LaCie 300GB d2<\/a>. 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.<\/p>\nYes, 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.”<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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 … <\/p>\n
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