So I finally did it the other day. I decided to take the plunge and buy me an iMac. I played around with a lot of configs before deciding on the one I bought. So what I got was:

17″ iMac Core 2 Duo
2.0 GHz processor
2 GB RAM
250 GB Hard Drive
Bluetooth wireless keyboard and mighty mouse

All in all, it sounds like a great machine that should be very fast. I’m used to using a 450 MHz Mac before this, so it’ll be quite a step up on the Mac side. I’m also hoping that I will be able to decomission my other Dell PC in place of this iMac. My two thoughts on that are one, some of the stuff I did on my Dell was because my Mac was so slow and not able to do what I wanted it to do. The second is that since it’s an Intel Mac, I’ll have a whole lot more options in getting the windows things I need on the Mac. For one, there’s Parallels for virtualization, and then there’s Boot Camp for that have to have PC games that the developers won’t make for the Mac. All in all, it should clean up the 1000+ cables I have floating around my desk area and make it look much better than it does now. I’ll keep you posted on when it arrives, which should be by Monday.