Since when am I a Mac snob?

As some may know, I pride myself on being an equal appreciator of both Windows and Macintosh operating system.  I have the Mac Mini which I do most of my computing on, and an XP laptop.  Lately I’ve been writing a lot of papers and doing a lot of work (i.e. anything other than watching fansubs and movies and chatting) on my mac over my laptop.  So today I go into lab and I’m typing up directions in word on the sucktastic Dell boxes.  I finish and look at it and think “Good god that’s ugly”.

Since when am I so spoiled by things being pretty?  Since when am I a Mac snob?

How many hard drives makes too many hard drives?

Let me start off with one fact: I love my Mac Mini.

Let me add in another fact: I don’t think it’s perfect.

As a college student I am subjected to an insane amount and insanely tiny apartments. The Mini fits me well for many things, and I wouldn’t change it to a G5 or iMac for anything. However, it has draw backs that range from irritating to it needing to die.

My main issue is the lack of USB ports. Oh, another fact to throw on the table: Apple? I hate you for removing firewire support on the 5G iPods. The Mini is great as a basic little student computer, and I can deal with the lag when I open up Illustrator and Photoshop together. What makes me wish that I had a bigger computer? I’m a media packrat. Music, movies, photos, fansubs, you name it. My mini only has an 80GB hard drive which is barely enough memory for all my apps and my music. I have no room for all my video to be kept on it.

When I opened up the stats widget I had to laugh when I saw this and just had to laugh.

So I have to ask: how many hard drives does it take to count as too many hard drives?

Added bonus, my pathetic setup.

Google answer session 10/20/06

Yup, another google answer session!

pioneer ipod controller sucks
Well, I wouldn’t say it sucks, but you do have a point that it could be better.

“you got me”
Boo!!!!!!

how to take off a ipod faceplate
My dear, iPods do not have faceplates, they have….the thing that is the front of the player. Your search should have been “how to open ipod” and the answer would be “guitar pick”, or at least back in the day it was. The mini (and I guess the new nanos) are a bit sketchy to open…so ya. Either way, iPods do not have faceplates. *ahem* IPODS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY!!!!111!!

send photo cingular cripple motorola
You might assume that cingular crippled moto phones for this feature, but nay, it is simply a bit cracked out to figure out how to do. Reference your manual, you basically have to use the ‘copy’ function.

iPod Integration for Volkswagen jetta
AVOID!!! It’s all about the aftermarket baby.

Review of the past few weeks

I haven’t written for a while due to school, netflix, tivo, and reptile conventions.  However, this does not mean that I have been neglecting my blogs.  I’ve kept up, of a fashion, but just haven’t quite felt as if anything that interesting has happened to require a post.

Okay, okay, the new ipod nano, I got it.

To recap the last few weeks:

Apple’s going to kick ass no matter what.
There’s a new nano, I hate it less, but at least no one can sue due to the lack of shinyness.  The only exception: 8GB in a few mm?  Props.
Sandisk is going to own like whoa at second place.
Creative is going to fall, although I don’t see how they could get any worse at this point.
Samsung…well…you still suck.
Dell and HP are whores, but we knew this long ago.
The PS3 will be expensive, but what isn’t?
Grandmothers across the country will be confused as to their grandchildrens’ requests to urinate for Christmas.
OMG of the thousands they’ve sold your laptop is defective?  Ya, welcome to technology, get over it.
If you own a laptop, you might want to donate some sperm because your laptop will most likely fry your manhood.
Speaking of which, of all the reports of blowing up batteries, how come everyone’s lucked out and not received fried genitalia?
If myspace was a bar, you’d….well, insert something vulgar about molasses.
Facebook is becoming big brother, again, we knew this long ago.
OMG people can readz your infoz onlinez!!!  Excuse me, but may I slap you upside the head for not understanding that which is reality?  Get over it.
Zune dropped like a bomb because it sucked, not that Apple somehow has the hand of death up its ass.  It sucked.  Get over it.

More updates soon, I promise!

Ok Creative, you got me

http://sg.creative.com/corporate/pressroom/releases/welcome.asp?pid=12591

I had previously questioned the existence of Creative’s balls.  Well, today they finally answered.

60GB? Check.
Video formats for the common man? Check.
Memory card reader? Check.
Widescreen? Check.
Radio/Music store compatibility? Check.
Pretty?  Check.
Price to make sure you look at their other models first?  Check.

Damn.  If I were in the market right now, I’d run over my 5G60GB and buy the hell out of this player.  Seriously.  I’m known for hating Creative players, but so far it looks like they got this one right.  Now, lesse where that price ends up for black friday.  So far I’m not seeing this as an ipod killer, being as the price takes many out of the game, but def as a Zune killer.  Well, it’s shaping up that anything could be a Zune killer.

Google roundup:

“apple ass”

 Ahh…I’m in love.

Movies for purchase in itunes…and then?

http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/lions-gate-ceo-confirms-itunes-movie-downloads/

Movies on iTunes, I was so totally right last year.

Oh come on, you knew they had to do it. Just as there are apparently people who will spend $2 on music videos, I’m sure there are people willing to shell out the big bucks for renting movies on their ipods.

Every week we hear about new contracts for TV shows to be made available for purchase in the iTunes music store, and every time I flip open a magazine I see an ad telling me to download a new show’s pilot episode for free from iTunes. It will be interesting to see their method of DRM as well as their price point for the movies, but my general reaction to this is “Why took you so long?”.

To quote an old drive thru lady: …and then?

Wireless age my butt

So I’m moving in two days, and I always pack up my comptuer stuff first so as nothing gets lost.  My last few moves I had a whole bunch of random boxes of computer stuff but as I moved I found that the boxes migrated around thus causing much chaos and chord loss.

This time I just got one long tub thing that’s meant for rolling under a bed frame or such.  Pretty much everything fit in around my monitor.  Yay!  Don’t worry, the 2405fpw is in there upside down on top of a very squishy towel. 

Google searches roundup

WordPress tells me what google searches link here, and so far here are my favorites…

stupid cheap lcd monitors
very expensive car audio
sim cards what breaks them
can you exchange sim cards in a verizon (this one made me giggle)
cingular verizon sim cards
missing testicle (this linked to my post about sony missing a testicle because they were opening up formats)

Ahh…I should make this a tuesday tradition.

Mac Pro: what, no middle name?

Mac Pro, needing no other nouns, debuted only a few days ago with a cry of “Umm…it’s still silver boys.”  Okay, that might have been my first impression, but I’m sure there are others who would have liked to see some sort of face-lift.  The guts, without question, have been changed for what initial views would say much the better.

The outer case looks quite the same, but the guts have been revamped for expandability as well as the obvious proc and company improvements.

Still gigantic though.

What’s amazing is that for a similar prebuilt PC, this new Mac Pro is by far cheaper than its Dell peer and filling in that price gap fits an Apple LCD monitor.  A recently posted shootout pits the two together.  I’m sure there are people who would still go towards the Dell, something you should not take me for being angered or disappointed over, but reviews like these are essential for people to read to make a proper decision. 

The world is going to hell, truly.