The Migration Part 3 - The Hardware Arrives
I finally got my hands on my new hardware, namely:
Apple iMac 24" 3.06GHz, 500GB HDD, 4GB RAM.
G-Tech G-Raid2 500GB External HDD.
Apple Wireless Keyboard and Mighty Mouse.
As you can imagine I'm over the moon! My last adventure with MAC hardware was an iBook (which incidentally I loved), thankfully they still impress with their high standards and design ethic.
My Desk :)
More importantly I should mention the migration and it's progress, well thankfully, everything I planned worked perfectly. Not having loads of settings and personal files to migrate was a godsend.
A few notes:
- My contacts were migrated from Outlook 2007 to do this I selected them all (in contacts view) and chose to send them as vcard email attachments. Once I'd received them I simply dragged them into the Mac Address Book and hey presto!
- In terms of music, I opted to store this on the built in HDD (whereas before I've used an external HDD), this involved copying all of the files to a music folder in the user directory. I then copied my Windows iTunes folder replacing the Mac iTunes folder with it, finally, once I'd restarted iTunes I changed the location of the iTunes library in preferences and everything worked.
My other files were handled by SugarSync which is now replicating files across my Mac and my Windows Server 2008 machine.
The only other subject to discuss is software, I've added a few applications to the Mac to help enhance my productivity, they are:
- Spanning Sync - this application syncronises your Google Calendar and iCal, the beauty is the fact that it will sync multiple calendars so I can split things out into work and personal calendars for example.
- Google Mail notifier - this application gives me a visible and audiable alert when I get mail at Google Mail.
- Flickr Uploadr - this is a neat application that streamlines uploading photos to Flickr.
- Aperture - Apple's photo editing and cataloguing application.
- NetNewsWire - this is an RSS reader, I'm using this as it has a companion application for the iPhone.
- VLC - this is a brilliant video player that will work with nearly every codec going.
*Update*
I left this post in draft mode for a few months so the above information is slightly out of date, however, I can confirm that everything is running perfectly. I'm still perfectly happy with my setup and have no problems working on the PC platform (for SharePoint development) through the Mac.
Additionally I bought one of the new MacBooks on a trip to New York, basically, I'm hooked!

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