Since Sunday I was able to fix one weird crash each day with a few minor leakish stuff thrown on top (yes, that means there is a new version coming real soon now).
Obviously the higher forces out there must have noticed that I've been a good boy lately (and I seem to have covered my tracks well when I was not, alts are a godsend) so yesterday the postman ran and brought an impressive packet.
As you can see, the packet is a lot bigger than you'd expect for a MacBook/Pro, but nice guy that I am and nice people that the Lindens are, someone bent the rules a bit and an iMac instead of a MacBook!
Now, those new fixes I spoke of, should have been rolled into version BE-r yesterday, but I guess everybody understands that a box like this can change a man's plans and priorities within a split second. :-)
Unpacking alone is something Apple really knows how to turn into an experience by itself with all those nifty details. The machine itself is incredibly nice, alu casing, impressive screen, fine keyboard ... well, it's an Apple.
Installation was easy, besides a few hiccups (like not being able to find out the MAC address of the internal WLan on the outside and accidentally wiping out the pre-installed OS.X partition while trying to sneak an extra partition into bootcamp).
Thanks to Tillie and Barney, I could immediately run SL the Nicholaz way. Oh how sweet that is on a 24" wide screen display (1920x1200) with an ATI 2600 PRO. Be careful trying that anywhere or you'll be spoiled forever.
I'm not anywhere near doing anything productive on that machine and it will be a long time before I will be able to build SL on it (see that book lying next to the computer?), but you guys out there are doing such a good job of making platform builds for the Nicholaz Edition, that I'm sure in no hurry with so many new things to explore.
In any case, that machine makes a nice addition to my personal Huston Control center at home (just for comparison, those tiny screens on the other computers are 15" and 19" displays).
Thanks everybody for making this possible with your feedbacks, nominations, votes and of course thanks Lindens for making SL open source jumping through a few extra hoops with the Hippo Awards.
But now back to something totally different ...
(that is the debugger running for version BE-r).
7 comments:
The new iMacs are very, very nice. No more of that white plastic garbage, and the new keyboard is a whole lot easier to use. They are also very nice computers, even for the price. You can tell that Apple really trying to grab more customers with all of these nice, new products and price drops. I'd certainly rather have one of these than a dell of the same price.
However, I am a PC builder, and I have 8 or so USB ports on my huge, heavy PC, which are all in use, so yeah. :P I love my macbook pro, though. Thin, nice looking, powerful, no vents in stupid places, and you've got to love two-finger scrolling and right clicking on that huge trackpad. I can't stand those tiny trackpads everyone else uses. :P
Anyway, congrats. That was very nice of them. I guess I won't have to wait for OSX builds from now on? :D
Love your blog posts, love what you're doing with the SL client.
Congratulations on the new iMac! You deserve it!
-Lec-
Is your office always that clean, or did you tidy up for the picture? I would be ashamed to show you all the mess that is my desk! I had so much paper piled on the vents of my laptop that it overheated and shut down the other day. And then there is the day I spilled pop all over it, and the night I dropped ice cream in the keyboard! My 2nd computer is off, and piled high with papers.
Anyway, nice work with the Viewers, keep them coming. I'm a hardcore Old School user.
Tolle Sache, das freut mich für dich!
Du hast dich ja auch wirklich extrem
ins Zeug gelegt :)
Viel Spass mit dem Ding!
Yay, they DID listen to you! Have fun with the Mac! You really really deserve it! (And Macs ARE just for fun, right? ;) )
Alyx Sands
Thanks all for the nice words, the thing is really fun to play with :-)
Ivory: It mosly looks like that. I did clean up a bit, moving a notebook and a pen and glass out of the way, but that is basically it. OTOH, the other half of the room (where I was standing to take the photo), doesn't look quite as neat with an open shelf with books, cd and random stuff, but the desks are more or less as in the picture most of the time (except when I'm painting (not that I did that anymore since I discovered SL), which would be on the desk where the Mac now stands ... that can get pretty messy :-))
Bigtime congratulations, Nicholaz!
Glad to see it arrived in good shape for your future endeavors! =)
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