Birthday Wishlist!
Well, it's less than a month to my birthday (October 10th) and my parents already asked what I want. Since I always tend to forget about these kind of things, I figured this is a prime spot to list it. Please keep in mind this is a WISHLIST! Chances are I probably won't get even one of these...haha. In no particular order...
The NEW Apple Macbook Pro -- Allegedly being release on October 14th, this would seriously be the best, most awesome birthday present I could get this year. My trusty Powerbook G4 is starting to show its age, but the past 3 years have been awesome. Moving over to OSX was the best decision I made in my geekdom, both from a productivity standpoint and from a reliability standpoint. But, with the new software available now, everything needs to run on faster hardware...such is the life of computers, and there's not much one can really do about it. If I want to become faster and more efficient in my photo processing, a faster machine is pretty much a necessity.
Nikon D300 DSLR Body -- I honestly thought long and hard about it...D3? D700? As badass as both of these cameras might be, the fact that I have 3 lenses that work best on a DX sensor pretty much logically dictates that the D300 is the best camera body upgrade for me. I played around with Eugene's D300 one night and I was completely surprised how much of an improvement it was over my D200. Plus, if I'm going to be shooting weddings, a second body is definitely going to be necessary. Of course, this kind of puts me into a chicken/egg situation, since the software I'll need to process D300 RAW files either 1) runs relatively slow on my current Powerbook G4 (Lightroom 2) or I simply don't have and need to get (Adobe CS3 or the upcoming CS4), which in turn will also run relatively slow. I'm also running out of disk space, which then leads me to...
MyBook Studio Edition II -- 2 terabytes of RAID storage goodness. I learned back in grad school that a person's entire lifetime can be captured on compressed video within 1 TB, so I'm pretty certain 2 TB will be more than enough for my storage needs for awhile. This one is almost more of a necessity than a new Macbook...I only have 20GB or so left on my Macbook and if I'm going to be doing a lot more photos (especially weddings) with a 12 megapixel D300, I'm going to need that storage space. Don't you hate it when things all tie together?
Sony Ericsson W960i or Sony Ericsson P1i -- I've been asked a number of times by different people why I don't have an iPhone yet. Well, besides the fact that I'm quite happy with my T-Mobile service and plan, I still very much love my Sony Ericsson W810i! It's been a solid phone since I've gotten it, it syncs perfectly with my Mac, signal strength is great, the 2 MP gets the job done, the flashlight is nice and bright, and I've had absolutely zero problems with reliability.
I think that just about wraps it up. I can't think of anything else off the top of my head. I guess we'll see what happens in less than a month!
The NEW Apple Macbook Pro -- Allegedly being release on October 14th, this would seriously be the best, most awesome birthday present I could get this year. My trusty Powerbook G4 is starting to show its age, but the past 3 years have been awesome. Moving over to OSX was the best decision I made in my geekdom, both from a productivity standpoint and from a reliability standpoint. But, with the new software available now, everything needs to run on faster hardware...such is the life of computers, and there's not much one can really do about it. If I want to become faster and more efficient in my photo processing, a faster machine is pretty much a necessity.
Nikon D300 DSLR Body -- I honestly thought long and hard about it...D3? D700? As badass as both of these cameras might be, the fact that I have 3 lenses that work best on a DX sensor pretty much logically dictates that the D300 is the best camera body upgrade for me. I played around with Eugene's D300 one night and I was completely surprised how much of an improvement it was over my D200. Plus, if I'm going to be shooting weddings, a second body is definitely going to be necessary. Of course, this kind of puts me into a chicken/egg situation, since the software I'll need to process D300 RAW files either 1) runs relatively slow on my current Powerbook G4 (Lightroom 2) or I simply don't have and need to get (Adobe CS3 or the upcoming CS4), which in turn will also run relatively slow. I'm also running out of disk space, which then leads me to...
MyBook Studio Edition II -- 2 terabytes of RAID storage goodness. I learned back in grad school that a person's entire lifetime can be captured on compressed video within 1 TB, so I'm pretty certain 2 TB will be more than enough for my storage needs for awhile. This one is almost more of a necessity than a new Macbook...I only have 20GB or so left on my Macbook and if I'm going to be doing a lot more photos (especially weddings) with a 12 megapixel D300, I'm going to need that storage space. Don't you hate it when things all tie together?
Sony Ericsson W960i or Sony Ericsson P1i -- I've been asked a number of times by different people why I don't have an iPhone yet. Well, besides the fact that I'm quite happy with my T-Mobile service and plan, I still very much love my Sony Ericsson W810i! It's been a solid phone since I've gotten it, it syncs perfectly with my Mac, signal strength is great, the 2 MP gets the job done, the flashlight is nice and bright, and I've had absolutely zero problems with reliability.
I think that just about wraps it up. I can't think of anything else off the top of my head. I guess we'll see what happens in less than a month!
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