Lucky Kid

New iMacs FINALLY came out today. This has long been scheduled as “Amy’s Year” for a new computer. 2006 was my year. 2007 will be Amy’s. 2008 will be Brandy’s. Then lather, rinse, repeat. So this is Amy’s year, we were just waiting for iMac revisions.

All along the plan was to get the maxed out version of the smallest size when the updates hit. There was some discussion between Brandy and I today on the possibility of getting a baseline model instead as “good enough for now” but I’m a big believer in maxing things out so that you won’t be TOO frustrated too quickly as the thing ages. In the end we decided to stick with the original plan of maxing out the smallest size. (We never considered a 24″ for Amy.)

Since they dropped the 17″, that means we’re looking at a maxed out 20″. So the specs for her will be:

• 4GB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM – 2x2GB
• 750GB Serial ATA Drive
• SuperDrive 8x (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
• Apple Mighty Mouse
• Apple Keyboard (English) + Mac OS X
• Accessory kit
• 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
• ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO with 256MB memory
• 20-inch glossy widescreen LCD
• AirPort Extreme
• Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR

That will beat the specs on my machine Cronus by a decent bit. It should last her for the three years no problem without me even having to do any mid-cycle upgrades. In the additional one to two years before it will be time for my own next computer though, I will be jealous, since she’ll have the best machine in the house for awhile. But it is her turn… so that is OK.

I just initiated the process I need to do to swap money around between a few different accounts before I actually hit the order button. I’ll probably actually hit that button sometime next week and we’ll have the thing the week after that or so. In time to be all set up and running and happy before school starts in any case.

As I said… Lucky kid.