Liam Getreu

Not for me! Tonight my sister and I went on a little excursion down to my (kind of ex-) employer, Computers Now at Chadstone to pick up a brand-spanking new aluminium 20″ iMac. Even though I’d seen them before, sold them before, played with them before, it didn’t stop me marvelling at their cool-ness while setting it up for her.

Where’s the magnet?

Good question! Much to my dismay, even though the iMacs do come with an Apple Remote like every other Apple computer out there, they don’t seem to have a little magnetic strip on the side of them to hold it like the old iMacs. It very much disappointed me that they don’t come with what I thought was one of the most intuitive and most cool features of iMacs. Oh well, I guess sometimes we can’t have it all. I would though appreciate Apple taking my comments on board (yeah, right!) and going back to the old way in the next model. I guess we’ll wait and see.

The aluminum keyboard

A cool thing that I got out of my sister’s new iMac is her aluminium keyboard. For whatever reason, she decided that she didn’t like the new Apple keyboard and wanted the old white one I had. Why, I will never understand. But it does mean that my desk is even nicer now with the nice, new Apple keyboard.

(I much prefer the type of new keyboard Apple has made. I’ve been typing on laptops for about six or seven years now, and just prefer the way the keys are light on your fingers, and you don’t have to worry about ‘forcing’ a key in. And because I’m able to touch-type, I can just glide across the keys nicely, softly and elegantly. It’s just a delight to work on.)

Interestingly, I did have some trouble setting it up to work with my 2.2ghz Santa Rosa MacBook Pro. It seems that my System Preferences didn’t really like the new multimedia keys (previous; play/pause; next; mute; volume down; volume up), and also seemed to disagree with having any keys other than F3/F4 to use for Éxpose. Oh well. It seems to be happier after a fair bit of fiddling. Anyone else had similar problems?