I’ve had an Intel-based iMac for a few days. It was purchased so that we (Audio Damage) could start dealing with the massive amount of work foisted upon us by Apple’s change. We weren’t planning to buy machines this early, partly because the last three first-generation Macs I’ve purchased have all turned out to have rather serious design and\/or implementation flaws, but things are moving a little more quickly than we expected and we didn’t want to get left behind.<\/p>\n
Overall it’s a pretty nice computer. It’s fast, it’s very quiet, its LCD is almost as good as my Samsung LCDs, and the built-in video camera is handy for making faces at Chris while we work. Rosetta seems to handle pre-Intel software with mixed success. I’ve really only tried Firefox and a couple of other little things, but Firefox definitely feels sluggish in an odd way. Fortunately there’s a Universal Binary of it slated for release in March.<\/p>\n
On the down side, there are a couple of things that are really annoying, and they’re classic examples of Apple designing something to look nice rather than function well. The first issue is that the aluminum pedestal isn’t rigid enough. When I’m typing rapidly (and I’m a pretty fast typist, admittedly), the whole thing bounces up and down slightly. This is very<\/strong> annoying because it means that the text bounces up and down as I write it. I think if I were to try to write anything longer than a few paragraphs at a stretch, it would make me seasick. I’m going to try shoving a box or something under the lower edge of the case to ameliorate this.<\/p>\n The other problem is the Mighty Mouse. There are so many problems with this thing I probably won’t think of them all as I write this, but here’s a start:<\/p>\n The thing is a joke, in short. I’m admittedly fussy about input devices, but this mouse stinks. I’m replacing it with a Microsoft mouse ASAP. Apple could really learn a thing or three by spending some time looking at their competition’s products rather than dreaming up more elegant-looking lumps of white plastic.<\/p>\n I’ll post more impressions as they come to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve had an Intel-based iMac for a few days. It was purchased so that we (Audio Damage) could start dealing with the massive amount of work foisted upon us by Apple’s change. We weren’t planning to buy machines this early, partly because the last three first-generation Macs I’ve purchased have all turned out to have… Continue reading My Intel iMac: First Impressions<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n