I have been waiting since Nov 2006 for a redesigned iMac. While I have been fighting the urge to replace my current system since then, I am sure glad I held out. The new iMac is very cool, and I hope that like my iPhone, it’s even cooler when I get my hands on it.

The interesting thing will be the glossy screen. My wife’s MacBook has a glossy screen and I kind of like it, but not fully in love with it, but I don’t despise it. On the upside, I still have my Dell 24” display and I will be connecting it up to have a dual 24” display and should I need to view something outside of the gloss factor, I can just drag it over and view. Purchased 4GB of memory from a 3rd party to go along with it, so I can power Vmware Fusion and have a true all-in-one system.

In 1994, I never thought I would own a 1 Terabyte HD much less afford one as I see advertised now. Digging through old boxes of stuff, trying to clean up my old computer junk I have laying around, I found a number of old SCSI HD’s. Using other junk equipment I had around, I managed to get the drive mounted on a older Mac running OS 9. The last modified date on the drive was 1994, or 13 years ago. I am starting to feel rather dated right now. The drive had a “Bad Disk” partition on it, I assume was the dead part of the drive I wasn’t able to use. Today, if a drive is even partially bad, we just toss it and buy a new one or at least I do. But, 13 years ago, parts where more expensive and my pockets weren’t as deep.

I was hoping to find some OLD files, documents, on these drives, but thus far just old applications. Now I am doing data recovery on them to see if I can pull anything up, otherwise I will just format them several times, then dispose of them properly. Those where the days.