- Joined
- Sep 29, 2007
- Messages
- 73
- Reaction score
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- Points
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- Location
- Surrey or Sheffield, UK.. or I might even be in Aa
- Your Mac's Specs
- iMac 24" (mid-2009 edition), 2.66Ghz, 4GB, 640GB HDD
Is that even a word? I'm not sure.
Back when I first registered on this site it was about September 2007 and I had just bought myself a shiny new Macbook Pro on Tiger. My brother had an iBook then too, and I remember we had quite a fun outing to our local Apple store when Leopard came out to get it at the evening opening, complete with free t-shirts!
I had a lot of fun tinkering with my MBP back in the day, but I hit one problem. I had that system for about six months before I decided to sell it to my brother to replace his iBook. Reason being that I used to play WoW on it and it would absolutely cook, the main thing. Scared me and I didn't want to destroy it.
So I went back to a Windows machine for a while, until now. I quit WoW, and so I got to thinking that I wanted the most fun 'general computing' experience I could have whilst at university, and then the more I thought about it, the more I thought that my setup was ridiculous - laptop on a cooling pad hooked up to an external monitor, keyboard and mouse, external hard drives aplenty.
Wouldn't it be so much nicer to have an iMac sitting on my desk and free up all that space?
Wouldn't a nice, new 24" screen to replace my 20" screen-burned thing be lovely?
Wouldn't one of those dinky little keyboards just sit so cute on my desk?
Wouldn't it be nice to have that pretty desktop again?
And, wouldn't it be nice to be able to put a computer to sleep that didn't still have its fans whirring and start making strange noises when it was turned off? (Seriously, my laptop would grunt and bzzzt as if the hard drive was starting up again, unless I unplugged the power... scary stuff).
So off I went to the Apple store, armed with my student discount, and yesterday I bought myself a shiny new 24" iMac (the 2.66Ghz model). It really flies! I'm loving it, and I love having such a huge screen. Only thing is at the moment I sometimes find myself left-clicking instead of right, but I'm getting better at it and I hope it improves with time. I'm really amazed though at how intuitive I find the keyboard, I thought I'd absolutely hate it being a very speedy touch-typer, but it's phenomenal!
But the downside? I somehow lost my wallet the same day with all my cards I'm not sure if someone grabbed it off me, or if I knocked it out of my pocket whilst carrying the beast back to my car I was very upset about it, especially since I had to wait for an hour and a half for a security guard to arrive to let me into my property (silly swipe card system).
By the time I finally got inside though, cleared away all the dust gathering behind all my wires and the like, moved out the old screen... and plugged in my beautiful little iSue (as she's affectionately known), I was suddenly feeling a lot better I'm just glad I lost it AFTER buying the iMac...
Just wanted to share my little story. Waiting for the shopping centre to open again today to give them a call and see if anyone handed my wallet in... fingers crossed... if anyone did I might have to treat myself to an Apple Remote!
Oh I do actually have one question. I bought AppleCare with my iMac. Do I need to do anything? According to the AppleCare box it's an AutoEnrol thing, is there any way I can check the status to make sure it's all gone through?
Back when I first registered on this site it was about September 2007 and I had just bought myself a shiny new Macbook Pro on Tiger. My brother had an iBook then too, and I remember we had quite a fun outing to our local Apple store when Leopard came out to get it at the evening opening, complete with free t-shirts!
I had a lot of fun tinkering with my MBP back in the day, but I hit one problem. I had that system for about six months before I decided to sell it to my brother to replace his iBook. Reason being that I used to play WoW on it and it would absolutely cook, the main thing. Scared me and I didn't want to destroy it.
So I went back to a Windows machine for a while, until now. I quit WoW, and so I got to thinking that I wanted the most fun 'general computing' experience I could have whilst at university, and then the more I thought about it, the more I thought that my setup was ridiculous - laptop on a cooling pad hooked up to an external monitor, keyboard and mouse, external hard drives aplenty.
Wouldn't it be so much nicer to have an iMac sitting on my desk and free up all that space?
Wouldn't a nice, new 24" screen to replace my 20" screen-burned thing be lovely?
Wouldn't one of those dinky little keyboards just sit so cute on my desk?
Wouldn't it be nice to have that pretty desktop again?
And, wouldn't it be nice to be able to put a computer to sleep that didn't still have its fans whirring and start making strange noises when it was turned off? (Seriously, my laptop would grunt and bzzzt as if the hard drive was starting up again, unless I unplugged the power... scary stuff).
So off I went to the Apple store, armed with my student discount, and yesterday I bought myself a shiny new 24" iMac (the 2.66Ghz model). It really flies! I'm loving it, and I love having such a huge screen. Only thing is at the moment I sometimes find myself left-clicking instead of right, but I'm getting better at it and I hope it improves with time. I'm really amazed though at how intuitive I find the keyboard, I thought I'd absolutely hate it being a very speedy touch-typer, but it's phenomenal!
But the downside? I somehow lost my wallet the same day with all my cards I'm not sure if someone grabbed it off me, or if I knocked it out of my pocket whilst carrying the beast back to my car I was very upset about it, especially since I had to wait for an hour and a half for a security guard to arrive to let me into my property (silly swipe card system).
By the time I finally got inside though, cleared away all the dust gathering behind all my wires and the like, moved out the old screen... and plugged in my beautiful little iSue (as she's affectionately known), I was suddenly feeling a lot better I'm just glad I lost it AFTER buying the iMac...
Just wanted to share my little story. Waiting for the shopping centre to open again today to give them a call and see if anyone handed my wallet in... fingers crossed... if anyone did I might have to treat myself to an Apple Remote!
Oh I do actually have one question. I bought AppleCare with my iMac. Do I need to do anything? According to the AppleCare box it's an AutoEnrol thing, is there any way I can check the status to make sure it's all gone through?