I have one – an iMac. you know, the bright colored, all-in-one computers with no data transfer hardware*? I’ve got a teal one in the trunk o’ the Honda. =)

I’m excited – I’m a total computer nerd, and I haven’t ever had prolonged access to a Mac. once I get a 256MB chip and 4MB video RAM, I’m good to go. a friend from church, Sarah (the one with her tongue IN her nose – that’s right, folks), bought a skid of iMacs for the church at an IPS auction. half of them work, but only a couple of people even know how to use them, let alone refurb them. so I want to learn.

friend Dave showed me how to access the guts and how to do a firmware update. once I have the RAM, I can install OSX (10.3).

this is practice for me. if I decide that I love using a Mac (although a slow old one), my next computer will be a PowerBook.

* these machines don’t have floppy drives or cd burners – when they first came out, there were no thumb drives. aside from having access to a network, how were users supposed to transfer data?