An iMac can be purchased for less than $1000.
There are many stores that sell Apple products other than the Apple Store:
For example: Abt Electronics, Amazon, Best Buy, B&H Photo-Video, Circuit City, eCost.com, J&R, MacConnection, Newegg.com, PCMall, MacMall, Office Depot, Computers4SURE, and TechDepot all sell some Apple products.
Private sellers often sell on eBay.
An iMac is a computer, but a computer is not necessarily an iMac, so they are not the same thing.
The iMac is a computer. (See links below)
The iMac is an Apple computer.
Intel microprocessor-based computer running the Apple Macintosh operating system; Intel-Macintosh computer; IMac computer; iMac computer
The iMac is a fantastic computer.
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No it does not.
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No, an iMac G3 is an all-in-one computer.
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