And That Makes Three

The end is nigh, I am now an owner of an IMac. I know, I have disappointed you all but you know what as a future film director it is kinda important. I still have my old Laptop and it is still in good working order, just was starting to show its age a little bit. Though this is far from the main reason as in reality I need a computer that can do Final Cut Pro (Or Studio whatever it is called these days) and well my old laptop couldn't. Now I will tell you though that this new IMac well is probably the biggest update I have ever done before, it being quite a powerhouse inside of it.

The Specs
2.9 Ghz I7 processor
4 GB of Ram
1 Gb of dedicated video on a ATI HD 5750
oh and a giant 27 inch screen

Yep pretty big step up from what I had, and well since I am a filmmaker I am going to need it. The only part I am a little unhappy about is the 4GB of ram but luckily Apple is smart enough to realize that putting expansion ability into at least ram is handy. Thus hopefully I will be able to add another 4 to that. The powerhouse of the computer I must say is just amazing, and the screen my god does my jaw still drop every time I walk into my room. I was playing some Half Life 2 (thank you Vavle) on it and my god does it look so pretty! Eventually I am going to bootcamp it so that way I can still doing gaming as well but School always has that nasty problem of coming in the way. The only other problem I have had is that so far the computer has frozen three times on me in two days. I am kinda used to that with a new computer just getting to know each other but for Mac which likes to say it is crash proof, well I have proved them wrong.

I had hoped to include a picture of the computer but well I don't really know where IPhoto saved the picture yet...
Next post will have it, trust me. From a former and still proud PC user to a now Mac user I say goodbye.

Ross Campbell

P.S. The whole Vavle putting Steam on Mac will be my next post as there is many things to say about it.

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