iMac arrived!

[jamief]

Arrived at lunchtime - had a 15 minute play with it! It's pretty huge (24"), and the display is stunning. Even from across our lounge (which is 30') it looks immensely bright... very pleased!

Gonna take me a while to get used to the keyboard though (wireless) - having a hell of a job trying to do stuff like alt+d in the browser (address bar) and ctrl-enter (to add .com to an address in the browser bar!).

Is Firefox better than Safari?

 

[jamief]

I've used Firefox on Windows for years, so it might be more natural to me. Safari seems very quick, but maybe that is just the new Mac!

Only problem I have is my Dell M1530 laptop looks dull as hell in comparison to the 24" screen now

 

[jamief]

Which iMac did you get mate and what you going to use it for? Just out of interest

Hi mate - I got the 24" iMac, 2.66Ghz, 4GB RAM and went with the default graphics card.

I do a fair bit of programming (mainly .Net, so I'll be using Bootcamp & VMWare Fusion for that), but do some iPhone development too, a bit of Photoshop and a bit of video editing.

I'll play the occasional game - older stuff though, as I have a PS3 / 360 for newer games.

Delighted with the Mac so far - taking a bit of getting used to though! The screen is brrrriiiigggghhhttt!!!

 

[jamief]

I'm loving it so far!

Got Windows 7 running via Fusion, seems pretty quick.

iPhoto is brilliant, added all my honemoon photos and created a scrapbook video thing, we had a good laugh just trying out different soundtracks!

Couldn't be happier with it