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May 23, 2008
Yay new Mac on the way...
... boring old Mac until then.
So, I finally completed the last part of my stock sale and managed to score a very good price despite the average decline of the stock market lately. With this new found wealth, I shall purchase a brand new iMac. Seriously, who couldn't love this mug:
It's going to be a 24" iMac and I'm splurging on it so it will have all the goodies. The last time I purchased a brand new Mac for myself was in or around 2001. That's when I bought my beloved iBook (Apple no longer makes iBooks they have been replaced by the Macbook). Me and my iBook had some great times and I had an option to buy an iMac at that time. They had the lamp post iMac's back then which looked like this:
I almost bought one but at the time I planned on doing a great deal of traveling so I wanted a go anywhere, do anything Mac. Thus I bought my iBook laptop instead of the iMac which is a desktop. Oddly enough, now I am doing a lot of traveling but I want a stay at home Mac LOL.
Actually, my obsession with the iMac is that it is powerful enough to stably run the audio recording application I plan to get for it: Logic Studio. I'm buying Logic Express pre-installed on it though so I'm crossing my fingers in hopes that it alone will be enough for what I need.
I'm also opting for a Time Capsule. I needed a new router anyway and I might as well have one with a built-in hard drive. It seems logical enough to want an automated backup process. Maybe not for the price Apple is charging, but hey, as long as I'm blowing money I might as well go big right?
At any rate, I thought I would leave you with this wonderful advertisement of the dancing iMac that I didn't buy way back in the day:
Posted by Decemberice at May 23, 2008 12:21 AM
Comments
Have fun with Logic! It's a kick-ass tool and with the release of Logic 8 Apple has really priced it aggressively.
I have a fair bit of experience with it, too. If you have any questions, let me know.
BTW: The one thing I would recommend is getting a couple gigs of RAM. Logic will run just fine on that CPU, but if you have enough tracks (esp. with samples) it really helps to have some memory to throw at it. Get 3rd party memory, as Apple charges up the ass for theirs.
- Jeff
Posted by: Jeff at May 23, 2008 02:26 AM