OMG SHINY, originally uploaded by Anthony J. Martinez.

I can haz new computer?!

Seriously, the 24″ iMac is a beast. Burning through a batch of RAW to JPEG is substantially faster than the MacBook Pro. That much is to be expected with about a 700mHz advantage per core, and a front-side bus that’s also twice as fast. I’ve calibrated the screen, so hopefully at least things will look the same on the MacBook Pro as they do on the iMac (I can dream, right?).

The only hitch I’ve encountered so far is the fact that in Adobe’s efforts to prevent piracy, they’ve also prevented me from activating software I actually paid for on the two machines I’m authorized to do so. Apparently when my hard drive started going south in the MacBook Pro, and I backed up and replaced it with a new drive… I created a whole new computer as far as Adobe’s activation system is concerned. Two phone calls to India may have resolved the issue, but I won’t know for 24-48hrs.