I Scream For iMac

Tuesday January 09th 2007, 8:42 pm Printer Friendly Version
Filed under:AllPeers, Digital Media
Posted By: Cedric

I was a complete Mac virgin until about 3 weeks ago when I decided I could no longer live without a big flat-screen in my lounge. It had to look nice, be silent, have a remote control so I could play all my medias, movies, music and photos from the comfort of my deep sofa. But more importantly I did not want another box and lot’s of cables running everywhere!

I am now the delighted father of a 24 inches iMac which together with FrontRow has completely changed the way I consume digital media. I used to watch all my films and DVD in my home office sitting on a chair :( I’m now enjoying my music, my photos and my movies from my sofa. I’m not using it as a computer yet even though I’m proud to announce to the world that my 3rd song on GarageBand will certainly be a hit once I rearrange it :-)

The first thing I did was of course to install Firefox and create an account on AllPeers for the new baby. Then it was just a matter of 2 minutes before I was transferring all my media files from my laptop and my home desktop onto the iMac via the Wifi connection. That was it. No network setup. No CDs or DVDs to burn. No USB key to move around or God knows what. Of course now I can also chat with myself from the Mac to the XP machines with the AllPeers Chat but that would be a bit of a stretch ;-)

And as I’m writing this, Steve Jobs has just announced iTV and iPhone. OK so iTV is FrontRow for the TV but the iPhone is very impressive. Just 2 weeks ago and I was once again ranting about why should phone get rid of their keyboard and just be a screen. The iPhone is a quad-band GSM + EDGE, runs OS X and has a 2 Mega Pixels camera built in. This is a beautiful piece of gear from Apple and I’ve just realized it won’t be long before I cannot live any longer without one… More from Engadget Live from MacWorld 2007


2 Comments »

  1. I believe people will buy anything introduced by Steve Jobs. For example if he introduces Ijobs people will rush to buy it. I am not a Steve Jobs fan. I am not impressed by his products. any of them.

    Comment by Satish Bhardwaj — 1/9/2007 @ 9:08 pm

  2. Satish, that seems a rather unfair comment, and your main point seems to be that you are not a Steve Jobs fan. That’s all well and good, but doesn’t really comment on whether he makes good products or not. It’s certainly a very poor justification for calling someone else a sheep with no discrimination. Certainly some people worship Steve Jobs, but you’re not showing yourself to be any better or any more objective.

    Comment by Step — 1/9/2007 @ 10:19 pm

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