My design witterings…

I first became interested in macs while on placement during my A-levels. Knowing that this was the industry I wanted to end up in, I knew that this computer was going to play a bit part in my life – so I’d better go get one.

The first was an LCII 16MHz with a 80mb hard drive and a whopping 4MB of RAM which was upgraded to 8mb. (My first every computer was an Amiga 500 with no hard drive and 500KB of Ram which I upgraded to a whole 1MB.) This was the machine that accompanied me to uni. During the 2nd year I upgraded to a 6100, one of the first PowerMacs. This ran at 66MHz with 500MB HD and 8mb of ram which I’d upgraded to 16MB. I also fitted a new 1gb HD and an internal x2 CD reader into it. This machine came with a DOS card, which can in handy as my degree also was made up with a 3D graphic modules – in which I had to use 3D Studio.

Next in line was G4 running at 400MHz with a 10GB HD and 128MB of RAM – up’ed to 1GB. This one now lives at work as a raid file server at work.

Then came my Powerbook G4 1GHz, with 40GB HD 256MB, 1.25GB of ram, 200GB,, it was hooked up to a firewire HD, a 250GB ethernet HD and 20inch Formac monitor, plus use as a portable. Although this has now been really replaced at home with a mac mini, which I use as a desktop and a iPad, which is the sofa computer.

I also use a 24″ iMac 2.8GHz with 320GB and 4GB or ram which is now my main work machine.

Additionally I have a Intel Mac Mini 1.66GHz as a Personal Video Recorder and HiFi running off our TV in the lounge.

I’ve also got myself an 1G iPod Shuffle and 30Gb 5G Video ipod.

Wishlist

Wacom Cintiq 21UX
Apple 30″ Cinema Display
Apple Colour Classic – nice and retro
Lightweight MacBook Pro to replacement the PB12 (not the macbook air – if the 13″ came with matt screen option…).