Shad

What can I say, I’ve come around. Yesterday I purchased a 20″ iMac. What an incredible thing it is. After only 12 hours, I’m totally sold/hooked.

Why?

Here’s the short list.

1. Everything is integrated… iTunes works with iPhoto works with iMovie works with iDVD works with the Address Book works with… well… you get the idea.
2. They fixed the stupid task switching problem… in a most ingenious way. First, you have app switching just like in Windows. Only difference is that you switch apps with Apple/Alt-Tab and you then switch windows in that app with Apple/Alt-~. Next, there’s this incredible set of tools they call Expose. It allows you to (with a wave of the wrist and no click… or from the keyboard) cause all the windows to “slide” off of the screen and show the desktop. Also, with a flip of the wrist, you can cause all of your windows to “rearrange” on the screen so you can see everything. Then you click on the window that you want to use. It’s pretty incredible to see. This may seem a silly feature, but for those of use that hit Alt-tab thousands of times a week, this is revolutionary.
3. There’s a Windows Terminal Service Client that works (and lemme tell you, working on a 20″ screen on my other machine is pretty sweet)
4. VPN works.
5. It’s Unix.
6. iMac,iTunes & iPod together should prove unstoppable.
7. It’s just pretty (in every way)

More details will follow as I have them…

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