I don't normally fancy ranting about computers, but a recent dicussion has got me all riled up to bang the world to rights.

Macs.

I take photos, therefore, i need a Mac.

It's not a question of choice.

Macs are better for photos.

End of.

Not a PC?

Nope.

Mac.

Ok. I'l point out the first serious flaw with this obscenely annoying 'Mac mentality'.

I'M POOR!

I love using a Mac for photoshop use, but it's the same as using my Pc for photoshop use. It's the same bloody program!!!!

I needed a new machine to edit photos. The ONLY machine i could afford with the money i spent was a Mac Mini with an aftermarket screen. I *could* have gone upto a 20" iMac for £140 more, so lets assume i did that. And now i have a pretty box with a whopping 1Gb of ram, a Radeon 2400XT and a 2.0ghz Core2Duo. Actually, i would have gotten a student discount, so say i would have gotten that £140 back.

The base spec MacBook has a higher frequency processor. AND IT'S A LAPTOP! The grand total that £800 iMac could have ran upon opening a few decent size raw files? Fuck all.

Honestly, the sooner people realise it's as much about the SPEC as the fact it says Mac on the box the fucking better. I'm almost at the point of buying one and putting up with the piss poor performance just to shut everyone up!

Well i have a new idea.

The more photographers who go out and blindly spend money they don't have on iMacs.

The more will go out of business.

And the more business there will be for me.

You simply will not make people see sense. It's like trying to persuade a vegaterian a Minskiis steak sandwhich is the shit. It is, but they'll never buy it. So i'l stop trying. Fortunately it is me who has to put up with my PC at light speed, and not the person with the slow expensive iMac. CS3 being Mac native really will only account for a certain performance change. Macs are still powered on PC hardware, and they still need quick hardware to operate, you guessed it, quickly. The sheer fact people buy a £800 computer with a 2.0ghz dual core, 1GB of ram and £30 graphics card astonishes me.

I realise im opening myself up to all manner of insults and Fanboys but i simply do not care. If you've gone and brought one of the aforementioned iMacs and are genuinely impressed by its performance, great. I'm not sure what else you've been using, but great. But if you even attempt to defend Mac from the price issue do remember,

1) The cpu costs about £70
2) The ram costs about £30
3) The gpu costs about £30
4) The HD will cost a maximum of £70,

So you're spending a whopping £600 on a fancy case and a screen with a colour problem! Even if my prices are out by £100, or £200, you're still spending a LOT.

Mac, release that same £800 20" iMac with a quad core cpu, 2GB of ram and a graphics card that isn't older and slower than my nan, and i'l buy one. I promise.

Whoo.

Yeah it's been a long time since i actually cared, but so what. Maybe if i hadn't stopped coming on here regularly for the best part of a year i would be on 10,000. Who knows.

You'll be pleased to hear, i sat here for what felt like an eternity and thanked all of you for faves and features, i told you i blinkin would!!

Cheers all, keep em coming! Plenty of new work in the pipelines to go up soon

Yeah, woah. A journal entry. It's not that exicing. Probabaly more woh.

Especially as i've not been on here in so long everyones abandoned viewing my page (Don't blame you, i wouldn't want to look at the same un-updated brick wall 60 times a day either)

And to be perfectly honest, i'm only putting this up here because it's better than doing my CV.

And i want to put up a little note that says although i'm not ashamed by any of the work on here (On the contrary, i love a lot of it) it's not really where my photography 'is' at the moment. So don't take too much notice of it. Except my ILL 'standing in the way of fast approaching Motocross bikes' skillz.

It's telling me my subscription is almost expired too. I can't actually remember what an account looks like without one, but as i've updated this maybe twice in the past year, i'm sure it wont be missed. But thankyou to Jim for donating me one anyway. Sorry i couldn't do it more justice

I'm still hustlin my way through college. I have an absolutely amazing idea for my final major project, of which i'l be uploading the final peices up here (Although in seriously de-sized format, they're gonna be howwwge) so if for any reason you actually see me appear in your Devwatch, and it comes out half as good as im picturing it in my noggin, i'de reccommend coming to have a look.

In the meantime, i'm importing some stuff to get it mega cheaps. As i would pay full price for a 24-70 2.8L but that's just silly. So frankly, i won't. This does mean i could have a brand new boxed one (Even two) up for sale for £650 (That's £120 off retail price) If anyone is interested. Also means you don't have to order it from Hong Kong to make a saving (Which if you end up getting taxed, doesn't save you any money anyway )

I'm doing a mini-shoot this Sunday for some Autumn/Winter Coats and Jackets, but i highly doubt i'l get round to putting any up. Though I may throw up one just to show you all i'm not lying.


Oh, and thankyou SO SO SO much to all the people who have faved and featured my work. I'm really sorry i haven't gotten around to thanking you all personally yet, but i shall do

Keep drinking Cans of Coke. Ignore nutritional information. Exercise.

Ok so i'm a bit late.. but i've been rather busy doing nothing and everything, as per usual.

Rather interesting Christmas and New Year break for me.. i hope you all had one just as exciting.

Looking forward to an excellent 2007. I have to admit, i didn't make any specific resolutions, only to carry on having a giggle, and not to take anything too seriously. Hopefully further my photography along the way. Most likely continue to not learn a lot at college and instead be drowned with random contextual shit. Which i'l have to learn to block out or something. Spend more time with my friends, spend more time with her. Remember the good memories i already have, make some more. Just, fun.

So yeah, that's about it really. I hope you're all gonna continue to have a laugh, and check out my photos of me having a laugh.

Peace.

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Well, i figured i've hit another benchmark with my time here at DA. 3k pageviews, 300 dev comments, and 50 watchers Thanks too all who watch, view, comment, etc etc etc. It's pretty cool to know my photos (And small peice of literature) make you feel like you need to say something about them. So Cheers

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