My new Mac

I love my new mac.

Last week, despite a UPS and a surge protector, the old iMac was fried and fricasseed when the yard was struck by lightning. The hard drive went hinkey and the video was entirely gone. Ben at MacDoctor saved the day and was able to recover the harddrive after much effort, but the computer was done for.

I can't be without a computer. I spoke with Ben who suggested the MacBook Pro, but after working with Mom's MacBook and the itty bitty 13" screen, I wanted to scream. It was just too small. I can't imagine using that all the time. Instead I decided on the iMac 20" from Small Dog Electronics, with a 4 gig RAM upgrade and the AppleCare. After it arrived, I took it back to Ben and he made it all right, putting a disk image of the old hard drive on the new one. I placed that on the 500 GB external and will dig through that while I pull what I need off it.

I am eligible for education discount and Apple had the buy a Mac, get an iPod Touch for free, but I already have a Touch. I'm waiting for the new ones to come out, but until then, what I have is fine.

I've watched several movies on it and Netflix, and it is wonderful. The 13" would just have been horrible.