My birthday is next week, and between my fiance and myself, I have decided to splurge a bit and buy yet another computer related gadget. That is where you guys (and gals) come in.
I've decided to spend ~$120 and have narrowed my choices down to about three things, and would like some input as to what you think would be the best investment, long term. 1. a gig stick of ram for the new Powerbook. that would raise me from my current 768mb to 1.2GHz (and freeing up a 512mb stick to put in my fiances iBook, raising her from 512mb to 768). 2. an airport express. we have both been wanting this for a while, but just never justified spending the money. it would be nice to play our music in different rooms of the house, and with the iTunes update that lets you stream to multiple AEs and use your computers speakers, this became more attractive. (plus, it would be nice if we could print wirelessly. I know that the Epson R200 has some issues printing for some people, but it's worth a shot...) 3. another 160GB lacie firewire drive. I currently have a 160GB one partitioned in half, with 80GB for backing up the Powerbooks HD, and 80gb for storage. With my growing music/movie/pictures collection, and those large iMovie and iDVD projects, it might be nice to have the extra space, even if I don't need it now. (as of this writing, I have ~22GB free on the laptop and ~18GB free on the "storage" volume. so, any suggestions? or anything else you would rec. looking into? rick (loves buying senseless computer stuff.... hey, it's the only wasteful thing I do...) | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 24 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
