So today I finally gave in to the devil and purchased a 20" iMac. And let me tell you, this thing is cool as hell. Built in camera and microphone. The iLife suite for picture editing, video editing/creation, etc. I also purchased a wireless keyboard and mouse, and let me tell you the little keyboard is the coolest thing I've ever seen All of which comes with a remote.
The more impressive thing to me? The thinness of the machine. For having a built in wireless N network card, bluetooth, dvd burner, 3 USB plugs, 2 firewire, etc. this thing is no thicker than a standard monitor. But the resolution and display on it is probably the best I've seen. Did I mention it comes with a miniature remote? And it's so quiet.
And the Leopard OS is on it. I've been playing around with some of this. I do have a hard time with only one aspect, and that is the yearly cost for a .Mac account (email, 10GB of storage, web pages, hosting) so we'll see. I have signed up for the 60 day free trial of it to see if it is worth it. I imagine that down the line I will probably go ahead and add that, but for now it's just learning the subtle differences.
I will tell you this, the drag and drop functionality built inside of this is incredible. And the OS just screams...and that's with only 1GB of RAM. I haven't played with it too terribly much yet tonight, shockingly, so a further post with a review of it will be forthcoming.
Now comes the part where I push for my trillian astra account to get me access to the mac portion and then try to screw with people on iChat. The possibilities are endless!