I found out that there's an Apple Retail store at the Florida Mall. Apparently it is actually a reasonable distansce, around a half hour drive there. I'm going to pick up the iMac there the day I get it, I don't want to have to wait for it at home.
Plus we can ask the guys at the Genius bar if adding RAM ourselves voids the warrenty, if only to put my dad's mind at ease.
Plus road trips are always fun.
... also, about Time Machine... does the External HD keep stuff that it has on it before it became the Time Machine HD? I have... things on it that it would suck if it all got wiped out.
Also, even though Macs are secure enough on their own for now, there's no way to tell if they'll stay that way. They are entering the mainstream a little more, so there's bound to be some viruses that can sneak past it. I'm gonna use this open source scanner called ClaimXav.
