Well, the day has finally come. I bought my new iMac 20″ yesterday.
First impressions? Well connecting my network hard drive and copying my stuff over went very easily. The most impressive thing I’ve found so far is that copying my entire photo collection (18GB) over to the mac’s hard drive was relatively painless. In Windows Vista, trying to copy such an absurd amount normally resulted in either an estimated time of about 3 days, an error, or just a complete lockup. The mac just settled down and did it over about half an hour.
The second thing, is so far, I’ve managed to replicate all the software I had on my PC. Obviously all Adobe stuff is the same, Filezilla, and there’s even a handy little app that uploads to your Picasa web gallery. OpenOffice has been replaced by NeoOffice, and all my old documents open fine.
Oh, and the joy of unwrapping it was nice as well. As usual, Apple’s packaging is nearly as good as the product itself. The setup was very easy too, was very nice not to have to start installing drivers from disc before you can get on the internet.
My only gripe so far? I was looking forward to having Time Machine functionality. However, it doesn’t work with a network hard drive. There is a hack, which lets TM see your network drive, but on trying it, it gives a “Failed to create image” error.
UPDATE: Found a tutorial on the interweb, and now my machine is successfully backing up to my network drive via Time Machine.
So, I guess that means no gripes then…
By the way, if you’re having the same trouble making Time Machine work with a NAS, then try this link, this is what sorted it for me.
