I write this on my new iMac ( Read more... )

Last night a friend came round to take my old iMac to a new home. I hope he gets good service out of it, but if it does turn out to be on its last legs nobody's any worse off ( Read more... )

A couple of weeks ago, my faithful eight-and-a-half-year-old, Tiger-rockin', last-of-the-power-PCs G5 iMac began to whinge and throw kernel panics. After trying various fixes gleaned from the internet I concluded that it was time for a new computer. (I'd been thinking about it for a while, but I kept holding off in the hope that Apple would ( Read more... )

Well, that was a hell of a piece of news to wake up to.