Ooo, new iMacs. Shiny objects entrance the lesser primate. Ook ook ook. Opposable thumb and forefinger grasp the credit card in quivering anticipation. Premonition of imminent demise at hands of enraged alpha-female primate postpones joy of immediate gratification via Intertube transaction. Much pointless bounding about and screeching. Chee chee chee!
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Since I bought a 20″ IMAC this past January, I can only look. I’m extremely happy with what I have.
Oh to dream of fancy new computers and such as i type out this reply on the tangerine imac…low end mac guy fer sure…come to think about it thumbshifters on an 1986 Gary Fisher Mt Tam is looking dated also hee hee….as always enjoy the mad dog blogging…keep nipping at their heels Mr. O’Grady
Charley, you devil. I guess someone has to keep Steve Jobs in black turtlenecks.
Byron, I’m tapping away on a G4 AGP Graphics Power Mac circa 1999.
Got it for $50, which was the cost of shipping it from the BRAIN office in SoCal. It was originally a 450MHz model with a single 20MB hard drive, a DVD-ROM drive and a Zip drive, but I dropped in a 1.1GHz processor upgrade, maxed out the RAM, upgraded the optical drive to a DVD burner, replaced the Zip with a HD and added yet another HD, added PCI cards for USB 2.0 and 802.11n/g/b wireless, and replaced the stock video card with an ATI Radeon 9000 Pro.
And y’know what? It still sucks. Well, that’s not entirely fair — I’ve made a respectable living off this collection of stone knives and bearskins over the past several years, but lately technology has been speeding ahead of us like Contador on Ventoux. The poor old thing struggles with video, Photoshopping and other heavy-duty tasks like Gramps trying to find his zipper in the nursing home.
I hate like hell to piss away whisky money on a new computer, but I think I’m gonna have to bite that bullet. The VeloNews.com boys are all about the video lately, and what with having to run two giant monitors and a host of apps’ alla damn time I need (as Tim Allen famously said) more power! And as you can tell from the above, I’ve already rewired this thing.
I hear ya Patrick. I just found out about the new iMacs today and I was all aflutter for a few minutes there. My little iBook is just fine for most everything but streaming video. That’s when I get the computer version of pedalling squares- and it’s pretty damn annoying for those times when I like to see er… casting couch rejects’ latest “acting” jobs.
Ha, but I digress!
Yes, the new iMacs sure look good- especially in that video they play for you over there (which sadly works just fine on the windoze infested contraption at the cube farm). I’d like even more an updated Macbook or MB Pro just the same- please and thanks.
Ah, I see that I have a similar domestic partership- in which one is the saver and one is the spender, and the other half don’t like our spending ways. Too bad we aren’t politicians. We could just raise taxes or something to give ourselves a raise- in order to have our trinkets.
Patrick,
You can pour as much money as you want in a sow’s ear, but you’re only going to get bacon once.
Get a new Mac and enjoy the entropic slide into obsolescence all over again.
We all should have been selling derivatives in the 2003-2007 time period, but we are too honest or dumb!
Or, you could just come over to the dark side and buy a PEE CEE and get all the speed and power you want and need for a third of what Jobs wants for his machines. Sure, it’s buying a chevy instead of a Bentley, but the both perform the same function.
Ben, this old box is more closely related to another, less savory part of the pig. Although it might be a step up from Barry’s iBook, depending. I have a 12-inch G3 800MHz iBook that I haul around if I’m expecting tough conditions, and it is most definitely video-impaired.
Interestingly, I also have a 12-inch G4 1.5MHz PowerBook that seems to be a significant step up from this G4 desktop. Slightly faster processor and a better video card, I guess (an nVIDIA GeForce FX Go 5200). But it won’t push two 22-inch external monitors, and I need a lot of LCD real estate to work the VN.com site.
And Brian, I’ve been a Mac guy since 1989 or thereabouts, when we used a Mac Plus to download AP graphics at The New Mexican in Santa Fe. My PC-afflicted colleague Charles Pelkey keeps trying to woo me to the Dark Side, but old habits die hard.
Herself works both sides of the computing street and says she sees very little difference between the two OSes, but then she has tech support for the Dell Latitude with its Vista headaches. Me, I still prefer the Mac OS. Plus I’d have to buy a bunch of expensive software (Photoshop, Office, and so on) to make the switch, and that would probably negate any savings from going PC.
I understand the loyalty to a platform. I was an AMIGA guy for the longest time as I did a lot of desktop video in my past. You want to talk about computing with stone knives and clubs. But it was an elegant OS that would truly multitask in full color at a time when MAC were small and B&W and the Windoze was just one of Bill Gate’s wet dreams.