w00t! MacJoy!

Just got back from the Mac store, where The Copyeditor’s Desk, Inc., purchased a fine new capital  expenditure: a brand-new 27-inch 2.7 GH quad-core fancy new iMac! With extra memory thingies added! And a magic trackpad thingie!

Is it or is it not the MOST gorgeous thing?

Ohhh my little business has been needing a new computer for soooo long. I just hate updating hardware and software: if it ain’t busted, why do I have to waste my time fixing it and then learning how the fix works? So I’ve put it off and put it off.

But I’ve delayed as long as I can delay. The decrepit old iMac runs with the speed of a stampeding snail. Worse  yet, it’s so superannuated its operating system can not be updated to the latest large cat Apple is selling. And that means it can’t access iCloud and it can’t do a whole lot of things it needs to be doing in the changing techno-environment.

The S-corporation has actually earned enough, thanks to some improvements in FaM’s ad sales, to afford this gadget. And I think, what with the need for Cloud apps, improved memory and speed, and increasing editorial business, we can justify it comfortably.

Left the little MacBook, which I’ve been using as the business’s main computer for the past several months as the ancient iMac has succumbed to entropy, down at the Apple store to be Lionized and then to be cloned over onto the new machine. Friday I have to spend an hour with Apple’s coaches learning how to use the new software (and you can bet it will take weeks or months to figure it all out). And then it comes home!

Next: a new printer/scanner. Maybe a laser printer, hm?

🙂