The iMacs have been updated to the as high as 3ghz
Woo Hoo! With these new configurations, the iMacs are great production workhorses:

2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 1GB memory, 250GB hard drive, 8x double-layer SuperDrive, ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT with 128MB memory

2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2GB memory, 320GB hard drive, 8x double-layer SuperDrive, ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO with 256MB memory

2.8GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2GB memory, 320GB hard drive, 8x double-layer SuperDrive, ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO with 256MB memory

3.06GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2GB memory, 500GB hard drive, 8x double-layer SuperDrive, NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS with 512MB memory

During the time you have your Mac there will be times that things will go wrong. Sometimes you’ll cause it, like say repartitioning your hard drive with Boot Camp. Apple’s application for taking a section of your Macs internal hard drive and installing Microsoft Windows on it. Say your in the middle of the process and your Mac kernel panics. For those who haven’t seen this happen it’s a lovely process where in a dark translucent curtain falls over your macs desktop and a large restart button appears on the middle of the screen with instructions saying that well “Your Screwed!” Please Reboot.

Now in most cases of a kernel panic you would just lose the unsaved data in open applications. But in my case the computer was in the middle of a process that effects how the hard drive stores my data. Making all the data inaccessible.

There is an old geek saying

There are two kinds of people:
1. Those who have lost data.
2. Those who haven’t lost data yet.

Enter Super Duper! from Shirt Pocket Software.

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Spotlight is the search technology introduced in OS X Tiger 10.4. Apple has said that they have made major improvements in Spotlight, with the companies latest OS release OS X Leopard or 10.5. And it does in fact work better than in the previous release. It does its searches by indexing your hard drives files so that when you use the little magnifying glass in the upper right hand corner of the screen. Spotlight can give you email, folders, docs and pdf’s that have relevant data in them. This is a very handy feature and requires no effort by the end user to start. (more…)