The replacement iMac arrived last night, and I set it up this morning (in about 20 minutes, including the immediate software update it performs). So far, except for a rather obnoxious set of fingerprints on the edge of the screen, so good. Cheryl has used it a bunch today, and has not reported any keyboard or mouse freezes yet. She also uploaded some pictures from the camera and made a slideshow that she is really happy about, so I guess the machine is doing what I hoped it would do. To be safe, I set the hard drive to never sleep. We also have not yet turned it off for the night, so we don't know whether we will have a repeat of the startup problems. I won't be able to relax around this thing for a couple of weeks, at least.
For those interested in such things, someone on Wikipedia has created a Mac timeline that shows the rather shocking number of different models that have been introduced since the original 128K (!) model debuted in 1984. You'll have to
go here to see it clearly, but it looks something like this:
Clicking on each model should take you to another Wikipedia entry on that model.
Not that I'm becoming a Mac aficionado or anything.
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