by shmick » Sun Jun 24, 2012 1:15 pm
I won't fault the guy for picking a Mac, I'll always pick a mac over a PC, but mostly because I love OSX compared to Windows. I also have a bunch of virtual machines running via VirtualBox on my mac. I'm also fortunate enough to have my employer foot the bill for my MacBook Pros, iPad and iPhone, though I did purchase my own iMac for the home office. I purchased the iMac through Apple's "refurb" site which looks and feels like a new iMac, but came in a generic brown box instead of the fancy white apple box. It even came with all the protective stickers and everything. Once it was out of the box, there would be no way to distinguish it from a new iMac and it even comes with the same warranty! I've done this for years with iPods and they've always been great.
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