As you know if you’ve followed this blog for a while, I have a first-generation iMac G5 (which has had most of it’s parts replaced at least once), and a first-generation MacBook.
The iMac is 4.5 years-old and my main net-surfing, emailing and music-making machine. A testament to the shameful, anti-American Apple corporate policy of not basing it’s entire business on planned obsolescence.
The MacBook will be three next summer.
And yesterday, it started turning itself off, randomly, for no logical reason. A lot of first-generation MacBooks were plagued with this hardware bug. I guess I should be grateful that mine took 2.5 years to develop it.
It is still under warranty, so Apple will fix it. But I can’t be without an Intel-based Mac for 2 weeks or more, since I have to run Windows apps for my translation work.
And given the venerable age in computer-years of my 2 Macs, I plan to buy a new iMac today at the local Paris Fnac store.
I’ll be going with the entry-level 24-inch iMac, because I don’t do video or video games, and I’ll put the 300 € difference with the next model up to some other use, like getting a big backup drive to run Mac OS X Time Machine.
I’ll probably skip the Migration tool that comes up when you first use a new Mac and run it later, after I’ve cleaned things up on the old iMac. It’s amazing how through the years, and Macs, I’ve effortlessly migrated my Mac-world from machine to machine. It also means that I still have stuff on the old iMac that predates Intel Macs and Mac OS X…
I’ll probably just copy my Windows environement (a single 6 GB file) and install Parallels Desktop, and catch up on work first.
Well, that’s the plan, anyway. I’ll let you know how things turn out in reality.