My brain's too slow for a Mac Pro
05 Sep 07 Filed in:Apple
About 5 years ago I bought the best Apple laptop I could afford. The titanium painted 1" thin computer cost me about $3000. It is the one with the spec on the right.
It is almost embarrassing to say I am so pleased with such a slug, but it is the truth. It runs the latest greatest operating system from Apple at a pretty good lick, especially with a new 7200RPM hard drive to help out. And most importantly, it has only let me down once in 5 years, hence the new hard drive!
Since year 4 of owning it, I have constantly threatened to buy a new Mac. Who keeps computers, especially laptops, for more than 4 years? Old technology has no place in the modern world, yadda yadda. They said the same about Concord, but the bottom line is, it does the job. Or does it? Look at the spec of the computer on the left. Insanity.
Without getting too deep into the bottom line advantages of Intel processors and different sorts of RAM, the Mac Pro tower with Intel inside has about 6.5 times more processing power than my Titanium (Motorola crippled) laptop and 4 times as much RAM. It can run multiple external monitors to my one. In theory, it is a complete techno monster that could gobble up my computer in a nano-second without even drawing breath. But...
I still only type at 120 words an hour.
The wireless connection at my house is still crap whatever computer I use.
Updating my blog takes the same time on an old machine as it does on a new one, because it is my own internal processor that is old and rickety.
I can't carry a tower from the office to the lounge and surf with the computer on my lap and my feet up on the coffee table, at least not without doing some serious damage.
I am the weak link in this tech age, a fact that not even the fastest computer on earth can change.
So, although I would love to prance around town saying I have a flashy Mac Pro, I will continue with what I have. That means I get to pose in coffee houses, dude, for the forseeable future. I can continue to tap on the shiny slightly worn keys of my laptop over lattes. I can revel in the design where all my connections are hidden away at the back of the laptop, and if anyone baulks at the the rust spots, I will continue to explain that it adds character.
Aye, rust is proof that they don't build 'em like this any more.
Stockholm Syndrome, anyone?!!!
How old is your "production" computer?
It is almost embarrassing to say I am so pleased with such a slug, but it is the truth. It runs the latest greatest operating system from Apple at a pretty good lick, especially with a new 7200RPM hard drive to help out. And most importantly, it has only let me down once in 5 years, hence the new hard drive!
Since year 4 of owning it, I have constantly threatened to buy a new Mac. Who keeps computers, especially laptops, for more than 4 years? Old technology has no place in the modern world, yadda yadda. They said the same about Concord, but the bottom line is, it does the job. Or does it? Look at the spec of the computer on the left. Insanity.
Without getting too deep into the bottom line advantages of Intel processors and different sorts of RAM, the Mac Pro tower with Intel inside has about 6.5 times more processing power than my Titanium (Motorola crippled) laptop and 4 times as much RAM. It can run multiple external monitors to my one. In theory, it is a complete techno monster that could gobble up my computer in a nano-second without even drawing breath. But...
I still only type at 120 words an hour.
The wireless connection at my house is still crap whatever computer I use.
Updating my blog takes the same time on an old machine as it does on a new one, because it is my own internal processor that is old and rickety.
I can't carry a tower from the office to the lounge and surf with the computer on my lap and my feet up on the coffee table, at least not without doing some serious damage.
I am the weak link in this tech age, a fact that not even the fastest computer on earth can change.
So, although I would love to prance around town saying I have a flashy Mac Pro, I will continue with what I have. That means I get to pose in coffee houses, dude, for the forseeable future. I can continue to tap on the shiny slightly worn keys of my laptop over lattes. I can revel in the design where all my connections are hidden away at the back of the laptop, and if anyone baulks at the the rust spots, I will continue to explain that it adds character.
Aye, rust is proof that they don't build 'em like this any more.
Stockholm Syndrome, anyone?!!!
How old is your "production" computer?
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