Inches Matter
I’ve spent the last week or so configuring a new MacPro for one of our graphic artists. This this is insane. Quad Core Xeon (2.66ghz, 1333mhz FSB) with 8GB of RAM, twin 500GB HDD’s (tho not striped). Dual displays. A 20″, for holding the toolbars and palettes, and the main display is the 30″ Apple Cinema Display. Whoa.
Looking at the box, I thought to myself “This is too much”.
Unpacking it, heavy it was, I actually still thought it was too much.
Same for sitting in front of the big black empty screen, which I need to add, completely dwarfs the 20″ model. DWARFS!!!
So I fire up this monster and it’s display, and I suddenly find myself in heaven. 30 inches is perfect. Just large enough so I can sit 2-3 feet away and not hurt my neck by turning it too far in any direction to encompass the screen size, yet large enough that I can have several windows open at the same time, side by side. My puny dual 19″ LCD’s really only work well showing 2 windows side by side, one per screen. This big one makes workspace useable. So, of course, I’d like to run duals.
I really found myself wanting that monitor tonight as I stitched together some panoramas I shot at Mt Magazine last Wednesday. Casey and Chuck have started shooting lots of them, and I took their lead and the opportunity and snapped a couple, one of an approaching storm, and another overlooking quite a bit of the state from a communications tower on the edge of the mountain. I really wish I could have had the super wide display to stretch these pano’s and give them a good screen view for editing. It’s just so much easier.
July 2nd, 2007 10:37
Or is it DWARVES? When a noun becomes a verb, does its plural form get used for subject agreement?
This highlights the essential difference between me and my chosen field. I’m reading this blog and thinking about semantics, not about the giant monitor and 8gig of RAM.