I was a late comer to the computer, geek, technology world as I only got my first PC in 2001 and before that the most technical thing I knew was how to load Doom from Dos on my mate’s 386 laptop. That said, within a few months of getting my first box, I was stripping it down to see how it worked and a month or so after that I was upgrading and experimenting with various expansion cards. I had the whole range of peripherals, TV cards, various drive configurations etc, but the best extra I tried was adding a second graphics card and going dual monitor.
Since then I’ve had dozens of bozes and laptops and most of them have been single displays but I’ve always made sure that my main machine has always been a dual display setup. It’s usually my work box as I spend most of my time (when I’m trying to be productive ) working on that one, plus going dual screen usually tends to involve scrapping decent game play so that rules out my home desktop, but there’s always one.
Recently I’ve been considering moving over to a Mac since I spend my time at work using only three applications – Outlook, FireFox & Dreamweaver and they’re all available on Mac OS. Plus there’s all the extra benefits of having a Mac. And all the extra benefits of NOT having Windows. Only problem is that getting a brand new Mac Pro with dual screen and a few extras to get it up to a pretty good spec is a bit on the… pricy side. But, there might be a solution!
First job on Monday is to come up with a list for the accounts department of how me having a Mac Pro would make me so productive that to compensate I would need a Windows box with one these. Think it’ll work?
I'm a web developer based in the East Midlands, UK and if I keep up the current rate, I might have developed 3 million sites by the time I retire