{"id":2515,"date":"2012-02-06T02:39:34","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T07:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/?p=2515"},"modified":"2015-12-27T20:18:19","modified_gmt":"2015-12-28T01:18:19","slug":"welcome-back-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/2012\/02\/06\/welcome-back-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome back Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/538352_10200617123009191_1504838114_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2735 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/538352_10200617123009191_1504838114_n.jpg\" alt=\"538352_10200617123009191_1504838114_n\" width=\"301\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/538352_10200617123009191_1504838114_n.jpg 301w, http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/538352_10200617123009191_1504838114_n-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 301px) 100vw, 301px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A few months back I built a new custom Windows 7 PC for little over a $1000 bucks. The new machine is a Quad Core i7 Intel system with 16GBs of ram and a 4TBs of internal storage. I switched back to Windows when the thought of purchasing a new similarly configured $5,000 Mac Pro desktop became unthinkable in these harsh economic times. Plus Windows 7 is now a viable <!--more-->alternative While I love macs, much of the software that I use is now cross platform so I only need a mac system for a few Apple specific applications. If I do get a new mac I probably won&#8217;t go for the high end Mac Pro like I did in previous years. The Mac Mini my be what is a more likely acquisition for me.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/222751_10200617123449202_101099319_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2736 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/222751_10200617123449202_101099319_n.jpg\" alt=\"222751_10200617123449202_101099319_n\" width=\"401\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/222751_10200617123449202_101099319_n.jpg 401w, http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/222751_10200617123449202_101099319_n-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 401px) 100vw, 401px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few months back I built a new custom Windows 7 PC for little over a $1000 bucks. The new machine is a Quad Core i7 Intel system with 16GBs of ram and a 4TBs of internal storage. I switched back to Windows when the thought of purchasing a new similarly configured $5,000 Mac Pro &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/2012\/02\/06\/welcome-back-windows\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Welcome back Windows&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,18,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-video","category-lifestyle","category-new-media","category-technology"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2515"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4672,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2515\/revisions\/4672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}