Wallet now lighter - iMac

[nahwiseup]

Posting this on my new 24" imac
There is a new apple store in belfast and it made the whole purchase experience... fantastic.
Pretty standard spec...
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.8 GHz
4GB RAM
ati 2600pro
applecare

harman/kardon soundsticks II (looks great, sounds great)

Been playing with it this evening... some adventures:

-how to unrar. unrarx obviously.
-getting xvid playing with quicktime. found something called perian, could not use the xvid delegate (no video). all sorted now
-finding cpu usage (ahem, no such thing as task manager lol). Activity monitor. nice
-getting my blackberry paired and able to send a file (so you guys can see more mac pr0n).
-also managed to lose the dock when messing around with spaces. lol thought i had broken it!

picture

Quite happy and intrigued, remembering how i felt when first playing with windows.

Thanks for everyones advice on my previous thread... i'll drop any questions i have in here.

Next adventure... finding what speed my imac is connecting to my wireless network...

 

[nahwiseup]

that adventure is over. network utility helped

...maybe I'll stop for the night.

 

[nahwiseup]

Doubt they would release new iMacs a fortnight after the new MacBooks

EDIT - mac rumours says 'Buy only if you need it - Approaching the end of a cycle' so new ones are on the horizon, but I'd imagine towards the end of the year.

Yeah, I saw the rumors. TBH I decided the current spec was enough for me.

Right time and place and all that.

 

[nahwiseup]

2 Quick questions.

1) Applecare - do i need to register this? Any way of checking it is assigned to my machine?

2)I have a few thousand WMAs. All ripped from CDs. In order to convert to AAC do I need to use iTunes in windows for this?

Cheers

 

[nahwiseup]

Thats freaky dude, looking at the name on that web page in your pic (Scott Morgan). It's the name of a mate of mine that uses these boards. Woooooo

By the way, i'm also the proud owner of 2 weeks of the same spec iMac.

I've seen the future and it is apple shaped!!!!!

I was on Scott's page to find out how 'busy' the processors were - when you are M$ trained this required me to ask saint google to find out.

TBH I have found spotlight (apple key + space) invaluable when looking for programs

Currently using the previously mentioned switch program to convert my WMAs to MP3.