iMac intel impressions

Our iMac intel arrived this afternoon and we quickly unpacked it and set it up. It’s a 1.83 GHz 17″ iMac intel with 512 MB of RAM. Just the stock low-end machine. Initial boot-up was slow, but every boot-up after the first has been very quick. Using Front Row is actually pleasurable. Garageband runs like … Continue reading “iMac intel impressions”

Our iMac intel arrived this afternoon and we quickly unpacked it and set it up.

It’s a 1.83 GHz 17″ iMac intel with 512 MB of RAM. Just the stock low-end machine.

Initial boot-up was slow, but every boot-up after the first has been very quick. Using Front Row is actually pleasurable. Garageband runs like stink ) Doom 3 runs okay. Halo runs great. Photoshop is a little sluggish but performance is not bad – the issue being that the areas where it is sluggish are not expected. Office runs fine on it – which is to be expected.

We have had one hard crash when unmounting AFP shares in the Finder. We’ll have to keep an eye on that. I don’t know what caused it. The server it was attaching to was a laptop on wireless so who knows.

Overall, it’s quite a fun machine. It’s very very light, it’s really quite sexy and in the short time we had it out in the office, it attracted quite a bit of attention.

It does make me want a MacBook Pro even more…oh yes, it will be mine.

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