Comments on: New iMac, Still New to Me

By: Jake

Jake — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 02:37:38 +0000

You are correct, sir! Apple does have a 14-day return policy that entitles you to an upgraded model (same value, natch) if your new purchase has been out-moded. They'll transfer your data too, and I assume wipe the old machine.

Of course, they also charge a 10% restocking fee, which is a downer. I bought this iMac at Best Buy, and they said they will honor the Apple policy. I'm hoping they skip the restock fee, plus I'll need to stand there and watch them reimage the old one.

Now, it's a time constraint issue.

Excellent protip. Many thanks.

By: Jake

Jake — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 01:45:16 +0000

Are you speaking from experience? Did you read that somewhere? That would rule, with the exception of the data transfer and configuration hassle. Worth it though.

I may call over to the Apple Store and rant

By: Jake

Jake — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 01:43:21 +0000

I'm with you. I also will hold on to my OG iPhone until I feel it's fully amortized. I usually don't sweat updates, unless they happen days after I buy. Maybe Frederic is right, and I can swap. I'm not holding my breath though.

By: frederic

frederic — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 22:01:25 +0000

Doesn't Apple have a policy that allows you to return the machine within 14 days or so (or even a month when a new model comes out…)? If so, you could just swap yours out for one of the newer ones.

By: Floyd

Floyd — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 21:51:46 +0000

Bought my iMac late last year when the iMac update rumors were floating around the 'tubes. I'm happy with what I have…figured my hardware would be “old hat” within six months, but still plenty good enough for me. Now that the updates have been announced, I was right on both counts. Similar reasoning has me sticking with my 2G iPhone for at least another year. Bottom line: you'll got nuts trying to time the hardware market – buy what you need when you need it and be at peace with it.

Apologies for the lack of bullets. This comment just did not play out as a list when I wrote it.

By: Jake

Jake — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 09:53:53 +0000

Me too, bullet points are the new black.
--I have a love-hate with Apple.
--Like I said, it's still new to me. Plus, I'm way more of an instant gratification type.
--I know, right. I remember those days; it was sweet when I got a 1 GB disk on my 550 Toshiba Tecra running NT 4.
--You are correct. We have Free Geek here, and I have a bunch of stuff to give them.
--Yeah, we were OraTweeting about that today. VMs rule. The best way to run Mac/Linux sometimes is to have a Windows VM handy.

By: jpiwowar

jpiwowar — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 07:52:21 +0000

I confess, I'm a sucker for bullet points…

* Mac. All the way. With renewed vigor, after spending a portion of my day rdesktop'd into a Win2k3 server. They had me at Terminal.app vs. cmd.exe (or even cygwin).
* I try really, really hard to avoid looking at new product line announcements until I'm actually ready to buy something. Buyer's remorse is rarely more than 6 months away, otherwise. Though a one-week obsolescence has a bit of an “ouch” factor that I've not yet experienced.
* 1TB < $200 is putting serious stress on my rationalization suppression skills. Feels like not long ago that getting a rack of 4GB drives for a fridge-sized server in the data center was the new hotness.
* People less fortunate than myself can make better use of my old gear. Local computer recyclers (Goodwill, here) FTW.
* Continuing in that vein, MBP + 4GB RAM + VMware Fusion means my hobby OS goes with me, not on a dusty, noisy space heater under my desk. Though I'll admit some of the larger hobby disk images stay at home on the external drive (ugh, there goes that 1-TB rationalization again…)

Cheers,

John P.