Computers, and bitching.
Good things: I absolutely love having a big hard drive. I feel comfortable burning a lot of my music to my hardrive these days. I used to try to keep my music collection down around 2gb just to make sure I had enough space for a good size scratch file for photo-editing/music production. I now feel totatlly comfortable wih a 10gb music collection because even with it being that size I've got more than 2ce my old hardrive worth of empty space available.
This means that a lot of music that wouldn't normally get onto my playlist is on my playlist now. bands that have been on my peripheral but I've never had room for. Which is something I truly enjoy.... music is my drug of choice.
It's also allowed me to fit more symphonic and jazz onto my system. Which Im also very happy about.
The fact that given all of this I can maybe find (at a stretch) maybe 20gb worth of music to burn, and that even that is beyond my ability to manage in a sensible fashion makes me really wonder what consumer needs a 200gb+ hardrive. I can see some hardcore proffesionals needing that sort of storage for portfolios etc. but I'd also lean to keeping that sort of material off the harddrive of my work machine. Ah well... that's marketing for you.
Now... bitching. VISTA!!!!!! GRRRRRR.
Why on the fastest machine that I've ever owned that should handle multi-threading no problem and be able to run circles around anything that I've ever worked on does it feel like I'm on a 486? I chalk this up to VISTA. I should not be able to type faster than my system can keep up with. SHOULD. NOT. HAPPEN. (not in an LJ post at least) there are definately features I like... the enhanced security on changes to the registry, that sort of thing, is all very nice But I'm so t empted to toast the OS on this and rebuild with XP (No, not linux, sadly.... tascam has made it very clear that there will never be drivers for my US-122L.
This means that a lot of music that wouldn't normally get onto my playlist is on my playlist now. bands that have been on my peripheral but I've never had room for. Which is something I truly enjoy.... music is my drug of choice.
It's also allowed me to fit more symphonic and jazz onto my system. Which Im also very happy about.
The fact that given all of this I can maybe find (at a stretch) maybe 20gb worth of music to burn, and that even that is beyond my ability to manage in a sensible fashion makes me really wonder what consumer needs a 200gb+ hardrive. I can see some hardcore proffesionals needing that sort of storage for portfolios etc. but I'd also lean to keeping that sort of material off the harddrive of my work machine. Ah well... that's marketing for you.
Now... bitching. VISTA!!!!!! GRRRRRR.
Why on the fastest machine that I've ever owned that should handle multi-threading no problem and be able to run circles around anything that I've ever worked on does it feel like I'm on a 486? I chalk this up to VISTA. I should not be able to type faster than my system can keep up with. SHOULD. NOT. HAPPEN. (not in an LJ post at least) there are definately features I like... the enhanced security on changes to the registry, that sort of thing, is all very nice But I'm so t empted to toast the OS on this and rebuild with XP (No, not linux, sadly.... tascam has made it very clear that there will never be drivers for my US-122L.