12.02.08
Big Mac Attack!
Due to Apple starting to incorporate some dubious technology into their latest lineup of macbooks, and also that I’ve been needing a new computer for a long time, I bought a Mac Pro. This is the shiny aluminum desktop powerhouse, not the laptop line. Here’s the techno-porn:
-Two quad-core xeon processors providing a vast amount of processing power for such things as video production
-10 Gigs of ram (bought at fry’s, way cheaper than getting it preloaded) because things go better with ram
-only one 1TB drive for now, will eventually fill up the 3 other drive bays as well.
-Two superdrives, since I do burn dvd’s, and usually more than one at a time.
-Wifi card, since that’s how we roll at our house.
Arh Arh Arh!
Oh yeah, monitor. Ironically for a mac guy, I got a Dell 2408WFP Ultrasharp. It’s more bang for the buck, and has nifty things like a card reader, usb ports and the same image quality more or less. And a kick-ass warranty. Dead pixel? Get a new one free. It was rated very highly by cnet, so if it sucks I’ll blame them. 
Dell’s online business is bizarre, it was cheaper for me going from cnet to their site than through the “educational discount” site for my work. I was somewhat offended, although I bought it anyway. At the cheaper price obviously.
So I’ve got to name this monster something cool. Deep thought has been done, same with HAL 9000. My laptop is “Rocket”, so I’m tempted to call it Enterprise. Excelsior? Borg? Nah, that’s windows. Big Mac is out, too tempting to go eat crap via suggestion.
Well, I’ll come up with something. It’s still in the box, I’m resisting the urge to unpack it until I have the monitor, in 3-5 days. Arg.
