As many of you know, from reading my blog I love Apple products. My first Apple computer was a Lisa and after that an anxiously awaited product that came with no real name and was just called a MacIntosh. It came in that funny looking case, with a huge keyboard and a chunky mouse. Guess how much memory came with this computer? --yep 128k –twice the memory of a Commodore 64. Guess how much hard disk space? None! You had to move your information around on floppy disks –400k on a single side. (It was so exciting when they came out with high density and floppies that could write to both sides) The only software on that computer was the system software. To use Microsoft Word and Excel I was connected to a server and my computer accessed that software as needed. Oh, there was one little game on it…that Chinese puzzle where you move the little squares around to get them all back in the right order.
Here's what I'm panicked about…
Right now I'm composing this story on an iMac G5 with a total of 1 GB of memory and 100 GB of hard drive space. I've been busy building my Waterrose website this week using a lot of photo's and graphics. Plus, since we just took a trip to Colorado I dumped most of the photo's from that trip on my computer –photo's that I took at a high resolution, with duplicates in RAW format with an Canon XSi Rebel SLR camera. We're talking one RAW photo at 15mb and that's just for one –I have many more than one.
So I decided to see how much more hard drive space I had remaining on my computer. I opened the hard drive icon, looked at the top of the window, blinked, blinked again, and then said uh oh. I'm down to 16GB of hard drive space! Gigabytes, not kilobytes, or megabytes… Many of you will understand…others of you are laughing. Now I'm scurrying to move data from the computer to, hold onto your seat, 4 GB CDs. Just think of how many floppy disks that would be at 400 KB per floppy…
We've come a long way baby! 25 years ago I was worried about a file that wouldn't fit on a 400k floppy disk!
Now I have hard-drive hogging software on my computer that probably fills up 30% of my hard drive space. The Microsoft Office Suite with Excel and Word. The Adobe Creative Suite 3. Painter. Quickbooks. iPhoto. And other sundry pieces of software that I can't live without.
We all talk about how we want to simplify our lives. Do you think there is a correlation to the amount of stuff on our computers to our lives? How in the world can we simplify our lives if we can't simplify our computers…and the amount of effort it takes to understand all of this!
So, back to my original point, I'm almost out of hard-drive space.
Here's what I'm panicked about…
Right now I'm composing this story on an iMac G5 with a total of 1 GB of memory and 100 GB of hard drive space. I've been busy building my Waterrose website this week using a lot of photo's and graphics. Plus, since we just took a trip to Colorado I dumped most of the photo's from that trip on my computer –photo's that I took at a high resolution, with duplicates in RAW format with an Canon XSi Rebel SLR camera. We're talking one RAW photo at 15mb and that's just for one –I have many more than one.
So I decided to see how much more hard drive space I had remaining on my computer. I opened the hard drive icon, looked at the top of the window, blinked, blinked again, and then said uh oh. I'm down to 16GB of hard drive space! Gigabytes, not kilobytes, or megabytes… Many of you will understand…others of you are laughing. Now I'm scurrying to move data from the computer to, hold onto your seat, 4 GB CDs. Just think of how many floppy disks that would be at 400 KB per floppy…
We've come a long way baby! 25 years ago I was worried about a file that wouldn't fit on a 400k floppy disk!
Now I have hard-drive hogging software on my computer that probably fills up 30% of my hard drive space. The Microsoft Office Suite with Excel and Word. The Adobe Creative Suite 3. Painter. Quickbooks. iPhoto. And other sundry pieces of software that I can't live without.
We all talk about how we want to simplify our lives. Do you think there is a correlation to the amount of stuff on our computers to our lives? How in the world can we simplify our lives if we can't simplify our computers…and the amount of effort it takes to understand all of this!
So, back to my original point, I'm almost out of hard-drive space.
