iMac, I want one..
iMac, I want one
Right now, I’m running a dual core PC with 4gb of ram on Windows Vista, and I need a change. Not that I hate Vista, and I know, I’m probably the only one in the world who actually likes Vista, but because I need something that will improve my productivity.
I hate waiting for Photoshop/Dreamweaver to start up, and when I’m actually doing “my thing” (design stuff), my memory gets clogged up, because next to my Adobe products, I also like to have Twitter, FTP, music, Skype, Google Talk, Firefox with multiple tabs and a few other things open, just to make my work even more enjoyable..
I’ve done some research on iMacs, and asked fellow web designers that use Macs in their work, and they adore the things, but I’m not going to switch from one to the other because “they say so”. I had to experience myself.
So, today I went to the local Future Shop (sort of a Best Buy for those of you who don’t know) and played around with a 24″ 2,8GHz, 2GB version of the iMac.
The nice part of it all that I was left alone, and I could do pretty much anything on the machine, which I did. I really got a good feeling of how a Mac works.
When I asked a sales-guy to help me out with some questions, I got the answers I wanted to hear, except for the lack 5.1 audio, which totally sucks, because I recently bought a 5.1 set.
I like the speed, but this can be deceiving because there was practically nothing installed on the machine, except the standard programs.
I also got the hang of OSX. I think it’s pretty intuitive, although I couldn’t get the shortcuts for the “spaces” to work, but I probably did something wrong.
The built in speakers sounded pretty good, although obviously, it’s not a Logitech set, but it will do for business purposes.
I didn’t know that programs stay open and active in your dock when you press the little red X in the programs statusbar. You actually have to hit command+q (or something) to exit.
I’ll have to get used to the keyboard and mighty mouse.
So, for $ 1899,- + tax this puppy could be mine. Anyone need me for a project, worth around $ 2000,- ? 
October 29th, 2008 at 9:46 am
very interesting read about the Macs. I was the same curious about them and I just bought a Mac Mini. Still waiting for it to be shipped. Keep up the good posting mate, well worth 30min reading
DD
Cheers
Dimis
November 2nd, 2008 at 6:49 pm
[...] just wanted to make sure I was going to make the right decision by buying a Mac, so, in this post I told you I experienced a little myself, but I also wanted to know why Mac-users are such fanatics [...]
January 20th, 2009 at 2:26 am
I’ve got two now in the short span of about a year. I’ll never go back as long as they’re easy to use and I won’t have to stay up till 3 o’clock in the morning trying to get rid of spyware or having to tweak it to go faster like the pc’s I’ve owned.
One thing about buying a Mac is they are usually all priced the same wherever you buy it. When i was looking to buy I asked every vendor why I should buy from them. One told me “because of their excellent service” and promptly went back to his desk and sat down. So I bought it at Simply Computing because they give away a free 2 hour orientation course with every Mac they sell.
Ryan’s last blog post: Relax – it all takes practice.
January 20th, 2009 at 8:49 am
@Dimis, did you get your Mac yet? How do you like it?
@Ryan, My wife got mine for Christmas at Future Shop (Canadian). A lot of people say that you shouldn’t buy there because of poor service, but so far, FS has been pretty good to us.