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My Dream System (iMac 27in + 2)

Brian Minor — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 13:00:00 +0000

Every nerd has their dream setup and of course as new hardware is release the dream evolves. Currently, my dream setup is a 27in iMac with a 256GB SSD and a 2TB internal hard drive and as much ram as it can handle (16GBs). Now take all that and add two 27in Apple Cinema Displays on each side. Put all that together and you are left with a $5,647 (+ tax) dollar masterpiece.

(monitors will be raise somehow to level everything out)

Some of you may be thinking: well since it is you dream system why not go even more powerful with the MacPro and heck add even more monitors. That used to be what I thought too, but I am getting more into a less clutter the better frame of mind and I really love the fact that the new iMacs can handle two displays with the new thunderbolt technology.

That’s my current dream system, whats yours?

VirtualBox – First Thoughts

Brian Minor — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:25:55 +0000

I’ve been using VMWare’s Fusion application for the last few years and at the $79.99 dollar price tag, it is well worth the it, but as I was installing all the programs on my new Mac Mini for work I figured I would give Sun’s free VirtualBox a shot.

VirtualBox is a free program that allows you to install virtual machines on your mac. To be honest it is pretty amazing and has all the features that I needed and used in VMWare and its all for free.

It allows you to do the fullscreen and seamless modes just like Fusion and it loads everything fas. I honestly don’t notice a performance hit with the Mac Mini, which to me is a big praise.

But, just so you all know, VMWare did just recently released a new version and I haven’t really looked at the additional feature it adds, but I really doubt that I will give it a look, cause as for work related items I am all about going with VirtualBox.

Finally a Mac at Work!

Brian Minor — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:03:12 +0000

So it took me 3 years and 11 months, but it has finally happened! I was actually able to talk work into buying me a Mac Mini to use as my full time computer!

The Mini is an amazing little device, not the most powerful, but more then enough for coding websites, doing some minor video editing and installing a virtual XP box so I can still troubleshoot all the annoying phone support calls I get.

Most of you know I have been working with the Hackint0sh installer and actually had a decent amount of luck with it, but no matter how much I put into it, my performance always seemed lacking. I am sure if you built your PC with just the right equipment you may actually not even notice.

I have had the Mini for 3 work days now and I just finally got everything I believe I need installed. And the thing is still running like a top. Lets just say I am one happy employee.

Anyways enough about it here is the unboxing if your interested. Sorry for the poor camera work I really need to get one of those tripod things for my iPhone.

DroboPro Unboxing

Brian Minor — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:48:11 +0000

Now for all my nerd friends/followers, I know there have been a ton of these already posted on the internet, but I had a few reason why I wanted to still post my own.

I am just really excited to have one to unbox (even if it’s works and not my own personal one.)
I figure it would give me another post to describe how much I love the Drobo
Because I can.

So some of you may be wondering what in the world a DroboPro is:

The easiest way to explain it, is a device that you can put multiple hard drives in that creates one large drive but remove some of the entire storage space for automatically keeping all your files backed up. So a drive or 2 (in the case of the Pro) can go completely bad and all your files are still safe and sound.

So without any further ado here is the DorboPro unboxing…

Spiders

Brian Minor — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:52:37 +0000

So as I was changing the Hard-Drive out my bosses personal computer I noticed that there where spider-webs all over the inside. As I took a closer look I actually saw the spider, so i had to take a quick video of it. Hope you enjoy and don’t worry it was dead.

Also as I cleaned it out I found another dead spider hiding by the video card.