Ooh, my new "Big Mac" arrived today. The new quad Xeon Mac Pro.
My G5 was a first-generation, and it is now exactly three years old. For a softcore geek and pro user like me, that's getting long in the tooth. :) So I'm excited.
See Bill Noll's great photos for how the G5 (and to some extend the Mac Pro) looks. Beautiful tech.
Did you know a hard disk in Spanish is "disco rigido"?! ...You can just see Frankenstein's creature doing the monster mash.
As you may be aware, the faster computers become, the hotter they become, and the more cooling they require, making noise a problem. Despite this, my G5, amazingly, was more quiet than my G4 was. And the Mac Pro is way more quiet than the G5! I am impressed by that. This is really important to me, since it is my work and placed in my home, and I'm rather hyper-perceptive. And also they even fitted more space for drives and so on in the same gorgeous cabinet as the G5, due to the Xeon's better performance/temperature ratio needing fewer fans and such. This shows that Apple made a wise choice in going to Intel chips.
Talking about pro user: even over FireWire 800, the machine tells me it will be like four hours to transfer all my files to the new machine. And that is just one of two hard disks! The two machines are standing next to each other as we speak, smooching. I am writing this on the iMac in my living room. (Laurie Jeffery says my apartment "is like NASA".)
Update: OK, after three and a half hours (due to around 130 gigabytes of picture files) of transfer, I rebooted the new Mac. The two machines were "fanning" up a storm, since the heavy use of disk heats up a machine. And still, when I turned off the G5 so only the Mac Pro was running... Sweet Silence! Only the ticking of the hard disk. Lord, that quietude alone is almost worth the price of admission.
By the way, Macs have for a year or two had the most wonderful feature: when you get a new Mac, it asks you if you have an old Mac, you then connect the two with a FireWire cable, and it transfers all your files and settings for you. It's amazing, the new machine works just like the old one right off the bat. Keyboard shortcuts, desktop picture, everything. Getting a new computer is twenty times easier.
Congratulations! The new quad seems very sweet indeed. My G5 is previous gen dual 2.6 GhZ so I can not justify upgrading just yet, but maybe soon.
ReplyDeleteLaurie Jeffery says my apartment "is like NASA".
Why not post a photo? Other people's workspaces make for interesting industrial scenery.
"Did you know a hard disk in Spanish is "disco rigido"?! ...You can just see Frankenstein's creature doing the monster mash."
ReplyDeleteMan, you really should cut down on them Scooby Doo cartoons!
I thought "disco rigido" was spanish for Viagra...
"The two machines are standing next to each other as we speak, smooching."
Three words , buddy : GET A LIFE!
I dunno, go look at some naked girls on the internet, or something.
(Laurie Jeffery says my apartment "is like NASA".)"
Well, my Mom says my bedroom looks like New Orleans getting hit by Katrina on September 11th 2001. But I'm sure she's just being diplomatic...
"when you get a new Mac, it asks you if you have an old Mac, you then connect the two with a FireWire cable, and it transfers all your files and settings for you."
Before I upgraded to MS Internet Explorer 6 some years ago (needed it for my new Norton to work), I took the precaution of backing up all my Outlook Express massive mail archive. Good for me : Outlook Express was upgraded along, without warning, and all my mail had disppeared!
(Okay, so Bill Gates is not a Mameluk book-burning cultural terrorist : after some searching around, I discovered the archived old mail, but still...)
"Why not post a photo?"
Don't ask for mine. I have an understanding with the State Department : these images are classified. Just think brutalist architecture in Beirut...
They bought a few pics from me, said they needed them for the residents in some tropical resort called Guantanamo.
Cool! :)
ReplyDeleteI'm working from knowledge about PCs here, not Macs, but can't you just put the old harddisks in the new computer? Then no hassle for transferring the data, plus extra space.
Maybe I could, but I needed much bigger drives.
ReplyDeleteWhat's that I hear, Eolake???
ReplyDeleteAfter all that EmoTrance/EFT talk and stuff, you STILL need a bigger drive in your daily and professional life? Oh man, you're hopeless! ;-)
Bigger. And harder.
ReplyDeleteOne word, buddy : Viagra.
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