So the new iMac arrived today, and I have to say I'm pretty smitten.
Setup was surprisingly painless, and the brain transplant from my old machine went pretty well, once I prized the old hard drives out of the chassis and got them into the external housing. Well, that's not entirely true. Munin, my Applications and boot disk, survived the process and gave up its data like a champ, but Hugin, my older creative drive, appears to have given up the ghost -- or at least is not allowing my current machine to talk to it. I'm sure there's a way to get in; I may not be seating it correctly or I may need to fiddle with the jumper-thingies, but it says that all four pins empty makes it a slave, and all four pins are empty, so who knows. Anyway, I'm not panicking because I'd just done a recent backup, and was able to get everything off the big house drive. Let's hear it for anal retentive backup processes! Woo!
Upgrading the RAM was also easier than I expected, and I kept one hippie-bare foot on my metal filing cabinet the entire time I installed it, whee. Right now I've got as many programs running as my ADD can stand, and the processor isn't even sweating, so that means it should keep me happy for quite a while to come. I;m really digging the giant screen, too -- I finally have enough room for all my palettes and stuff. And the hard drive! Ooo la la! 300 gigs means I don't have to worry for a while at least, and when I need more space, well, I already have this handy external housing I bought, so I'll just go pop for a nice big internal drive and use that for my backup.
So yeah. Currently working on a few overdue tweaks for the Seekrit Project site, which will likely keep me busy for the next full week. See you on April Fool's Day!
Posted by JanerCongratulations on the new computer. (I'm the handwriting font guy from SPX.) I got a new iMac recently myself and am quite happy with it. Since I'm taking a graphic design class at the local community college, I got $300 off or so, which was about the cost of the class. I also got CS3 versions of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Acrobat, all for $206. (!)
InDesign looks like it will be pretty helpful in setting up the mini(s) I'm aiming to have ready for next SPX.
Also, back to the font thing. I'm curious as to whether you found a workable way to get a font of your handwriting that's of sufficient quality to use in your comics. And I'm curious to see what the Seekrit Project is. :)
Posted by: Scott McDaniel at March 26, 2008 2:00 PM