It puts the lotion on its skin
Blargh. I'm going to die. Well, not really. But I'm certainly inviting trouble for myself. Not so much trouble as much as exhaustion. I worked about 11 hours of overtime last week and I signed up for about 18 or 19 this week. Needless to say, the paychecks are grand, but hopefully in my exhaustion from all the extra work and stress I'll retain the mental capacity to not waste the added income and put it to what I've designated to should go to.
It's truly a cold day in hell. Even with all my love for Apple Computers and the Mac OS I still can't justify the extra cost right now in creating a new DAW system for myself on the Mac platform. For the cost of a refurbed G5 that was top of the line 6 months ago with NO upgraded features and no monitor I could build an ABSOLUTE top of the line screaming fast, loaded with features PC.
Since I'm such a dork, here's the comparison. For $2500 I can either get:
Apple G5 dual 2.7GHz (refurbished)
512 MB of PC2 4200 RAM
250 GB SATA hard drive
3 PCI slots
Gigabit ethernet port
Housed in standard Alumanim G5 tower
3 year warranty
Or I can get...
Intel Pentium D Dual Core 3.0GHz
2 GB of PC2 6400 RAM
300 GB SATA system drive
Dual 74 GB Raptor 10,000 RPM SATA drives in RAID 0 for audio
SIIG PCIE firewire card (digidesign approved)
3 empty PCI slots
Dual flat panel displays
Dual Gigabit ethernet ports
Housed in a 4space rackmounted case
With THAT much difference in systems... it's undeniable. PLUS, the PCI cards that I want to add in later for more processing power don't work well with the chipset on that G5 model. And on the G5 unless I want to put in a PCI card I'm stuck using the built in firewire, which on my iMac I often get errors that the firewire bus couldn't keep up. So, yeah.... I'm building a PC. It's gonna be a MONSTER. I'm excited about it. I can't wait to mix it, and it'll be housed conveniently in my rack. Plus I found some cool aftermarket Macs at good prices, so I'll probably keep one around for my own personal use and just use the PC for the audio. That computer is going to be insane.
My face has been kinda dry. Somebody gave me lotion. It smells like vanilla. So now I want to eat my face.
Only 48 more work hours to go before my week is over... then I work 2 more days past that. Come next monday, I'll have worked 25 of the past 26 days. Fuck I can't wait to vacation. x.x
Not to mention that I need to get laid. Ladies? Eh? Eh? U_U
It's truly a cold day in hell. Even with all my love for Apple Computers and the Mac OS I still can't justify the extra cost right now in creating a new DAW system for myself on the Mac platform. For the cost of a refurbed G5 that was top of the line 6 months ago with NO upgraded features and no monitor I could build an ABSOLUTE top of the line screaming fast, loaded with features PC.
Since I'm such a dork, here's the comparison. For $2500 I can either get:
Apple G5 dual 2.7GHz (refurbished)
512 MB of PC2 4200 RAM
250 GB SATA hard drive
3 PCI slots
Gigabit ethernet port
Housed in standard Alumanim G5 tower
3 year warranty
Or I can get...
Intel Pentium D Dual Core 3.0GHz
2 GB of PC2 6400 RAM
300 GB SATA system drive
Dual 74 GB Raptor 10,000 RPM SATA drives in RAID 0 for audio
SIIG PCIE firewire card (digidesign approved)
3 empty PCI slots
Dual flat panel displays
Dual Gigabit ethernet ports
Housed in a 4space rackmounted case
With THAT much difference in systems... it's undeniable. PLUS, the PCI cards that I want to add in later for more processing power don't work well with the chipset on that G5 model. And on the G5 unless I want to put in a PCI card I'm stuck using the built in firewire, which on my iMac I often get errors that the firewire bus couldn't keep up. So, yeah.... I'm building a PC. It's gonna be a MONSTER. I'm excited about it. I can't wait to mix it, and it'll be housed conveniently in my rack. Plus I found some cool aftermarket Macs at good prices, so I'll probably keep one around for my own personal use and just use the PC for the audio. That computer is going to be insane.
My face has been kinda dry. Somebody gave me lotion. It smells like vanilla. So now I want to eat my face.
Only 48 more work hours to go before my week is over... then I work 2 more days past that. Come next monday, I'll have worked 25 of the past 26 days. Fuck I can't wait to vacation. x.x
Not to mention that I need to get laid. Ladies? Eh? Eh? U_U