And waited.<\/p>\n
And waited.<\/p>\n
By the way, in my Buying A Computer For Dummies<\/em> book, I remind readers not to wait for new technology. But the more I waited for the new MacPro to come out, the older the current model became. Apple didn’t lower the price, and I’m stubborn enough not to pay a two-year-old price for two-year-old technology. So I waited some more.<\/p>\n Eventually they announced the new MacPros (now on sale), but the price didn’t drop, and what you get for the price isn’t worth the mark-up. So I opted instead for a high-end iMac to replace my 6-year-old PowerMac.<\/p>\n Here’s what I got:<\/p>\n 27″ iMac, Intel Core i7 processor zooming along at 2.93 GHz. I opted for the wireless keyboard, even though it’s lacking a numeric keypad. I miss the numeric keypad, so I may end up ordering the full-sized keyboard. Still, I like the dearth of wires.<\/p>\n I also ordered the Magic Touchpad, which I’m enjoying much more than a mouse.<\/p>\n The iMac is gorgeous, of course.<\/p>\n The migration process involved my restoring the original files and programs from a Time Machine backup. That worked well for the most part; I would say 95 precent of my settings were copied over. There were only a few items I needed to adjust after the update.<\/p>\n I did have to re-register my copy of Final Cut Express with Apple. That was painless.<\/p>\n Adobe’s stuff caused problems, but eventually their tech support pulled through and I was able to get things to run.<\/p>\n Copy-protected software. Don’t get me started . . .<\/p>\n Anyway, I’m happy with the new beast. I’m adjusting well to the Magic Trackpad, but the 2560-by-1440 screen resolution is huge<\/em>. That’s a lot of pixel real estate to fling a mouse pointer through. I think I’ll learn to adjust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My latest Mac is an iMac. It replaces my 6-year-old PowerMac, as well as the 10-year-old, original Apple Cinema Display. Yes, I’m very pleased.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1998"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2017,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998\/revisions\/2017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n8 GB RAM
\n1 TB hard drive (the spinny kind, not an SDD)<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/iMac.png\" "\\"iMac\\"")
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