I'm now a Mac owner. I've just got approval from my boss so I can leave
work at 4pm today. I didn't tell him why, but between you and me, it's
so I can rush home and setup my shiny new iMac.



I must say it's heavier than I had originally anticipated, good thing
the car park is only a few hundred metres away :P

I was out at one of our director's houses this morning, fixing his home
machines as they were full of spyware and viruses and his laptop
wouldn't connect to his Netgear wireless access point. I spent about 3
hours cleaning things up and still had no success with the Netgear when
Nextbyte rang to say my iMac has arrived ! I said I'll be there at lunch time.

Out of the blue my mobile starts to ring with the caller id, saying it's Nextbyte ... this must be THE call, I thought with anticipation.



I was waiting with baited breath on every word that dripped from her
mouth ... all up to the point where she said "your new iMac hasn't
arrived".

As well as old school paper reading, I've been trawling the web for Mac
sites to keep me salivating. And here's my favourites so far:-



    * <a href="http://www.macnn.com/">MacNN</a> - The Latest Mac News from around the globe.

    * <a href="http://appleinsider.com/">AppleInsider</a> - Inside Rumours/Goss on Apple.

    * <a href="http://appletalk.com.au/">AppleTalk Australia</a> - Australian Apple Community.



For more sites, check out my <a href="http://del.icio.us/sikosis/apple">del.icio.us apple</a> links.

Since I ordered my iMac on the 2nd Feb, I've been scouting around all the local newsagencies for all the Mac magazines that I can get my hands on, so I can get a leg up when my machine arrives.

There were probably about 4-5 mags on the shelf with the two stand outs for me being Mac Format (UK) and MacWorld (AU).