Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Monday, January 19, 2009
Rant; SpinRite, BootCamp, and Vista
My Vista experiences have been filled with four letter adjectives to describe my frustrations of it. With that tidbit out of the way, I tried to get SpinRite 6.0 working on my MacPro but I kept running into 2 problems. When I went to burn an iso cd-r of it so I could boot of it... Vista would just throw a shit fit by freezing or it would try to format the cd... After couple minutes of repeated Vista cd burning Adventures I tried the other SpinRite Method of installing it to my thumb drive and boot off of that. SpinRite mentions that it has to have the motherboard correctly set to boot of a usb thumb drive. On a mac to choose what drive to boot off of you can hold the option key down and find a selection of bootable sources available to you. That didn't work and I ran out of time, to read the SpinRite forums, research iso cd burning in windows, and setting mother board bios for bootcamp to allow thumb drive booting support.
When I get the chance I'll figure it out, or if anyone has had experience and or solutions please leave a comment.
G15 Arrived Today
Took some quick photo's of the unpacking of the limited re-released of the original G15 Logitech keyboard.
When I get some time I will try out and review the Mac beta drivers...
... and when I finish the PC...
Tracking the Shipping of Packages
So far 9 out of the 11 items have begun to ship from New Egg. 8 of those will be here tomorrow thanks to living close to one of New Eggs shipping warehouse!
fyi: I love watching shipping packages online to see their progress.
Input devices and...
I didn't include a mouse and keyboard with my list of expenses partly because I have so many Mac mice and keyboards I could just plug in and use. It turns out a gaming keyboard was just re-released for a limited time, the original G15 keyboard from Logitech. (As far as I can tell Logitech is sold out of the old G15, but I ordered mine for $79). For a mouse I found Amazon selling Microsoft's SideWinder for half price, $37.
One last thing I've been meaning to purchase for sometime now was SpinRite 6.0 from grc.com, is the hard drive maintenance and recovery software. It's a tad pricey at $89 but it was written in assembly language, has more praise then any other software like it, and its cheaper then sending in a hard drive for data recovery.
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Parts Ordered...
Everything was ordered through Newegg.com
Intel i7 920 $294-$45 combo discount #155761
Total comes to $1949.90**
*(technically we have licenses but its still an expense, not sure what we pay per new desktop)
**(before tax and shipping)
Cost...
At work everything is being cut back... the less expenses I have the better.
My Goal: spend $2k US on hardware, get a noticeable performance gain (35% frame rate gain) from current MacPro (posted specs on earlier post).
Needs...
New PC must; power 2560 x 1600 30" display, maintain playable frame rates in released and un-released tittles, out preform current Mac in 3D and 2D creation programs, be upgradable to support needed hardware for future projects, and cost $2000 excluding tax/shipping.
Intro...
...so this isn't the first PC that I built but it may as well be...
...I blame Apple for this...
...I prefer Apple products just wish they refreshed Mac Pro's more often...
...so work is making me get a PC with "todays graphic technology"...
Currently using;
Mac Pro
Quad-Core Intel Xeon 3GHz x2 (aka octo-pussy), 4GB Ram, Nvidia 8800GT
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