05-13-2008, 03:05 AM
So, I guess I've fallen into that camp that treats the tax refund check as free money.
Decided I should grap a white iMac before they're gone, and go all Intel.
There are still a few left.
So, here are my impressions so far.
-unpacking and setting up-- beautiful piece of technology, the coolest thing I've owed (sorry, cooler than a BMB). Scandalously bad packing job-- remote, CDs, and mouse were literally bouncing around the box. Keyboard lost the space-bar-- popped it back on but it's not quite right. One of the OS CD's was actually half out of its sleeve.
Shipped with 10.4.8 restore CDs and a special "drop-in" Leopard upgrade disk (will only upgrade 10.4).
-migrating-- PITA I won't go into, but nothing went right. Still digging out.
-Useability-- things that were boggy before are snappy now. Had lots of beachballs with T-bird (a buggy app)-- no more. Web surfing is perceptably snappier (using Firefox like before). I don't often do a lot of heavy crunching, but Illustrator and Photoshop still seem to take their time loading. Classic is loading much faster (just kidding).
-Display-- previously I had a dual setup with an Acer 20.6" widescreen on the bottom and a Staples 19" on top-- due to the inflexibility of the Acer's stand and the way my desk is set up I had to put the iMac on top of the Acer; it's now painful to look at the Acer after looking at the iMac's display. Been playing with settings to no avail. Hence my previous thread of who makes the iMac's dislplay-- got to have one at least as good for the second monitor. Unfortunately it seems all of the similar displays out there have been discontinued, except for maybe a 23" Apple Cinema Display which is out of my price range.
Some pics to follow.
Decided I should grap a white iMac before they're gone, and go all Intel.
There are still a few left.
So, here are my impressions so far.
-unpacking and setting up-- beautiful piece of technology, the coolest thing I've owed (sorry, cooler than a BMB). Scandalously bad packing job-- remote, CDs, and mouse were literally bouncing around the box. Keyboard lost the space-bar-- popped it back on but it's not quite right. One of the OS CD's was actually half out of its sleeve.
Shipped with 10.4.8 restore CDs and a special "drop-in" Leopard upgrade disk (will only upgrade 10.4).
-migrating-- PITA I won't go into, but nothing went right. Still digging out.
-Useability-- things that were boggy before are snappy now. Had lots of beachballs with T-bird (a buggy app)-- no more. Web surfing is perceptably snappier (using Firefox like before). I don't often do a lot of heavy crunching, but Illustrator and Photoshop still seem to take their time loading. Classic is loading much faster (just kidding).
-Display-- previously I had a dual setup with an Acer 20.6" widescreen on the bottom and a Staples 19" on top-- due to the inflexibility of the Acer's stand and the way my desk is set up I had to put the iMac on top of the Acer; it's now painful to look at the Acer after looking at the iMac's display. Been playing with settings to no avail. Hence my previous thread of who makes the iMac's dislplay-- got to have one at least as good for the second monitor. Unfortunately it seems all of the similar displays out there have been discontinued, except for maybe a 23" Apple Cinema Display which is out of my price range.
Some pics to follow.