Helvensteijn.com » iMac http://helvensteijn.com Some fancy, yet to be devised subtitle goes here... Sat, 26 Jun 2010 01:20:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 A new desktop computer (finally) http://helvensteijn.com/blog/2008/10/02/a-new-desktop-computer-finally/ http://helvensteijn.com/blog/2008/10/02/a-new-desktop-computer-finally/#comments Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:22:30 +0000 Colin Helvensteijn http://helvensteijn.com/?p=503 Today, I received my new 24" Apple iMac. I opted for the 2.8 GHz model, with 2 GiB of memory and a 500 GB hard drive. The full specs can be found here. Oh, and I chose the Bluetooth keyboard, because I already have the corded version. ;) As usual, here’s a picture of the beauty:

a picture of an Apple iMac computer

Apple iMac

Right upon arrival, I replaced the memory (I already bought two strips of 2 GiB prior to ordering the iMac itself), so it now has a spacious 4 GiB available. After the first boot, I installed all available updates and my most used applications. I’m now in the process of making all the settings and customizations that were not synced through my MobileMe account, and Time Machine is making its initial backup. When that’s complete, I’ll proceed with installing all other apps that now run on my MacBook.

When all that is done, and I have my iMac pretty much as my MacBook is now, I’ll probably reformat the latter and give it a fresh OS X install. At which point it can finally be what it was meant to be from the start: a portable secondary computer. :)

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