New iMac on the way - need reassurance!

Wow! I just found this forum and I'm dumbfounded. I finally decided to go with an Apple product after reading all of the glowing reviews and references to "life beyond the PC". I have a new iMac 24 on the way and holy c**p, I'm freaked. I read through some of the posts on here and think I just traded a PC problem for an iMac problem. I did not expect to see so many complicated issues with these new machines. I am not a power user at all. Some reassurance would be welcomed - big time!
Thanks,
Ozzie

I was in a similar situation, having purchased a 24" iMac after years of PC exclusivity. Let me tell you... you will carry an endless smile once you open up your new Mac and gaze upon its beauty. I never thought in a million years that I'd want an "all-in-one" computer - I built my last PC from the ground up. But once you open it up and set it up, you realize that it is not only a thing of beauty, but it also takes up a lot less space and just WORKS.
I admit that it took about a week to really get used to Mac OS, but most of that learning was accompanied by the thrills of realizing how much better it actually is. I was greatly impressed by the speed and usability of the OS right from the start. You will certainly not be disappointed.
If there's one negative thing, it's that I've had to purchase a number of software programs to get the machine to do all I want to do. For example, iPhoto is great at first - until I imported by entire photo library of 50,000+ photos and realize that it just slows to a crawl and is really not well-suited to very large libraries of photos. I broke down and bought the academic version of Lightroom 2(thanks to my son who is in school). Now THAT runs great on my Mac and is superb in every way (and has no problem with my large library).
I also purchased Parallels because I wanted to run Windows 7 alongside of OS X. Installation of Windows 7 with boot camp went well, and then I just pointed Parallels to my Boot Camp partition and was up in running. For those few programs that I need that have no Mac version, this is working great.
I also bought Paragon's NTFS driver because I wanted to read AND write to my NTFS external hard drives. It works seamlessly in the background, and working with NTFS volumes has been every bit as fast and easy as my Mac drive.
Finally, I purchased a MobileMe account and that has been absolutely wonderful. I can now sync my mail, contacts, calendar, iDisk, etc with my Mac, my Windows 7 in Parallels, my wife's new Macbook, and my iPhone. I guess it had some initial problems last year when it came out, but it's been working great now.
Enjoy your new Mac! I know I am!

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