Too Many Wires


I've got lots of wires. I must have been somewhat of a spectacle at the airport. I was plugged into the wall for power, and I have a USB cable going to this new "audiophile" outboard DAC Bithead thingie with another cable going to my earphones which split into two and then wrap around my ears. The Shure E5s have nice bass. There are chords I haven't heard in years :-), and another firewire cable headed to an outboard drive. I am told that to get *great* sound, you need to rip your CDs into iTunes using error correction and the Apple Lossless codec. Then use an outboard USB DAC to get completely gitter and error free music -- this is what those untra expensive CD players and DACs will give you. Instead of buying a $2000 high end CD player, you get a $2000 laptop or for a real bargain a $700 Mac mini.

All this to watch a movie, or listen to music. Too many cables. Of course this is better than the alternative. Too few cables and you are SOL. It is amazing to me that I can edit a HDV video clip on a laptop in an airport -- while I am listening to music.

In any case this fellow sits down next to me stating "You must make Steve very happy". He pulls out a tiny Vaio. "This is the way to go." I smiled, I showed him FCP . No stinkin dinkie Vaio can do that :-) In all seriousness though I had a tiny Vaio notebook in the late 1990s and they are the slimest lightest thing going. The issue is that the little keyboard and small screen make it hard to do real work for extended periods of time. And watching movies in HD is way better on a 15 inch screen. The 17 is too large to use comfortably on the airplane so the 15" MBP is perfect for me. Particularly if you are wearing shorts in the winter. Too many cables though.

Posted: Sun - April 23, 2006 at 11:38 AM          

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