![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
I think...
Oct. 8th, 2007 12:22 pmI think I may be able to play new games on my MacBook Pro. I haven't been able to play anything since... since like before Half-Life 2 came out. My PCs just weren't beefy enough. Now I should be able to run just about anything; the new laptop's got Intel architecture, 4 gigs of RAM, and a GeForce 8600. As long as Parallels keeps working fine, I think I can actually load up The Orange Box on it. And if I get the complete package from Valve for USD $99, I can play every darn game I've missed out on in the last five years and finally play PORTAL.
I'm also still transitioning files over from the PC; everything from the old machine is on a Parallels virtual disk (60 gigs worth) and I'm slowly moving it all into things like iPhoto and iMovie. I discovered that the .MOV files that my digital camera makes are not compatible with iMovie, so I may either need to get a video file converter and/or change some setting on my camera to record a more conforming file format. I've also ripped about a third of my CDs to iTunes.
Speaking of which - I got $50 in gift card cash from using the Juniper credit card to purchase the laptop; and while I didn't find anything immediately thrilling enough to spend it all on, I did buy season 1 of The Sarah Silverman Show for $6.99. I also downloaded two sets of MIT's open courseware lectures for free from iTunes U.
I'm also still transitioning files over from the PC; everything from the old machine is on a Parallels virtual disk (60 gigs worth) and I'm slowly moving it all into things like iPhoto and iMovie. I discovered that the .MOV files that my digital camera makes are not compatible with iMovie, so I may either need to get a video file converter and/or change some setting on my camera to record a more conforming file format. I've also ripped about a third of my CDs to iTunes.
Speaking of which - I got $50 in gift card cash from using the Juniper credit card to purchase the laptop; and while I didn't find anything immediately thrilling enough to spend it all on, I did buy season 1 of The Sarah Silverman Show for $6.99. I also downloaded two sets of MIT's open courseware lectures for free from iTunes U.