Got my Quad!
And I'm insanely delirious with joy
I've done the photos for a what-is-in-the-box
kind of thing, but honestly it wasn't too many frills. The CPU, keyboard, mighty
mouse and a power cable, USB extension cable and a DVI->VGA
adaptor.
Some initial
thoughts:
This thing is heavy. It seems
heavier than my dual-G5 at work, but I could be wrong. I never had to lift that
out of its box.
It is sweetly quiet, it isn't
silent, but I don't think I'll need a box around it if I want to record in the
same room.
I haven't had a chance to install
any software that will really put it through its paces performance-wise, but it
is definitely speedy
I don't get all the
complaints about the mighty mouse, seems totally cool to me. May not even
replace it with a trackball (my preferred interface
device).
So far the best part was how
insanely easy upgrading it was. I got my mac with 512 MB of RAM and the lowest
size disk. Then while I waited and waited for my Quad to finally arrive, I got
another 4 GB of RAM from Crucial and a 300 MB hard drive and they sat waiting
for their host to appear. After booting the mac the first time to enter in my
data and make sure it works, I installed all the system updates and then shut
down. I skimmed the upgrade instructions in the manual and then bam! installed
the extra ram and the hard drive in a couple of minutes. This is by far the
easiest upgrades I've ever done on a system (although installing RAM into an SGI
Indy was really easy), there is a ton of room in the case to work with and the
system they have for mounting the hard-drives is dead simple and so insanely
cool after having sliced my hand open trying to screw in a hard drive into a PC
chassis.
Now, for the rest of the
weekend, my goal is to get all my software loaded and really put this thing
through its paces. Also, I've got to move stuff from my powerbook onto my quad.
Looking to the future, I'm wondering about a new or additional video card. I'm
wondering if there was something in between the default card which I got and the
$1600 dollar card that was the other option. Also, I'm wondering if there are
any other cool PCI Express cards to look out
for...
I'll post more when I've spent a
bit more time, and I'll post pics when I move my iPhoto library
over.
Posted: Fri - November 18, 2005 at 06:08 PM
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