Situating Power
In light of me entering the video arena, as previously mentioned, I am going to look at changing my setup dramatically. But before choosing I should really look at the way I use my mac at the moment. When I first bought my Mac, I wasn’t quite sure what I would end up using if for so I took the middle ground. I bought a reasonably powerful machine, but not too powerful; so that I wouldn’t waste my money too much if I didn’t use it to it’s full potential.
My situation is: I go to a boarding school. I’m there for all the week apart from most weekends where I come home, so I can earn money and take a break. Interestingly, I’ve realised that I don’t do to much heavy duty work at school. I take and edit photos at the weekend. The little video work that I have done before receiving the HV30 - I did at home. Most of the graphic design work I do at home - though I do do some at school as well.
Now lets look at what I do at school: I browse the web ALOT. I write, I write some more and some more. As mentioned previously, I do a bit of graphic design work and most importantly of all: I take my computer to a large amount of my lessons.
I’m an average user in the week, but in the weekends I tend to put my machine to the max.
I find this quite interesting and opens up quite a few interesting opportunities. Say that money is not a problem, and it sort of isn’t - I can wait as long as I need to or work as hard as I need to to reach goals.
How about I go for the sweet spot combo. The portibilty of a MacBook Air and the power of a Mac Pro. Now some may ask: “Why not just get a maxed out MacBook Pro?”. My answer: “I would end up getting a Mac Pro at some point anyway and on the point of the MacBook Air - It’s a fricken MacBook Air!”
Lets break this down. Say, in the summer I sell my MacBook Pro (to my brother) for X amount. I use that to buy the MacBook Air and “survive” for the few months it will take me to save up for a base Mac Pro and a 24″ Monitor. I can then expand it’s power in the future. So I will then have both the potibibilty I would like and more than enough power at school at the week and then in the end be able to come back to a Mac Pro at the weekend to edit photos and video.
I think it’s viable - do you?

be created for the iPhone/iPod Touch. I think that there are a few things that are a given, that we will end up having. The following is a list of apps that I think NEEDS to be transfered to the iPhone.
opportunities, especially as you don’t go around taking pictures with you iSight so you can use the Photo Booth Feature. With this app you would be able to have fun without the preparation, see the snap and take it.

