Wizardgold

I expect to get the 24inch iMac after the weekend, there is a holiday here in Catalunya on Monday and Tuesday and maybe Wednesday will be the day the computer gets here.  iexpect to hang another monitor off the iMac soon enough. I want to get a second 24inch screen and use it for the graphics work. I will get one that doesn’t have a shiny screen.

Have you seen how beautiful these iMac’s are? All the computer built into the monitor. I went for a 500 GB hard disk and the better video card with the 512MB memory rather than the 256MB that is on the standard video card.

Probably will get the extra 2 GB of memory as soon as I can afford it to take it to the max of 4 GB. I got the 2.8 dual core version, The top of the range is 3.06 but reports say that the 2.8 is better value at the moment.

Apart from the new set up of OSX Leopard I have been playing with Ubuntu and I have to say I like it. The reason for that is that I bought a laptop, and I went for cheapness. I got the laptop for 400 Euro and I put Ubuntu on it so that I would not have to suffer Windows Vista.

I have to tell you that Ubuntu is great, to use. I have found open source free program for all the things I want to do with the machine and I am happy using it. OK so it is not as nice and pretty as Leopard looks on my iMac but prety nifty all the same. The other option was to buy a MacBook which was over specified for what I wanted to do and therefore more expensive. The great thing about Linux is that it will run fast on lower end machines.

I have even set up a new blog which will be about using Ubunto. I am calling it Typical Ubuntu User and when I have got some content to put up on it I will broadcast more about it. I have a podcast started  already.

Looking good so far. Didn’t take too long to make the upgrade, just over an hour and I have a shiny new machine. I like the look of the Cover flow view in Finder.

At the moment I m copying back the previous installed applications back in off the back up drive. Apple do have a thing called migration assistant which I may have to use if this method doesn’t work. The first application i dragged and dropped back in to the new Leopard installation worked al right. I will have to see how it goes with applications that have a password or maybe a special set up. Will be interesting to see that with SuperDuper which I bought this morning so that I could have do a good back up for me.

Talking about back up I am really looking forward to using Time Machine in Leopard.

Oh I took advantage of .Mac and the free 60 days available to try it out. The Back to My Mac feature could be very useful. Seeing as I have multiple Mac computers there are syncronisation benefits with having the use of .Mac. I will give it a good try out for the next 60 days