My New Mac is an ‘11′

I just sold a bunch of my old Macs. 3 years is enough abuse for them to take at my hands.

Got 35% of the price I paid for them. Now that’s what I call a great ROI for a depreciating asset. Bought a new iMac 24″ from Apple. Got the last CPU version from their on-line refurb store at www.Apple.Com, scroll down in the Store on the lower left. It’s hidden. Saved hundreds upon hundreds of dollars. Bought it with 1GB RAM and instead of paying Apple’s high-$ for 4GB ordered it from another RAM place. Saved a few hundred more. Got it all for $1450.

Two days later, it’s here.

Plugged it in. Done. The 24″ iMac machine is simply the finest computer I have ever owned, due to impeccable hardware engineering and 10.5.x, Leopard OS X. I had to move back from the screen to watch a DVD. Startling quality. It immediately networked.

I have to come to realize that Apple ships its machines with the optimum settings to work right out of the box. No tweaking necessary. I mean NONE! All I did was add Firefix 3.0 (upgrade if you haven’t) and added my legal Mac Office. DONE!

The other awesome part is how my Macs can backup, exchange and sync info seamlessly over my wireless networks. Still thinking like a cumbersome Wintel guy, I was all prepared for hours of playing: total time to make it all work - out of the box? 12 minutes for everything.

Yeah, I know a Dell is $599. But then you get Windows or worse… Vista. Then you have umpteen hours of install and reboots and…. arrggghhhh… If you at all value your time, relegate your old Dell as a backup server with a big hard drive and make the switch.

Wow. Suddenly your PC is a tool, entertainment center and whatever you want it to be, and not like a stack of bricks hung around your neck.

Try it. You can always return it (30 day rule) if it sux. But it won’t.

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