Saturday, November 21
Taigalised
Posting from Taiga!
Posting from Taiga!
It works. Plugged in, switched on... Where's the switch? Where's the switch?! Ah. Switched on, poing sound, off we go.
Magic mouse is pretty good. Magic keyboard is a piece of crap with no feel or key travel. An entry-level Logitech keyboard is better than this. So was the old Mac keyboard from the 2nd generation iMac... Which I have sitting in closet upstairs, so I'll dig that out tomorrow.
Screen is all it should be - 14 million pixels and a wide colour gamut and great viewing angles.
Everything so far is pretty zippy. I'd hope so, since it has the fastest of everything that I could possibly get - and since I haven't done anything remotely taxing so far.
The memory upgrade was pretty nice. There's a couple of tricks to it, but they're well-designed tricks:
- There's a button that releases the hatch over the RAM slots. The button can only be reached after removing the power cord, so there's no way you can open it while it's powered on.
- There's a latching mechanism that locks all four RAM slots at once, and when you unlatch it, they hinge outwards for easy access. You just drop the modules in and push the latch shut again.
32GB of 1600MHz third-party RAM was $260, vs. $960 for the upgrade from 8GB to 32GB from Apple. For $700 I'll accept that 2-3% real-world performance difference. (Though why they didn't just use DDR4 I don't know.)
Now let's install Steam...
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