Mainly Macintosh

New iMac Duo Core Intel 2.16 GHz with 2 GB RAM

Tonight I am the proud new owner of a brand new iMac.

My old one was great. But it crashed a lot.

In some ways, it reminded me as a rock solid Linux box. In other ways, it reminded me as an unstable Windows 98 PC.

I think its problems were hardware based. It is practically dead now. I am going to take it into the shop and see if they can repair it. It's serial number was on Apple's deathwatch list so if it has a bad motherboard or something else caused by the flakey capacitors they were building into their systems, I should be able to get it repaired for free.

This new system has not crashed yet and I have been running it for several hours. That beats the Windows 98 and the iMac G5's records quite soundly.

I have already downloaded: VersionTracker Pro, Firefox, Thunderbird, Camino, and Eclipse 3.2.1. I will be grabbing a few other things later.

posted by John Collins @ 11:42 PM