Scottish Samurai

So I swear this is more due to a lack of actually updating about upgrades then any actual crazy purchases, but I finally now have my dream editing machine (well I will with a few tiny upgrades). Anyway due to the luck of the job I have, they had an internal auction for old laptops they were getting rid of due to upgrades. I didn't think much of it at the time when I looked as I thought they prices would go crazy high. However on the last day I took a gander and noticed a 2012 Macbook Pro 15" was still sitting at $400. So I jumped in. With one small bid, I was able to secure it for $415 easily and can't be happier. The specs did say a failing a hard drive but I already wanted to throw in a SSD anyway so didn't mind at all. The nice specs of this machine I think make it my most powerful machine yet. It has a quad core i7 2.3 Ghz CPU which clocks in on the geek bench over 10,000 which makes it about a little more 1000 more then my old iMac 27". It came with 16gb o...

Hey Folks, won't even go into how long it has been but as tradition, a new gaming machine means a new blog post. Normally I would post if I had upgraded my main computer with something amazing. However my old 2010 iMac is still a beast so I have yet to need to do anything with it. In the mean time Macbook Air and a Macbook Pro have done well to fill any other voids I might have. This being said today I got probably the first time, a fully operational gaming machine. It is not like a  typical gaming machine however. I don't have a huge case, or 2 GPU with i7 whatever in it. Instead i got an Alienware Alpha. This thing takes up less space then a Xbox, or PS4 yet punches even harder. It has a 2 GB Nvidia card in it paired with 8 GB of Ram, and a 250 SSD. It only has a i3 processor but this is a machine meant for games. It is not meant to destroy frame rates, or edit movies however compared to the 2010 1 GB ATI card in my iMac it can beat the pants off of it for sure. I have yet ...