And thought, oh holy hell, what did I do !?!?! Yes I was having some serious buyers remorse. I started texting Emily thinking I should cancel the order, which I could have. She of course tried to convince me not to, cause she wants to come over and “play” with it. As I had the page open trying to decide whether to cancel or not Apple emails me with a “Thank you for buying an iMac, we know you’ll love it” email. I decided it was a sign and I should keep it.

My reason for buying it in part was sound. I’m tired of my PC’s crashing, I have for awhile wanted to try a Mac and I need a central PC to put 3 laptops worth of crap (photos, documents, etc) in one place. There was however the want factor, I want something new but do I need it? I decided to just go with the flow and do my part to single handedly stimulate the economy.

Now as I wait for it to arrive, I find myself planning my attack to get all this stuff from 3 laptops over to it. Every time I have gotten a new laptop I have tried to port stuff over, but I have also put a lot on CDs cause I didn’t think I needed to junk up a new system with it all. Just last month I found myself booting up my first laptop to get my CV off of it, as I never carried it over. I have a portable hard drive I’ve been backing important stuff up on, but it’s only 70 gig and there is only about 15 free left. I might be doing a lot of copying to and fro, back and forth with it. It, like my laptops, needs serious housecleaning. That will finally happen.

My oldest laptop is going to computer heaven. I’m going to wipe it out, take out and keep the hard drive (I trust no one!) and take it to a store that recycles the stuff. The screen has some weird burn-in thing, the keyboard is junked, the batteries don’t work anymore (and it’s so old I can’t even buy them anymore) and the power adapter is screwed up as well (and I can’t buy it either). It needs to be put down. My other two laptops simply need to be deleted and started over. One is old and the hard drive is only 30 gig, but as long as you aren’t gaming it will work for most things. It will probably be given to a good home. My most recent one I’m going to obviously keep. Currently my dilemma with it is “To Vista or not to Vista?” I’m afraid if I Vista there won’t be any going back, as the install of Vista seems to want to wipe the recovery partition which can be used to re-install the laptop to the “as purchased state.” If I can get around that, I might try Vista (it’s on the desktop, so I’ve used it, I know what to expect).

Well that was a boring post, but it was an update. Oh and yes, I realize how geeky this post makes me sound 🙂