A World HQ upgrade

Posted on October 29, 2006
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The new 20-inch Apple display

The really big news today is that yesterday, on our Fry’s trip, John and I picked up a sweet 20-inch Apple Cinema display. Linda has transitioned in the past few months from a mostly TV viewer to a mostly Net surfer, resulting in me being largely kicked off the dual G5 Mac with it’s 23-inch display.

Banished, I’ve been hanging out on a Mac Mini and a 64-bit AMD Linux box, KVM’d to a 17-inch screen. Realizing that the trend was not positive for me returning to the fast G5 and its giant screen, I snagged a clean open-box 20-inch display at Fry’s (for $50 less than Apple Store). John figured, under the circumstances, spouse wouldn’t even comment (she didn’t). Given that the other option was a $70,000 Porsche Cayman, think we all got off easy this time around.

The Intel Mini runs like a charm, and the 20-inch display supports most of what I could do on the 23-inch screen. We also cleaned up this corner of the World HQ: it was hard to retire the hand-built AMD-64 box, but OS X is my favorite *NIX clone…

Comments

7 Responses to “A World HQ upgrade”

  1. gfbird on October 29th, 2006 10:36 pm

    Ah, examples of miracle technology inspire the like in the medical field . . .

  2. pauldwaite on October 30th, 2006 2:04 am

    Good call, the Porsche can wait until Christmas :)

  3. cg on October 30th, 2006 9:26 am

    The spouse is commenting now.

  4. cg on October 30th, 2006 12:27 pm

    And what does the spouse think? (I note you’re using my log-in…)

  5. gfbird on October 30th, 2006 2:50 pm

    Settle down, big guy . . . proofread, proofread - legacy of quality. . .

  6. cg on October 30th, 2006 3:32 pm

    Typos: oops.. fixed now… I won’t even use the one-hand excuse…

  7. Pharmacy and Medicine on March 21st, 2007 11:26 am

    Please remember that the medical community and the scientific community are VERY POLITICAL. WBR LeoP

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