May 11, 2005
The Weekly Want-It Actually Gets It: iMac G5 2nd Gen
filed under: The Weekly WANT IT
Thanks to the astounding generosity of the ProcrastiParents, a Weekly WANT IT has quickly blossomed into a GETTING IT. Last week Apple announced their update of the iMac G5, which bumped the specs so significantly that even the message boards at Apple Insider were full of praise rather than griping and bitching. I fell immediately in love and began lunchtime trips to J&R to look at them, and started the prep work on getting Lisa to approve a purchase.
Then my folks decided to give us a computer for my birthday.
As our main home computer is a five year old iMac DV Special Edition, it was pretty much time for an upgrade anyway. The old computer, while still in astoundingly good working order, is creaking along on photo applications and has (despite its name) never been able to edit video more than haltingly.
So Apple is currently processing my order for a spankin' new 20-inch unit, stock except for a 1-DIMM 1GB RAM upgrade. The 20 inchers are almost vulgarly large, but oh boy is that widescreen display pretty, and after the cramped 15" of the graphite iMac it's going to feel like a wealth of real estate.
I have a history of buying Apple products immediately BEFORE a major update (Lisa's iBook is probably one of the last 800mhz ones they sold before shipping the 1.0ghz models, any the 6GB iPod mini launched about 2 weeks after I got my 4GB for the same money and 1/3 of the battery life), so it feels good to jump on the rising wave of this one. I'm sure this will give us at least four or five years before I'm allowed to start grumbling again.
UPDATE: 
Special Bonus Nana Sanna WANT IT: Bissell 2070 Quicksteamer Powerbrush Lightweight Deep Cleaner - let us know how it works!