/dev/etc 14 Dec 2007 09:18 am
New Mac Yay
After about 1.5 years of minor graphics card artifacting and the occasional failure, my G5 of 2 years finally killed itself the other day, in the form of permanent heat damage to the graphics card. Yes, this once mighty Xbox 360 dev kit (for about a year before I owned it) would have found its only hope in a new graphics card, which looked like it would have run about $350 (yay, now-ancient AGP-bus).
While my PCs still work fine, I looked around some more and there just isn’t anything that would get me my video-editing-and-music-busting-out abilities like I’d get on the Mac (Final Cut Pro and Garage Band, honestly). I opted instead to replace the G5 with a Mac Mini (came to $700 after my $100 iPhone credit).
For a computer that is roughly 1/20th the size of the G5 tower, I’ve been unreasonably impressed with it so far. I find it pretty incredible that with Connect360 I can stream Xvid off of my smaller-than-a-wii computer to my Xbox 360, which is like, way over there. I’ll just have to do The Right Thing and bump up its hard drive and RAM (although I won’t do this soon if it will void my warranty).
At the moment, I’m using my G5 as a firewire hard drive, which is DEFINITELY the weirdest computer to external hard drive size ratio I’ve ever seen.
on 14 Dec 2007 at 12:40 pm 1.jack said …
Maybe to celebrate the completion of the upcoming puppet we can bust out the green screens.
on 20 Dec 2007 at 4:30 pm 2.Sean said …
You should gut the G5 tower, and sit the mac mini inside of it, allowing it to wear it’s defeated foe as a suit.
on 11 Jan 2008 at 12:52 pm 3.chris said …
I’m still patiently waiting for that “best-of” list
I sincerely hope Super Mario Galaxy made that final list, because DAMN have I been having some fun playing that beast.
on 13 Jan 2008 at 3:03 am 4.Marc said …
Hello!! I noticed you had a Mac die on you, so I was wondering… Ok, like, my last three PC’s I’ve built myself. So, I’ve put in all the components that I want, great speed, memory, storage, etc. I do digital animation, design, photography, etc., all the Adobe products and many more. My question is, would you switch to a Mac? All my friends are doing Mac now, and it seems to be the way to go given the 8-core Mac Pros that are out. I’ve been on XP for years with no problems… I don’t want to research a whole new PC again now & its components, thought the Mac Pro would suffice with a nice RAM upgrade from basic model. Your thoughts kid sir??
on 25 Jan 2008 at 3:04 pm 5.mike! said …
Still awaiting the best of list as well…
Also, I’ve been incredibly loving the full digital orgasmic pants explodo-orgyfest that is Mass Effect. Almost done with my second play through!
Annnd… where are the “Ben-15 Club” shirts?