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| The box was slightly beat up but not too horribly. At least the contents arrived safe! |
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| Even the iMac box looks cool |
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| "From the makers of the iPod" |
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| Getting ready to dive inside. |
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| I know you're in there somewhere. The keyboard is inserted top-down, just to give you an idea of the thickness of the styrofoam. |
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| There you are! Looks like you arrived safely. |
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| Plopped on the old desk. This desk left today for greener pastures. However I still need to get all my data off my laptop. The computers can work while I head out to IKEA for new furniture. |
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| Closeup of the Motorola / IBM CPU club. :-) |
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| Guess I can't even unwrap the computer unless I agree to some kind of shrink wrap agreement. |
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| Oh la la! A nekked iMac G5. |
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| Just another peek. |
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| Got the keyboard & mouse all connected. |
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| Woohoo! The screen works! |
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| Your flight to OS X is nearly complete. |
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| OK, let's dive right into the realm of OS X! ... |
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| ... But first, let's get all that cool stuff off the ole laptop. This is Apple's new data migration tool. I gotta say it was pretty slick, even if it does have a step 3. :-) |
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| Just in case you forgot, here's how to set your Apple into Firewire target mode. |
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| Looky Looky! I see another Apple close by! |
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| What would you like to transfer today? |
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| Still calculating. It takes the wizard a few minutes to figure out how many GBs are ready for transport. |
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| Finally, kibbles -n- bits -n- bits -n- bits flowing. |
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| Houston, give us a trajectory. |
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| 8 hours and 28 minutes remaining?!?!? Guess it's time to head to IKEA. :-) In reality it didn't take anywhere near 8.5 hours. I'm not sure how long it took (I was at IKEA, remember?) but it was done when I finally got home 3 hours later. |
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| All done! Finally! Now I get to actually fool around with my new iMac. |
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| Restarting again. |
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| The computers in their new home. Thanks IKEA, this is great! |
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| The 20" screen is absolutely mammoth! Shown here with my Aluminium PowerBook G4 15.2" for size comparison. |
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| Another shot of my computers' new home. On the left is my 15" bass cabinet and on the right (on the floor) is my now deposed PC. |
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| The coolest part about my new station is it doesn't have to look like a computer station when I'm not working there. :-) |
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| Another shot since I can't believe I put it together and it's still standing! Go me! :-D |
