Getting a 20-inch Intel iMac & video iPod


Oh, happy day. My son's been in to cartooning and I think he would get a kick out of learning Flash. Plus he's dying for an iPod, so wouldn't you know it, Apple has this promotion going on that gives you a free iPod nano or so much off a video iPod when you purchase a new Mac. Sounds like a deal to me.

So, we took a look at the 17-in. and 20-in. iMac models over at a nearby CompUSA. The 20-inch screen is huge. I think we're going to be mighty impressed. The plan is to install BootCamp and have a Mac OS X partition and an XP partition.

One thing that should be cool is that these iMacs have a built-in iSight. Finally, I'll have someone to video chat with: my family!

I was reading on the web that I will need to decide whether to format the Windows partition as FAT32 or NTFS. I still haven't decided. The former will allow read/write from the Mac partition, the latter allows only read access.

My son's getting a black 30 GB video iPod. I wonder what he's going to put on it. I think we're going to convert a lot of his favorite TV shows for it. Family Guy, Venture Brothers, Bo-Bo Bobobo, whatever the hell it is. Thank God for the DVR.

Posted: Fri - June 16, 2006 at 09:53 AM      

©