Just like to hear a brief summary from those who are lucky enough to have their new iMacs.
Just curious to know the general consensus?
Mines due in the next couple of days so very excited.....I'm moving from a 10 year old emac
Cheers George
Got my 27"/3.2GHz i5 iMac delivered on Friday.
Taking it out of its box, first thing I noticed is how well it was packed. Quick physical inspection showed everything was well. The build quality is superb. The 27" is a little overwhelming (I had a 21.5" monitor before) at first, but regardless of the model you're getting, you'll quickly adjust to a larger screen and appreciate the extra real estate.
Mine currently boots in about 30 seconds. Mountain Lion was a bit of an adjustment for me, but I'm getting there. The keyboard and mouse is
interesting. Much more like a laptop keyboard, so takes a bit of getting used to from the older keyboards with the large buttons. I'm enjoying the lack of wires.
I do have to say that I realised I do actually need an optical drive, and half-wish that the iMac had a built-in one. That said, I've got an external one, I'm just too lazy to set it up.
The screen is beautiful to look at, hardly any glare.
I haven't really got any complaints with it. The backlighting on the screen could be a tiny bit more even. But unless I'm looking for it, the display is very uniform.
Overall, I'm absolutely loving it. I just wish I could run more of my old PPC apps on it; having a bit of difficulty working around some issues with that, so I'll be keeping my PowerMac for a little while yet. If you plan on running PPC apps, you'll have to invest in VMware Fusion or Parallels, or just use VirtualBox (it's free!) and source a copy of OS X Leopard or Snow Leopard but it must be the server version from "somewhere".
Haven't really stretched it's legs yet, but it's hardly working. It runs really cool though, much cooler than its predecessor screen hardly feels warm and the back is pretty cool too.