Meet my new computer. :D
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far-trader
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Cool, and tempting but my compy is still running fine <kick> (oops :smirk:, dang, still running... ) and the stable of less stable older comps would have to be sold to the glu factory to allow a new filly on the ranch. And some of those old ponies have a lot of sentimental attachment.
Still, I'll have to take a look at some reviews, it's got some nice form factor bells but I wonder how it performs.
Performs...
I am just waiting to figure out how to give it OS X, and some day the Apple Tablet OS (what ever it is that the iPods and iPhones use.)
Oh and since I went with a next day air s&h, I might be able to tell you by say *happy chair dance to HBT* Tuesday, maybe if real lucky, tomorrow.
I am just waiting to figure out how to give it OS X, and some day the Apple Tablet OS (what ever it is that the iPods and iPhones use.)
Oh and since I went with a next day air s&h, I might be able to tell you by say *happy chair dance to HBT* Tuesday, maybe if real lucky, tomorrow.
Icosahedron
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Andrew Boulton
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Shiny*, but I prefer more power.
*Guess who's watching Firefly on Blu-Ray...
*Guess who's watching Firefly on Blu-Ray...
Wow, Your Lordship!
I have MacOS X on a HD in my iBook, which is going to be turned into an external, and my Mac guru should be able to hook me up right then.
So I can have a cool Mac tablet, rockin!
As the Solomami said "Shiny!"
I have MacOS X on a HD in my iBook, which is going to be turned into an external, and my Mac guru should be able to hook me up right then.
So I can have a cool Mac tablet, rockin!
Shiny*, but I prefer more power.
*Guess who's watching Firefly on Blu-Ray...
it's not the power but how you use it :devil:
saundby
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I recently upgraded from an Eee PC 701 (Xandros Linux) to an Eee PC 901 (eeeBuntu) and a 904HA with WinXP for running the stuff that absolutely won't run on Unix/Linux or MacOS. All three together cost me less than my original MacBook, and they're a lot more solid. (Though I have to say the "unibody" MacBooks are a -big- improvement over the older ones.) Speed on the Eees hasn't been a problem, but then I'm not running Crysis on them.
The old MacBook mostly sits under my TV as a media computer these days.
I ordered a new 24" iMac for my wife Saturday night. I'm watching for the "shipped" email. I'm really looking forward to getting rid of the sound of the fan on her PowerMac G4 MDD. It'll be moving into the garage to join the G3 network we use for playing old Mac OS 9 games. A friend gave me an old 300MHz G3 Powermac just before Christmas, so getting that set up with games and on the network with our old G3 Blue and Whites was my "new Christmas computer" experience.
The old MacBook mostly sits under my TV as a media computer these days.
I ordered a new 24" iMac for my wife Saturday night. I'm watching for the "shipped" email. I'm really looking forward to getting rid of the sound of the fan on her PowerMac G4 MDD. It'll be moving into the garage to join the G3 network we use for playing old Mac OS 9 games. A friend gave me an old 300MHz G3 Powermac just before Christmas, so getting that set up with games and on the network with our old G3 Blue and Whites was my "new Christmas computer" experience.
Yes ... very nice!
Me, I'm just flushed with my iPod Touch
Especially since I've got a dozen PDFs from theTrav CD-ROM on it for browsing ...
I do the same on my iPhone, very cool reading on my long commute
Holy Macs, Batman!
Wow, there are more Mac and even cooler, multi-OS folks hiding out here. Cool!
And yeah, the old towers are kinda loud, I got a blue & white G3 that is actually a G4 that I am getting back up and running....suddenly I have a lot of computers, does this mean something? I mean my pops bought me my first, and now suddenly I am buying a mini-comp while typing this on a Winbox, with one stored in the closet, a dead, but coming back G4 next to me....I think I might have either a problem or the start of a real studio...or both.
Wow, there are more Mac and even cooler, multi-OS folks hiding out here. Cool!
And yeah, the old towers are kinda loud, I got a blue & white G3 that is actually a G4 that I am getting back up and running....suddenly I have a lot of computers, does this mean something? I mean my pops bought me my first, and now suddenly I am buying a mini-comp while typing this on a Winbox, with one stored in the closet, a dead, but coming back G4 next to me....I think I might have either a problem or the start of a real studio...or both.
"We can only try." they said.
None, the less trust me if I can find a way to make a tablet OS X for under a grand, yes, I will brag...I mean spread the wealth.
Well, I will try or at least do some more research. I mean if I can't well, it still runs XP and that's what the old M5 runs, so it's not like I am totally out.
None, the less trust me if I can find a way to make a tablet OS X for under a grand, yes, I will brag...I mean spread the wealth.
OK, heres the deal...
So, here I am typing away having been at work all day and giving the battery a nice full charge. There in lies the so far biggest issue. It got shipped to me with the power jack unable to hold the plug.
Had to lean in upside down and use gravity and mass to keep it plugged in while I was at work.
She's a smidge warm on the lap, but then so was my iBook which this is replacing and this has 15 more real GB of HD. That right there rocks.
OK, now on to the keyboard...
Not so bad at all but as I have stated in another post, but it was mine so it's ok, I am brought to back to the good memories of NYC when I trucked around the Capitol of Terra with a frankensteined Macintosh PowerBook 720 that had more memory and a color screen. I like a dumb ass learned that not everything should be done fast and I broke the at the time (circa 2000) very brittle and brown cable to the board for the one and only floopy drive. Still it rocked, I played Artillery endlessly sometimes at my work. Other times, I would actually be productive. Oh and he might to this day still boot up a nice fine copy of Mac OS 7.6.5.
So, I am find the small keyboard aright and kinda nostalgic. And I find that the keyboard size doesn't seem to be affecting my error rate that much. Possibly because I already had a mini-computer.
But this one has a built in camera (I should get some home movies of the cat...*evil grin and extrotion plan...damn what do extort from a cat..oh crap he's up* anyway, it also has a even groovier feature, a nice two button, built in scrolling trackpad. Comes with a nifty stylus which works with neat little program called ArtRage, oh and of course, it has touch screen coolness.
I did this impressionist, ok, abstract of the ISS Blue Smoke...it's cool in a lame, I am messing about way. Truth told of course it seems sorta cool to me. Anyway, the mini-tablet aspect will be more fully exploited when I get them to fix or replace this first one. Yikes, just born, out of the hospital and right back in!
I dig it, so far.
Still haven't looked up it's chip set and I don't know if it be such good idea anyway, to post and ask, once again, net research...crap. Still, at one time it paid the rent and still is out there educating the World and most of all the Citizens of the Republic our real military history.
I am having a "I totally rule and I totally rock!" year this year. Sorry. *shrugs* It's just the way it falls and for me, finally it's good.
Keyboard update: OK, it's a bit harder to transition that I thought, I find myself wandering in attention and some keystrokes that normally wouldn't matter, like say return and the space bar...*shrugs again and grins*
ArtRage by the way totally rocks! I mean it has a cool interface that moves out of the way if you work in its zone. It gives you dirt and gravel and stuff, I might just have to mess with it and post the results. Once I figure out how to actually use the program...hmmm, naw, first I have to be resposible to my players and get back to posting the the like crap, four threads. Plus I have some offline work to do, and I work tomorrow at 2300.
So that is the first impressions, I am in love.
It has features I haven't even found yet, as they pop out at me here and there, like the little icon in the corner telling me I had locked caps.
She rocks.
Though I am going to upgrade the RAM to two gigs, and possibly get a copy of XP Tablet and give full hard core tablet functionality and then figure out how to mount M5 on to this machine so I can use it's copies of programs and such, right now it's pulling duty as the media server, though the blue and white G4 is probably going to replace it as that and then M5 becomes the AAB (file and print server) anyway, now all of a sudden, twenty-five years later, I am living my dreams. Wow, dreams are harder work than I think most people realize.
This time for real, laterness.
Magnus.
So, here I am typing away having been at work all day and giving the battery a nice full charge. There in lies the so far biggest issue. It got shipped to me with the power jack unable to hold the plug.
Had to lean in upside down and use gravity and mass to keep it plugged in while I was at work.
She's a smidge warm on the lap, but then so was my iBook which this is replacing and this has 15 more real GB of HD. That right there rocks.
OK, now on to the keyboard...
Not so bad at all but as I have stated in another post, but it was mine so it's ok, I am brought to back to the good memories of NYC when I trucked around the Capitol of Terra with a frankensteined Macintosh PowerBook 720 that had more memory and a color screen. I like a dumb ass learned that not everything should be done fast and I broke the at the time (circa 2000) very brittle and brown cable to the board for the one and only floopy drive. Still it rocked, I played Artillery endlessly sometimes at my work. Other times, I would actually be productive. Oh and he might to this day still boot up a nice fine copy of Mac OS 7.6.5.
So, I am find the small keyboard aright and kinda nostalgic. And I find that the keyboard size doesn't seem to be affecting my error rate that much. Possibly because I already had a mini-computer.
But this one has a built in camera (I should get some home movies of the cat...*evil grin and extrotion plan...damn what do extort from a cat..oh crap he's up* anyway, it also has a even groovier feature, a nice two button, built in scrolling trackpad. Comes with a nifty stylus which works with neat little program called ArtRage, oh and of course, it has touch screen coolness.
I did this impressionist, ok, abstract of the ISS Blue Smoke...it's cool in a lame, I am messing about way. Truth told of course it seems sorta cool to me. Anyway, the mini-tablet aspect will be more fully exploited when I get them to fix or replace this first one. Yikes, just born, out of the hospital and right back in!
I dig it, so far.
Still haven't looked up it's chip set and I don't know if it be such good idea anyway, to post and ask, once again, net research...crap. Still, at one time it paid the rent and still is out there educating the World and most of all the Citizens of the Republic our real military history.
I am having a "I totally rule and I totally rock!" year this year. Sorry. *shrugs* It's just the way it falls and for me, finally it's good.Keyboard update: OK, it's a bit harder to transition that I thought, I find myself wandering in attention and some keystrokes that normally wouldn't matter, like say return and the space bar...*shrugs again and grins*
ArtRage by the way totally rocks! I mean it has a cool interface that moves out of the way if you work in its zone. It gives you dirt and gravel and stuff, I might just have to mess with it and post the results. Once I figure out how to actually use the program...hmmm, naw, first I have to be resposible to my players and get back to posting the the like crap, four threads. Plus I have some offline work to do, and I work tomorrow at 2300.
So that is the first impressions, I am in love.
It has features I haven't even found yet, as they pop out at me here and there, like the little icon in the corner telling me I had locked caps.
She rocks.
Though I am going to upgrade the RAM to two gigs, and possibly get a copy of XP Tablet and give full hard core tablet functionality and then figure out how to mount M5 on to this machine so I can use it's copies of programs and such, right now it's pulling duty as the media server, though the blue and white G4 is probably going to replace it as that and then M5 becomes the AAB (file and print server) anyway, now all of a sudden, twenty-five years later, I am living my dreams. Wow, dreams are harder work than I think most people realize.
This time for real, laterness.
Magnus.
saundby
SOC-14 1K
Wow, there are more Mac and even cooler, multi-OS folks hiding out here. Cool!
And yeah, the old towers are kinda loud, I got a blue & white G3 that is actually a G4 that I am getting back up and running....suddenly I have a lot of computers, does this mean something? I mean my pops bought me my first, and now suddenly I am buying a mini-comp while typing this on a Winbox, with one stored in the closet, a dead, but coming back G4 next to me....I think I might have either a problem or the start of a real studio...or both.
I maintain a fleet of old machines in "flyable storage" dating back to my old S100 system. A number of the "newer" ones will be coming out this week since my oldest daughter has decided she wants to do a MUD party--she's having a bunch of friends over to play on our family MUD server.
So I'll be bringing out my two old G3 B&Ws, a couple of old 486s, and a few old HP series 700 workstations. My youngest daughter will enjoy having me bring out her first computer, an HP 9000/735 that she's got a really strong sentimental attachment for, and I'll probably bring out my old Mac Quadra 605 that I've got an irrational attachment to. Anything that'll talk to Ethernet and run telnet is fair game. I'm expecting to get about 16-20 systems on the network here (note to self--don't forget to dig out the spare hubs...)
Freaking Sweet!
Actually I have to learn to get my network to being an actual network, right now it's a bunch of computers in the same room and using the same gateway to the net, but not really set up for remote use...
I so want to be able to eventually controlling the network from the comfort of a chair or futon with my new mini-tab...which I have to get up early and take care of tomorrow...is sick.
Nice little set up you got going, and by S100, you don't mean the old school Sinclair, do you?I maintain a fleet of old machines in "flyable storage" dating back to my old S100 system. A number of the "newer" ones will be coming out this week since my oldest daughter has decided she wants to do a MUD party--she's having a bunch of friends over to play on our family MUD server.
So I'll be bringing out my two old G3 B&Ws, a couple of old 486s, and a few old HP series 700 workstations. My youngest daughter will enjoy having me bring out her first computer, an HP 9000/735 that she's got a really strong sentimental attachment for, and I'll probably bring out my old Mac Quadra 605 that I've got an irrational attachment to. Anything that'll talk to Ethernet and run telnet is fair game. I'm expecting to get about 16-20 systems on the network here (note to self--don't forget to dig out the spare hubs...)
Actually I have to learn to get my network to being an actual network, right now it's a bunch of computers in the same room and using the same gateway to the net, but not really set up for remote use...
I so want to be able to eventually controlling the network from the comfort of a chair or futon with my new mini-tab...which I have to get up early and take care of tomorrow...is sick.
saundby
SOC-14 1K
The S-100 I'm referring to is what later became the IEEE-696 bus (sort of.) Think Altair, IMSAI, that sort of thing. Mine is mostly Compupro boards. The CPU board has both an 8085 and an 8088 in it. I started with an 8080A, then went through three Z-80 boards, and ended up with this when my best Z-80 board got loaned out and never came back. Fortunately by that time I was doing most of my Z-80 development on a pair of Kaypros.
As to managing my networks and systems, I'm lucky in that I used to run a data center out of my garage. There were about 40 systems doing hardware simulation, mostly, but also some load testing for server software. When I shut down the operation I kept the best bits in place for personal use.
As to managing my networks and systems, I'm lucky in that I used to run a data center out of my garage. There were about 40 systems doing hardware simulation, mostly, but also some load testing for server software. When I shut down the operation I kept the best bits in place for personal use.
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