My New Toy at Work

Currently I an assistant webmaster at Community Bible Church. I work two days a week, and get paid $8 an hour to do what I love. Good deal right?
I have been working with CBC through the entire summer using my personal iBook G4 for all of my web work. My software set-up is pretty simple: Photoshop CS2 for image editing, Taco HTML Edit for all of my coding, and Transmit for FTP usage. My iBook is running Mac OSX Tiger with a 1.2 GHz Power PC G4 processer, 512 RAM, 60 GB hard drive, and a second 17″ Dell monitor. It’s a pretty simple set up - but it works.

However…
Yesterday CBC gave me a new toy to play with: a Power Mac G5!

Ok, so it’s not the latest and greatest, but it sure does out do my iBook!

This Power Mac is running a Dual 1.8 GHz PowerPC G5 Processor, sports 2 GB of RAM, 575 GBs of internal hard drive, and a 500 GB External hard drive! In addition to that, I get Photoshop CS3, Aperture, and Studio 8 (Dreamweaver 8, Flash Pro 8, Fireworks 8, and more).

I am so spoiled now. I don’t like using my iBook because it is so slow, but I don’t like using the Power Mac because it has only one screen and it doesn’t have all my personal settings! But hey, I still bring my iBook to work - so I use them side-by-side. Thus, I get both - the speed and power of the Power Mac, and my personal settings and the dual screens! It’s pretty nice.