You’ll have to excuse the horrible photo, but I haven’t had a chance to even plugin my new “toy”. It arrived by courier late this morning, but I got caught up in client meetings for most of the afternoon…
For the last couple of years I’ve been forced to maintain a Windows PC in the office so that I could access AIB’s online banking service. While it was possible to “bludgeon” it into working with Ubuntu it was a lot “saner” to use Windows. Fortunately AIB finally upgraded to using a proper JVM recently and made their business banking completely cross-platform and cross-browser (it probably doesn’t work with lynx, but that’s hardly a good example, is it? 🙂 )
So I’ve no more need for my Windows desktop.
I would have considered simply rebuilding my existing PC with either pure Ubuntu or a dualboot, but since I’ve become quite fond of OS X I decided that I’d move to it completely. Of course moving to Apple entirely while an attractive proposition isn’t exactly economical, as a decent spec iMac can set you back more than several “normal” PCs.
Thank God for eBay!
I hope to start the migration tomorrow… Or maybe Monday (time permitting!)
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