I see a lot of people blaming Apple for this one...........
This is a quote from within another current SlashDot thread........
"Considering Microsoft is still in the process of patching Vista, including a major patch issued just as Vista went out the door, can we really stick all the blame on Nvidia? "
I'll quote the first line from that thread...""Nvidia is facing a class action lawsuit for false advertising by not providing stable working drivers for Vista "
Perhaps Apple is having troubles with the just released patches for Vista as Microsoft is still trying, [struggling perhaps...], to make Vista a fully working release ????? I hope folks aren't having too much problems with their Nvidia hardware under Vista as well as their iPods..........
I suppose having to sue over Vista performance with nVidia hardware shows what the situation is with the recent Vista release.
So it's not just the iPods that are choking over Vista.............
You are not supposed to be educated enough to know about this and other cities that have been under water for hundreds to thoughands of years.
The Movement needs you to be less well informed, or you would be asking questions about how the world returning to the same general temperatures as we had in the 1200's could be a bad thing.
Or how they did reduce world wide temperatures when they had NO major industy, NOR any dangerous air-conditioning chemicals as are blamed for the rise of temps today........
You are just supposed to give your money to those that were before panicing about enterring a new Ice Age and are now trying to panic you about Global Warming..........
We would be well advised to dust off the LBJ year's research on orbital solar power stations. They proposed one for the US at that time that would completely meet our total electrical needs. They stopped the project saying it would be too expensive at $50-Billions.
I'll bet we could now afford to build one or two power-sat's for the USA and a few more for the rest of the world.
The price would be higher. But we could save more than we need by cutting-out burning oil and go mainly electric instead.
Give me Power-Sat's and new-tech Nuke-power plants and you'll see the use of oil as a fuel go down to almost ZERO !!!!
It seems those that want to tax oil are only out for the money and the power of control over others. They simply don't want to replace their sources of income by bringing on-line the replacements for oil.
Heck-------- crack the Moho and run the power plants on free geo-thermo energy as a stop-gap.
We all have trillions-squared of Kilo-Watts of power under our individual feet. Use some Magma to steam-power electric turbines.
DON'T JUST TAX OIL............ INSTEAD GO FOR MAKING THE REPLACEMENTS AVAILABLE TODAY!!!!
But I am waiting for the makers to put out camcorders that have REMOVABLE hard-drives.
You just have to look just a bit further out and you'll see the market eventually giving us those tiny hard drives in a universal REMOVABLE SATA mount, and Camcorders built to use them.
I really like the form-factor of the Samsung [sp?] all electronic camcorder that is about half the size of a pack of cigarettes, has a tethered second video head.......... BUT ONLY USES DIGITAL CARDS........... Which give a person 12 minutes of recording at highest settings......... Just doesn't cut it when I am used to 2-hour 8 mm. tapes.
If they would just advance the design to use any sort of removable hard drive, I would buy one in a minute !!!
On the Samsung, it would be adding just a fraction of an inch to the very thin cross-section of the body.
I sure do like the potential of the new HDTV Sonys.
But I'm sure waiting for the merging of the tiny camcorders with removable drives before I replace my present tape based non-HDTV camcorder .
Come on Samsung, Sony, and the rest of you makers; put those separate features together as a new standard design for camcorders and you'll have a major flood of new customers.
I have long preferred to hope that while the library burned down, it's contents were/will be/are in the future some several hundreds of years from now; where time-technology will have plucked them to..........
Give the universities a time retrieval or just plain clear-viewing past-time tool on the level of an electronic microscope that so very many have......... and all sorts of known 'lost' artifacts will be gathered, or at least very closely viewed and studied.
Both WERE the market leaders and the bulk of the current technological practice. They were everywhere and the tools for the job. They were the market..........
Until they were at fisrt slowly replaced by faster, more effecient, and much better engineered solutions to the same jobs, and then almost completely vanished in a matter of a few years.
No matter how much of any market that any technology possesses; it -will- be very quickly replaced by better.
I like running TuboNavigator and Windows-DOpus on windows, and do wish I had the like for Mac.
Although I understand I can find similar files managers and run them under unix while still running Mac-OS.......... as near as I understand.
After using both Windows and Macs for the last ten years, and other makes before then......... I find that the re-boots from installs are much longer and more annoying with Windows.
I have stayed away from Linux over concerns about having to re-compile the modules to OS upgrades.
The occasional, swift re-boots from new installs seem to be much less of a bother.
The windows/linux mac/linux points that the thread has reached is... interesting.
I just bought a Linux user/developer mag that bundles one of the latest distro's and has links to triple booting the new Macs.
That gives me a Mac/Windows/Linux MacBook as soon as I max the memory and replace the stock hard drive with a much larger one.......... say in a couple of weeks.......
I don't see any truth in the claimed Mac problem parts comments. There's no problem ordering any parts for any of the Macs from a good number of places on The Web. They are quite low priced since they are obsolete parts for out-of-production models. I've looked from time to time, but I've never needed to actually buy any of that.
I've had home computers since 1981. I've had a few Macs and a few Windows machines since 1996. NONE of them have died on me. The only problems I've seen are Windows somehow loosing it's drivers or it's realization that it has hardware like the cd-drivers I've had get forgotten a few times under Windows.
Now since that 1996, I've have Windows crash on me and needing re-installation over 50 times, almost all in the old W98-W98se years. So far I've only experienced Win2k and XP damaging some of the programs and losing knowledge of it's existing hardware.; about 10-12 times so far.
Now on the Mac side....... way back in the Mac-OS8 seriers, I did a silly thing and damaged the OS. I re-installed just the OS and moved back the preference and extention files from the damaged OS and absolutely everything worked fine again.
Which really surprised me when I acidentally clicked on a program that was stored on a differtn hard drive, away from where it was before the crash on the main drive. It was in a storage folder that was meant to be a reminded of what I needed to still re-install after the crash. I was very shocked that all of those uncertain programs that were moved to storage were actually working programs, even after being renested and relocated to an isolated folder on a second drive.
That was several years ago and I've had no problems with the Mac hardware or software other than that. It sure would be nice if I can one day have a ten year track record like I've had with Mac, for my Windows experience as well.
I may be moving to multiple OS systems that contain Windows. I don't expect to be using Windows very much. But I will be retiring my up to date Windows-only computers after I get my MacPro desktop going in the coming Spring.
That's not quite right............ I'll keep one as a game machine for at least a while, and one more for cad/cam to run a couple of cnc-systems. It would be more accurate to say that I am downgrading them to lessor duties.
They all will be connected to my wireless home-net and in contact with my serious multiple OS IntelMacs.......... even my year old G4-MacMini that I expect to keep using for at least a couple of more years as a living room, internet browser and multi-media hub.
I wonder what I replace that with in 2-3 years. I suspect it will be one more multi-OS IntelMac for the house..........
I think I'll see the track record continue of blue-screens and crashes under only one of those OS's...........
I suspect anyone experiencing a Mac-Windows system will notice the same pattern.
And THAT is what will cut into Dell's market share!!!
Chiltons, the diy car repair book folks, took a plain ordinary Pinto Wagon. They changed the fuel system over to diesel and replace the gas engine with a similar sized Toyota Marine diesel.
Same car, same curb weights............ But now it was a 75 MPG vehicle that still could move well on the Autobann.
By 1981 I was driving a nicely set-up Dodge 024 with a VW-block 1.7-l engine and the required catalytic converter and the rest of the needed anti-polution gear. It was a quite nice 2-door hatchback with a sun-roof.
That car did 55mpg on the highway........... I raced her up to 85 mph on the Trans-Canadian highway out in the boonies.
She was fast enough and quick enough for me. Not the most fast, but still very responsive, accelerated nicely, and fun to drive.
Today.... I don't know why I can't buy a 75 mpg Diesel small car........ when they can be easily built. I also have no polite idea why I can't buy a similar 55 mpg small car like was an ordinary vehicle 25 years ago........
Historically, we switched from Edison's vision of DC power plants to Tesla's demonstrated AC power distribution because AC can be sent over the wires for several hundreds of miles; while DC can only reach about 3 miles in transmission.
They soon concluded that having power plants every three to six miles would be darned near impossible......... Although it was tried at first........
So we send it in AC to conserve the transmission and convert it to DC, very close to where it will actually be used.
It is one the first examples of massive energy conservation.
" OS X is the opposite. It is high margin, high sytle, and slick. It is perfect for the brand-concious, reasonably wealthy, consumer who wants everything to work together easily."
It's also perfect for this simple working man that wants the system to allow him to create without periodically needing to salvage the OS like I must do with Windows.
I've worked with a great many OS's since 1980. My best trouble-free years were with the Amiga-OS. I find that Mac-OS is the closest I've come to that sort of reliable, well-engineered, and trouble-free OS.
I ain't rich, nor well to do............ But entry level Mac's have made me quite well tooled-up.
" I might -NOT- be a hard core gamer. But I'm looking forward to having the creation software from both Mac and Windows on the one system. "
The closest I got running Linux was several years of Amiga operation. At least I'm not afraid of running linux because of my '80's computing experiences. The only thing that keeps me away from Linux are the comments I've seen about compiling the OS to run on a system.
At any rate, I'm looking forward to a multi-OS system that allows me to use any computer tool I wish, regardless of it's preferred OS. It's like a return to my old Amiga with it's Windows and Mac emulations.
It seems that is finally quite well perfected with the new IntelMacs. The mutliple boot Linux systems are there as well. I just like to have the full range of Mac software in the mix as well.
This seems to be what I tried to have with the Amiga, back then..........
I'm getting a mid-range IntelMac tower and expect to run Mac-OS, Windows 2000, and some linux on it as well.
I'm planning to move all of my Windows stuff over to the new machine as well as my still in use Mac stuff.
Heck, I'm waiting to hear that the now-Linux-loaded Amiga will make the transistion to the IntelMac as well.
I'll have a dozen or so Windows games available as well as both flavors of Sms and Sims2 Mac/Windows. I might be a hard core gamer. But I'm looking forward to having the creation software from both Mac and Windows on the one system.
That and some sweet working high-end graphics and pic to 3d machinable objects software that spreads across both platforms.
I know others have been more active than I. I'm a little amazed at the systems I've run through at home, and still have here.
My first was a TI-1000, added ram-pack, keyboard, software/hardware pack for word processer, tacked on Epson 9-pin printer. 1982... I needed to decide between a, electric typewriter and a word processer set-up. The computer won. 2nd. C-64 with tape drive until disk drives came out a few months later. 3rd. C-128...expanded 4th. Amiga 500.. expanded 5th. Amiga 2000.... gradually expanded and updated greatly, Epson printer finally died... Installed hard drives and cd-drive myself. 5.5th included Mac emulator in A-2000 [Mac os 7.3 ?] 6th. Mac Performa 6320, finally something with cd-drive included 7th. Celeron 400 8th. Mac Sawtooth G4 to run versus failing Windows graphics software [being updated with new dvd-rw and much faster cpu together with much larger hard drives.] 9th AMD-1000 9.5th Amithlon.Amiga emulator added to AMD-1000 [also works in #13 ] 10th. G3-300 iBook [in creamsycle tangerine] 11th. AMD-3000 12th. MacMini.
Spares from buying for others and returning here later
13. T/I-1000... forced to take with swap meet mono-chorme yellow I needed 14th. CBM C-128 for nephew 15th. Amiga 3000 for Mom 16th Compaq 500 for mom..[still out there] 17th Compaq 750 for other nephew
Current actives...#'s 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 All wireless hubbed including Roadrunner.
returning to service with upgrades, #17
Eyes on new medium Mac late this year, new top of line Mac sometime next year, new or newer iBook before this summer to gps and set-up for road-tripping and photo-archiving on road trips.
#'s 11 and 12 are KVM'd with wireless peripherals in living room as general Web and game systems.. will get video projector included in next few months Upgraded #'s 8,9 are similar as the serious set-up upstairs. More than fast enouogh for cad and graphics. Mac cpu upgrade will made video work worthwhile. Several still and video scanners, camera's, still-video input/output hardware, plus a 3d scanner and modest 3d-mill with the seroius set-up. CNC-mill going in the basement, adding or moving a PC down there for control and general use. Possible Mac KVM there later. Earning my way to a paid-off laser mill, do have photo-etch gear to get into action. Work flow from serious-set to work-set with a pic to 3d cad to final 2d etching/3d machining process flow.
I propose getting the 3 newer systems over the next 18 months. Only the high-end Mac is conditional. Must have enough income from the shop to justify getting that system. Business plan appears modest and quite possibly very sure thing.
I've always have maxed the ram and up-sized the hard drives on a year or more basis ojn my active systems
Thinking back to before my 1970 High Scholl graduation. Where the closest I got to a personal PC was window shopping and a little trial of $4000 membrane key-boarded PET's..... I never believed I could get the sort of creative and entertainment power that is today's home computer.
To be able to assemble a pic through cad to real world object work-flow to make miniatures that others aren't yet making for me, is something I never thought I could get into my hands as I was going through my school years.
Loose side goal for illustration; Take the 3d files for4 the Sims1 Old Town trolley bus, convert to machined scale model in real world with converted R/C table-top car/truck mechanism in it........... Reverse 3d object files for PD Sci-Fi Hover-cars files, and re-do as Sims2 'drivable' , in-game personal car..........
You gotta love the possible interconnects and the ease of going back and forth between the various prototyping, model-building, Computer-Generation, and pic to 3d objects programs and hardware we have access to today.
Back before the T/S-1000 was created, I never dreamed the interconnected set-up I have today could ever be possible in my lifetime.
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I see a lot of people blaming Apple for this one...........
This is a quote from within another current SlashDot thread........
"Considering Microsoft is still in the process of patching Vista, including a major patch issued just as Vista went out the door, can we really stick all the blame on Nvidia? "
I'll quote the first line from that thread...""Nvidia is facing a class action lawsuit for false advertising by not providing stable working drivers for Vista "
Perhaps Apple is having troubles with the just released patches for Vista as Microsoft is still trying, [struggling perhaps...], to make Vista a fully working release ????? I hope folks aren't having too much problems with their Nvidia hardware under Vista as well as their iPods..........
I suppose having to sue over Vista performance with nVidia hardware shows what the situation is with the recent Vista release.
So it's not just the iPods that are choking over Vista.............
'Port Royal?'
You are not supposed to be educated enough to know about this and other cities that have been under water for hundreds to thoughands of years.
The Movement needs you to be less well informed, or you would be asking questions about how the world returning to the same general temperatures as we had in the 1200's could be a bad thing.
Or how they did reduce world wide temperatures when they had NO major industy, NOR any dangerous air-conditioning chemicals as are blamed for the rise of temps today........
You are just supposed to give your money to those that were before panicing about enterring a new Ice Age and are now trying to panic you about Global Warming..........
We would be well advised to dust off the LBJ year's research on orbital solar power stations. They proposed one for the US at that time that would completely meet our total electrical needs. They stopped the project saying it would be too expensive at $50-Billions.
I'll bet we could now afford to build one or two power-sat's for the USA and a few more for the rest of the world.
The price would be higher. But we could save more than we need by cutting-out burning oil and go mainly electric instead.
Give me Power-Sat's and new-tech Nuke-power plants and you'll see the use of oil as a fuel go down to almost ZERO !!!!
It seems those that want to tax oil are only out for the money and the power of control over others. They simply don't want to replace their sources of income by bringing on-line the replacements for oil.
Heck-------- crack the Moho and run the power plants on free geo-thermo energy as a stop-gap.
We all have trillions-squared of Kilo-Watts of power under our individual feet. Use some Magma to steam-power electric turbines.
DON'T JUST TAX OIL............ INSTEAD GO FOR MAKING THE REPLACEMENTS AVAILABLE TODAY!!!!
I don't know about most people.........
But I am waiting for the makers to put out camcorders that have REMOVABLE hard-drives.
You just have to look just a bit further out and you'll see the market eventually giving us those tiny hard drives in a universal REMOVABLE SATA mount, and Camcorders built to use them.
I really like the form-factor of the Samsung [sp?] all electronic camcorder that is about half the size of a pack of cigarettes, has a tethered second video head.......... BUT ONLY USES DIGITAL CARDS........... Which give a person 12 minutes of recording at highest settings......... Just doesn't cut it when I am used to 2-hour 8 mm. tapes.
If they would just advance the design to use any sort of removable hard drive, I would buy one in a minute !!!
On the Samsung, it would be adding just a fraction of an inch to the very thin cross-section of the body.
I sure do like the potential of the new HDTV Sonys.
But I'm sure waiting for the merging of the tiny camcorders with removable drives before I replace my present tape based non-HDTV camcorder .
Come on Samsung, Sony, and the rest of you makers; put those separate features together as a new standard design for camcorders and you'll have a major flood of new customers.
RE; The Alexander library burning...........
I have long preferred to hope that while the library burned down, it's contents were/will be/are in the future some several hundreds of years from now; where time-technology will have plucked them to..........
Give the universities a time retrieval or just plain clear-viewing past-time tool on the level of an electronic microscope that so very many have......... and all sorts of known 'lost' artifacts will be gathered, or at least very closely viewed and studied.
Compare it to history........
Steam locomotives and Clipper Ships..........
Both WERE the market leaders and the bulk of the current technological practice. They were everywhere and the tools for the job. They were the market..........
Until they were at fisrt slowly replaced by faster, more effecient, and much better engineered solutions to the same jobs, and then almost completely vanished in a matter of a few years.
No matter how much of any market that any technology possesses; it -will- be very quickly replaced by better.
You forgot to include the usual 'Man will NEVER fly' conclusion to your response.
I like running TuboNavigator and Windows-DOpus on windows, and do wish I had the like for Mac.
Although I understand I can find similar files managers and run them under unix while still running Mac-OS.......... as near as I understand.
After using both Windows and Macs for the last ten years, and other makes before then......... I find that the re-boots from installs are much longer and more annoying with Windows.
I have stayed away from Linux over concerns about having to re-compile the modules to OS upgrades.
The occasional, swift re-boots from new installs seem to be much less of a bother.
best to ya,
Mike Bauers
The windows/linux mac/linux points that the thread has reached is ... interesting.
I just bought a Linux user/developer mag that bundles one of the latest distro's and has links to triple booting the new Macs.
That gives me a Mac/Windows/Linux MacBook as soon as I max the memory and replace the stock hard drive with a much larger one.......... say in a couple of weeks.......
I don't see any truth in the claimed Mac problem parts comments. There's no problem ordering any parts for any of the Macs from a good number of places on The Web. They are quite low priced since they are obsolete parts for out-of-production models. I've looked from time to time, but I've never needed to actually buy any of that.
I've had home computers since 1981. I've had a few Macs and a few Windows machines since 1996. NONE of them have died on me. The only problems I've seen are Windows somehow loosing it's drivers or it's realization that it has hardware like the cd-drivers I've had get forgotten a few times under Windows.
Now since that 1996, I've have Windows crash on me and needing re-installation over 50 times, almost all in the old W98-W98se years. So far I've only experienced Win2k and XP damaging some of the programs and losing knowledge of it's existing hardware.; about 10-12 times so far.
Now on the Mac side....... way back in the Mac-OS8 seriers, I did a silly thing and damaged the OS. I re-installed just the OS and moved back the preference and extention files from the damaged OS and absolutely everything worked fine again.
Which really surprised me when I acidentally clicked on a program that was stored on a differtn hard drive, away from where it was before the crash on the main drive. It was in a storage folder that was meant to be a reminded of what I needed to still re-install after the crash. I was very shocked that all of those uncertain programs that were moved to storage were actually working programs, even after being renested and relocated to an isolated folder on a second drive.
That was several years ago and I've had no problems with the Mac hardware or software other than that. It sure would be nice if I can one day have a ten year track record like I've had with Mac, for my Windows experience as well.
I may be moving to multiple OS systems that contain Windows. I don't expect to be using Windows very much. But I will be retiring my up to date Windows-only computers after I get my MacPro desktop going in the coming Spring.
That's not quite right............ I'll keep one as a game machine for at least a while, and one more for cad/cam to run a couple of cnc-systems. It would be more accurate to say that I am downgrading them to lessor duties.
They all will be connected to my wireless home-net and in contact with my serious multiple OS IntelMacs.......... even my year old G4-MacMini that I expect to keep using for at least a couple of more years as a living room, internet browser and multi-media hub.
I wonder what I replace that with in 2-3 years. I suspect it will be one more multi-OS IntelMac for the house..........
I think I'll see the track record continue of blue-screens and crashes under only one of those OS's...........
I suspect anyone experiencing a Mac-Windows system will notice the same pattern.
And THAT is what will cut into Dell's market share!!!
Best to ya,
Mike Bauers
That's because people have grown to expect this type of quality from Dell.
They are not used to seeing the like from Apple.
In the mid-70's........
Chiltons, the diy car repair book folks, took a plain ordinary Pinto Wagon. They changed the fuel system over to diesel and replace the gas engine with a similar sized Toyota Marine diesel.
Same car, same curb weights............ But now it was a 75 MPG vehicle that still could move well on the Autobann.
By 1981 I was driving a nicely set-up Dodge 024 with a VW-block 1.7-l engine and the required catalytic converter and the rest of the needed anti-polution gear. It was a quite nice 2-door hatchback with a sun-roof.
That car did 55mpg on the highway........... I raced her up to 85 mph on the Trans-Canadian highway out in the boonies.
She was fast enough and quick enough for me. Not the most fast, but still very responsive, accelerated nicely, and fun to drive.
Today.... I don't know why I can't buy a 75 mpg Diesel small car........ when they can be easily built. I also have no polite idea why I can't buy a similar 55 mpg small car like was an ordinary vehicle 25 years ago........
Historically, we switched from Edison's vision of DC power plants to Tesla's demonstrated AC power distribution because AC can be sent over the wires for several hundreds of miles; while DC can only reach about 3 miles in transmission. They soon concluded that having power plants every three to six miles would be darned near impossible......... Although it was tried at first........ So we send it in AC to conserve the transmission and convert it to DC, very close to where it will actually be used. It is one the first examples of massive energy conservation.
You wrote..
" OS X is the opposite. It is high margin, high sytle, and slick. It is perfect for the brand-concious, reasonably wealthy, consumer who wants everything to work together easily."
It's also perfect for this simple working man that wants the system to allow him to create without periodically needing to salvage the OS like I must do with Windows.
I've worked with a great many OS's since 1980. My best trouble-free years were with the Amiga-OS. I find that Mac-OS is the closest I've come to that sort of reliable, well-engineered, and trouble-free OS.
I ain't rich, nor well to do............ But entry level Mac's have made me quite well tooled-up.
Best to ya,
Bauers
I forgot a word...........
" I might -NOT- be a hard core gamer. But I'm looking forward to having the creation software from both Mac and Windows on the one system. "
The closest I got running Linux was several years of Amiga operation. At least I'm not afraid of running linux because of my '80's computing experiences. The only thing that keeps me away from Linux are the comments I've seen about compiling the OS to run on a system.
At any rate, I'm looking forward to a multi-OS system that allows me to use any computer tool I wish, regardless of it's preferred OS. It's like a return to my old Amiga with it's Windows and Mac emulations.
It seems that is finally quite well perfected with the new IntelMacs. The mutliple boot Linux systems are there as well. I just like to have the full range of Mac software in the mix as well.
This seems to be what I tried to have with the Amiga, back then..........
Bauers
You might like to go my route...........
I'm getting a mid-range IntelMac tower and expect to run Mac-OS, Windows 2000, and some linux on it as well.
I'm planning to move all of my Windows stuff over to the new machine as well as my still in use Mac stuff.
Heck, I'm waiting to hear that the now-Linux-loaded Amiga will make the transistion to the IntelMac as well.
I'll have a dozen or so Windows games available as well as both flavors of Sms and Sims2 Mac/Windows. I might be a hard core gamer. But I'm looking forward to having the creation software from both Mac and Windows on the one system.
That and some sweet working high-end graphics and pic to 3d machinable objects software that spreads across both platforms.
best to ya,
Mike Bauers
Whuss.........
...expanded
I know others have been more active than I. I'm a little amazed at the systems I've run through at home, and still have here.
My first was a TI-1000, added ram-pack, keyboard, software/hardware pack for word processer, tacked on Epson 9-pin printer. 1982... I needed to decide between a, electric typewriter and a word processer set-up. The computer won.
2nd. C-64 with tape drive until disk drives came out a few months later.
3rd. C-128
4th. Amiga 500.. expanded
5th. Amiga 2000.... gradually expanded and updated greatly, Epson printer finally died... Installed hard drives and cd-drive myself.
5.5th included Mac emulator in A-2000 [Mac os 7.3 ?]
6th. Mac Performa 6320, finally something with cd-drive included
7th. Celeron 400
8th. Mac Sawtooth G4 to run versus failing Windows graphics software [being updated with new dvd-rw and much faster cpu together with much larger hard drives.]
9th AMD-1000
9.5th Amithlon.Amiga emulator added to AMD-1000 [also works in #13 ]
10th. G3-300 iBook [in creamsycle tangerine]
11th. AMD-3000
12th. MacMini.
Spares from buying for others and returning here later
13. T/I-1000... forced to take with swap meet mono-chorme yellow I needed
14th. CBM C-128 for nephew
15th. Amiga 3000 for Mom
16th Compaq 500 for mom..[still out there]
17th Compaq 750 for other nephew
Current actives...#'s 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 All wireless hubbed including Roadrunner.
returning to service with upgrades, #17
Eyes on new medium Mac late this year, new top of line Mac sometime next year, new or newer iBook before this summer to gps and set-up for road-tripping and photo-archiving on road trips.
#'s 11 and 12 are KVM'd with wireless peripherals in living room as general Web and game systems.. will get video projector included in next few months Upgraded #'s 8,9 are similar as the serious set-up upstairs. More than fast enouogh for cad and graphics. Mac cpu upgrade will made video work worthwhile. Several still and video scanners, camera's, still-video input/output hardware, plus a 3d scanner and modest 3d-mill with the seroius set-up. CNC-mill going in the basement, adding or moving a PC down there for control and general use. Possible Mac KVM there later. Earning my way to a paid-off laser mill, do have photo-etch gear to get into action. Work flow from serious-set to work-set with a pic to 3d cad to final 2d etching/3d machining process flow.
I propose getting the 3 newer systems over the next 18 months. Only the high-end Mac is conditional. Must have enough income from the shop to justify getting that system. Business plan appears modest and quite possibly very sure thing.
I've always have maxed the ram and up-sized the hard drives on a year or more basis ojn my active systems
Thinking back to before my 1970 High Scholl graduation. Where the closest I got to a personal PC was window shopping and a little trial of $4000 membrane key-boarded PET's..... I never believed I could get the sort of creative and entertainment power that is today's home computer.
To be able to assemble a pic through cad to real world object work-flow to make miniatures that others aren't yet making for me, is something I never thought I could get into my hands as I was going through my school years.
Loose side goal for illustration; Take the 3d files for4 the Sims1 Old Town trolley bus, convert to machined scale model in real world with converted R/C table-top car/truck mechanism in it........... Reverse 3d object files for PD Sci-Fi Hover-cars files, and re-do as Sims2 'drivable' , in-game personal car..........
You gotta love the possible interconnects and the ease of going back and forth between the various prototyping, model-building, Computer-Generation, and pic to 3d objects programs and hardware we have access to today.
Back before the T/S-1000 was created, I never dreamed the interconnected set-up I have today could ever be possible in my lifetime.