Nerdvana
January 11th, 2008About a month before Heather wanted to relaunch dooce.com, I suggested we budget in a new tower for me, as the launch would likely overwhelm my laptop. I figured I’d have Skype open and then a list of development apps longer than my leg (including running Windows alongside Mac OS) and that the lappy would likely be limping most during the critical days prior to launch. After looking at the funds, we decided to wait until after Macworld 2008 to decide which machine to purchase.
The laptop survived launch, but there were some tense moments testing feed readers while running everything else.
Earlier this week, Apple announced a major bump to their Mac Pro towers and the second Heather gave me the go ahead, I ordered my first personal tower (at home) in over ten years! After being on a laptop for so long, I’m beside myself with the speed. I’m still in giddy shock over being able to edit RAW images with the kind of speed that I’ve only had in my special nighttime dreams.
I present Xeon Flux:
Check the rest of the unboxing set here.
I’ll have an announcement up in a couple of days on a project that is supposed to help pay for this thing. o
Tags: Mac Pro, packaging, unboxing
-
This entry is filed under personal, tech. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You may leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed. Please read the Terms of Service before leaving a response.
January 11th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
Congratulations! I hope you will be very happy together:)
January 11th, 2008 at 2:44 pm
Envy consumes me. Aperture is so slow on my pro…
January 11th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
Are those Carpet Squares? In your OFFICE?
Maybe you should set up a PayPal account where we can donate funds for furnishings.
January 11th, 2008 at 2:57 pm
Oh, that’s pretty. I have to give up a kidney before I can get one. Congrats.
January 11th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
I see Coco lurking suspiciously in the background … hopefully she doesn’t decide the new tower is a puppeh toy!
January 11th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
Jonny’s got a gear woody! You will love the new keyboard. I thought I wouldn’t, until I used it for. . . oh I dunno about two minutes. Congrats! Well deserved and much better than tea cups.
January 11th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
::drool::
January 11th, 2008 at 5:13 pm
I love how Coco is peeking in, as if to say ‘you don’t prefer this new pile of circuits and wires to me do you?’ I’m jealous cos you are getting all the best toys this year
January 11th, 2008 at 5:15 pm
it’s beautiful. i am jealous! although i will be getting a mac book pro after macworld… hopefully they announce an upgrade.
just out of curiosity… from one web designer to another… does flash seem to run faster on the new intel machines? it runs really slow on the old powerbooks.
January 11th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
That’s pretty damn sexy.
Scott is a Linux man and not a huge Mac fan, but he said that your new box makes him want to touch himself in an inappropriate manner.
January 11th, 2008 at 9:48 pm
Jon,
What kind of specs did you get? RAM, optical drives, HDs? You gotta tell us.
Did you get a new monitor? Maybe a 30″ cinema. Big envy man. I got the lovely bride a new MacBook for Christmas and when she got an iPhone that wouldn’t sync with her old G-4 iMac I got her a new iMac as well. So that means I have to wait until next year for a new tower and struggle along with my G5 tower.
January 11th, 2008 at 10:36 pm
Very nice. But you know- I just noticed that you guys don’t have ads on your sites. As weird as this sounds, I miss your ads. Some of them were funny, and they always flung me somewhere I never would have landed otherwise.
January 11th, 2008 at 10:45 pm
So incredibly jealous. The inverter on my Pbook G4 died, and like an idiot I opened the case, thinking I could fix it. So, in addition, half my keyboard died as well. So now it’s hooked up to an external monitor, keyboard, and mouse, living a hellish half-existence like some decapitated head-in-a-pan from a 50s scifi movie.
Anyway, congrats.
January 12th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
Wow… that is amazing.
enjoy your new computer.
January 12th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
Green with envy!
MK
January 12th, 2008 at 5:58 pm
Congrats! It’s like Christmas getting a new Mac
I’m hoping to shell out on the new Mac Pro sometime this year after I move house and the solicitors have bathed in the extortionate amount they’re charging me, LOL.
Gonna check out the Flickr set now to geek out and see if you got a 30″ with that Pro
January 14th, 2008 at 8:53 am
Even us conservative readers are jealous. Verah Nice. Bring forth the spec’s please.
January 14th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
@Jennifer:
??? I still see ads.
Looking forward to details on the mysterious new project, Jon!
January 14th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
Sweet machine. I too would like to see what you are planning on using that much firepower for.
January 14th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
Your computer’s hot. But I’m more interested in your flor tiles. Those are damn spiffy.
January 14th, 2008 at 7:31 pm
congrats …..dont cha JUST LUV that new electronics smell!?!?!??!………whew! I gotta go take a shower just thinkin aboooot it…… =)
January 15th, 2008 at 9:04 am
Okay man, don’t keep us waiting. All the MacHype aside, what’s the job that’s going to pay for that thing?