Save your money a little bit at a time. When you have around $1000 you have enough to purchase an iMac. Go to the Apple website and on the left side bottom click refurbished. You will easily find an iMac for around $999 refurbished. You get the same warranty with a refurbished iMac as you do with the brand spanking new iMac.
No. You can only play games made for Mac OS on an iMac.
Pack it securely with lots of bubble wrap and hope for the best.
No, you can only get that discount on a new iMac not a refurbished iMac.
The original iMac was the G3 which came out in (1998). It was followed by the G4 (2002), then the G5 (2004), then the Intel iMac plastic version (2006). The 5th iMac was the aluminum iMac which came out in (August 2007), followed by the iMac Aluminum Unibody (2009). The newest iMac is simply called 2012 iMac and it came out on November 30, 2012.
There is no "iMac Air".
All the web site says is it needs a Mac with a Thunderbolt port and running MacOS 10.7 and later. An iMac should run it just fine.
An iMac is a computer, but a computer is not necessarily an iMac, so they are not the same thing.
The iMac
The original iMac was created in 1998.
No
I do not have a 24" iMac. I have a 20" iMac. Apple no longer sells the 24" iMac. If you will click the Apple logo on the top left of your screen and then click About This Mac then More Info you can find the answer.
The iMac was invented and went on sale in 1998. The iMac as it looks today was introduced in 2006.