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iMac ordered

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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.

A busy time with operating systems

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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.

Upgraded the iMac to Leopard

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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