Sunday, April 27, 2008

Upgrading soon...

That Tax break is coming and APPARENTLY I'm supposed to spend it instead of hording it way with all my other piles of money.
MONEY!
MONEY!!
...
Anyway, I figured the best way to spend this stuff is to blow it on upgrading my art equipment. After all, I have absolutely no time for any new video games, and I can't upgrade my TV or speakers without Breaking the 500 dollar mark. Besides if I ever get the motivation to turning a profit on this stuff (not with overwherehoused T-shirts, but products people would actually want,) Then it might be a good investment.

Question is, Where do I upgrade. We have a few Options.

One: New Computer. The Computer I use now is approaching it's 3rd birthday. It's seems like only yesterday I was Downloading "The Bards song" off limewire, realizing how it wasn't a good idea for a cartoon, and worked on Legend of Luik instead.
It is starting to get a bit slower and louder, and I'll probably need a laptop in the Future. However MacBooks are over 1000 bucks, and I've actually gotten used to carrying a amall notebook and pencil around for the portable work.

Two: Upgrading Flash. I've been working off Flash MX (7) for god knows how long, and software upgrading would be in my price-range. Granted though, I'm not sure I really need it, and if I want to upgrade, it may require a faster computer, which brings me back to option one. I'm probably going to wait until I get a new computer. I could probably find one that has flash 8 or whatever, included in the system.

Three: New Tablet. Oh, this is the real tempting one here. My Current Tablet is about 4 by 6 and I've had it for about 2 years. But I have been having a pushing on M8BG's Art lately and a larger sensitive tablet could help me some.
Something Like this, is tempting.
And this one might be worth the extra cash.
But this one would definitely be a step up for me. I'd have to save up some money on my own to get it, but it's definitely a possiblity.

So the current gameplan is probably splurging on the Wacom Moniter Tablet and then, when I do need to replace my computer, getting a mac mini or something else portable that doesn't come with a it's own monitor. Still, to make that work, I'll have to really tighten my current budget and focus My education and My Current Hobbies into something that I can live off of so that getting this tablet will seem like a sound enough investment for me. We'll see how things look when I actually get the tax break though. I just felt like sharing.

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