Ahh it’s a bitter sweet time. A few days ago Apple announced all new iMacs with twice the processor speed at a lower price. Now, I love my iMac, but it’s always hard to see the new machines arrive just months after I got mine.

Being in the forefront of technology is next to impossible these days. As soon as you get an iPod, the new version arrives with more features. When you get a sweet new cell phone, it’s generic before you know it. Technology is great, but seeing your purchases go out of style style so fast is a little depressing.

This is what it looks like when I work from home. My Intel iMac on the left and my work iMac G5 on the right. It’s one sweet setup if you ask me.

Not pictured is the wife’s Powerbook 667 and my iPod (which she Podnaped for the day).

It’s freaking amazing! The Powerbook survived getting soaked with no issues.

I got a call yesterday asking when I was coming home. It seems that there was a large glass of water to close to the laptop. The cat jumped up and spilled it on the keyboard and though the computer.

When I got home it was still leaving puddles when you turned it over. I opened it up and it was soaked. I shook out what I could and used a napkin to soak up what puddles I had access to. Then I left it open all night to dry.

The new hard drive for our Powerbook 667 arrived Saturday along with a few special tools. In no time I had the Powerbook back up and running.

It wasn’t that hard actually. Especially after watching one of Other World Computing’s videos. I just had to remove a few screws (with a special Torx Screwdriver) and I managed to get everything taken apart. The new drive fit right in and then I just replaced what screws I removed. Done!

After that, I installed the OS and the Powerbook was back to operational! Added a few applications and it was perfect.

It happened Sunday night around 7:45pm. My My wife’s Powerbook 667 slipped into a coma.

It will start up a little, but stops at a blue screen. Never loading the desktop. Even disk utility can’t help.

I was able to hook it up to life support though. Via target disk mode, my iMac was able to read the hard drive. We backed up all the data and did all we could. It’s no use though, we can’t even erase the hard drive in the Powerbook.

You gotta love target disk mode. It’s a wonderful feature from Apple that lets you boot a machine as a firewire hard drive on another. This then allows you to quickly copy off files and folders.

This morning I hooked up my PowerBook to my new iMac via a firewire cable, held down the T key on the PowerBook and then hit the power button to start it up. When the PowerBook started up a nice firewire icon appeared on the screen and my hard drives mounted on my iMacs desktop.

Imagine my suprise when my wife’s suggestions to her PC issues was to get me a new computer and she’d take my old one.

The end result was a purchase of a new iMac. It’s running the intel chip and has so many new and cool programs and features!!

So far it’s wonderful and I haven’t even played with half of the new features.

This is quite a step up from my Powerbook 667!!