Miscellaneous Ramblings of an Apple, Linux, Photography and sports geek
With the new iMac 6 weeks from being delivered, I’m thinking about the software I’ll install. So here goes: Aperture 3 Photoshop CS5 iLife ’11 iWork ’09 (unless ’11 comes out by then) Chrome Firefox 4 Final Cut Pro X (Currently have Final Cut Studio, but think I’ll sell it and buy it from the [...]
Just ordered my new iMac this past weekend. Upromise was having a 10% sale for Apple so my wife gave me the green light. Here’s what I ordered: 3.4GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7 27″ 4GB 1333MHz DDR3 SDRAM – 2x2GB 2TB Serial ATA Drive + 256GB Solid State Drive AMD Radeon HD 6970M 2GB GDDR5 [...]
This is a followup to my previous post, Is it time to switch to Windows? I’ve decided to go with the 4-core Mac Pro. I still don’t know why Apple gives it only four memory slots when the DDR3 memory is triple channel. Would it have been too much for Apple to give it six [...]
I’ve had my PowerMac G5 since summer of 2004 and I’m ready to replace it. Its served me well but when my Mac mini can run circles around it, I know it needs to go. Especially when I’ve got a big project ahead. I’ve got about 10,000 feet of 8mm film that I will need [...]
