A belated update.

Revised: January 23, 2008

It has been a good few months since I bought my mac pro and since then I have installed a 200GB hard disk and an extra 2GB of memory to bring it to a total of 3GB. To be honest I think apple should have shipped it with a minimum of 2GB because although OSX is very good at memory management and the computer as a whole is blazingly fast for the vast majority of the mac pro market 1GB RAM is tiny. With 3GB I hardly ever have to wait for things to load, I use a couple of widgets to find regular information and now I can press that middle button and see the dashboard pop up instantly rather than waiting for data to be retrieved from the scratch disk - a notable performance boost.

So is there anything I am missing from being with a pc? Well not much really, I got hold of all the applications I regularly used on my pc plus a ton of extra tools and utilities that I otherwise wouldn’t have had access to. The only thing I can really say I miss from the pc is its ability to play games without a lot of messing about. To play games with full compatibility and at full speed I need to reboot into my windows partition, I am not too happy about doing this as I prefer to follow the purist line and only run apple operating system on apple hardware; still as needs must. I bought VMWare recently and installed a copy of windows98 on it, it took a weekend of playing before I got most things working (except sound) and eventually the dos games that I love to play worked, if I could just get sound to work it would be perfect. Still I can’t believe I spent nearly fifty quid on an application just so I could play X-Com UFO enemy unknown on my mac without having to reboot into windows… did I say I was purist?

Lastly before I go off and do what I should have been doing done, I have updated the blogs’ design a little bit. Now if you scroll down on the front page you will see my five most recent twitters. These are predominantly text only as tumblr cant import images from my feed, basically I am trying to tidy up the content on this website so from now on the blog will only contain worthwhile posts and the tumblrs will be the short, spontaneous posts. They will still appear in the main feed however if it turns out that this becomes a problem for people (flooding with multiple posts a day) I shall work a way of excluding them.

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