Location : Cleveland, OH
We welcomed a new addition to the "family" this week - a 17" iMac.
I am probably blinded by the Apple logo, but this had to be one of the easiest purchasing experiences when it comes to workstations. Choose your monitor size (three choices), then decide if you want a wireless keyboard/mouse. One gigabyte of RAM, 160GB hard drive, Bluetooth, iSight, etc. etc. About 15 minutes later, we are strolling out of the Apple Store with a new Mac.
And then we get home. You know what it is like to setup a new PC. How about this? Open the iMac box, place iMac on desk. Plug it into some power, plug in the keyboard and mouse. Power it up. Walk through some very simple setup screens. A question appears - do you want to migrate data off of your old Mac? Why sure, I answer. I connect the two Macs with a firewire cable, and boot up the old iMac with the T key held down. It transferred all of the data, including MS Office, iTunes, miscellaneous documents/spreadsheets/etc., and games. Everything in less than 30 minutes.
So, 35 minutes after getting home, we had a fully functional iMac, connected wirelessly to the network, with all of the data transferred.
The only new software that I bought for it was Parallels.
I am not the only person that migrated data this past week. If you want to know what the screens look like during all of this, take a look at vowe's post. Speaking of Volker, I want to publicly thank him for his advice on this topic. We are very, very happy with this machine and the addition of Parallels opens up a world of software and choices.
I was extremely impressed with the Apple Experience. So much so, that I truly believe that my next notebook, and Lord knows that I need one, will be a MacBook. With Parallels installed, what would limit me?
Easy choices, easy purchasing experience, and exceptional customer service (yes, I admit, that I ended up calling Apple Support - I wasn't sure if the registration went through correctly, as I hadn't connected the iMac to the wireless router when it finished). I know that some people would say that a comparable Windows notebook is cheaper and I know that I will have to spend some time moving data and installing some software on the Mac, but in the long run I'll be ahead of the game. Especially when I outgrow the MacBook and get the next one (or install a larger hard drive). Firewire and done.
Isn't that the way things should work? Or is that Apple logo blinding me again? :-)
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