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the joy… the pain

i got an email from Dad, notifying his recent purchase and acquisition of a certain Mac OS X Panther. my heart lifted! i will finally be able to use the glorious cutting edge operating system. think of the possiblities!

Naturally, a mental whiplash occured… my poor 4 year old iMac might struggle with the advanced 3d graphic capabilities; it’s only 400 Mhz. Not even a G4. Don’t get me wrong, this trusty machine has gotten me everywhere. We’ve already made close personal bonds together. i know, with a little love, we can do Anything, even the Aqua interface.

But even more devastating… ProTools Free is NOT AVAILABLE FOR OS X!!! Jon Breaux has been recovering from this heartbreaking realization ever since he got his hot lil’ new iMac with OS X (jaguar) already loaded on it. Jon… i feel your pain. however, perhaps i have the option, unlike jon (since i am using a 4-year old iMac) to boot in OS 9. there could be hope.
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For those of you who don’t have a clue about what i’m talking about, Dad bought this new software that’s really pretty and cool. But i don’t know if i want to use the new pretty cool software. If i use it, i might not be able to Record my Music the way i like. I am torn: use the pretty and cool software, or record pretty and cool Music. yarg!

in other news, i jammed today with roomie and we rok.

today was tuesday, and it was definitely another triple torture tuesday. just in case you didn’t know that already.

This entry was posted by dave on Tuesday, November 18th, 2003 at 9:29 pm and is filed under journal. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

2 Responses to “the joy… the pain”

  1. katie w says:
    November 18, 2003 at 10:00 pm

    choose to record pretty and cool music over the pretty and cool software. your music is great, and you can constantly produce new pretty and cool music pieces, but eventually the prettiness and coolness of the software will fade, and you’ll be left with nothing . . . do you really have anything to think about anymore? :-P

  2. Dad says:
    November 18, 2003 at 11:12 pm

    dave,
    Joy, you can still use OS9 apps even when OSX is installed. You can even boot in OS9 if need be.
    Pain
    OSX Panther didn’t load onto my trusty G4 Cube tonight. Arrgh. What could be wrong? I suffer, I wail, I moan. I need an iLife.
    However, more joy, the 512MB additional RAm works quite well. Yaay.
    More pain, the DVD burner I also received needs two very tiny screws to fit, they weren’t shipped with the burner. Grrrr.
    Wot to due?

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