Well, Its here, and it is HEAVY. Now I just have to get it home and do the whole migration assistant thing. Well, I actually have a couple choices for getting all my apps and stuff off of the old iMac. I have a the old iMac and a Time Capsule backup of it. So, I can take my apps and data (20 GB of music and about 70 GB of photos) from the Time Capsule or from my old iMac. In addition, I can boot my old iMac like normal, or boot it in 'targeted disk mode', which just makes it look like any other external hard drive. Now, for both of these options, I can choose to connect my new iMac to the other machine via USB, FireWire 800 or ethernet cable. Not sure which one I am going to do yet. I hear that USB is the slowest for sure. But, I have hear different reports as to which is fastest between the ethernet cable and Firewire 800. I will let you know which I go with, how much data I transfered and how long it takes. More photos below.
Also of note, if you have the modern Intel iMac/MacBooks, you don't need an ethernet cross over cable, you can just use any old random ethernet cable and the macs will auto-detect what kind it is. Pretty cool
Here is a comparison to my last iMac ( 20" white original Intel ).
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