get it up in there
18:59 on Sunday, February 01, 2004 • 5 responses
Well, it’s here and after much effort, it’s in. If there’s one thing I can say about the Dual G5, it’s that the machine is ridiculously fast. If there’s another thing I can say about the G5, it’s that the machine is ridiculously big.
It kind of has to be. On the inside, the two G5 heatsinks look a lot like the sides of a Harley engine. The machine almost weighs as much as a Harley, too. Shipping weight was a whopping 58lbs (26.3kg). Thankfully shipping was free and the Apple warehouse is just a day away.
I have this desk system—the S7 line from Agio Designs—which I’ve been building up over the years and I really like it. The space, though, between the built-in cable management system and the undershelf I have on the right side of the desk is too short to fit the G5, so I had to break out the router and perform some surgery on the shelf to get the machine to fit. With my luck the next desktop I purchase from Apple (many years from now, I hope) will be wafer thin and I’ll be stuck with a huge notch on this shelf, but oh well.
The monitor arm on which the cinema display is mounted is probably the best thing I’ve ever installed on my desk. It allows me to use the primo desktop space in the corner, which right now houses my Mackie Control (which I use to control Logic). But removing my old monitor from the arm, installing the bracket on the Cinema Display, and placing the bracket/display back on the arm took me three hours.
It’s all in place now, though, crunching numbers and running up my electricity bill. My computing life, at least, is pretty hunky-dory.
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