Standing With 30 Inches of Joy
I was down at Irvine Spectrum last night and my wife was spending quite a bit of time looking at skirts and sweaters at some stores…needless to say I needed to find something else to do. So I walked around and came across their new Apple Store, which I didn’t know was there. Anyways, I played around with the new MacBooks, deciding if a 13.3″ or 15.4″ model would suffice, but decided the 17″ MacBook Pro would have to be the way to go, mainly due to the lack of pixel resolution the smaller models support. Then I admired the design of their iPods, lamented at the paltry selection of available shelf/shrink-wrap software Mac OS X supports, looked at what other people in the store were doing on their macs, mostly teenagers playing with the built-in iSight or looking at photos of friends online, etc. This is the prototypical Apple store run-through for me.
So I camped out at a G5 with a 30″ monitor (”Cinema Display”) running at an astounding 2560×1600 resolution! I played with Photoshop, used Microsoft Remote Desktop to login to some servers to check on how things are going at the co-lo, tweaked some blogs, etc. After a while in front of a 30″ screen it was hard to leave. When my wife came back to find me she said “As much time as you spend in front of a computer you’d be pretty justified in getting one of those.” Ah, what a wife!
To make it even better, I was standing the whole time!
