I was at nzime today continuing with my work on the e-commerce system I am building and decided to check my order status on the apple website to see if the date had been pushed forward from the 12th-13th of November. On first look it was still the same date, but when I ventured deeper into my orders I found that everything was due to be delivered today. 6 days early! Usually I would be pleased at the speedy service but unfortunately I am stuck 80+ miles away from my new toys.
In another daft spending moment this week I ordered myself a screen calibrator as I was amazed at the difference in colour and quality when nzime had all of there new screens calibrated. The iMacs are renowned for being extremely bright and this doesn't help when your building websites or spending 8+ hours a day staring at the screen.
After much research I decided to go with the Spyder3Elite . I will no doubt post on it's actions when it arrives.
I have finally ordered my new iMac. I went into the apple store today and spoke to them to see if it would be quicker to order via them or off the apple website. I was informed that I would not be able to get my educational discount from the apple store and would need to use the online store.
Also during this conversation with the apple man I was informed that the Macs would not be shipped with leopard until after Christmas.
This was slightly annoying as I would have bought my iMac as soon as the official release date for leopard was given.
The specification I have gone with is:
+ 24" Screen
+ 2.8Ghz Intel Core Extreme
+ 2GB ram (I will upgrade to 4GB but not at apple prices)
+ 500Gb hard drive (they wanted over £250 to double the size when I can get 2 500GB firewire 800 externals for a little over £200)
Apple do have a nice little promo at the moment that gave me a free iPod nano. How could I say no to that.
The estimated delivery date is the 12th November. It's going to be a long agonizing wait. In the waiting period I can work out how to arrange my room for optimum mac usage.
This week I have been suffering from what feels like an advance strain of man flu. It has had me in bed for the past 3 days with nothing but my laptop to keep me sane.
On Monday I was in nzime going through the specifications of the e-commerce system I am building.
My room currently looks like a paper factory with notes and diagrams everywhere planning out how everything in the system is going to work and interact.
My plans for starting the system after working out all the information architecture and database structures is to develop the product upload system. This is going to allow for multiple colours and detail shots to be uploaded via and AJAX system.
After the products system is created I am going to start working on the basket which will allow for the products to be added into the shopping cart then passed through to the payment system and the order confirmed.
The whole system is going to be an large PHP/MySQL/Javascript system which will hopefully push the boundaries of the standard e-commerce website/system.
On a quick note the official release date for Apples Leopard (Mac 10.5) has been set for the 26th of October. I can guarantee you I will be sitting with the count down timer ready to purchase my new iMac