For well over a year now, I’ve been considering getting an iMac because I’ve been recording music on my Windows laptop and I’ve always known that Macs are apparently better for this kind of thing.

So I finally decided to make the jump and I’ve now got a 24″ iMac sitting on my music bench. Indeed, I’m using it to type this right now.

So the main thing I’m trying to do is to get music recorded. However, it’s fair to say that just understanding how this damn thing works is going to be a bit of a learning curve.

For a start, there are a number of small things that I’m still not sure about, 48 hours after getting it. For example, the keyboard doesn’t have a delete, page up or page down key. I think there are keyboard shortcuts for these, but I can’t quite remember them. Delete is function-backspace, although whether that works in all applications, I don’t know. It certainly seems to be working right now. And I used to swing between tabs in Firefox using CRTL-Page Up and Down, but I have yet to find out how to do that. I will find out, I just ain’t yet.

By far the hardest thing is working out how to get my audio devices to play through Logic Express 9. I went for it rather than Logic Studio mainly because the stuff that doesn’t come in Express 9 didn’t actually mean anything to me, and I know I can upgrade and only have to pay £10 more overall if I decide to do that. It took a day and a half just to get my guitar to play through Logic and my Pod X3 Live. Again, I got there in the end, but it was a heck of a lot of reading to get there.

Overall though, I do have to be honest and say that this iMac does have to be one of the most attractive things I’ve ever seen. That’s not the reason I bought it, but it certainly is a good additional bonus :)