{"id":1785,"date":"2003-09-27T14:28:32","date_gmt":"2003-09-28T04:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/09\/27\/my-new-toy\/"},"modified":"2019-12-05T16:28:10","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T00:28:10","slug":"my-new-toy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/09\/27\/my-new-toy\/","title":{"rendered":"My new toy!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So today was the big day &#8212; new computers for both Prarie and me! Prairie got a new iMac (which came with all sorts of other goodies), and I got my G5. Once we got home and unloaded the car, we had to memorialize the occasion&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2003\/09\/graphics\/lotsofputerstuff1.jpg\" title=\"All of our new goodies...\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"All of our new goodies...\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2003\/09\/graphics\/lotsofputerstuff-thumb.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I opened mine up first &#8212; I&#8217;d been waiting for this for a while, and there was only room on the bed for one of us to unpack at a time, so Prairie was kind enough to let me dive in first. After a minor incident with the knife I used to slit the tape on the box (it&#8217;s okay, I didn&#8217;t really <em>need<\/em> that part of my fingertip anyway), I got to see in person what I&#8217;d been drooling over online for the past few months.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2003\/09\/graphics\/dualg5.jpg\" title=\"Two! Count them! Two! Ah ha ha ha ha!\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Two! Count them! Two! Ah ha ha ha ha!\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2003\/09\/graphics\/dualg5-thumb.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And, just a few minutes later, everything was plugged in and I was up and running. I haven&#8217;t installed any really processor intensive applications yet, but even with just poking around at the basic stuff that comes pre-installed, this is <em>so<\/em> much nicer than my old machine. I&#8217;m definitely looking forward to taxing it a bit more in the future &#8212; right now, the biggest speed test I&#8217;ve had has been with opening iPhoto. On my old G3, with an iPhoto library pushing 2000 photos, it was a good minute or two for the application to open and be ready to use. On the G5? Roughly <em>three seconds<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and  I was highly amused by this. Never having unpacked an iMac before, I wasn&#8217;t expecting to see this, but from what we could see when we opened up Prairie&#8217;s box &#8212; it&#8217;s a boy!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2003\/09\/graphics\/itsaboy.jpg\" title=\"It's a boy!\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"It's a boy!\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2003\/09\/graphics\/itsaboy-thumb.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So today was the big day &mdash; new computers for both Prarie and me! Prairie got a new iMac (which came with all sorts of other goodies), and I got my G5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2039,2043],"tags":[65],"class_list":["post-1785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-personal","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}