On Sep 30, 2008, at 4:39 PM, Xiaofan Chen wrote:

>> I have a new Mac!  8x2.8GHz/10GB/2TB (more or less.)  But it's
>> already been in the shop :-(  (Loud POP from power supply, followed  
>> by
>> deadness.  I've never had a computer "explode" before.)
>
> Wow, what are you planing to do with this powerful computer?
> A few years back, it may need to get approval to export to many
> other countries. ;-)

Why, read email, surf the web, be a fancy X terminal...  Oh,  
occasional video and photo editing, I guess.  Who knows?

Except for the 10G ram, it's pretty much just the normal upgrade path  
for the aging 1.25GHz G4 DP that it replaced; most of the disk space  
is moved from the old system to the new...  It was a good deal.  It  
*is* the first time in quite a while where I've had the "best"  
computer in the house; usually I put up with something NOT near the  
cutting edge.  This is the family's 8th mac, I think.  The first (and  
most expensive) was a 68020 based IIci bought back when they WERE  
state-of-the-art.

BillW


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