I had been thinking about getting a new laptop for the past three months, but thanks to my friends over at MacRumors.com, I held off in anticipation of new laptops being released soon. That day finally came on October 14th, 2008, when everyone's favorite CEO, Steve Jobs announced the new laptops, or, as they're called in Mac-land "Notebooks".
I had already been hearing chatter about something called "The Brick", which as it turned out was a new manufacturing process for the laptop bodies. I had even seen some leaked photos of the new laptop before being officially released. It looked neat, but I was really excited to see one of these Macbooks up close and personal. Fast forward to October 15th, the wife says I can get a new laptop if she can get a diamond ring. Of course, I was totally excited, so we had dinner and went to the friendly Palo Alto Apple Store. Of course, there were tons of fanboys crowded around the latest and greatest, and if you can believe it, they only had one out on display.
I asked the clerk if they had any of them left, and he said "Yeah, we have a few", so I was like, "OK, well, uhhh, I don't want to stand around and geek out like the rest of the folks in here, I want the $2500 one." And he was like "Oh, yeah. Uhhhh, we won't have any of those until tomorrow". So, I was like "Ok, thanks." The next day, I did a little work, then checked in at about 11:30. Approached another clerk who was a little off-kilter. She kept trying to upsell me on everything under the sun. But, the time came, the old credit card was swiped, and I was out the door.
So, I'm feeling all delay of gratification, and before heading home, I did some errands. Finally, I arrive home, but I have to check in with one of my clients, and sadly, most of that work is PC-based. The poor MBP sits in its box for a little while longer. However, it turns out that my client is not ready for me, so I crack it open and turn it on. I get the cute international "Welcome" video, and input all of my contact info. When it's done, I figure its time to start loading up my good software...iWork, Creative Suite, Quickbooks, MS (gag) Office, etc. etc. Configure my router, and I get online. I set up all of my preferences, including the environmentally unfriendly high-end video adapter. I must say, the graphics are pretty darned slick on the LED screen with 512Mb of video ram.
Today, I have to get some little bits. Probably a game to benchmark the video capabilities, a Firewire 800 adapter...Gotta transfer those files from my old iBook. I may (gag) look into VMWare Fusion, so I can ditch my PC laptop, and get some more cash to help pay for my $2700 (w/ tax) toy. I'd also love to get a Time Capsule, so I can do all of my backups wirelessly and effortlessly. I have been really bad about manually backing stuff up, and I've been lucky so far, but I have priceless data on my computer, and I don't want to lose it. So, yeah.
Anyway, who cares about my story...Who wants to see some pictures???
Donita on July 13th, 2009 at 7:17 pm says:
hey..like you I have duts around on a PC long enough. Sad to say I can’t no way under the yellow sun afford a brand spanking new baby! So, after 5 hours looking and sweat pouring off I found an old geezer in VA willing to sell to me..Probably my age now that I think about it. A used Imac G5 20″ screen for $500.00 and let me tell you peanut butter is going to sound wonderful the next 6months! Love your writing!