So I received my new iMac on Thursday night. I was very impressed with the delivery. I ordered it originally on November 7, 2009 with Apple still stating that the new iMac’s (i5 and i7) would ship in November. So I waited, and waited and on the 14th I decided to upgrade my shipping to express so that when it shipped it would be quick, and boy was it. On the 15th the status moved to Prepared for Shipment and on the 16th it shipped from Shanghai. It then went to Anchorage, Louisville, Mississauga and Mount Hope. The morning of the 19th I saw that it was finally out of customs in Mount Hope and figured they would ship it to Calgary on that day and out to me the next. To my surprise, at 6:30 that night, my new iMac was on my doorstep!! Wow, 3 days to ship it across the globe, very nice. I quickly dismantled my computer area, went and picked up a new desk that I bought off my boss and proceeded to set it up. See pictures below:

Set up was a breeze, you literally pull two things out of the boxes and you’re ready to go. The iMac is boxed nicely and is quite impressive when you finally pull it out. With only one wire to connect (the power cord) set up is seconds. I hooked up my time capsule and modem and hid them at the back of the desk behind the behemoth of a screen and was ready to roll.

Once on it quickly reminded me to turn on my wireless mouse (which it then proceeded to recognize and connect within seconds), then reminded me to turn on my wireless keyboard (with pictures in case I was unaware of the location of the power button) and it connected immediately. I then went through 2 or 3 quick screens and it asked me if I would like to copy data from another Mac or Time Capsule to this Mac. Now in my opinion this is one of the greatest things Apple has done with OS X. I selected I would like to add information from my Time Capsule back up and it took me to a blank screen for devices to choose from. I hit the join button at the bottom to get my new iMac on my home Network and within seconds I was connected and my Time Capsule was now showing in my devices list. I selected Time Capsule and continue, then my Macbook drive back up and continue and then I got to a screen where it allowed me to choose which data I wanted to transfer from the Time Machine Backup. I transferred everything except the two kids profiles and voila. It whirled and twirled for a few minutes while it figured out the exact size of the data I wanted to copy, I confirmed that was okay and off it went. This step took about 4.5 hrs so I went to bed. When I awoke in the morning there was my new iMac, with my wife and I’s profile, all our email, dock settings, programs etc. What an awesome experience this has been, seamless, painless and quick. Loving my new Mac!!!!

- RoneTyne

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I can’t wait till my new iMac ships!!

Our family was in bad need of new computer, we have one MacBook that we all seem to fight over and a 5 or 6 year old PC that I tend to use in order to keep the peace with my wife. However despite all my tweaking, formatting and reinstalling the PC is nearing the end of it’s useable life. Most days it invokes the sailor version of my lexicon and leaves me frustrated and angry at the lack of productivity I experience when using our POC err PC.

So I decided to break down and order a new computer, but I think we’re going to be a PC free family soon, as I have been fully engulfed in Apple Fanboydom and have decided to convert our whole system over to Mac. So being as Apple came out with new iMacs a few weeks ago, I thought I would get an iMac. Below is a picture of what should be shipping to me later this month, with the stats that I ordered it with.

IMAC 27″/4850-512MB

With the following configuration:
PROCESSOR 065-9233 2.8GHZ QUAD-CORE INTEL CORE I7
MEMORY 065-9264 4GB 1066MHZ DDR3 SDRAM – 2X2GB
HARD DRIVE 065-9411 1TB SERIAL ATA DRIVE
GRAPHICS 065-8981 ATI RADEON HD 4850 512MB
OPTICAL DRIVE 065-9410 8X DOUBLE-LAYER SUPERDRIVE
MOUSE AM065-8412 APPLE MAGIC MOUSE-AM
APPLE KEYBOARD & USER’S GUIDE 065-9381 WL KYBD & USER’S GUIDE
COUNTRY KIT 065-8447 COUNTRY KIT,IMAC 27-INCH

MINI DISPLAYPORT TO DVI ADAPTER-INT

The Mini Display Port to DVI Adapter will also allow me to run my 24″ monitor along side the 27″ iMac =). A very handy feature for those of us who love having massive amounts of screen real estate!!! Stay tuned, I will be sure to post unboxing pictures when it arrives.

- RoneTyne

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So I sold my 300 last night… =(.  It was the right thing to do, but still a sad day at my house. I’ll keep you posted if I end up picking up anything new, although the plan right now is to maybe just wait till next year and buy a new van. We shall see.

-RoneTyne