So Said BRK, So It Has Been Done
The new BRK-Demanded WoW iMac is here!
24” (1920 by 1200 pixels) widescreen flat panel
2.8GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor
6MB shared L2 cache at full processor speed
1066MHz frontside bus
2GB (two 1GB SO-DIMMs) of 800MHz DDR2 SDRAM;
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS graphics processor with 512MB of GDDR3 memory
320GB Serial ATA 7200-rpm hard drive
Slot-loading 8x SuperDrive (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
Built-in AirPort Extreme Wi-Fi wireless networking2 (based on IEEE 802.11n draft (specification); IEEE 802.11a/b/g compatible
Built-in Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR (Enhanced Data Rate)
Built-in 10/100/1000BASE-T Gigabit Ethernet (RJ-45 connector)
Built-in stereo speakers
Internal 24-watt digital amplifier
Headphone/optical digital audio output (minijack)
Audio line in/optical digital audio input (minijack)
Built-in microphone
Built-in iSight camera
One FireWire 400 port and one FireWire 800 port; 7 watts each
Total of five USB 2.0 ports: three ports on computer, two ports on keyboard
Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard
iLife ’08 (includes iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, iWeb, GarageBand)
$1949
Yes, you can get a faster CPU, more memory, or a bigger hard drive. But now we mortals can get a very modern video card in a Mac for under $2k. If Mrs BRK brings home the bam-bam this month, we’re gonna bogart her paycheck big-time and bring one of these babies home.
Just don’t tell her, capice?
The BRK Non-WoW Thought of the Day: Dr. Pepper has commemorative Indiana Jones cans. Dr. Pepper was established in 1885, which by remarkable coincidence is basically the same year that Dr. Jones was born. We wonder if the thriller “Ironman” will commemorate its lead actor, Robert Downey Jr. with a similar commemorative beverage, and if that beverage can be purchased by persons under the age of twenty-one in the US.
Loot Karma: We raided TK without DKP last night, as the SWAPS addon wasn’t working properly and the site that hosts it was wiped out by storms. Solarian dropped her hunter-boots last night, and even though all loot was being roll-decided, we passed. We have Boots of the Crimson Hawk which are basically the exact same thing as the drop, and we wanted another hunter to get some phat loot. As we said to The Egotistical Priest’s gang last night:
“Loot is fun. If we take your loot, we’re taking your fun. What kind of person would that make us?”
Size matters: What a difference a gun makes! Last time we took down Al’ar, we used our Ashtongue disguise and hated how we looked. But give us that Tuskbreaker gun and put our disguise on, and the new gun makes us look totally bad@ss. Yes, of course we forgot to screenshot it
Lunch: We’ve had spicy Kung Pao Chicken, two days in a row. We ask for spicy, we ask for hot, we get mild. Well, it least it’s better than the food poisoning that Chicago Uno’s of Merritt Island gave a bunch of our coworkers a week ago.
Movies: Thank you to everybody who wrote and expressed their pleasure with our Lurker Below movie. Yes, we are making more, but they take time. When we present a movie, it has to be showing the Right Things to Do. Take last night’s Solarian fight. We did everything right, but still died at the end when we got tossed in the air and blasted at the same time, resulting in us being dead before we even hit the ground. “How to Die with Solarian at 3%” is not a good hunter-guide movie, we think you’ll agree.
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Doesn’t Solarian turn into a giant voidwalker at 15% or something?
How did she blast you at 3%?
You mean you haven’t ordered that iMac yet?… The Feds are gonna give you $1200… go spend it!
flame baiter… If I actually liked Uno’s I might have bit harder.
I had the guild leadership boot a hunter from the guild when we got to Lurker and he had not watched the video. Any video for that matter. Sure his lackluster DPS and his pulling aggro on Hydross were contributing factors.
Seriously, aggro on Hydross? I can put out 1200+ DPS on that fight and never get aggro. How come your 800 DPS self did?
The Lurker Movie gets two Orc Thumbs up MR. BRK.
Hey BRK, dieing is just a part of how it works sometimes. Even if you do everything right, you still die every now and then.
A video that showed you doing everything right and still eating dirt could still be very educational.
Sorry to disagree but Indy was born in 1899.
Keep up the great work on the blog. It is part of my daily “must read” of WoW topics.
““How to Die with Solarian at 3%” is not a good hunter-guide movie, we think you’ll agree.”
Makes a good rogue-guide video, though…
>.>
Ha ha, my ole eyes were playing tricks on me when one of the spec’s said…
Built-In Cigarette Lighter
Guess that would be an option on some Steam Punk computer eh?
Merritt Island… I swear, one day you’ll be out at lunch and you’ll see/hear a tall blond guy sitting with his wife discussing talent points and the definition of a “pull” that I read so eloquently and succintly put on Big Red Kitty’s website. I hope on that day that a stranger with an oddly familiar WoW-video-narration voice introduces himself to me.
Been to Kelsey’s in Port St John? Merritt Island Carrabba’s? Tijuana Flats? (You want spicy, they got spicy.) Heidi’s Jazz Club in Cocoa Beach?
In my travels today I smelled the muck burning.
/salute
Eeeeeewwwwwww, a Mac? *mouth vomit*
LOL
Kelsey’s rocks. I ended up on the other side of the country, but would be willing to fly back just to eat there.
Finally, someone who shares my opinion of spicy foods. The only thing that I get spicy when I ask for “extra spicy” is a Bloody Mary.
“How to Die with Solarian at 3%” is not a good hunter-guide movie, but it would be pretty darn funny!
Im thinking of buying the new Imac too, think it will make a large change in raid FPS ?
The mac for wow is great. My powerbook is excellent, and I have had a good experience switching to mac from pc. Hopefully you get the new shiny soon.
Could someone please explain to me what a Mouth Vomit is, as opposed to, say, a Hand Vomit or a Stomach Vomit?
Sade let me see if I can help you….
(/looks at the PG 13 boundry and wonders)
While I am not 100% sure, I am thinking that “mouth vomit” is when you vomit and you are not near the bathroom so you have to keep it in your “mouth”, hence the name. Following that same logic “hand vomit” would be the part that just wont fit and squeaks past your teeth into your hands. (You don’t want it on your shirt do you?) Now, keeping to the same set of rules “stomach vomit” I am guessing is the stuff your able to choke back down.
So lets remember this and apply it to: “Eeeeeewwwwwww, a Mac? *mouth vomit*.”
I think he might be trying to compare it to driving his car on the highway and getting one of those yuckie burps where he now has to make the decision to:
a) pull over
b) choke it down
c) roll down the window and deal with washing his car later.
Hope the information helps, next week we can discuss the concepts of “nose vomit” and “hair vomit.” ; )
Still think you should have got the Mac Pro
Trust me, the MacPro is pretty much overkill for any home user. I’m a video editor by trade and have 2 dual quad core 3Ghz MacPros at my disposal. They’re sick. They’re pricey and powerful and just flat out sick.
Using a machine like that for video games is pure and utter overkill. Unless BRK starts shooting and editing uncompressed HD Hunter Guide movies, he’s better off with the iMac. Heck, I’m even going to buy one. I simply can’t justify 24Ghz of 64 bit processing power at home. I play wow, watch video, listen to music, do some offline editing, email and web browse at home. The MacPro would get bored and probably jump out the window and destroy itself.
I still don’t understand why you guys don’t keep the sheep sheeped for the whole fight. We usually have a fair amount of regen time before Lurker re-emerges because we keep one of the naga sheeped. We just kill the sheep after Lurker goes down.
(Me suspects that there’s some “meter padding” motive.)
@Mesyah
You do realize Macs are just Intel PC’s these days, right? You can even run your beloved, buggy, virus/malware ridden Windows on it in addition to the stable and secure Mac OS X… and Linux and any x86 operating system you could possibly desire.
(yeah, I took the flamebait, but I’m a 22 year Mac user. Old habits die hard)
You want spicy?
If you’re ever in St. Louis, MO, head to The King and I Thai restaurant. Ask for authentic Thai hot. You will be crying on the toilet for days. =)
mm
Mmm Lurker… too bad our guild is co-oping with another guild whose idea of rotating out DPS to get everyone involved is to actually bring the same hunter from our guild over, and over…
When is the next expansion coming out? Looks like I’ll be doing nothing til then….
/sigh
I can always count on you to blog about something that is currently near and dear to my heart. Today, you posted stats on your new ‘puter. It just so happens that I’m shopping for a new ‘puter to keep me (or my daughter) from murdering oneanother over hogging the “good” computer. Somebody mentioned Mac to me, and since I’ve only ever done PC it was just a “woah” moment. So yeah, now I’m off to research a RESONABLY priced Mac. Got any suggestions?
I still rock a PowerBook G4 when i go TDY to a class or what not. i gotta say, Mac sure knows how to make a stable machine, over 3 years old, and all i have done was upgrade the ram and got the new OS X 10.5….. yeah, my FPS sucks, but turn off that crappy dash board and free up that processing power and BAM! More FPS!!
i will definitely be looking into that new mac!