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Post by blitzkreig on Nov 11, 2003 21:02:56 GMT -5
At home I run a dual 1Ghz G4 with 750 Mb of ram and 240 Gig of hard disk and a 21" Studio Display monitor... I certainly make use of the DVD burner backing that thing up as well. I run OSX 10.3 (Panther) on the Apple equipment. Networked to that I have at times up two 3 other computers (another slightly older Mac, an IBM desktop and a Dell C640 laptop). The Dell is really my companies but it has all of the bells and whistles and I increased the ram to a Gig. The IBM is primarily used to VPN into my work. The Dell I tote back and forth when the kids are hogging up all of my other computers I run Windoz XP on the Intel machines. I really want to upgrade to the new dual processor G5 Apple has put out but I want to wait until they get the Mhz up to 3 Gig per processor so maybe this time next year... Why all the horsepower? Well I like to do video and that certainly sucks up both the Mhz and the drive space. Well... that and I like it
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Post by ylf1999 on Nov 12, 2003 8:53:48 GMT -5
holy moly. how much did you pay for that chest of gold. I'm guessing no less than a 1000 bucks
YBIC
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Post by blitzkreig on Nov 12, 2003 11:47:16 GMT -5
The monitor was over a thousand...
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Post by ylf1999 on Nov 12, 2003 13:23:36 GMT -5
The monitor was over a thousand... do you have a LCD monitor? I have a 15 inche LCD monitor and I love it. it is so wonderful. a 21 inche LCD monitor would be around the price range you mentioned
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Post by blitzkreig on Nov 12, 2003 14:36:52 GMT -5
No it is a Trinatron tube in an Apple chassy. The reason it was pricey was #1 there were no other 21s around at the time I bought it (3 years or so ago) and #2 it is a specially calibrated DVI-D digital interface.
The color is automatically attuned to both the professional printing specifications and the ambient light. So by way of example when the sun goes down and the room lights are turned on the thing senses it and adjusts the colour temperatures accordingly... but keeps track so if you are doing rendering it doesn't interfere with the actual print-job colour output (short version is you can't trust your eyes).
Apple does now make a 21 and a 23 inch comparable "Colorsync" LCD monitor now but they are just a stupid price (over 3 grand for the big lad in my neck of the woods). I still even at that awful price I think the Apple LCD don't do the job as well as the tube. It is a matter of taste I suppose as much as anything.
The big down side on this monitor is it is HUGE and weighs in at near a hundred pounds. It takes two to lift the thing (just to get your arms around it is a challenge).
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Post by ylf1999 on Nov 12, 2003 14:49:37 GMT -5
No it is a Trinatron tube in an Apple chassy. The reason it was pricey was #1 there were no other 21s around at the time I bought it (3 years or so ago) and #2 it is a specially calibrated DVI-D digital interface. The color is automatically attuned to both the professional printing specifications and the ambient light. So by way of example when the sun goes down and the room lights are turned on the thing senses it and adjusts the colour temperatures accordingly... but keeps track so if you are doing rendering it doesn't interfere with the actual print-job colour output (short version is you can't trust your eyes). Apple does now make a 21 and a 23 inch comparable "Colorsync" LCD monitor now but they are just a stupid price (over 3 grand for the big lad in my neck of the woods). I still even at that awful price I think the Apple LCD don't do the job as well as the tube. It is a matter of taste I suppose as much as anything. The big down side on this monitor is it is HUGE and weighs in at near a hundred pounds. It takes two to lift the thing (just to get your arms around it is a challenge). wow. I've never heard of a monitor that is able to do that. thats impressive
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Post by Christianweb on Nov 12, 2003 14:50:45 GMT -5
I'm drooling. Sweet mac. I want one. What was it total?
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Post by blitzkreig on Nov 12, 2003 16:39:38 GMT -5
Christianweb I would be embarrased to say. The fact is I probably wouldn't go that route today. I would get that new wide-screen i-Mac. Loads of HorsePower, DVD burner, and in a widescreen format! The full meal deal. $2,448.00 (USD) 17-inch widescreen LCD 1.25GHz PowerPC G4 NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra 64MB DDR video memory 1GB DDR333 SDRAM 160GB Ultra ATA hard drive 10/100BASE-T Ethernet 56K V.92 internal modem Apple Pro Speakers AirPort Extreme built-in Bluetooth built-in store.apple.com/
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Post by Christianweb on Nov 12, 2003 20:47:50 GMT -5
Christianweb I would be embarrased to say. The fact is I probably wouldn't go that route today. I would get that new wide-screen i-Mac. Loads of HorsePower, DVD burner, and in a widescreen format! The full meal deal. $2,448.00 (USD) 17-inch widescreen LCD 1.25GHz PowerPC G4 NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra 64MB DDR video memory 1GB DDR333 SDRAM 160GB Ultra ATA hard drive 10/100BASE-T Ethernet 56K V.92 internal modem Apple Pro Speakers AirPort Extreme built-in Bluetooth built-in store.apple.com/you could build your own for cheaper then that
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Post by blitzkreig on Nov 13, 2003 23:28:54 GMT -5
Cheap is good for somethings I suppose but when it comes to my computers I have always been an early adopter and need more POWER. For that I have always paid through the nose.
Funny thing is my computers by the time I get everything always seem to cost nearly 5 grand (Apple II+ in 1971ish, Super Pet in 1974 ish, IBM AT in the early '80s, etc. etc.). They seem to cost nearly that now... by the time I hang all the "stuff" off of them. Of course I do get a lot more today for the $$$
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