I am working on a new blog post. I know I've been a slacker. In all this time I worked on updating the computer situation at home. Part of the reason my blogging fell off was the fact that the old laptop hand-me-down I was using died. And our desktop needed work.
So we bought a new laptop. I came very close to going over to Apple but the only MacBook we could afford did not have a media card reader (no macbooks do..shame) or a firewire port. Kind of a bummer since we would use it for photos and video.
I used to build my own computers so I went to work researching whether updating the Sony Vaio P4 was worth putting a modest investment in to keep a few more years. I found that I could update the P4 with another gig of memory, a better video card, a eSata-PCI card, a blu-ray dvd player, and a 1 TB external esata HD. Did a total reformat and reload and it's working fast and the first blu-ray is coming from netflix this week. It plays regular DVD's and we'll see if I did everything right to handle the blu-ray (the desktop is hooked up to our HDTV).
I was able to do all that and buy a 16" Vista Ultimate Pentium dual core (2.0 ghz)laptop with 4 Gigs memory (can take 4 more) and 320 GB HD, eSata port, DVD burner with lightscribe, MS Office, and wireless N (already have an N router) all for the same price as a 13" basic MacBook.
I know Apple can be more user friendly and is a good computer for all those who didn't understand a word of what I just wrote and don't really want to have to, but for us tech geeks there is no justification for spending so much money to get so much less.
My only gripe, Final Cut Express has no PC version. But one piece of software is not reason enough.
My next project may involve Ubuntu. I'll keep you posted.
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