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May 28, 2008
It's a done deal...
... Ice's new iMac is being built as we speak! What should it's name be?
I purchased the iMac I've already dedicated three blogs to tonight. I feel a bit like an expectant father. I went ridiculously all out on this thing:
- 24" HD Widescreen
- 3.06Ghz Intel Core2Duo Processor
- 1 TB hard drive (yup, that's a terabyte not a GB)
- 4 GB of RAM
- 512mb Graphics Card
- Bluetooth built-in
- 802.11n Wifi built-in
I also picked up a 1TB Time Capsule Router/Back-up Hard Drive.
This is a BEAST of a Mac. Heck, with these specs it'd be a beast of a Windows machine as well. Short of spending $6000 on a Mac Pro you can't do much better than this. I shall bow before the power of Leopard under 4GB's of RAM each morning and pray that it continues to humor me by allowing me to use it as it folds, solves famine, and creates world peace with it's spare processing might.
Now I'm scouting Amazon for an audio interface for Logic and Garageband. I had one that was working with Garageband but I gave it away because it would only record my guitar input in the left stereo so everything I recorded only came out of the left speaker when played back. Like I mentioned in a previous blog, it's difficult to find salespeople in my area who are familiar with pro audio recording on a Mac, but I made an appointment (yes you have to do that) to talk to one next Monday so I hope he's able to recommend something that doesn't break the bank for an interface.
Surprisingly, this fully configured Mac cost me just over $2500. God bless my company's employee purchase program.
I also discovered that I can score a full copy of Logic Studio (should I need to) for just $369 with our EPP. I'm pretty hyped about that because it puts it even more within reach should I not be able to get the results I'm looking for out of Logic Express.
At any rate, I'm going to hop over and see if they've begun boxing any of it yet. The order form said it would take 1-3 days to ship and I paid for 2-3 day shipping so, weekends included I hope to see it by the 7th or 8th. I'll post a new blog from it once it's here.
SOOOOO... like every great thing in my life, the new iMac needs a name! I usually bestow "Damian" as the title of all great things in my life (Damian was the name of my first love... how sappy). But, I've decided to go out on a limb and let my friends put in their thoughts. What should I name my iMac?
Posted by Decemberice at May 28, 2008 04:59 PM