Le PC est mort: vive le MAC!!!

Oh, yes, I deserve to be tortured inside the deep flames of Hefestus for did no updates this month of february, where I have been in holidays!!! From 2007 (and january of 2008), I must admit that there are 4 posts with a little time lag: the last chapter of Sitges 2007 chronicles, the photo report of my new computer (besides the MacBookPro laptop), and the memorandums of two great metal concerts ---Epica + Sonata Arctica and Gamma Ray + Helloween---.

So, let's go with the second one for beginning the updates: my new computer, another Apple Computer: an incredible iMac with 20-inch monitor display!!! After doing a photo report for the MacBookPro on November 2007, my new iMac also will be now object of a photo report and a technical review whether possible :P

I really adquired it on past month of december, but because of the terrible siege of Graphics and Visualization Master puntuable tasks, I had no time until the first of february; btu then, i was too much tired for writing something in english (indeed, all the master documents I delivered were written in english... ouch...)


* Chapter 1. iMac technical specs

What was the reason for buying an iMac? I think it's clear... having a MacBookPro already, the strange environment of Mac for laptops and PC for office computer was very strange for me; hence, knowing that my adquisitive capabilities can allow to buy an iMac, I thought this couldn't be a bad idea. And I wasn't wrong... mwaaaahahahahahaaaa


And that's the splendind computer!! It's really beautiful, isn't it? So thin, so bright, so... so everything!! XD Let's go with the specs of my concrete iMac model:

• 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
• 2GB 667(Mhz) DDR2 SDRAM
• 800MHz frontside bus
• 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200 rpm
• SuperDrive 8x (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
• Built-in 20-inch (viewable) widescreen TFT active-matrix liquid crystal display
• Apple Keyboard and Apple Mighty Mouse
  
• ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO with 256MB of GDDR3 memory
• Built-in AirPort Extreme 802.11b/g/n
• Built-in iSight camera, DVI, VGA (DVI to VGA adapter included)
• Weight: 9.10 kg
• Measure: 48.50 cm x 46.90 cm x 18.9 cm (support included)
  

* Chapter 2. The photo report :P

The mounting process can be "seen" now. First, the two sides (front and back) of the iMac box are shown; it's a 20-inch entire computer, so the box is heavier and bigger than the MacBookPro one :P but the inexistence of the box tower is an interesting factor, so the box is really as big as a typical PC monitor box XD


So, the final step: the table positioning of the creature!!! If you are viewing the MacBookPro post, you can see the a photo with my office PC behind the two laptops; well... from now, this PC has been moved onto a more rejected position, and its old position in front of the desk chair is now for the iMac.

As i've said in the above lines, there is no box tower, so the entire iMac is presented in this photo!!!! Isn't it awesome? :) There is only the monitor display, the keyboard and the mouse, in front of the typical PC architecture (monitor, box tower, keyboard and mouse). So, an entire computer in a TFT display!!!

Since the first iMac appeared (a CRT-monitor entire computer container), Apple has worked in its evolution, and now, the 2nd generation of the thin iMacs are so splendid as you can see in the photo :)

So, at last, and with the unique intention of giving you, poor mortals, a nice vision of my actual desk, there is the actual computer disposition of my workstation:

1. the iMac in front of me for working and for my personal projects;
2. the MacBookPro in the left side (opional), for a support tasks (e.g: parallel tasks or implementation testings for different computers);
3. and the old and rejected PC in the extreme left table corner, with discotheque functions only :P (that means, in Gilgamesh ---the PC's name--- there is my almost complete music collection, consisting in metal discographies, film scores, videogame soundtracks, classical music, operas, new age and celtic music; 400GB of music, more or less... :D). However, I don't discard the idea of transforming the PC into a complete ludical plataform with videogames and emulators like MAME or ZSNES... and of course, movies :) From the bed, the PC monitor is easily viewable hehehehehehehe

* Chapter 3. The name of the creature

I mentioned in the MacBookPro post that, although I named my computers in a demigod mithology based name system, I decided to change this system with the Apple computers: now the Mac computers will receive names of fallen angels, like Behemoth for MacBookPro, because of Mac is the dark side in the war against the God of Computers, the IBM-original PC; and now, it's the turn for my iMac.

Therefore, it receives the name of Asmodeus!!!! A fallen angel too, Asmodeus (or Asmodai, and so more derivation names) is a demon mostly known from the deuterocanonical Book of Tobit. The demon is also mentioned in some Talmudic legends, for instance, in the story of the construction of the Temple of Solomon. Its origin has been found in the zoroastrian religion of the persians, and was transformed in the judaism while the persian authority over the judaic reign. Later, the christian mythology adapted its creature. However, Although there are also functional parallels between Zoroastrianism's Aēšma and Judaism's Asmodai/Asmodeus, the linguistic relationship does not denote conceptual continuity. The two are mythologically and culturally distinct.


The name Asmodai (or Asmodeus) is believed to derive from Avestan language aēšma-daēva, where aēšma means "wrath", and daēva signifies "demon". Hence, Asmodeus means "the Demon of Wrath". On the other hand, Asmodeus and Samael ---the poison of god--- are names that Lucifer received after tenting Eva by the Unholy Fruit of the Forgiven Tree. When Lucifer fell, it got married with Lilith (the first woman for the judeochristian mythology origins, and reject by christianism when New Testament replaced Old Testament). Beyond this union, thounsands of demons were born.



Well, as long as the MacBookPro post was pompous, the iMac one couldn't be different XD I apologize for the gorgeous environment of Apple-related posts; I promise the next posts about Apple or Mac technology will be more normal :P

So, please be patient, poor mortals, and expect more posts in this following days: Ignis Lacrima has been reborn form its own ashes!!! I am alive again!!! mwaaaaaahahahahahaha