When games no longer enter in the equation...
Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 10:46 am
You might say I'm getting old but since I've stopped playing games, graphic performance is no longer on my radar. Don't worry about me, there are still plenty I can obsess about:
- noise: I am forever thankful to the SPCR community in that regard
- power consumption: simply because less power generally means less heat, a bit less money each month, hopefully less noise
- overall size/footprint of computer: I'm a bit of a minimalist so I greatly appreciate the reduction of the footprint / volume of my computer, those nasty cables behind my desk, those annoying power bricks. Even if nothing is on the floor (which makes vacuuming easier ), even if neatly zip-tied, it's still there, accumulating dust and making unplugging, moving things around an ordeal
- data security: there were a couple of enlightening studies released in the last year (one by Google, another by a lady doing her PhD thesis if I recall correctly) about the reliability of hard drives, the difficulty of predicting failure and reinforcing, once again, the importance of backing up important data (not just once in a while...)
I may come across as a heretic, but the more I think about these, the more I find myself considering getting an iMac in October, that's when OS X 10.5 (including Time Machine) is supposed to come out. iMacs have been reviewed quite positively by SPCR. In case I find myself not able to fully dump Windows, I'll bootcamp it.
- noise: I am forever thankful to the SPCR community in that regard
- power consumption: simply because less power generally means less heat, a bit less money each month, hopefully less noise
- overall size/footprint of computer: I'm a bit of a minimalist so I greatly appreciate the reduction of the footprint / volume of my computer, those nasty cables behind my desk, those annoying power bricks. Even if nothing is on the floor (which makes vacuuming easier ), even if neatly zip-tied, it's still there, accumulating dust and making unplugging, moving things around an ordeal
- data security: there were a couple of enlightening studies released in the last year (one by Google, another by a lady doing her PhD thesis if I recall correctly) about the reliability of hard drives, the difficulty of predicting failure and reinforcing, once again, the importance of backing up important data (not just once in a while...)
I may come across as a heretic, but the more I think about these, the more I find myself considering getting an iMac in October, that's when OS X 10.5 (including Time Machine) is supposed to come out. iMacs have been reviewed quite positively by SPCR. In case I find myself not able to fully dump Windows, I'll bootcamp it.