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Sep 12, 2006Apple

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Apple, computing, Gadgets, hardware, ipod, itunes, Music

Apple iMac and new 80Gig iPod ordered. About a week until they are shipped - cannot wait! New iTunes also out today that looks a lot slicker and introduces…gapless playback - at last. Get downloading!

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zerolight

24″ ?

Sep 12th, 2006
Talkrhubarb

About time too!

Sep 12th, 2006
Ian D

24″, 2 gig Ram, 256Meg graphics card, wireless keyboard & mouse.

Sep 13th, 2006
zerolight

Ah. I went for the exact same thing without the wireless k & b.

Sep 13th, 2006
zerolight

Can I buy your logitech wireless mouse?

Sep 13th, 2006
Ian D

Nope - not selling it.

Sep 13th, 2006
zerolight

Just installed itunes 7 on my outgoing Mac. Yuck. Where’s the aqua gone? Bland grey sliders in place of the lovely flowing aqua. I hope that’s not a sign of things to come.

Sep 15th, 2006
zerolight

Good grief. Ian, I think we’ll need to order new desks, reinforced with krytonite.

http://i8.tinypic.com/4bp7nmb.jpg

Sep 17th, 2006
Ian D

Looks fine

Means it won’t just be me filling the room anymore.

Sep 17th, 2006
zerolight

Just noticed that the 7600GT is no slouch as a graphics card. It’s significantly better than the once high end X800Pro I had in my PC. The quick benchmarking search I did looking for a comparison yielded Half Life 2 at 37fps on the X800Pro and 55fps on the 7600GT. There’ll be a very very small temptation to dual boot to XP so that I can try out Half Life 2 on the Mac (I bought it on Steam so it’s only a download away). I seriously doubt I’ll bother wasting the disk space though.

Sep 17th, 2006
Ian D

I’ll try dual booting and parallel also. There is some windows software that I need to run and dual booting will hopefully be guaranteed to work, just be nicer with parallels.

Sep 17th, 2006
Talkrhubarb

No new desks required G. Just one of these
VESA mount adaptor and a suitable wall mounting

Parallels is the way to go. Convenience and security of virtualisation. Particularly if you have no shared disk areas. You can reinitialise every so often and the compressed image doesn’t even take up that much space.

Sep 19th, 2006
zerolight

Which Windows apps do you need?

Sep 20th, 2006
Ian D

A couple of Windows apps that I use and need to continue using only work with Windows. No mac equivalents. there’s also things like my update software for the phone - again Windows only.

As H has already said, Parallels will be my first port of call when I get up and running.

Sep 20th, 2006

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