HD For Indies

It's a happy, happy site on my porch - a picture is worth a 1000 words (see left).

Quad G5 is here, with 7800 GT and fiber channel card installed, BlackMagic Multibridge Extreme is here, but the hosers at RAM vendor Crucial.com emailed yesterday to inform me to the effect of "Oh-so-sorry, that item we said was in stock? It's not, gonna be about a week. Yeah, we know we said we had it, and that it should be there tomorrow, but it won't." That, in my professional opinion, ranks in business terms as "for poop."

So the Super Friends are all assembled, but somebody left the keys to the Invisible Jet. So with the paltry stock 512MB of RAM (Hey, I'M sure not paying Apple's RAM markups), I can't install Final Cut Studio, or probably not Final Touch HD either.

In any case, I'm going to be out of town early next week, so it'll be Wednesday or Thursday before I can get back to it. The dogs will just have to be the only ones to enjoy it's silvery awesomeness. Hope they don't lean on it and knock it over, sucka is HEAVY.

So, this post has virtually no real information in it - too bad for all of us. I'll do an OOBE (out of box experience) writeup later when I can, gotta go scoot and decorate the Christmas tree.

-mike

PS-Crucial has GENERALLY been a good supplier, except when it comes to new machines, they tend to get their parts either wrong or difficult availability in my experience to date. They sent me the wrong RAM twice in a row for some new Mac I had in thelast year or so (can't remember is dual 2.5 G5 or for 12" PowerBook). But once they DO send the right stuff, I have yet to get a bad stick from them (or have one fail). Come on guys, get it in stock and KNOW when it is and isn't in stock! Vendor bait'n switch ("Why YES we have that! Order it now!" followed by "It'll be here aaaaaany day now - don't cancel your order!") is an old and VERRRRRRRRRY frustrating game - this is the first time they've played it with me.