As well as old school paper reading, I've been trawling the web for Mac
sites to keep me salivating. And here's my favourites so far:-



    * <a href="http://www.macnn.com/">MacNN</a> - The Latest Mac News from around the globe.

    * <a href="http://appleinsider.com/">AppleInsider</a> - Inside Rumours/Goss on Apple.

    * <a href="http://appletalk.com.au/">AppleTalk Australia</a> - Australian Apple Community.



For more sites, check out my <a href="http://del.icio.us/sikosis/apple">del.icio.us apple</a> links.

Since I ordered my iMac on the 2nd Feb, I've been scouting around all the local newsagencies for all the Mac magazines that I can get my hands on, so I can get a leg up when my machine arrives.

There were probably about 4-5 mags on the shelf with the two stand outs for me being Mac Format (UK) and MacWorld (AU).

I've now waited quietly for week. I just rang Nextbyte
and I was informed that there is a 2-3 week delay on new machines. I
said, is that because you don't have any parts in Australia ? to which
he replied, that all new machines are put together in Singapore and
then shipped from there. It all depends on how fast they're working.



I must say this is a very strange feeling for me. I've paid for it, yet I don't have it.

I was on Cloud 9 for about an hour when I got a phone call from Nextbyte
to say that unfortunately the machine that they had in stock was a DOA
(Dead on Arrival). I was then informed they'd let me know.

Two weeks have past since my friend wanted a quote on a couple of Macs.
He wasn't overly interested, so he went and got a PC instead and had a
few days worth of hassles (due to incompatible RAM with the
Motherboard).



Anyway, so I went into the Mac store and said "I'd like to buy an iMac".