sparkleman in North Yorkshire is doing 18 things including…

Update my Mac setup

9 cheers

sparkleman has written 4 entries about this goal

Laptop rumours  — 1 week ago

If the rumours are true, then one of the new Apple laptops is where I’m heading with this. I’ve been so patient. My Mum is lined up to get my old machine. She’s using my 8-year-old G4 Powerbook (bless it!) with a “t” stuck on with superglue, and a weird firmware/memory problem that requires her to type unix stuff whenever she boots up.

It will soon be time! And I’ve got the recycling/environmental angle covered too.

Speakers  — 1 month ago

Got some nice ones I’ve been hankering after for months, should arrive on Wednesday. Can’t wait to hear my ripped music in it’s full glory. And watch iPlayer with proper sound! Springsteen has a show on the BBC website at the moment with the Seeger Sessions band – it’s great!

All the new web tools I have  — 6 months ago

Are really slow on my 3-year-old iMac. If I get a job this next month then I’ll have the money, but I potentially won’t need the web software as much.

It’s really hard to separate good business sense from simple techno-lust. I was going to wait until 2009 – 4 years seemed reasonable for a web developers computer – but I didn’t take into account the bloat of new software.

Hey, listen to me – the geek is back in the house :-)

New keyboard  — 8 months ago

Bought one of the new Apple keyboards – it’s lovely. My rationale was I spend more time typing now than I ever have so it’s important to have a comfortable keyboard. Also, I spilt a cappuccino all over my old one last year and I’ve been eyeing the brown crustiness I couldn’t get at to clean for ages. Well, this week I am worth a new keyboard. It’ll go well with my new laptop in 2009 ;-)

sparkleman has gotten 9 cheers on this goal.

 

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