1.25 GB baby!
When I ordered my 12” PowerBook, I decided that I might as well max out the RAM1, but I had to wait because the extra 1 GB stick was back-ordered. I got it today, and I’m revelling in the most RAM I’ve ever had installed on a computer. The laptop felt pretty fast before, but now it’s really snappy. I do have a legitimate reason for needing all this computing gruntâI’m going to be using digital video pretty extensively in my work, and I know from experience that applications like Final Cut Pro need as much RAM as you can throw at them. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it…
1 You should probably mentally append, “…because I wasn’t paying for it.” to that sentence.
DVDs by post
One of the few things I really miss from Oxford (apart from my friends and the lovely buildings) is the availability of great independent cinemas. The Phoenix and the UPP screened a wonderful range of independent and foreign films; around here there only seems to be the usual glut of Odeons and UCIs showing the standard releases. So Mr. Bsag and I are thinking about subscribing to one of the DVD-rental-by-post services. I think we’ve got it narrowed down to either the Guardian’s Movietrak service or LOVEFiLM.com. My problem is that I can’t check out the range available from LOVEFiLM; they say that they have almost every DVD released in the UK, but do I believe them? And do they have a decent range of independent and foreign films? If anyone has had experience of either of these services (or any other good ones I might have missed, provided that they deliver in the UK), I would love to know how you find them.
