![]() I own two very fine examples of mid to late 90's SGI workstations - a SGI Octane (mips R12000 400Mhz, VPro gfx, 1GB ram) running IRIX 6.5.30 and my little SGI O2 running a R5000 300Mhz mips processor and alternatively, a R12000 300Mhz processor. My other IT interests include a bit of Linix here and there, but my main other interest is SGI machines. I then bought my 2008 Mac Pro for £1,800 brand new and used that untill 2012 when I bought my Macbook Pro as we had limited room in the place we lived. My exposure was mostly in the graphics and architecture side (ArchiCAD, Photoshop) but I later got into amateur photography and used my Tibook for this until I could no longer use it headless. ![]() I joined the Mac community, sadly at the end of OS 9, and the beginning of *nix era 10.X's. Since then I've had a 2008 Mac Pro, 2012 Macbook Pro and more recently a 2010 Mac Pro (dual 2.93Ghz), this together with my Macbook Pro are my daily drivers and won't be replaced anytime soon.Speed, capacity, processing power and storage is all I could ask for and need. (Bless, he was only a kitten.and yes my cat is still around! ) In late 2008 my cat jumped on my open Tibook and snapped the hinges straight off. But I always used to visit the BAT (Bartle Arts Theare) centre in Durban where I'd drool over the latest macs. ![]() Having grown up in South Africa before I moved to the UK, Apple Macs were rather out of reach for the average Joe Blogs. My first Apple Mac was a 1Ghz G4 Tibook with 512mb ram, I saved up for 6 months for this machine and worked extra jobs and overtime at work to save up the £2,200 to buy, then 6 months later the alumininium G4 came out, but I still loved my Tibook. I've also done some x86 Windows time while training in architecture. So pleased to have found this site, I've been a Mac user since 2002 and Amiga before that from the late 80's. ![]()
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