Noise? Why thats just old Titanium!

So my present, old, downtrodden, slow, sleepy powerbook is being looked over by a team of the finest that the greater Skokie, Ill area has to offer, or at least the ones that happen to be on shift and have decided to work at the apple store, because, hey, its better than best buy right?

It's been since friday that I've been waiting to find out if they fix the problem for free under Apple Care, or give it back to me unfixed and charge me a $75 "Slap in the face" fee for wasting their time. Really. Thats how it works.

So since then I've been working on my previous, older, more downtrodden, slower, sleepier powerbook, from the now vintage "Titanium" generation. The first of Apple's powerbooks to run on the G4 chipset, this little baby clocks in at a blazing 800 mhz. It's cooled by an advanced forced air system which utilizes a variable high speed fan to create buffeting waves of sound that deafen the user. Any heat not dissipated by this primary system (usually about 99%) is vented out of the motherboard, into the surrounding titanium construction of the outer case, and into the users thighs. This watery organic mass can absorb a surprising amount of thermal energy, but of course everything has its limits, so this secondary cooling system is assisted by a safety feature in which, when the computer has reaches a certain temperature from prolonged use, the operating system freezes, forcing the user to force shut down, deactivating the heat source.

While this sleak, minimalist icon of industrial design can run up to two (2) modern script and flash based websites simultaneously, and perform a host of high powered word processing tasks, its abilities stop short of actually running any of my music and sound programs. Though it can run a few of the visual art applications I use in slow motion, I just haven't had the heart to ask it to do that. It needs its rest.

So until these guys actually call me, I'm going crazy with beat ideas and a backlog of sound work is piling up. If this continues much longer, I'll be writing about the near constant stream of media I consume, letting you all in on music, shows, art, & etc that has been blowing my mind lately.

[imagine one of those classic "Hang In There" posters with a kitten in some kind of comical predicament here]

[ekundayo]