Last weekend I finally took the leap and got a beautiful little iBook for my new life in confined quarters. This little 6-pound guy replaces a G4 AGP tower, a heavy-ass 17-inch monitor and a noisy LaCie CD burner. I never was a laptop person before, but already am addicted. The PowerBooks are nice, but they are steep and Tom had a great point (in some comment somewhere) about saving some of the extra cash you’d pay for a PowerBook to upgrade with groovy things such as AirPort Extreme card and extra RAM. Plus, this thing has more character. It’s a friendly little computer and it smokes my 400 mhz tower on everything.
I might even forgive Apple for upgrading all the iBooks one week after I bought mine. Grrr.
I’m in the process of loading all my CDs either onto the laptop or my external hard drive. I figure I’ll take a few hard copies of super favorites with me but store the rest with my vinyl. It’s hard to part with music, but I have faith in the stability of my hard drives. I struggled with the decision of whether or not to take my records and a turntable with me, but “minimal” is the dominant theme of this move. The records will get an extended vacation at my parents’ house. I will miss them and send them postcards. If I can figure out what kind of cords I need, I might just try to use Sound Studio to digitize my vinyl before I go. Any fellow Mac geeks have advice on this? (Thanks to another Tom for the friendly advice on digital music formats and which I should use for importing.)
Everything in my apartment soon will be identified as “ship,” “store,” “sell” and “give away.” Anybody wanna buy an 8-track player?
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JK | 19-Apr-04 at 11:51 am | Permalink
I’m not a Mac person, but I’ve been using an Adobe audio editing setup to transfer LPs to digital, a process that’s terribly easier than I had expected. The only hassle is that most programs require that you sit by the computer and manually insert track boundaries, but Sound Stage probably has a filter to retroactively edit in those breaks. Give it a shot, it’s well worth it.
Autumnsan | 19-Apr-04 at 9:20 pm | Permalink
Tom’s comment was on my blog.