New iMac On The Way!
Thursday, May 1st, 2008After almost four years of abuse my 15″ PowerBook G4 - nicknamed the Powerbook of Doom - is finally confined to an almost exclusive desk job. The logic board is failing (one memory slot doesn’t work, a fan is out, and the processor is unseated slightly). It’s a single core 1.5GHz IBM. PhotoShop CS3 eats it for breakfast. It can only be used at an angle. It’s enough to finally send me to Apple.com to replace it.
So as of 2:00pm today my new 24″ Intel Core2Duo 2.8 GHz, 500GB iMac is on its way. It’s gonna help me in being more efficient editing photos, websites, and video. The “crunch time” is going to be decreased greatly. Plus, moving from an 80GB drive to a 500GB drive gives me lots more room to keep my music and the like all on one hard drive.
I bought it refurbished (the only way to go). It cost $700 less than a new one with the same specs and carries the same exact warranty. Most likely it was a store model or even just sat on the shelf too long. Either way, I got a current Mac for 31% off retail.
It should be here next week!
May 1st, 2008 at 3:43 pm
Woot! Congrats! I’d love to get my hands on a good desktop in the next few months. We’ll see.
Great to hang out with you guys Monday.
May 1st, 2008 at 4:16 pm
Nice score! I just sold mine a month ago for $1,400. 24″ Dual Core 2.33GHz, 500GB. Same as yours. I’m too much of a Linux geek to keep a Mac around
May 2nd, 2008 at 9:07 am
Congrats, man! Heck, that sounds more powerful than my MacPro!