Reviews by amorphic8008
Apple TV
Price: $124 - $124
Apple TV rocks09/06/07
- Pros:
- easy to use; great way to share photos and videos; awesome way to watch movies from your Mac
- Cons:
- box gets HOT; small capacity HD, no native HiDef
This boz is one of my favorite livingroom assets. I take a ton of photos and love looking at them and sharing them with friends on my 42" plasma via AppleTV.
Love to stream movies from iTunes and the hard drive is large enough to store some movies on if you want to take AppleTV with you to a friend's house or a hotel.
The new YouTube integration is awesome. Some friends and I spent hours one night drinking wine and sharing some of the gems we each found on YouTube... and it was a lot more comfortable than gathering around the computer.
The only thing that I would like to have seen was tighter integration with iPhoto. Because I maintain several iPhoto libraries, I sync my AppleTV photos aot directory of images exported from my various iPhoto Libraries. Unfortunately, this is a but redundant, becuse I have duplicated my favorite photos to put them in this sync folder.
If you're into photography and cool gadgetry, I highly recommend you get one of these.
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Apple Power Mac G5 Quad
Price: $1099 - $1099
G5 Quad Rocks06/27/07
- Pros:
- F A S T ! !
- Cons:
- only one optical drive; only one FW 400 port; RAM from Apple is too expen
I received my G5 quad in January of 2006 before the release of the current crop of Mac Pros. I immediately installed a 500gb hard drive and upped the RAM to 4Gb. I also connected 2 external FW800 drives and one USB 2.0 hard drive.
For running intensive graphics applications, editing video, and copying gigs of files between the hard drives, this machine is awesome. I have even been able to do all of that at the same time.
I abuse my computers with constant use, intensive apps and games, and peripherals of all kinds. I currently have 4 printers, 2 game controllers, a MIDI keyboard, wacom tablet, 2 iPod docks, video editing controller, camera card reader, and audio interface all connected via USB (using hubs, of course). This machine never skips a beat...
One of the cons listed above, that the machine only has one fw400 port seems like it would be a non-issue because FW400 devices can be chained. In addition, if you connect one of the cinema displays (I bought the 23" with this machine) you plug the fw cable from the display into the mac, and now you have 2 FW400 ports on the desktop. Neat! but the probem is when you add a second display, as I did a few months later. With the lone FW400 port used up by the first screen, there was no way to connect the second screen's FW400 cable. Finally I added a FW400/FW800 card via PCI Express.
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