I finally made the switch at last !!!!!!!

I have wanted an apple computer now for over a year but I have never been able to afford one as I am a student but finally I got together the money and have purchased a 20" iMac 2.1ghz with 1.5gb RAM and the 250HD.
I ordered it last week and the guy said I should be seeing it either late this week or early next week.
Unfortunately I am sat here now writing this message on my Windows PC. I hate this PC and when I try and do anything strenuous other than surf the net it has a pady and freaks out.
For some reason I cant seem to get creative when doing assignments on this ugly machine and then as soon as I get to Uni and get sat in front of a PowerMac I feel as tho I want to work!!
I also ordered Logic Pro 7.1 because I am doing music technology at Uni and this is my main package. I also have a mass of other packages here now to load on such as Nuendo, Stylus RMX, and Macromedia Dreamweaver, Flash and Fireworks.
Any other switchers out there that have switched to a new iMac???

Cheers. I have now been using Apple computers for over 2 years and so hopefully I should be on a good level of knowledge, but it will be different as this machine will be mine instead of uni's and so all the features that are locked of at our uni, I will be able to access and discover (as soon as it arrives) and no doubt I will have some more questions for you all soon.

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    -SiteMap: There is a simple SiteMap generation feature built into RW 5. There are third party tools for doing this for iWeb. I purchased an inexpensive RW plug in called SiteMap plus that not only generates the sitemap.xml file, it allows you to customize what pages get searched and at what frequency. This ties into what is searched via RapidSearch Pro.  This plug-in also generates a visible and customizable sitemap page to help your site's users find their way around. Another bonus of being hosted off Mobile Me is when I went to add my sites to my Google account they had already been indexed. It seemed like they never crawled MobileMe unless you told them you wanted them to look at your site.
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    Jim
    http://grillinsmokin.net
    Message was edited by: Jim Mahoney

    Thanks Roddy. I agree with your take on some of the other software you mentioned, at least from the perspective of having dabbled with demo versions of some of the others. I will add that with Sandvox I felt a little nervous about it. Kind of almost like the software was a "hobby" effort a la the first gen Apple TV.
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    Also the links that were provided are excellent and a great starting place.
    I bought her Leopard book a couple of years ago and found it invaluable when I was making the switch.
    Regards,
    Roger

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    Frist tip, after installing software updates (I assure your machine started off with 10.4.2 and when you first used it, you were promted to update to 10.4.4.), go into the utlities folder (under applications) open disk utlitity and verifity and repaire disk permissions, this will greatly boost preformace and may fix your problem. (In fact do this once a week) Go ahead and run the Techtool (Applecare hardware test CD) and check for any problems. If these come up with nothing, I'd call Applecare and tell them what is happening. Applecare will cover you at any Apple dealer and some Apple resellers as well. Going elsewhere will kill your warrenty BTW.

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    Regards,

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