After a couple of windowsfull years it was finally time to go Mac again. My employers typically give me decent PC hardware and most of my day 2 day job can be done on those quite ok. Also, my personal requirements were easily covered as I did some email, web and pictures, maybe small videos here and there… But here we go: I remember borrowing PowerBooks, spending two full Saturdays at the local Apple retailer, having seen more from the New York Apple store in Soho than from New York itself and having been frustrated about the quality of result you get whenever you want/need to do something nice, smart and easy that in the end will blow the recipient away when none of the above mentioned work arounds are an option. It is that simple.
And as I started to have more an more pictures and videos of our daughter I do not want to clutter my work laptop we needed a ‘home’ computer anyway. So I took the opportunity and went for a 20 inch iMac. It’s what I need and it’s what a lot of people need.
Not sure for how long I will be ok for this during working hours, but my doubts started when I caught myself thinking about a desktop background for my laptop saying “My other PC is a Mac”…
How did it go? Well it went like it goes with Macs. Unpack, plugin, go.
I did have some issue with the migration of my data (surprise, surprise) but they are already almost solved. Here are a few links I used:
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you couldn’t possibly have done a better choice ;) have you installed leopard yet?
Thats one of the things I was trying not to mention, because I did not want to create the wrong impression. ;)
Of course on of the reasons for me considering and then going (besides the remains of my love for my Cube) was Leopard, but then the iMac box I purchased did not have Leopard in yet. I almost freaked out to hear that I would spend a grand and a half and then transmit 13 bucks via cc payment to await shipping of the actual current OS.
Order was placed, let’s see how long it takes. Actually the thing is still worth every penny with 10.4.