Every time I have gone to @digdeeperla , from one of the first ever to peak hysteria with a now-blessed madonna and now, well past the expiration date of anything flukey or accidental, to come back and feel like the same party has just been raging since I stumbled out of the last one 5 years ago…just magical.
Happy birthday to the one who, when perspectives get skewed and it feels like you’ve been stuck going back and forth between the same two floors, is always there to reassure me that “my legs look just as stupid as yours” followed by a gentle but prescient reminder that I am in fact “the one who is making us sit on a bench in an elevator.” LOVE YOU AND YOUR DOGTOGGIN WAYS. ❤️
So I finally ditched Apple altogether as far as computing and imprisoned the soul of a 17 year old candy raver named Butterfly in a glass prison where all she does is render video and Sony RAW photo files. Despite the ubiquity of RGB in Windows land got you feeling like its the Sahara Tent circa 2006 all over again, I built this beast on my own having never built a computer before for roughly half the cost of an entry level cheese grater Mac Pro and this machine smokes even the $25K Mac Pro config in popular benchmarking tools. Not the end all be all but the disparity in cost and performance is too significant to ignore. Apple turned its back on the prosumer market it virtually created and despite missing the simplicity of AirDrop, Windows 10 is more than solid enough to keep me from ever looking back. If you love the economics of this but building a rig from scratch feels like too much to handle, feel free to hit me up. The constant edge that Apple maintained in looks and sheer horsepower are no more. Buying a MacPro is paying simply for the privilege of paying Apple more for less negative space between the lesser components they choose for you and often stick you with for the machines lifespan rather than embracing full system wide modularity. The M1 is a cute little Audi S5 that even grandpa can drive while AMD’s Threadripper processors are an F1 car for professional applications that you sometimes gotta take to Target.
