wow 1 massive gigabyte of memory, and an ultra fast ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT with no fan that can play DVD movies!!
but I’m a gamer I need more memory than that lets see up that to two gigs so I don’t have to go to an apple store to have them upgrade next year, bigger hard drive, office program and I’m over 2 grand. And I don’t see an option to add a video card that doesn’t suck.
Sorry more expensive, less performance, plastic case. Failure.
How's that a problem? Is $39 for an additional 1GB too expensive? Then maybe $110 for 4GBs (two 2GB modules) would be too much? Buy your added memory from any of the well qualified third party RAM sellers out there. It'll work.
What does a gamer need with Office? You can open and save in Office format from iWork's Pages (wordprocessing), Numbers (spreadsheet), and Keynote (presentation). That's only $79 (available on the web for $47). But if you insist on MS Office, the Mac version is available on line for as low as $131 and at Best Buy this week for $139.
The larger hard drive you might want is $149 extra from Apple for the 500GB but you can buy another from someone else for less. Disassembly is not that hard... but you can also buy a 1 TB external firewire drive for just a little more.... that can be partitioned to use Time Machine.
Sorry more expensive, less performance, plastic case. Failure.
Plastic case? What plastic case? Try anodized aircraft grade aluminum. More expensive? The all-in-one offerings from Dell, HP, and Gateway all feature slower processors, with smaller, lower-rez screens and more are expensive.