New iMac

Posted by George Wright Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:57:00 GMT

Well yesterday I rejoined the ranks of Apple users and bought an iMac 27”.

Why, I hear a thousand of you screaming at once. Well, when I left the UK I had to reluctantly sell my 30” Dell monitor - quite simply one of the most astounding pieces of kit I’ve ever used. The only downside with it was that it was really, really stupidly expensive.

Anyway, I bought the iMac to replace it. The screen on it is absolutely fantastic (I’m ignoring that it’s glossy for the minute…) and has the ridiculous resolution of 2560x1440 - pretty much a higher DPI 16:9 variant of the 30” monitors currently on the market. I view it more as a monitor with a desktop computer slapped on the back than the other way around.

So far I’ve been pretty impressed. Aside from a few screen flickering issues I’ve seen at the moment (which I’m hoping are driver issues and not hardware, as the next unreleased OS X update has “Fix screen flickering issues” in its changelog) it seems like a fairly solid system. Mac OS X has really matured since I last used it (I think I was using 10.3 on a PowerBook G4) to the extent that the Terminal application actually has tabs now! I’m even installing Ubuntu inside VirtualBox. Will be installing Debian natively soon hopefully.

All in all, pretty pleased with it. Even if it is a Mac.

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  1. Stephen Gentle said about 2 hours later:

    Those are pretty stunning computers - and given the really nice specs and the price cuts (in Australia at least) I’ve been really tempted to pick one up…

  2. Pierre M said about 4 hours later:

    I’m going to replace my old computer by one of those jewel. Please, keep us updated if you have any driver related issue during your Debian installation !

  3. Burke said about 6 hours later:

    “All in all, pretty pleased with it. Even if it is a Mac.”

    Well, IMHO a Mac clearly outmatches everything else. And the Usability of its operating system is most superior, I think.

  4. nip said about 7 hours later:

    An iMac is an amazing piece of machinery to start Virtualbox and run Linux.

  5. Jakub Steiner said about 7 hours later:

    27” iMac will be quite a hit. I definitely don’t need another computer but every time I see it mentioned I WANT IT!

  6. George Wright said about 9 hours later:

    I will probably look into installing Debian this weekend.

    Macs don’t really outmatch anything else to be fair. In a lot of cases their quality control is terrible. I’ve seen so many problems with Macs that it’s really quite silly. Compare that with the ThinkPads I’ve used and the difference is night and day.

  7. thorGT said about 9 hours later:

    Being a proud Mac Mini user (an awesome machine - silent, efficient, although not very powerful) and in general a bit of an Apple fan, I’d say that Mac computers meet the needs of an average user - fast, simple, stable. The cost, however…… matches the quality )) But I can’t really understand why they don’t have a decent graphics card in any of their computers - well, maybe a 9400M is enough for browsing and stuff, but why not provide a high-end desktop machine? So I stay with my resource-consuming but powerful PC and of course Fedora :D

  8. France said about 9 hours later:

    Que je sache, un iMac n’est pas libre ! Quel intérêt de travailler pour kde si dans la vie quotidienne on utilise un apple ? Il vaudrait mieux se mettre à travailler sérieusement sur kde4 qui freeze sur les portables et n’est pas du tout fini.

  9. John said 1 day later:

    Welcome to the not-so-dark side :-) I wrote general notes about doing linux installs on a mac particulaly teh partitioning options at http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSEon_aMac, but i do need to update them. Any questions drop me a line.

  10. John said 1 day later:

    Huh, that broke the link, try here, and I’ve updated the details.

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