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[drew johnston <drew AT mmteach.com>]

Thanks for the advice David-- though 256 seems to keep my baby hummin' 
just fine, no matter what we're doing, with osX.x(we're at .2, waiting 
for the new "panther" .3)...  have been looking at RAM-- unfortunately, 
my bank roll is severally diminished at the moment due to being a 
fairly new home owner and buying all necessary (and not so necessary) 
things (insert "uh-oh" sound ala atari pitfall avatar death)...

By the way, Anyone who's a flash developer, or just likes/hates/is 
interested in Macromedia goings on, check out the new string to follow 
on central...

Drew


On Tuesday, May 6, 2003, at 01:53  PM, David Minton wrote:

> There is rumor of a new 15" PowerBook in the near future, but the 17" 
> is so
> new it probably will not be upgraded for 4-7 months. The towers , on 
> the
> other hand, may see a major upgrade in the next few months.
>
> As a side note to Drew, I have a machine similar to yours (dual 500) 
> and I
> would suggest dropping some more RAM in it, especially if you are 
> running OS
> X. RAM is not as cheap as it was, but you should be able to find 512MB 
> for
> about $75. I think you need a minimum of 512MB for OS X to be happy. I 
> have
> 1.5GB of RAM in mine, from back when RAM was really cheap (about $1 
> per MB).
>
> Konfabulator looks neat--I'll check it out.
>
> David
>
> On 5/6/03 12:43 PM, "drew johnston" <drew AT mmteach.com> wrote:
>
> > I agree...
> >
> > In my opinion, though, if you're going to buy an apple, buy whatever 
> > it
> > is you want and don't worry about it.
> >
> > Honestly -- I'm a mm designer, who puts a lot of stress on his machine
> > (crunch through video editing/encoding, 3d animation, graphic design,
> > and web development all in one night, on one HD, then play some high
> > end games, then do some beta testing, blah blah blah).  I'm running an
> > older G4 tower (dual 450 chips, 256 ram, 16mb vid card).
> >
> > I've upgraded the OS with every stable release of osX, and download 
> > and
> > install most new software that comes out that I'm remotely interested
> > in (apple users, if you haven't seen konfabulator, it's some pretty
> > cool crap--go take  a look @ http://konfabulator.com), including the
> > new and awesome iTunes4.
> >
> > And guess what?  My mac is still humming along, pretty as you please,
> > and still smoking some of the newer PC's my friends have bought.
> >
> > Unless it's extremely important to you that you have the latest and
> > greatest of all technology available, I wouldn't freaking worry about
> > what Apple is about to do.  As long as you buy an Apple, you'll be
> > highly likely to enjoy it for at least the next few years...at least,
> > IMHO....
> >
> > D
> > On Tuesday, May 6, 2003, at 12:12  PM, zman wrote:
> >
> > > Amidst all the rumors, and the fact that I am a diehard Apple
> > > supporter, I
> > > must say your safer with the powerbook right now. I believe at the
> > > WWDC we
> > > will see new towers with the IBM 970 chip. I don't give ant credit to
> > > the
> > > AMD rumors as IBM is manufacturing some of the Operton chips for 
> > > them.
> > > Buy
> > > yourself a big 'ol 17 and have fun till' the new powerbooks arrive 
> > > next
> > > year sometime.
> > >
> > > On Tue, 6 May 2003, David R. Matusiak wrote:
> > > > But here is the /real/ question  --  IS Apple going to do something 
> > > > SO
> > > > fundamental (*cough* switch chip manufacturers *cough*) or drastic
> > > > (*twitch* move Darwin to new architecture *shake*) that one would be
> > > > ILL ADVISED to purchase their hardware at this time??
> > > > c'mon you industry insiders -- gimme the dirt on Apple!!
> > > > thanks!
> > > > dave m.
> > >
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