For the last few years downloading photos off the camera has been a reasonably time consuming affair involving having to find the USB cable, connect the Mac to the camera using it, then pulling off the photos that were required. For the first time today I used the built-in SD card slot on the new iMac. All I can say is Wow! It’s so rapid. I don’t think I’m easily impressed when it comes to IT kit, but the speed of this connection was a real revelation. I know how I’ll be getting the photos onto my Mac from now on.

With my G5 PowerMac approaching 7 years old, I decided to take the plunge and get myself a new Intel powered iMac. More comments on it on the Flickr photo page. It arrived on Tuesday and I’ve spent most evenings this week setting it up and getting it running as I wanted it. I have to say the migration between Macs using TimeMachine worked for me. Everything is running smoothly other than Adobe’s Creative Suite that didn’t like the migration and was a pain in the arse to get working. In the end I’ve temporarily switched to a 30 day trial of CS4 which should see me through to the arrival of my newly purchased version of CS5 – thank goodness for JourneyEd and working for a University.