21st May 2006
Faster Machines For A Faster Life
I want to write about the speed of running Second Life on my PowerBook, but I’m also thinking I should be writing a review of the Red Hot Chili Peppers “Stadium Arcadium”. Short one: Good Double Album, better if they had clipped it down to One.
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But it hits me that I can’t review all of my media interests! There’s too much Real Life and Second Life to attend to! New York Times, Wired Mag, pay bills, go through my RSS feeds, and so on. And, alas, my PowerBook is showing its age. I’m doing more these days to hit that magic point at which the Fan Powers On. This is the PowerBook’s way of saying “WTF! For Pete’s Sakes give me some more RAM!” |
Segue: my computer needs a Red Hot Chili Pepper. Anything to speed it up. It’s not gonna happen though. It’s an old G4 with 1gb RAM. And SL just frikken kills it :-) It’s ok if I crank down the detail … I included a snap of my avatar. Yeah, it’s dorky. I figure it’ll evolve. I’m digging SL though – it’s giving me a bit of the “new” rush I felt when I started using the Web in ‘93.
So, to take the steps from the web world to the more immersive stuff, I’m going to cast my net for cheap fast hardware. I think this is going to mean a Mac Mini …
