the honeymoon is over

the first computer-based class in which i cannot use my Macintosh instead of the school's computers has come along, and it is the Digital Drafting component of Design Drafting. because it uses this piece of software called:

Rhinocerous(R)
NURBS modelling for Windows

and its

Training Manual
Level 1

is two hundred and fifty-five pages long.

this is going to be such fun.

and the specs of the wintel box i have to use?

Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4
3.06 GHz
1.00 GB of RAM

nVidia Quadro FX 500
128 MB of RAM
1600 x 1200 pixels @ 75 Hz [self-set, original resolution was 1024 x 768 pixels, ew]

now i'm going to dinner, and in about half an hour, after i meet the guy whose brother's selling me a stick of RAM, my PowerBook's memory will have tripled.