I haven’t played my Xbox 360 for about 2-3 months (almost as long as I haven’t updated this thing!) and look what happens!
What the image fails to show is I’m pending downloads of trials for Burnout Crash and Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike Online Edition. BT are going to love me tonight!
Step 1: Get mate to download nightly back up of the last three weeks of hard work in Minecraft and host it on his own server.
Step 2: Spawn a shitload of TNT.
Step 3: Let the carnage begin!
After a bit of indecision last week week, I have now bought myself a Mac Mini. It’s a very basic Mac Desktop that comes without the mouse/keyboard/mirror… I mean, monitor. It’s still pretty pricey, but then that’s Apple for you.
Minecraft is an awesome and addictive game, but the only problem I have with it is the mining itself is pretty time consuming, especially when searching for the rarer materials (like Diamond). Fortunately I have now come across a mod, which saves a lot of trouble as it allows you to pinpoint all of the resources in the general area.
Here’s the demo video I made while searching for gold.
Sure it’s cheating, but less time digging, more time building cool stuff!
A few weeks ago at work I got to play with a Mac for the first time and was pretty impressed with it. This has given me a bit of motivation to get a Mac of my own to play with so I can familarise myself with the set up and also hopefully provide better support for the system in future. I’ve been looking at the Apple store quite a bit since then and the first conclusion I came to is naturally it’s all a bit expensive… I mean great value of money, as corrected by the Mac Fanboy I met the other day.
The entry level Mac is £999 (21.5 inch screen) and a Macbook with a decent sized screen is £1500. This is a bit much for me, the lowest Mac is a fairly good price but I really don’t want the additional screen on my desk as I’d have to keep moving things around each time I wanted to print something, which will get annoying really quickly. And NO, I’m not getting rid of my PC as I actually want to play games at maxed out settings!
After much looking around I’ve started to look into the Mac Mini – this is basically a stripped down standard Mac but with no screen, keyboard or mouse. I believe it will suit my needs nicely as I can connect it to the second port on my monitor and let Synergy do the rest. I don’t need a hugely powerful processor, graphics, or a hard drive. The only thing that has got me torn is do I settle for 2GB RAM or pump it up to 4GB? If I increase the RAM, it’ll set me back £650 and that’s with staff discount deducted. What do you guys think?
