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• It’s wonderful to have a decent screen-zoom tool that works properly with pretty much everything;
• The huge screen is taking some getting used-to, mostly because it means I no longer have to be so hunched over to comfortably use the system.  Where I can increase font sizes I do, and where I can’t I use the screen zoom.  Will do wonders for my posture once I get used to it;
• Firewire on the cheap external enclosure I bought is a bit of a dud, so I’ve had to hook that up via USB2 instead.  But that’s adequate for a Time Machine disk.  The real data is going on a mirrored pair of 1TB disks hooked up via Firewire;
• Full-screen Flash video runs smoothly.  That had been a small concern, as it’s pretty lousy under Linux and had been so on the old G5 iMac too;
• Having watched a few things with iView, if I didn’t already have a larger TV and a TiVo I think I could probably be happy enough using this for whatever TV-viewing I wanted to do.  A very viable option in a small flat;
• Warcrack runs beautifully, as it ought.  Portal runs quite nicely under Crossover, the other things I wanted to fiddle with (Bioshock, Mass Effect) don’t, but it was a doddle to set up XP under Boot Camp, so worst case there’s always that option;
• MacTheRipper seems to have disappeared from the net.  The “official” site is still there but the download mirrors appear to be dead.  Oh well;
• Really not enough USB ports!

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