The end of an era.

With a heavy heart, I lugged my trusty, beloved iMac into my basement studio and took some photos. To immortalize it as well as to sell it. Assuming it sells, I'll miss that beast.

As a modest Apple fan boy, I still remember driving up to one of the Starbucks in Kent off Highway 167 to pick it up. I found it on Craigslist, after all. It was dark and rainy. K came with. This thing was still kicking pretty strong even a few months ago. The Firewire 800 ports were humming along next to the admittedly-archaic USB 2.0 ones. 

The death knell was not being able to update the OS to run the latest Adobe apps. 

So I started looking at other options. Enter: Costco. During their holiday sales last year, I paired a new M1 Macbook Pro with a LG 32-inch Class QHD IPS monitor. Other than sporting USB-C ports and the ability to run Apple's latest OS (and Adobe's creative apps), I honestly don't see a huge performance improvement with the M1 over that going-on-thirteen-year-old iMac. 

The LG monitor on the other hand has been pure joy. The first thing I did after unboxing it was to crank out my Spyder colorimeter, download the LG calibration software, and get that thing calibrated. It's a gorgeous, and enormous, matte screen. I had to lessen the sharpening I was applying to photos because of the resolution boost over the iMac's (although beautiful even for as old as it was) display.

Like all things it seems, once I move on I don't look back. Even so, I'll miss you a little, Thorium. You were awesome. Also, a little beautiful if I dare say (from a purely industrial design standpoint, of course).