“A poor artist blames his tools,”…
a POORER one NAMES them —->
H A R D W A R E
Evesham 3.06 Ghz Desktop PC
(Since 5th February 2003)
Once my first choice for gaming AND productivity, a dodgy
graphics card, unreliable PSU and lack of ‘net-connectivity
have pushed this Pentium to a now primarily passive rôle.
Coupled with the monitor below, it gives me the BEST visual
experience of any of my machines and its 5.1 surround sound
speakers and Creative Audigy 2 break-out box maintain its
superiority in the field of audio.
Input is not marred by <NOISE> that can
afflict captures to my laptops.
HANNSpree Xm 19″ Matt-Finish Monitor
(Since August 2007)
Bought after a bout of Total War totally did for the LG it
replaces and that pinged…. but could not “ping back”…..
(I found a spider inside ‘er !)…, this is a budget brand that
I only learned of by reading reviews.
I decided to take a chance.
It is excellent…boasting better colours and
definition than I have seen on anything else.
The screen has a matt finish so it doesn’t collect dust or beg
the constant, careful cleaning of glossier, bossier panels.
Toshiba Satellite P4 1.9 Ghz Laptop
(Since March 2003)
My first eXPerience of portability and STILL the
computer with which I spend most of my time.
Toshiba Satellite T7200 2.0 Laptop
(Since 2007)
The machine I make my “films” with. It has the best graphics card
currently available to me and its a great machine.
Drawbacks are the glossy screen, the poor quality keyboard – and
the fans that might not attract “fans”. It records audio from any source
and very WELL from the microphone…. However, its decibel output is
FAR too low.
I don’t know if that weakness was model-wide or is particular to MY
machine which was refurbished.
I wouldn’t have looked away from Toshiba but for the minor
disappointments associated with THIS laptop.
The gloss screen is like a mirror – I want to see what I’m working on
on the PC not my ugly mug and shabby environs…it also catches
EVERY speck of dust – and this interferes with graphics editing….’cause
the grub looks like white pixels.
Lenovo ThinkPad T61 Laptop
(Since 2008)
Unquestionably BRILLIANT keyboard – it’s an absolute delight to type on.
Matt screen means I’m UNAWARE of the screen – which is as things should be -
it’s zero maintenance, can stick up for itself.
Like a pocket calculator – it feels light and FUNCTIONAL. It’s a natural
for being carried around and really IS just like an A4 notebook.
I got used to the smaller screen by messin’ with resolutions until I
was comfortable (my first Tosh hs a square format screen at a very different
and majorly chunky 800×600 resolution !) ….it’s a very competent machine.
The graphics (nVidia Quadro NVS 140M) are good enough to play basic games.
The sound pumps out MUCH better than on my highest spec’ Toshiba
despite that rival’s Harmon Kardon boasts.
HUGE LET DOWN and reason not to re-purchase is the audio-capture
handicapping. There’s no line-in and you can’t record “Stereo Mix”,
“Wav” or “What U Hear”.
I should have researched this short-fall before making the purchase
- I didn’t becuase I didn’t know it COULD be neglected.
Sony f505v Digital Stills Camera
(Since 2000)
Sony TRV Hi-8 Digital Video Camera
(Since 2002)
Sony Tripod
(Since 2008)
Wacom Intuos 2
iRiver iHP-140″Multi-Codec Jukebox”
External Hard Drives by Iomega and Western Digital
Printers by Hewlett Packard
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S O F T W A R E
MS PhotoDraw 2000 V2
Cool Edit Pro 2.1
Crazy Talk 3 - 6
iClone 1 – 3
WinAmp
