Wow

The 20″ screen is nothing short of beautiful in my opinion, now admittedly my 17″ pc monitor is not the best and my 17″ flat panel at work is pretty good but the colors and crispness of the iMac screen is great. I actually spent some time looking through all of the desktop pictures just to appreciate the quality of the screen.

Now speed, I have not had time to do a whole lot yet and I know that there are not a lot of apps installed yet to bog it down but Safari for example came up with websites practically instantly, to the point where I thought if I did not know better I would have thought they knew the websites I went to and cached them so it would do that.

I have burned a DVD using the iDVD software and it was pretty quick and painless. I got the standard 1gb RAM and can see upgrading that due to audio and video I will be doing with it. But a little tip, don't spend the money to upgrade the ram on the Apple site, you can buy it much cheaper elsewhere and it is not difficult to install.

One area I was unexpectedly taken by was the Mighty Mouse, coming from the old days of a one button Mac mouse I have to say I am floored by the Mighty Mouse, it is amazing how well this mouse with no visual buttons has taken what I have assigned to it and given me a typical left click, a right click context menu (like windows) a roller click to show me my dashboard widgets and a squeeze to give me the expose’ screen it is a joy to use and that is not something I thought I would say about a mouse, after all it is just a mouse right? Wrong.

When I was using a PC I built it myself and did not care what the thing looked like I just wanted performance. Well, let me say the iMac is classy, I almost feel like i need to show it off people look at it and ooh and ahh over it. I realize that is not the point to a computer but it adds to the excitement in owning one.

Oh and for all the naysayers… it took me about 5 minutes (if not less) to network it to my Windows PC wirelessly in the other room and access files from shared folders. Mac, it just works!