New Mac Attack

I have been ferry patient over the last four weeks as I have had a new iMac sitting in the box in the library and have passed it by several times a day knowing that I could do nothing about it. I did fire it up to see if it ran but then it was back in the box until I had the time to devote to migrating the 24 to the 27 inch. So yesterday I was going through the mail and  an OWC (Other World Computing) catalog showed up.My son has an older MackBook and is going to run out of his 80BG hard drive sooner or later. I found there was a 320GB 7200 RPM drive for $69. I flipped over to the memory area and found 2x4 8GB 1333MHz DDR3 cards for the iMac at $127. Wow... That is a little different than the $600 Apple wants for the same thing when upgrading from 8-16 GB. Sent the order in and by using Yahoo shipping, it basically paid for the overnight cost.

I watched the videos on OWC about memory and hard drive upgrading and they were very thorough. It didn't take me more than five minutes and when I powered up and checked, the 16 GB showed up as advertised. Lightroom is going to looooove this machine.

Before the migration can start I had to run a software update on the new machine and it is taking its sweet time. Much longer than usual to download and then I realized... My son is streaming a Netflix movie on the Wii and that has choked the bandwidth this evening. 
Ahhh... She says the download is complete. Guess I'll be going, complete the update and hook the to computers up for the migrations. I'll have to wait until the morning to see how it all goes.


For now I'll just be moving a long. Cya... Doug