my new iMac :)

[simonlang]

i got it with the following specs:

• 2.7GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i5
  
• 4GB 1333MHz DDR3 SDRAM - 2x2GB
  
• 1TB Serial ATA Drive
  
• AMD Radeon HD 6770M 512MB GDDR5
  
• Apple Magic Mouse
  
• Apple Wireless Keyboard
  

here are some pic impressions :D

what can i say beside that its fantastic? no cheap china-smell when packing it out, everything feels very high quality, i was using pc's before for many many years, in every price range but even with a 200 euro worth logitech keyboard/mouse combo it didn't feel as gr8 as the apple magic mouse and keyboard.

the screen itself is big obviously haha. and bright and makes the mac-feeling even better.

after maybe 3 hours of usage (yesterday and today combined) i never wanna go back to something else :)

(okay, i will still run my old pc with ubuntu just for fun) but all the serious work will be done on my iMac from now on.

what i need now are some good apps and maybe some good tips in general - so please, share.

will continue now to enjoy the mac experience. again: its just awesome! :woot:

[CPressland]

Pics not loading :(

[simonlang]

what?! they are showing here .. :/

[Groovedude]

says file not found here....

[Shaun N.]

Great that you enjoy it but you failed on your images.

[simonlang]

pics on imageshack now.... (weird that i can't edit my first posting anymore)

[Groovedude]

looks hot :) hope you enjoy your purchase!

[Damian]

Congrats!

The 'Find out how' page is a great place to start learning basic things in case you don't know the Mac basics.

http://www.apple.com/findouthow/mac/

[moloko]

I wanted to get my wife one but she rather use her laptop. Oh well. Enjoy ur purchase.

[notuptome2004]

i would when ya can upgrade the ram to 16gb or so i did that for my next door neighbor for her 2009 iMac and the performance boost was big for her as she is running lion and using Adobe suite 5.5

[game_over]

i would when ya can upgrade the ram to 16gb or so i did that for my next door neighbor for her 2009 iMac and the performance boost was big for her as she is running lion and using Adobe suite 5.5

I'm running Lion and Adobe CS6 with 8GB ram and it runs perfect. was working with a 10ft x 2ft banner stand the other day and started to feel the burn but it was still more than workable.

Congrats on your purchase the iMacs really are beautiful machines.

[simonlang]

what irc program do you guys recommend?

[game_over]

Colloquy (free) Linkinus (paid)

[simonlang]

thanks! colloquy looks good. also grabbed me spotify (never managed to get it working on ubuntu), adium, app cleaner and ofc. rage comics :D

:rofl:

[cooky560 Veteran]

I personally prefer Textual to Colloquay (look it up in App store).

Adium is great if you use chat of any kind.

MS Office:mac, Adobe's suite, etc are all good apps, oh and Steam

[REM2000]

I would +1 the upgrade to 16gb. Memory for the iMac is quite cheap and it really makes the machine fly

[REM2000]

Ps. Congrats on the purchase :)

[simonlang]

memory upgrade will come at the end of the month... so far I'm just happy :D it just feels much much better to sit in front of a mac than a pc .. :laugh:

[simonlang]

btw. is there a good and free adblocker for safari?

[+virtorio MVC]

btw. is there a good and free adblocker for safari?

AdBlock.

Go into the Safari Preferences dialog and turn Extensions on. Now click Safari -> Safari Extensions and it'll be in there somewhere.

[simonlang]

AdBlock.

Go into the Safari Preferences dialog and turn Extensions on. Now click Safari -> Safari Extensions and it'll be in there somewhere.

thanks! found it and installed :) also grabbed me the social fixer. cool :)

[PNWDweller]

Congrats on the new iMac! Don't you just love how they are boxed up and presented to you? :)

I remember the first one I brought home, unboxed it at a friends house first for the first time, fired it up was in awe. Second time, I unboxed it was a family member's house to show it off and how simple it was to set up. Third and final time was at home where it lived. (Mid 2007). Sadly, I had a lemon of a Mac (Pardon the fruit reference), and had it replaced with a Mid-2010 by Apple under their Applecare after it went through way too many repairs hard drive and logic board wise.

The mac I have now (mid-2010), still runs and purrs like new like the first day I got it. I did upgrade the Ram to 8GB and have never looked back!

[Tech085]

Welcome to the Mac Family, Glad you decide to get a Apple brand Computer system... enjoy it, I got a MBA at Best Buy a few days ago... I am enjoying mine, I also have an iMac I purchased in August 2011 sometime last yr I upgrade it to 16GB Ram it fly's but nothing beats my ssd MBA I am enjoying my computers from Apple..

[simonlang]

quick question guys: I just transferred all my songs to iTunes, my videos to video folders etc. and now i formated an external HD and using it as time-machine. so far so good, backup started and it says now 172GB to back up, duration: 2 days! my question: do i need to let my iMac running 2 days or can i pause the backup as well?

[cooky560 Veteran]

quick question guys: I just transferred all my songs to iTunes, my videos to video folders etc. and now i formated an external HD and using it as time-machine. so far so good, backup started and it says now 172GB to back up, duration: 2 days! my question: do i need to let my iMac running 2 days or can i pause the backup as well?

You can pause the backup, infact the mac will go to sleep if left idle for longer than a few minutes when it will pause itself. However most macs are designed to go to sleep rather do a full shutdown, and macs tend to work better with massive (several month) uptimes than being shutdown every day.

It also occurs to me that the estimate will improve very quickly, like downloading estimates do