The next week, right before Spring Break, is going to be a real rollercoaster.
for class.
Intro GEO Test #2
Social Problems Test #2
Ark. & SW Test #1
That first week back from Spring Break is going to be a real rollercoaster.
for events.
MBSF Impact
HSU Idol 2
Miss HSU Rehearsal
Miss HSU Pageant
Movie on the Quad 4
That would be a record setter alright. wow.
On March 9, less than a week from now, I am going to stop drinking Dr. Pepper. No juice. No coffee.
Laura and I did this together last year and really enjoyed the challenge.
Forty Days of Water from Blood:Water Mission on Vimeo.
The entire idea is to only drink water, free water, for 40 days. Take all the money you spend on beverages for those days, write a check and donate it to Blood:Water Mission.
It is incredible how much we spend on drinks. We are enjoying comfortable beverages while our friends around the globe are struggling to find water to drink.
Drink water with us for 40 days. Realize how much you spend. Realize what a luxury clean water can be, right at our fingertips.
It is incredible how entitled we are to say, "I don't drink tap water, only bottled water".
Be thankful for the water you drink along the way. Tap Water. Plain Water.
Anyone can join. It's not any extra money, it's the money you were going to spend anyways, just going around the world. :)
Not all over this but it is interesting.
HE is good, and His love endures forever. He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, "My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust." You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day. Because you have made the Lord your dwelling place-- the Most High, who is my refuge. With my long life I will satisfy him.
It is good to give thanks to the Lord, to sing praises to your name, O Most High; to declare your steadfast love in the morning, and your faithfulness by night. For you, O Lord, have made me glad by your work; at the works of your hands I sing for joy.
Psalm 91. :)
Tonight I discovered a lovely thing called Geekbench. It does quick stress tests on your computer system and tells you in a numberical value, the best it can, how fast your computer is.
Computers have a lot of variables and parts and components that all contribute to the speed.
How fast is the processor?
Multiply that by how many cores it has.
Does it support hyper threading?
How much RAM does it have?
What speed is that RAM?
Is it in dual channel?
How big is the...
The list is incredible. Geekbench is incredibly helpful because after a few quick tests under the hood, it places nifty little numerical values on overall system speed. I love it.
So, I did a test on my machine, and then looked up other machines on Geekbench's website. I didn't compare every single post they had. Instead, I looked directly at the models I would consider replacing my machine with, if I purchased one tonight.
If I was to get online TONIGHT, and buy a computer to replace mine, which machines would be in the running? What would their scores be?
I was quite... quite surprised. The numbers cannot lie, but some of these scores are incredible, and hard pills to swallow.
Here's the list, but to not be redundant, I have re-listed them in groups instead of total score top-to-bottom like above. Just thought I'd say, "these are not the mid-grade models of the past. these are the best-of-the-best of their time, being unfairly compared to the latest but not greatest. these are the entry level latest. wow. I cannot imagine what the scores of the upper-end new ones would be compared to these upper-end past ones. wow."
MY MACBOOK: 3252
MacBook Pros, from the past few months:
4962 (2.53 model)
5958 (2.8 model)
iMac's, from the past few months.
6967 (3.6 core2 model)
8312 (2.8 4core model)
Newborn MacBook Pros:
6796 (13inch)
8804 (15inch)
9886 (15inch hi)
iMac's are due for an update soon, but until then, directly compare them to the MacBook Pro's of the same season, and the latest MacBook Pro's, who, even though they are laptops not desktops, are beating the iMac desktops.
This is revolutionary data in the buying tips knowledge.
One month ago I was considering having to go to a two-computer system by getting an iMac desktop to get the firepower my laptop lacked.
Now, today, the laptops are FASTER than the desktops from a month ago. Let's be perfectly honest, they will release updated desktops relatively soon that will of course be faster than these new laptops.
This is irrelevant in the moment. The fact is the speed I desired a month ago could only be achieved by a two-computer system. By waiting the one month, I can have that same speed, in my lap. And then some. With the simplicity of a one-computer system.
Now if only we could get the storage capabilities squeezed into a laptop... then we'd REALLY be satisfying my appetite for the next 18 months while the computer industry continues to blow our minds and release new desires of our hearts that we had just thought to be tamed by the state of the art machine we fell in love with that is now ugly and old. Weird.