New iMacs
New iMacs were announced today and when looking at the specs I noticed that there is no DVD drive and no SD slot for Flash cards. While having a nice thinner machine would be nice, I am happy of the machine that I got.
The lack of a DVD drive isn't that big of a deal since I have an external drive, but its nice to have dual drives for various reasons. The SD slot has come in handy with downloading photos, as I find it goes much faster than external card readers.
Since I work down the street from an Apple Store, I'll go down sometime during lunch, to check out all the new hardware announced today. I find playing around with the computer for a while you get some understanding of why Apple did what they did. I really want to see how much non-glare they reduced as I don't like glare on my computer monitor.
Going from a Power Macintosh Dual-G4 Tower to an iMac is a big step, there's no need to have the latest and greatest. ( Basically I jump 5 years in technology in one migration.) I am happy with the computer and no-regrets with getting the latest and greatest machine.
Correction: Turns out that the SDXC slot is now in the back of the computer. This is not a good location, since inserting the SD card is something that I would do a lot of, and having to reach the back of the computer and put in the card is not very ideal.