New Shift with lighting

[jstover33]

I received my MG Shift late last week. First impressions: elegant design, imposing, built like a M1A1 Abrams, kick ass performance. I did wait for some 4.5 weeks to get it...only a couple a days after the completion date noted during ordering. The wait help me, though, in a couple of ways. During that time I made some upgrades to the order, such as a second GPU and the lighting package. I wasn't sure I wanted to pay the extra money for the lighting as it doesn't affect performance. Furthermore, I did not see a real good photo of what it actually looked like. In any case, the interior lighting is super cool. If you have a location to show it off (I sits on the left side of my desk so the window is fully exposed) do it. See the attached photo. I had to take it down to under 10k to get it to accept the file-so pretty small and does not do it justice.

Maingear....you could add a rollover somewhere on the website to show the solid panel vs. the lighted one. Might see more boxes with windows (real ones!) that way.


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Jeff

[ChrisMorley]

Hey Jeff, thanks for your business, glad you like it! Try hosting the pics at imageshack.us - it's free and easy and no account required!

[jstover33]

Chris,

As you have suggested, I have posted a larger version of the photo on imageshack.

http://img121.imageshack.us/i/maingearshiftledlightin.jpg/

Looks like Maingear is kicking ass across the board. Just got the July issue of Maximum PC. Keep it up. By the way, when I ordered the Shift in early April, the fellow I talked to steered me clear of the 64G SSD boot disk. He suggested the 120G OCZ which was a better option. He said the 64G one was too small. Indeed. I only have 30G left after the OS and Adobe CS5. Should have gotten the 240G perhaps.

There is an old saying amongst those of us that can still remember when the hot setup was a TRS-80 with dual 5.25 disks and an amber monitor: "the computer you want will always cost $3,000". That is one of the VERY few things that have not changed in the personal computing world since the early 1980s.

Jeff

[MoonGear]

(...) There is an old saying amongst those of us that can still remember when the hot setup was a TRS-80 with dual 5.25 disks and an amber monitor: "the computer you want will always cost $3,000". That is one of the VERY few things that have not changed in the personal computing world since the early 1980s.

Jeff

Man, I wish I could get my configs down to $3K! :D Although I did spend about $5K on a Voodoo in late 2001, and the far better equipped Prelude 2 I bought from Maingear two years ago came in at a little less than $4K, so the trend is still good. I've currently got my eye on the Shift, so I doubt I'll be able to keep the price curve moving down. But playing around with the Shift configs, it looks like I might do much better than my Prelude for roughly the same price. I can certainly live with that.

[jstover33]

Remember the rule of diminishing returns! :)