Archive for October 19th, 2005

Man, this is awesome. I just love the DeLorean, and now someone recreated it as a Lego model. I sent it to Jef too who already has multiple Lego models setup in his home. Plus he knows about my love of the DeLorean:

Lego DeLorean

There’s a Knight Rider Lego Model on that site too.

Oh man, I’ll have a TiVo Season Pass faster than you can say, “Jump” if this really happens.

Will Van Halen Be The Next ‘Rock Star’ Band?

Some cool stuff. The new top of the line PowerMac G5 is a quad processor (two dual core processors):

Here’s the rundown from MacRumors:

Updates from the Media Event in New York today:

- Upgrades to the 15″ and 17″ PowerBooks.
- 15″ gets a new display with 1440 x960 resolution, while the 17″ will get 1680 x1050. Both will be brighter than previous models and have better battery life.
- SuperDrives will be standard and all will support Apple’s 30″ Cinema HD Display
- Prices start at $1,499 for 12″, $1,999 for 15″ and $2,499 for 17″.
- Powerbooks ship today
- PowerMac G5s updated
- Dual core processors, up to 16GB of DDR2 RAM, 1TB of internal storage, PCI Express
- Four new nVidia cards, including the Quadro FX 4500 - all four cards support 30″ cinema display - PowerMac G5 Quad, with dual dual-core processors
- Single dual-core 2.0 GHz CPU version is $1,999; single dual core 2.3Ghz is $2,499; dual CPU dual-core 2.5Ghz is $3,299
- 23″ and 30″ cinema displays drop in price, 23″ down to $1,299, 30″ down to $2,499
- Aperture - post-production tool for photographers
- Built for pro photographers, provides end-to-end RAW workflow
- Feature called Stacks allows photos to be grouped together based on the time between shutter clicks
- Full screen workspace, can span multi-image displays
- Multi-image viewer to check images side-by-side, up to 10 at a time
- Standard tools like red-eye reduction; cropping etc. Non-destructive workflow and versioning capabilities

Nice! More reason for me to get my 23″ display at home. I does help for sure in the Adobe apps, as you can have more workspace and still display more (or all) tools.

Large Monitor Makes You More Productive