mac book pro

normal price ( what i paid )
1299.00

new sale price ( 45 days after i bought mine for 1199 )
999.00

it has been over 30 days for a price guarantee, but i was persistent, and instead of giving me money they gave me a 179.99 3 year extended warranty, and the difference was 32 bucks they put that on a gift card,

i never take no for a answer, most management will do things to try to make you happy.

i got a Power Mac

Finally, its been along time but i have finally got one for my price.

300 bucks with keyboard and mighty mouse

1.8 G5 dual processor/1 gig ram/160 gig hard drive/nvidia graphics card/ superdrive/ gig eathernet

nice computer

New MacBook Pro, 13" Nvidia GT 320m

so here is the thing, my guilt was overwhelming, i had the money in my pocket to go and buy this great laptop,

raeshel was there with me, she said hey, so give me the money, ill buy it, then it will be like a gift from me to you,

anyways we ended up getting it,

it feels good to have a girl around me that wants me to have nice things.







the battery life is suppose to be 10 hours, but when you are doing things like WOW, or heavy cpu stuff, it goes down to 5 or 6 hours. witch is not bad at all.

its a good quality laptop, for the money its in its own category, anything else just seems junk.

removed myspace and facebook

These services make it easy to just post items, on a whim, You might just of had a bad day or had been listening to alex jones or whatever, The catch is when you post no matter what its there, Wether you were serious or not really or even kidding, its there and represents you, so i deleted it all, i do not want to be judged by some dumb random postings.

plus you should be able to control your media.

BBQ Chicken at 2:00 am :)

What is the use in being normal?

Hp Mini 1000

This thing is bad ass. i haven't posted in a while----
but i thought this level of success was totally worthy of a post!

There is only one thing that does not work ( in osx leopard )
The onboard mic - but i am sure a minor software work around will be
available soon.

Everything works-
Video - CI/CE - resolution change
Wireless Shows up as apple airport
Ethernet 10.100
TrackPad with Scrolling
5 n 1 Media Card Reader!
Battery Status - and in system profiler - shows charge cycles and draw etc
All system profile reporting - including cpu - ram - SSD - video
Sound
Web Cam - yes photobotth works crazy!
SLEEP works - clam shell - power management - battery status

The battery is not like normal round cell type- this is a flat rectangular lithium polymer
its a design special to the hp mini!
The battery is located in the bottom middle, the netbook is balanced.
battery life is 3 hours




to get osx on such a great machine here are some good links:
http://mymacbookmini.wordpress.com/tag/hp-mini-1000-hackintosh/
http://mymacbookmini.wordpress.com/2009/08/08/update-or-downdate-what-a-word/
http://hpminiosx.wetpaint.com/

My Computer Room

i have not updated in a while, so here is my room to the right of me is my computer build of the moment,
its where all the OSX magic happens. my main computer has:
Core2Quad q9400 @ 2.67 ghz Wolfdale 45nm Technology
4 gigs of gskill ram
1.5 TB Seagate Baracuda 32mb Cache SATA/300
Anatec Nine Hundred Ultimate computer case
OSZ 600 Watt Dual 12+v Rails
Samsung 22x SuperDrive +Dual Layer
PCIE 1x Firewire back and front
6 usb 2.0 2 in front
PNY Nvidia 9800GT 512 MEg Ram 55nm Processor Low Power



The computer to the left is that i am working one and mostly ready to sell is:
Core2Duo Dual Core e8200 @ 2.67 Ghz 6 meg cache Wolfdale 45nm Technology
2 gigs of kingston ram
(2) Sata/300 Western digital 160gig HardDrives 16m cache
Samsung 22x SuperDrive +Dual Layer
6 USB 2.0 2 in front
Standard case with stock 350 watt PSU

i'm pretty smart

I think the g31 you recommend is well worth it. That and a q6600. Any diff between that and the q6700? I realize that 4gb of ram is more than enough, and that dual monitors with dual bloated virtual machines is kind of intense. That, and I can always do better to trim things down, because it translates to being able to help other systems perform better. Not sure if I mentioned xp performance edition, it's a great dl, already activated, best vm I've ever used, only 80mb ram at idle---

this is pretty cool, all it takes is a little intelligence and you can make things good, like loading the most commonly used apps in memory to keep the hard drive from spinning up.

made a p3 dell laptop instantly fast on most gui stuff where it didn't spin up the hdd.

i did alot of testing, i found in games and rendering the Wolfdale E8400 3.0 45 nm screamed i did alot of testing wtih the q6600 and the q8200

If you were  doing production rendering like final cut then the q8200 is nice, for the price, off the bat the q6600 draws too much power and its on the old core,
apple likes to use the new features of any new core out so any upgrade would have to be the new Wolfdale 45 nm its a completely different chip
and it has many new features and new Instructions sets that apple employees just love to use, all over that like a hot bitch and a popsicle. 

Advanced modern games like warcraft are only written for the time being, for 2 cores, or one core with hyperthreding.
your general computer usage will be much faster with the e8400 and the price at microcenter for that is very good. 
i feel the 6meg cache more then make up for it not being a quad core its only between 10% 20% slower rendering times over the quad
but the e8400 its like 60% faster at everything else.  boot, application loading, games-

the only other thing you mentioned is Virt. Machines, the more you run the more cores that software will use. you may have some kind of odd need
to run more then one virt machine, i know the e8400 fully supports "Virtualization" and parallels 4 and that has driectx support in it so some directx games now work, the q8200 does not support virt.



Other reasons to stay away from the q6600,
all the motherboard  manufactures are now using less quality parts to make more profits like Choke coils, Voltage Regulators, Capacitors, 
They all " SAY" they support older cpu's but they assume 95% of the buying populous would buy a new core cpu 45nm (less draw) processors anyways.

I was doing some tests with a Pentium 4 3.6ghz prescott, 800 mhz fsb Hyper threading and the mother board would last a day and then something would pop,
i had great cooling, i switch from msi to gigabyte and it lasted about a week before that one smoked because gigabyte uses better stuff, but still cant handle the draw,

the power distribution is very sophisticated compared to a single core vs multicore even though it uses the same socket 775 package,

Anyways, when the q6600 was out it was the cats meow, for windows xp users and vista users it still will be nice for a long time to come,
apple users are always one or ten steps ahead of the game, all the people out there running q6600 one day will go to update itunes or
ilife, or Final cut or Virt. software and it will flag a error saying Your cpu is not supported lol,  i am sure they will come out with a patch that will emulate the new ssse4.5.6. or what ever they have
at the time, but then you get a loss of speed up to 30% in some cases. because the app is now designed to hit that instruction set because
the apple programmers designed the app to use that instruction to get ether better features or to make the app run better.

for now i am letting all that i7 core and DDR3 bs marinate, its way too expensive and the gains are marginal. Apps, OS, Games are way behind,
im sure one day getting a i7 would be critical, but then again maybe not,

apple may  be toying with the idea of getting out of X86 and back into PPC for use of the CELL at-least for the desktop market
only because this clone thing is not going away and its pissing them of pretty bad.

the non desktop markets will probably use a cpu from that company they bought i believe it was some kind of MIPS or PPC architecture,
X86 is like some kind of abortion that lived, i am sure once production is available for the cell and mobile cpu, they will
do another transition, just to piss off everyone doing clones, and kind of force a mandatory go out and buy a new mac type thing - bastards.

the good news is this... any total rewrite will automatically include genuine multi core support for everything across the board, witch is also what every one wants.




My 8600gts has a higher ram clock than the 9600 but less throughput... So xbench saw it as faster on some quartz tests... weird stuff. I see that the 9800 has higher clock speeds but it's not as tightly supported so I'll prob still shy away. For now I think i'll stick with 8600 even though I can't run full setting in some things like quake. Should be enough for starcraft 2.

Yeah the current support for the 8600 is very good, if my xfx 8600gt was not burned up i would be using it right now.
but my wife taxing it all last year with all that warcraft playing killed it.


Here's a question. Is my mobo more compatible for the long term than the g31 you mention?

no, your board is not 45nm compatible, nor is it quad capable, nor is it capable of anything higher then (actual mhz 166 mhz) 667 fsb ram
but i like your board because of the onboard video fully works,

the g31 boards with the GMA3100  video does not work because of no apple driver and is completely different then the mobile driver GMAX3100
but you and i and all the machines i now build have real video cards in them now so i guess its not really
that big of a deal, because the 8400gs is only 34.99 and runs FCP and any pro app to where INTEL gma will not.

I think if I push a quad core with 4gb ddr2 1066 I'll be all set for a year or more.
for this you would need the Gigabyte g31 board form microcenter

That's hella fast and I should calm down.

FSB & Memory MHZ     200/266/333 is the actual mhz, marketing would never tell you that though----
" Quad Pumped " sigh

cool, the difference between 800 and 1066 is BIG in noticeable speed, 
the difference between 1066 and 1333 the difference is very small if not alt all.

Esp since the clock cycle on ddr3 is actually slower (2x the timing 8-8-8-24), so there is a gap between high clock ddr and lower clock ddr3 in speed anyway. Big gyp!

Max

ps:
if you do the math even with the new shit, divide by 4 and that is the actual mhz of the item..
kinda makes the 133 mhz fsb/ram of the p3 not look so bad, or slow after all, that is because its not really that bad, they started the quad pumped bs with the pentium 4 and continued,

Massive_Attack_-_Teardrop.mp3

Tits!

i just bought a MSI Wind 120 from microcenter and turned it into a 100% real mac.
329.00 for a real mac... not bad leopard 10.5.6 fully updated with apple software update.

http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0304583

i was playing around with the web cam, raeshel though she would be funny.

My Experience with Michigan Unemployment

I can honestly tell the system is loaded down. but once you are approved
the money comes in like clock work, no issues what so ever.

in-fact i had to call them a couple of times with questions,
and they were pretty helpful.

They allow you to pretty much do everything online now, and it
makes the whole process super easy and simple.

its good news for hard times.

:-D

710.00 computer sale... not bad.

Fuck You World, I've had it!!

Your all SCUM,

I am coming, and there's nothing you can do to stop me.

Not 2 shabby

22x Samsung SATA/300 DVD +DL Drive is working good. This burn peaked out at 45 megabytes a seconds that is crazyness

1.5 TB Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 32 mb cache

This thing is a beast! i would highly suggest one, 129.00 Microcenter

House we bought summer of 2008

here are the pictures before we bought it.

Hair

not too shabby for a typical sunday.

I wrapped up 2 computer deals back to back.
Sometimes I feel like a magician.

666.6 Leaving White Castle :-P

my dash is all lit up in the night.


i always told everyone white castle is evil.

2+2=4

Wife is all riled up about money...

These are some tough times we are in, and i of all people know how to make it
in less then ideal times.

I have a saying, "If i am not worried then you shouldn't be ether"
but that is not enough for wife or any other womanly being on this earth.

they say don't count your chickens before they have hatched, however if you
are a experienced Chicken hatcher person, the odds are you know know YOUR ODDS!

I am experienced and fully confident of the ability to sustain and maintain a life stile not
much different then before.

Besides lets say our eating habits change, it would only be for the better/healthier then before,
This last year we have been eating really bad food, nothing wrong with some good ol cooking...

Anyways, I have shown her time and time again that I am well more then capable of making things happen
but it seems like a uphill battle time and time again, I keep having to re-prove my self.

One day i just may acutely get tired of dealing... As i know my self from the past...
my fuse is short.

yeah , update left out valuable info

even my own mind can forget things and it pays to be a tad bit more descriptive for a posable time of actual need.


FRIDAY, JUNE 08, 2007

Dual Boot Vista and OSX86 very easy way
1. Boot From Vista DVD -->split your harddrive make 2 partitions.
2. Install vista on the first partition then -->Reboot
3. Then --> install osx on the second -->Reboot
4. Boot from the vista dvd and make partition 1 active
( fix computer )
Diskpart
select disk 0
select partition 1
active
5. Reboot
6. Get Vista Winboot error
5. boot off vista dvd
6. repair
7. Vista will now boot
8. make partition 2(osx) Active
Run = > CMD
Diskpart
select disk 0
select partition 2
active
exit
9. Reboot, OSX will now BOOT
10. Edit plist and make 8 second time out so you have enough time to hit F8 before OSX boots next time.

11. well there is'nt a 11th step because you are all set... if you want to boot VISTA just tap F8 when its counting down

and there you have it .. Dual booting Vista and OSX !!!


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yes the moral is; command line documentation is important.

I'm Backkkkkkk

I tell you what...

Working for some other asshole is just not my cup of tea!

They use you up, Spit you out.. and then you are left with nothing.

I have ad's posted on cragis list
and i am feeling better then ever...

If anyone can make it in these hard times its going to me be me!!
Hels Yeah!

I have not posted in a long time

It's been so long what made me decide to post now?

I am sitting here in my office thinking, witch is rare, but
i am taking advantage of this moment.

Thanks giving has passed, Christmas has passed and now its
a new year hooray!(sarcastic)

If you were to ask me,

Charles are you happy?
At this very point right right now.
This very moment...

I would look at you with a blank look and
probably not say anything.

So, does this mean i am unhappy?
Could be...

So, Does this mean that i am dissatisfied with my wife?
Could be...

Could i just have some kind of mental issue that is messing
with my moods and stability?
Maybe.

Well if you then asked me directly if i was unhappy?
I wouldn't say yes or no.

I have been on drugs xanax and prozac. do they do anything
for me?
i don't really know.

Well if you are not happy or unhappy what are you then.

I am in a state of existence. Not much more then a dog.

I will leave it there for now, i hear tech's bitching about a flat tire.

Here is a Picture of the computer i use every day.

Here is what is in my kick butt system:

Acer 20" LCD 1680x1050 Resolution DVI and RGB
Apple Pro Keyboard ( Aluminum )
Black Microsoft Optical Mouse
PowerSpec Black Powder Coated Case
380 Watt Single 12v Rail Power Supply
70mm Cooling fan installed for additional chipset and hard drive cooling.
Gigabyte Main Board 945GCM-S2C ( Core2duo )
Intel Core2duo Processor e4600 2.4ghz 2 megs shared cache
2 Gigabytes of DDR-2 Dual Channel ram 667mhz
Nvidia 8500GT Video Card PCI Express 16x 512meg
20x Dual Layer DVD Burner with lightscribe SATA
160 Gig Seagate Single Platter Hard Drive SATA

Xbench Results in OSX Leopard:
Results 187.80
System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.5.2 (9C7010)
Physical RAM 2048 MB
Model MacPro3,1
Drive Type ST3160215SCE ST3160215SCE
CPU Test 150.84
GCD Loop 283.38 14.94 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 136.55 3.24 Gflop/sec
vecLib FFT 110.66 3.65 Gflop/sec
Floating Point Library 150.86 26.27 Mops/sec
Thread Test 210.12
Computation 207.01 4.19 Mops/sec, 4 threads
Lock Contention 213.31 9.18 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 146.54
System 167.31
Allocate 271.71 997.80 Kalloc/sec
Fill 138.22 6720.34 MB/sec
Copy 142.55 2944.39 MB/sec
Stream 130.36
Copy 121.43 2508.04 MB/sec
Scale 123.23 2545.96 MB/sec
Add 139.74 2976.75 MB/sec
Triad 139.31 2980.23 MB/sec
Quartz Graphics Test 229.56
Line 177.33 11.81 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 242.53 72.41 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 194.85 15.88 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 181.57 4.58 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 725.51 45.38 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 153.84
Spinning Squares 153.84 195.16 frames/sec
User Interface Test 347.24
Elements 347.24 1.59 Krefresh/sec

Sexy High Heel Shoe Chair

Raeshel saw this High Heel Shoe Chair and just had to make it all hers.

She was talking about it all day, after work she came right home and we drove
over and picked up this gem.

Sure is a conversation piece, sure is.. :)

Raeshel made me some healthy food!

Psystar is not making any friends.

here are my thoughts,

The funny thing about Psystar, i am sure you herd about these guys.
not only does the Apple Community not like these guys profiting from
stolen software, But the OSX86 Community that made it posable to install
OSX on a standard pc also hate these guys.

Everyone has different motivations it seems.

The apple side is upset these guys are stepping all over osx. They are cheeping
the MAC experience, most apple users promote the MAC Hardware and the OS.
psystar may even give OSX and Apple a bad name, people that get fooled into buying these
systems thinking its a real mac are getting tricked! When 10.5.3 comes down and the users
try to run the combo update, Their mac clones will be disabled, they will no longer boot.

The Leopard dvd they get with the computer will not boot,
because the machine is not EFI equipped...
The only other solution is to send their hard drive back to psystar and hope they send a pre-installed loaded drive in return.

Now the OSX86 community has always said "this is not for commercial use" or even every day use,
It is just a sort of hobby for some highly intelligent people. Most of these guys Own a real mac and
mention they own a real mac. They even promote that you buy a real mac.
The OSX86 community does have morals, they know apple needs to be supported for all their hard work.

Psystar is slapping the face of the the people that put in hard work to make OSX run on normal PC's(for hobby purposes)
Psystar is slapping the face of their customers.
Psystar is slapping the face of the OSX86 Community, do not and would never condone what they are doing!
Psystar is steeling osx from apple, the 129.00 Price for osx is subsidized because apple knows you will install it on hardware
you bought from them that is why its so cheap. If it was not for that, i am sure OSX would be much more expensive.
What shyster, i mean psystar is doing is completely and totally immoral.

its like a mirage, you see that it works... but the mirage will fade and all you will have left is very low quality
poory built Windows or Linux box.

it's pretty sad. and i know this because i am a huge apple fan... have personally owned about every mac ever made...
you always notice the time and effort that goes into every mac, you can just look at any Mac and tell right away
that its is very high quality appliance.

This psycrap startup is a churn and burn... they are going to sell as many crap boxes as they can and then vanish...

the sad part is once psycrap goes away ... even the community is not going to be there for the customers.
anyone who would post a message on the forums saying they have a psycrap machine will just get ignored.

Those computer guys-

Raeshel made a comment today, after watching
court TV with me at lunch.

" those computer guys i tell ya "

I know exactly what she means. They are anal, sarcastic, immature, critical, cynical, quick on the defensive, not living in the same reality as everyone else. Most of them don't really offer anything valuable to anyone. They pride them selves on knowing
something that you don't and will take every chance to rub it in your face. This same type of person
will never give you credit for doing anything or knowing anything more then them.

The are a breed and most are truly all the same, it doesn't
matter race, black, white, indian, Mex whatever they are all
the same.

I have had to deal with these people non stop for the past 12 years
I know how they are.

I'm not perfect, i know this. But one thing i can say for sure
i really don't fit in with these guys, these guys don't like me.
I like simplification, i like to make things easy for people to use.
I like people to enjoy something i had my hand in.

LIfe is short, One day BAM your dead, and all that is left is other peoples
memories of you.

so why be a dick?

Grab your women! Kiss her and be happy that you have
such a great women by your side.

People are not disposable, if you think that way then its very posable
you already have many people that don't like you very much.

I could die tomorrow, and if i did, all i really want is for all the people around me
to know that i love them and always want the best for them.

As i said life is short, wouldn't you want to spend your days on this
earth happy?

And back to the original point, computer guys man these guys need a reality check
life is not all logical like a computer... the computer will rot you away, and one day you
will wonder where all your life went, by then it will all be too late.

My baby's got leggs!

We were out yesterday,
Raeshel got some new skirts for work and some new pairs of nylons.
She had been getting the cheaper stuff, but not yesterday she got the really silky
shiny stuff.

I was looking at her legs when she came home today and man, her leggs were looking
real nice.

That Silken Mist hose is good stuff, i should get her some more.

My lady is always listening to me.

We received our stimulus package the other day.
This is good news because we needed a little boost to catch up and
finally do a good grocery shopping.

Anyways we ended up putting the whole stimulus package to good use.

I even managed to make it over to the computer store and buy a couple
parts i needed to complete this second new computer system i have up
for sale.

Raeshel surprised me today. We were relaxing on the couch and enjoying some TV
together and she told me that she bought me something. And then naturally
i really wanted to know what it was! ( i am not used to girls buying me anything )
in the past it was all me buying things.

Anyways, she said it was something i really wanted and that i would be happy.
I still couldn't figure out what it was... But then i remembered mumbling something to my self
a couple days ago, Somehow i have been with out a Actual Decent Video card for
a while and when i was at microcenter getting parts for the other computer and
i was looking at them but, i really didn't feel like buying one, because of the price
and i really didn't feel comfortable spending our money on a video card for me.

So Raeshel must of remembered me talking about that and then decided to buy me one.
She got me a real good one too, Its constructed of solid aluminum because it conducts heat
away from the parts with out any noise, because there is not a noisy fan buzzing, nothing more
annoying then a computer that is loud from fans running.

So my sweetie got me a great video card and it will be here in a couple days
I'm pretty happy because she went online to newegg.com and picked just the right one
and ordered it all by her self... what a super girl!

My Baby can do it all! Orders nice video cards, Supervises the whole tax department at her bank, On the phone, working hard. And does it all looking good in her heels!

Then comes home and gives me a nice big kiss. A really great girl i have that is for sure.
I'm one really lucky man!

Love my honey.!

Broken Dell = Money, Lawn Mower and 3 Weed Whips

I did some computer work on this exact computer today(dell dimension 4400, It's done me pretty good, because dell is shitty it allowed me to fix it. I received 100 bucks, Lawn Mower and 3 weed whips.




thanks Microsoft and thanks dell :)
gotta love job security