I still don't get why your new iMac disappointed you with respect to playing DVDs is the picture lousy? does it not smoothly/properly read the DVDs? what's the deal? glad to know the other things are good and that it's faster than a dual G5...I once had a pair of those... n On Feb 15, 2008, at 12:35 PM, Paul Moortgat wrote: > It's a 24 inch iMac 2.8. It's faster than my G5/2.5. On the > previous G4 (10.3.9) it took a minute to open a page from a local > newspaper. Now, it's 1 or 2 seconds. You can blame it on Intel, > Leopard, iMac, 2.8. > It's the result which is impressive.