turbo36
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- Joined
- Apr 20, 2004
- Messages
- 1,414
- Location
- Michigan
- Tractor
- JD X739 AWS (3), 2016 Toolcat, JD 2038R
Really stepping up in the technology wars now; 3 days ago I got the Motorola Droid and yesterday a new Imac.
I went with a 27" monitor with a Quad-core processor. The monitor contains everything, there is no "box" under the desk box or wires - everything communicates wireless.
I unpacked it, plugged it in, turned on the mouse and keyboard, plugged in the cable modem and 5 minutes later I was on the web. From sealed box to surfing was maybe 15 minutes. Setting up the printer was the only thing frustrating because it hung a couple of times - WHERE IS MY DEVICE MANAGER???
I haven't set up the time capsule yet but that will give me my wireless network as well a 1TB backup/network storage device to stream my music from.
First impressions.
Holy cow is this thing fast!!!! No virus protection slowing things down.
Pages load immediately.
I can have multiple applications open at the same time and this thing doesn't hang of seem to slow down. Wow! Wow! Wow!
The monitor in unbelievable, I can have 3 full size 8 1/2 x 11 documents on the screen at the same time
I love cover-flow to find files or pictures
Lots of little cute little Apple quirks that will drive me crazy until I learn their way of doing things or how to switch them to act like the PC commands.
Oh so that's what a "bookmark" is!
Even at the fastest setting the mouse is still too slow.
The keyboard is very small but works well, lot's of room on the desktop now for my work papers.
After watching a few videos I'm getting the whole idea of the the Apple way of doing things. Very Cool!
Overall I am very impressed, I plan to return to the Apple store today to get my wife a MacBook to use so she can work on her stuff while sitting in her favorite chair.
I went with a 27" monitor with a Quad-core processor. The monitor contains everything, there is no "box" under the desk box or wires - everything communicates wireless.
I unpacked it, plugged it in, turned on the mouse and keyboard, plugged in the cable modem and 5 minutes later I was on the web. From sealed box to surfing was maybe 15 minutes. Setting up the printer was the only thing frustrating because it hung a couple of times - WHERE IS MY DEVICE MANAGER???
I haven't set up the time capsule yet but that will give me my wireless network as well a 1TB backup/network storage device to stream my music from.
First impressions.
Holy cow is this thing fast!!!! No virus protection slowing things down.
Pages load immediately.
I can have multiple applications open at the same time and this thing doesn't hang of seem to slow down. Wow! Wow! Wow!
The monitor in unbelievable, I can have 3 full size 8 1/2 x 11 documents on the screen at the same time
I love cover-flow to find files or pictures
Lots of little cute little Apple quirks that will drive me crazy until I learn their way of doing things or how to switch them to act like the PC commands.
Oh so that's what a "bookmark" is!
Even at the fastest setting the mouse is still too slow.
The keyboard is very small but works well, lot's of room on the desktop now for my work papers.
After watching a few videos I'm getting the whole idea of the the Apple way of doing things. Very Cool!
Overall I am very impressed, I plan to return to the Apple store today to get my wife a MacBook to use so she can work on her stuff while sitting in her favorite chair.