My 21.5 is FINALLY HERE

[Shanpdx]

Summary
Section Description Score Geekbench Score 4292
Geekbench 2.1.4 for Mac OS X x86 (32-bit)
Integer Processor integer performance 3551
Floating Point Processor floating point performance 6377
Memory Memory performance 3058
Stream Memory bandwidth performance 2060

 

[Shanpdx]

everything is nice and running...

harddrive is seagate drive starting with letter ST

should i worry about the hard drive noise? i can hear ticking noise once in a while but not much of annoyance

 

[applelicious]

Congrats on your new toy. Thanks for posting pics. I would not worry about HD noise. My HD is only 500GB so I don't have this issue (I believe only 1TB and higher have it), it is a common thing and I read it on this forum that Seagate customer service confirmed it to be a sound of HD actually working properly

So no worries and enjoy your computer

 

[Trek2100]

Just got back from Best Buy and typing this on my first mac - Imac 21.5 base model. Wow, what a machine. This is one beautiful computer. I can not wait to learn all about mac and this computer. Thanks everyone who contributed to this forum to help folks like me with their first mac.

I also got iwork (good idea?) and mobile me. Going to try these out soon. I have a question - I have seen some thread that talk about slow start up time. I am not sure what it supposed to be. If someone who has the same model, please let me know. I think I timed it and it took me around 55 sec to have it back and running. Is this OK? Should I restart Leopard before I load this computer with pics and everything.

Any suggestions as to the first mac user are greatly appreciated.

Thanks again to this great forums.

god, this thing is pretty

You mentioned "I also got iwork (good idea?) and mobile me." I have been using MS Office (PC) ever since and including Office 4.1 (pre office 95) at work and here at home. I also have to help others when they have questions/problems with Office. When I bought my MBP (late 2006) I started using iWork along with Office 2004 for Mac. With my new iMac I'm only using iWork '09. If your into all of the power user (advanced) functions of MS word then Pages may not live up to your expectations however, the vast majority of users don't use. Pages is an excellent word processor. I have 2 friends at work who just bought their first Macs, iMac 21.5" core 2 duo. They love iWork '09 even though they have been using MS Office for many years. They also find Numbers to be easier to use than Excel. Keynote is better than PowerPoint and that is not just my opinion.

I love MobileMe. It keeps everything synced, my iPhone, MBP and iMac. And, I can access my MobileMe account from my PC at work.

Have fun with your new iMac. I'm having a blast with mine.

 

[applelicious]

You mentioned "I also got iwork (good idea?) and mobile me." I have been using MS Office (PC) ever since and including Office 4.1 (pre office 95) at work and here at home. I also have to help others when they have questions/problems with Office. When I bought my MBP (late 2006) I started using iWork along with Office 2004 for Mac. With my new iMac I'm only using iWork '09. If your into all of the power user (advanced) functions of MS word then Pages may not live up to your expectations however, the vast majority of users don't use. Pages is an excellent word processor. I have 2 friends at work who just bought their first Macs, iMac 21.5" core 2 duo. They love iWork '09 even though they have been using MS Office for many years. They also find Numbers to be easier to use than Excel. Keynote is better than PowerPoint and that is not just my opinion.

I love MobileMe. It keeps everything synced, my iPhone, MBP and iMac. And, I can access my MobileMe account from my PC at work.

Have fun with your new iMac. I'm having a blast with mine.

Thanks. I actually find iwork easier to use. I am in no way power user for MS Office. Maybe that is why iwork seemed that much more "fun" to use. It even lets me open MS Office excel files that I had on my external HD for personal finances and it works great. I did not know about that feature until I saw it on the back of the iwork box at home. So it is even better value for me.

I am having a blast with imac and mac os. It is very easy to use and is just so much more fun. Yeah, sometimes I have to google how to do certain things, but that is part of the fun. And this new imac just takes that experience to a whole new level. It is one amazing piece of computer engineering. It has plenty of power for everything I want out of this computer on a daily basis. I just couldn't be more happier.

 

[Shanpdx]

Congrats on your new toy. Thanks for posting pics. I would not worry about HD noise. My HD is only 500GB so I don't have this issue (I believe only 1TB and higher have it), it is a common thing and I read it on this forum that Seagate customer service confirmed it to be a sound of HD actually working properly

So no worries and enjoy your computer

thanks, who is your HD manufacturer? is all of the 500GB made by one manufacturer?

 

[applelicious]

thanks, who is your HD manufacturer? is all of the 500GB made by one manufacturer?

Check out this thread -https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/825849/

I am not sure on 500 GB manufacturer, but I would imagine that it is the same as for 1TB. I think 1TB might be making these noises due to higher capacity of the drive, but like you will see in that thread it seems to be normal for 1TB+ drives to have this noise.

Applelicious

 

[3121]

congrats on your purchase! wouldnt mind to get one myself.