This is all geek-talk, so feel free to go onto the next item.
I’ve updated a bunch of computer-stuff in the past week. First, I decided to double the amount of RAM in my desktop iMac to 2gb. The immediate upshot of this is that I can boot Photoshop in about 3.5 seconds. Quark, of course, still takes 15-30 seconds to boot up.
I also picked up a scanner: the Canon CanoScan LiDE 500F. It has a built in “wedge” so it takes up little space on my desktop. Thanks to the scanner, I was able to subject myself to the humiliation of that picture I posted a few days ago.
Then, I was forced to admit that the 160gb hard drive in my iMac is going to run out of space, after I integrated yet another music library into my iTunes folder. So I just picked up an external 300gb hard drive that’s awfully darn quiet: the LaCie 300GB d2. I’m in the process of moving all the music onto it, so I can let iTunes store and play music there instead of my desktop’s internal drive.
Yes, it’s embarrassing that I have more than 28,000 songs in the library. It’s more embarrassing that I have two backups of it, “just in case.”
Anyway, since Apple is moving away from the chipset employed in my computer, I imagine that I’ll have to replace the desktop computer in another 2 years or so. For the moment, though, it’s a nice setup. I promise to scan and post more embarrassing pictures, and to keep accumulating music files.