Holy mother of Chris
It arrived. The machine arrived and it’s very, very fast. The iMac is in my room. It trumps my Powerbook in every respect (though shamefully not in portability). As a little test I tried out the 2 latest PC games I care about – Doom 3 and HL2. Both games ran at their highest resolutions, everything maxed out and was as smooth as butter.
What else should I expect from a dual 64bit CPU? It’s just so damn good. The super high resolutions (1680*1050) actually make HL2 look terrible. Doom 3 is a beauty though. But we knew that 3 years ago!
I still can’t get over how fast this machine is. The iLife applications take a second to boot up, a huge triumph over my PowerBooks ridiculously long 20 second loading. Probably down to the Sata2 drive pushing all this data at a squillion times the speed of a laptop ATA drive.
I’ll be uploading pics and all that when I can be bothered. Right now I’m off to play HL2 Deathmatch on the fastest computer I’ve ever used.
Oh and before I forget – it’s a little daunting that this machine is near enough *silent*. even my fanless HDD enclosure makes more noise than this.
September 30th, 2006 at 10:20 pm
*starts making a fountain of drool*
Man! Deathmatch! Smooth as butter! That’s the kind of stuff that I can only dream about.
Hope you keep this new PC of yours clean and well. I’ve already stuffed this PC with quite a bunch of games and downloads, HL2 freezes. Or it could be those stinkin’ new nVidia drivers I got. Oh well.
And whoa, near silent? That’s pretty much amazing!
Hope you have fun with your new machine! I most certainly am sure you will.
October 2nd, 2006 at 12:43 am
once again…. you bastard!