January 1 rolled around and as my sweetie-wife and I played an on-line game of Dominion I checked with Apple in the refurbished computer section and discovered that an iMac that perfectly fit my needs had popped up on the menu. 16GB of RAM, nearly all of the refurbished only offered 8 GB, 1 TB fusion drive, and 4K monitor. I ordered the machine straight away. Thanks to Apple’s ‘Ship to Store’ option I could avoid the hassle we always encounter when FedEx delivers to our home and yesterday I picked up the new system.

At ten years old my previous system had aged beyond decent functionality, key programs, including the OS, could no longer be updated and there were serious signs of physical fault to could crash the machine at any moment.

I was shocked just how much lighter the new system was over my older iMac. I had a few moments of concern when it looked like I didn’t have the right cables to connect my external HD, with my system back-ups, to my new computer but a bit if research and digging in my officer produced the USB3 I needed. After that set-up and transferred went fairly smooth and frankly faster than I has anticipated.  Once I got the process started it took less than 90 minutes to get my system configured from the Time Machine back-ups. The only glitch that I am still working through is that my Word 2011 activation code is not working and that is a bit of a pain.

All and all I am happy with my purchase and I look forward to writing a new novel and several short stories in 2019.