is bonus.

Printing with the Mac over the network was trivial; its supported nicely and transparently, once set up.

There is some trickiness with the new Mac application-keyed firewall in 10.5, but it works great if you manually accept the scan app connection. Its a minor thing and if I wasn't so security ana -- oops, conscious, I'd just turn off the firewall when I wanted to scan.

Works great under WinXP and Vista both.

Rumor has it that it can print under CUPS with cups-bnjp and "recently, Louis has also worked on adding BJNP support to the Sane pixma backend ..." so Linux users shouldn't be left out by this one either.
3453440
It's not perfect, but for the price I really can't complain.
1615826
The picture quality was not so bad at all going out from my Retina Mac to a video mixer and then a projector. I was expecting much worse, but I needed something in a pinch and this got the job done. No extra display settings to fool with either.