After waiting a month, to make sure things were less hectic with the Apple screens and realising only people who complain post, I took the offer of an upgrade, they offered me a i5 quad core, 27" with 8GB ram and 1TB drive with a ATI Radeon HD 4850 graphics card with 512MB DDR3 as a "we are sorry" but for an extra £163 I get to have the 2.8GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7 which when using one or two cores uses turbo boost to hit 3.46ghz and also has hyperthreading, I could not resist it :angel: Justina will just shake her head. I'll post some pics when it arrives, Apple also let me keep my 21.5" till the new one comes so I can just swap my information over the same day from one machine to the other, without asking for me to pay extra, very trusting and helpful. :thumb:
I'm drooling... :thumb:
I think that was a good move, Gary. :thumb:
They know where you live.
Quote from: Glenn on Mar 16, 2010, 16:55:08
They know where you live.
But do I Glenn :evil:
Quote from: Simon on Mar 16, 2010, 16:54:52
I think that was a good move, Gary. :thumb:
It makes sense Simon, its a small amount of cash for an almost 30% increase in performance with some apps, and as I seriously do not want to buy another machine for years, its the safest way to try as much as you can to future proof your machines CPU for as long as you can.
Hope you enjoy it, Gary. :)
Quote from: Simon on Mar 16, 2010, 17:08:46
Hope you enjoy it, Gary. :)
Think I may need sunglasses to sit in front of it, Simon ;)
No problem, Garry, just send it to me. ;D
Quote from: Gary on Mar 16, 2010, 17:09:39
Think I may need sunglasses to sit in front of it, Simon ;)
You'll save on the central heating. ;)
Quote from: Rik on Mar 16, 2010, 17:12:13
No problem, Garry, just send it to me. ;D
I think I could sail it to you ;)
You want a good southerly breeze. :) Unless you were letting me have it on tack, that is. ;D :out:
Quote from: Simon on Mar 16, 2010, 17:43:40
You'll save on the central heating. ;)
True and have a nice tan all year round, and need Mr Magoo glasses because I bet the text is very small on that machine, 2560 x 1440 is going to make even a large font text look tiny.
Quote from: Rik on Mar 16, 2010, 17:56:28
You want a good southerly breeze. :) Unless you were letting me have it on tack, that is. ;D :out:
:grn:
Quote from: Rik on Mar 16, 2010, 17:56:28
You want a good southerly breeze. :) Unless you were letting me have it on tack, that is. ;D :out:
He'll need to pull a few sheets off of you
;D
I like the cut of your jib, but then I'm biased. ;)
Quote from: Rik on Mar 16, 2010, 18:00:58
;D
I like the cut of your jib, but then I'm biased. ;)
I never knew you steered that way, Rik :whistle:
Normally I use a sextant, but the sun was too bright today, so I went to GPS instead.
Quote from: Rik on Mar 16, 2010, 18:04:00
Normally I use a sextant, but the sun was too bright today, so I went to GPS instead.
I would use a sextant but the neighbours would talk ;)
You can't trust the stars, Hollywood is always killing them off
Quote from: Gary on Mar 16, 2010, 18:06:10
I would use a sextant but the neighbours would talk ;)
Not if you wore a kilt they wouldn't. :)
Quote from: Glenn on Mar 16, 2010, 18:09:25
You can't trust the stars, Hollywood is always killing them off
Or making them into a black hole...
Quote from: Rik on Mar 16, 2010, 18:10:15
Or making them into a black hole...
I can think of a few Hollywood stars who could do with going into one
We used to be satisfied with stars, now we have to have super stars and mega stars, one wonders what will happen when they run out of adjectives. :(
Probably the right time to swap as things seem to have settled down,however the Apple UK store been very slow tonight I wonder if something new is on the way. >:D
Bigger and better? :)
The new Mac Pro is out if you've got plenty of dosh.
Quote from: Steve on Mar 16, 2010, 19:08:38
The new Mac Pro is out if you've got plenty of dosh.
Id love one, they are built so beautifully, a real engineering masterpiece. Alas not at that price :(
Quote from: Gary on Mar 17, 2010, 08:55:10
Id love one, they are built so beautifully, a real engineering masterpiece. Alas not at that price :(
Even with Higher Ed discount an 8-core would come in at around £2250. Much as I would like one for doing video, I could build an 8-core PC for probably not much more than half that. The downside is that it would most likely have Windows on it (cough, spit), although an increasing variety of tools are now available on Linux.
You know you want it, Tac. ;)
Quote from: Rik on Mar 17, 2010, 11:30:35
You know you want it, Tac. ;)
I do, I do! The price is rather too much though, even with the discount :) I suspect they will be even more expensive as the pound sinks further....
A bit like petrol you mean. :(
Its a shame they are so pricey but when you look inside at how they are built and how easy changing drives is and ram etc, well you can kind of see why, If I ever get rich from vlogging i'll by one, but my i7 iMac should do almost all I need tbh.
Quote from: Gary on Mar 17, 2010, 13:42:24
Its a shame they are so pricey but when you look inside at how they are built and how easy changing drives is and ram etc, well you can kind of see why, ........
I must admit they are beautifully engineered. Reminds me of Leica and Hasselblad cameras - quality and craftsmanship simply oozes out of them.
Changing the drives is simple, much easier than on the iMac I had to do at the weekend. :(
Things like that are just a pleasure to use. :thumb:
Quote from: Rik on Mar 17, 2010, 16:12:22
Things like that are just a pleasure to use. :thumb:
I have a couple of M6 Leicas with the Leicavit style rapid winder bases. Beautiful cameras, but sadly it will not be long before film is unobtainable. Not sure whether you can still get Tri-X which used to be the staple for photojournalists and sports photographers.
I haven't seen any in a while, Tac, I tended to use that or FP4, depending on subject. I still think film has a better feel, a bit like the vinyl vs CD debate.
Quote from: Rik on Mar 17, 2010, 17:39:38
I haven't seen any in a while, Tac, I tended to use that or FP4, depending on subject. I still think film has a better feel, a bit like the vinyl vs CD debate.
A good turntable, amp and speakers quality vinyl sounds so much better compared with its digital cousin, Rik. :)
Ultimately, we are analogue, and any digital medium suffers from errors. Luckily, for the most part these are small enough not to be a worry.
Quote from: Rik on Mar 17, 2010, 17:48:15
Ultimately, we are analogue, and any digital medium suffers from errors. Luckily, for the most part these are small enough not to be a worry.
Some music just somehow never sounds right in digital formats though, its has less depth almost, and digital can sound sterile.
It can look sterile too, Gary. Film carried far more of an emotive/evocative sense in its images. Digital is good but somehow sterile to my eyes. Not that I have let that get in my way, some of the advantages make it irresistible.
Quote from: Rik on Mar 17, 2010, 17:51:54
It can look sterile too, Gary. Film carried far more of an emotive/evocative sense in its images. Digital is good but somehow sterile to my eyes. Not that I have let that get in my way, some of the advantages make it irresistible.
Very true, we move with the times and sadly vinyl and celluloid decay and have to become digital to survive in the end, there is an irony there.
Which goes back to the 'we are analogue' point. ;)