Unpack and Setup

I purchased my iMac G5 at the Apple store located in Barton Creek Mall here in Austin. They had them in stock, and even had one already pre-configured with the bluetooth module I wanted. I had to get the bluetooth wireless keyboard and mouse along with it, but also got 512megs of memory instead of the standard 256. I purchased the 20" model and the total cost as was $2073 before tax. I also picked up an Airport Extreme card, one of those cool Griffin Powermate volume controls and a game 'Knights of the Old Republic'.

Here's a couple of pics of the box. A little scuffed and dinged from shipping but nothing which called me any concern.



The handle on top definitely aided in lugging the box around. You have to hand to Apple for their packaging; top notch.


One interesting thing was the FedEx label on the side. Who the hell is Tech-Com computer and did this thing really come from Shanghai?



More proof of Apple's nice packaging...



...and there she sits.


First thing was to get the Airport Extreme card installed. I wanted to do this before I first fired it up. I'll document that in my next post and give you a peek inside the iMac.