I am beginning to feel that the Universe is conspiring to keep me away from my photographs. This weekend, we took the kids on a spur-of-the-moment getaway to the beach at Gulf Shores… using my parents’ house as a base. On their computer, I was able to see some of the photos from the end of the trip that hadn’t been deleted from one of the memory cards. It was a shock to see how different they looked on a decent monitor (as opposed to my laptop) and I vowed not to touch them until I could view them decently.
Paul was going to let me view and organize this afternoon on his computer, but for some reason the thing is off the home network and I can’t get to the archive. He’s only gone for an hour or so in a meeting, so it was my one window of opportunity. There are still many pictures I haven’t seen yet, myself. I’ll petition him to let me borrow one of his four (yes, four, apparently, developers need an entire wall of monitors to work — genius requires desktop space, I guess) monitors and hook it up to my laptop tonight.
The exciting news is that we’re resigned to (FINALLY) get an Apple (no, it probably won’t be a new-hotness, nor will it be a laptop — my 6 year old $500 workhorse is doing fine). This desktop would be mine to primarily use for photo and video stuff and I’m thrilled. It’s a heck of a big move for us to consider this within the scope of us loosing $5000-$6000 on the shitty tile job and with the expenses hitting us in the next few months, but we’re reaching critical mass and something is going to give if we don’t move forward a bit. I’m excited about the upgrade but dreading moving to another machine, since I’ve used this one for years with no need of re-boot or cleaning. (What can I say? When Paul fixes up a machine, it WORKS.)
Moving on to other conspiracies… Michael Stipe no longer puts our children to sleep on car rides. Granted, they WERE calm and quiet and on the way to sleep when Paul reached back and put his hand on Will’s leg, so there is a chance that this disturbance interfered with the typical results. Last night, 2 of the 2.5 hours drive from Mobile to NOLA was spent with cranky kids driving us crazy.
jenny | 09-Jun-08 at 11:49 am | Permalink
out of curiosity, why not a laptop? the macbook pro monitors are very nice, and they do take up less space than a desktop.
i still have my 12″ G4 from law school (5 years old now), and it’s loaded with photoediting software and other graphic design goodies. unless you’re going to be doing some hardcore graphics processing, do you really need the power of a tower? (or are you thinking of an imac?)
hah! i just looked at the apple store website to compare prices – it’s down, likely due to WWDC.
Cold Spaghetti | 09-Jun-08 at 11:57 am | Permalink
I’d *love* a macbook, or macbook pro, but we’re leaning against that idea for a few reasons… one is that my current laptop is a workhorse and it feels funny to justify the extra cash when it’s not necessary. (Granted, the thing is 6-7 years old and has no battery, but still.) The other reason is that Paul is starting a new job soon and may negotiate a macbook pro as his work machine.
Yup, we’re thinking IMac. Maybe even something re-furb (which is how we buy all of our computers, typically) unless the student discount and buying new makes more sense. We looked at some used stuff locally and didn’t really see anything worth it.
Apple store went down this morning… we’ve been monitoring it to see what happens when it comes back up. 🙂
Poists | 10-Jun-08 at 3:54 pm | Permalink
Wyatt purchased the apple desktop over the laptop recently. You might want to reach out to him to get his insight.
The student discount at Apple is rather stingy (in my opinion) as it usually doesn’t apply to anything useful nor is it really saving any money by purchasing directly from them.
However, if you participate in Upromise you get 1% of purchase price towards the college fund which is nice!