A couple of weeks ago, I had to lay myeight year old iMacto rest.
After years of faithful service, it had finally died beyond repair.
I do not like shopping for new computers, nor do I like spending money on them.
To me, buying a new computer is as exciting as buying a new dryer.
Take a second to think back to 2009.
My new iMac came with arguably the best Mac operating system of all time, OS X Snow Leopard.
With Snow Leopard, Apple had finally nailed what OS X was meant to be.
I had saved up all my money that year to buy a new 27-inch iMac.
It was the most expensive single purchase Id ever made at the time.
Eight years later, I can say that the iMac was well worth the price.
Some people dont even keep cars that long.
Of course, that time wasnt without hardships.
I cant even begin to imagine how many words Ive typed into that computer.
Even thinking about how many blog posts were hacked away at that thing makes me sick.
In fact, while it couldnt run any modern games, it could run about everything else fine.
For most of those eight years, the iMac was my only computer.
Though I had a spat of random laptops through those years, they never saw that much usage.
To this day, those old aluminum PowerBooks have my favorite keyboard of all time.
Its death was not a surprise.
I knew it was coming.
you might feel these types of things coming.
It started randomly rebooting one day, before eventually moving onto kernel panics.
By the end, the screen would glitch out into a vaporwave masterpiece before it rebooted again.
Perhaps it was the graphics card again.
Or maybe the logic board.
Regardless, finding a replacement wasnt going to be possible, nor worth the time and money.
I replaced the iMac with a refurbished 2016 MacBook Pro without Touch Bar and anLG 27" 4k monitor.
Thankfully, the iMac had enough life left in it to pushthrough the migration process.
But, despite the technical upgrade, its just not the same.
Once that was done, it was time to lay the poor machine to rest.
