Friday, August 10, 2007

Sittin on the ol' armchair.★

I'm jamming away right now to my old iTunes playlist, browsing the web with my vast array of bookmarks and chatting to buddies with my saved user information on iChat. That's right, the iMac is back from repairs!

The hard drive was wiped and the technician installed OS X from scratch, after replacing the logic board that seemingly caused our woes. Then I whipped out some toasted DVD's, copied some files over and opened up iBackup. iBackup restored everything I had backed up and I'm back on track! Tomorrow I'll wake up and wonder if the grey screen of death hardware crash was naught but a dream.

It seems I've missed a lot of new happenings. Or rather not been around to voice my take on them. Apple released those shiny new iMacs with their well, shininess, and also iLife 08. I haven't got my hands on the new iLife just yet but I'll be chattering about it on the MacTake once I do.

What do I think about the new iMacs? Great time for a design change, its moved the iMac into the more pro design areas, what with the grey aluminum and glass makeup. A few hardware upgrades but honestly? No giant leaps here.

I'd have to agree with anyone who said that the new iMacs are visual stunners, however, I just can't get the thought that Apple might just one day regret this design move, out of the back of my head.

It seems we've left the shiny white iPod world completely behind. Excepting for the white MacBook, Apple's product range has almost completely transitioned to the steely grays of pro style aluminum.

Well I intend to hold on to my iPod style iMac for a while yet, they'd have to ship free cookies with the new iMacs for me to even think of buying one. I just like where its at.

I remember hearing someone in PC World describing the iMac as "Basically just a giant iPod that does more. You know it looks like one too, but sideyways."

The iPod design has been such an icon to the world, I only hope that the new iMac one can set a recognized standard for desktop computers.

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★ 0 Comments. | By Skippy, Friday, August 10, 2007 8:09 PM