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An Utterly Hedonistic Blog-Post of Love ...
Okay, I'm going to have a moment of utter self-indulgent hedonism here for a tick ... a couple weekends ago my wonderful gf and I went out to Woodfield Mall (she is wonderful because she totally indulged going to the Mall, which she dislikes ... although she did get completely entranced in the new iPhone 3GS while there, I must say), and I spent a while in the Apple Store there, playing with this ... gaze at it in all it's beauty (cue heavenly chorus):
This is the new Apple 13 inch Macbook Pro ... in all it's completely incredible gloriousness. I can't describe how blown away I was with this little machine. It was responsive, it was startlingly clear, it ran multiple applications seamlessly without so much as a hesitation or hiccup ... compared to my old machine (which I do still totally love), my baby was outclassed like Japan playing the All Blacks.
Many that know me know that I've had a love-affair with Macs for a number of years now. This wasn't always the case ... I've had a number of home-built and off-the-store-shelf PC's (even one robust Toshiba laptop back when it ran Win95), and I used to spout all the usual inanities about Macs. Then I got to play with OSX when it first came out, and I was hooked ... I never looked back ... all the issues and complaints and worries, all the baby-sitting, all the managing, all the hoping the PC would do something rather than expecting it, was gone. Gone. Macs were what I had originally thought computers should be.
My first Mac was this:
A 12 inch iBook G4 1.2 Ghz ... she was my workhorse, going up to a max-out on RAM, hard-drive upgrades, and problem-free OS updates ... till finally after years her motherboard gave out and she had to be retired. Needless to say, I couldn't be Mac-less as it would be like being without a ... well, it would be like being without a Mac, which all my fellow Mac-lovers out there will tell you, it's painful. So, for about $200 I bought an old machine off a friend who wanted to upgrade:
She is one of the original Powerbook 1 Ghz G4 Titanium models ... yes, THAT old. But she's still ticking, and I have maxed out the RAM, and have the latest iteration of OSX, Leopard, running on her (hell, she is what I am currently typing this entry on right now). Nor is she the only Mac I use, because my university department has this on my desk:
Yep, that's right, an old 'lampshade' 1.25 Ghz 17-inch widescreen iMac, the first mac ever to sport a widescreen (and still, in my humble opinion, a simply more beautiful piece of industrial design than the current iMac).
But, she's old, she's only running Tiger, as despite all the RAM, she can only really deal with the previous iteration of the OS. Hell, even my beloved Powerbook will not be able to run the newest version of OSX when it comes out later this year (Snow Leopard) because that is designed only for the 'new' Intel chips, not the older IBM chips, which my Powerbook (and the iMac) runs.
I've kinda made a habit out of getting the longest I can out of my Macs ... I still have one of the original iPod Mini's (in silver with a black-&-white screen) that I only upgraded to the latest iPod Nano because the battery life had gone down to 45 mins, which is less than 1/3rd of my usual workout length. I expect I will get years out of that new Nano if I can (altho I still do have my iPod Mini close by).
However, there is something I know is coming ... namely moving back to New Zealand in the Fall. The price of the 13 inch Macbook Pro in New Zealand is close to NZ$2,400 (which if you do the sums is WAY over even the price difference due to exchange rate, which is about NZ$1,900). Trust me on this, I've checked:
http://www.magnummaconline.co.nz/pu
So upgrading to a current machine, which I definitely need, is out of the question back home in NZ. But even the US$1,200 that the 13 inch Macbook Pro is here is simply beyond my means, as everything funds-wise has to go towards the move back to NZ.
Hence, this utterly hedonistic blog-post of love ... think of it like a love-poem, a wish, a dream, that called and had to be put down on paper ... well, on my screen, and your screen, as I stare in love ... and hell, my friend Melissa McEwan gets to make drooling posts on Shakesville over shoes, so I figure I can do them on my blog over a Mac ... an oh-so beautiful Mac ... *sigh* but yes, she will just have to remain a dream, an entry on my amazon.com wish-list. An ode-to-Mac if you will ...
Okay, I'm going to have a moment of utter self-indulgent hedonism here for a tick ... a couple weekends ago my wonderful gf and I went out to Woodfield Mall (she is wonderful because she totally indulged going to the Mall, which she dislikes ... although she did get completely entranced in the new iPhone 3GS while there, I must say), and I spent a while in the Apple Store there, playing with this ... gaze at it in all it's beauty (cue heavenly chorus):
This is the new Apple 13 inch Macbook Pro ... in all it's completely incredible gloriousness. I can't describe how blown away I was with this little machine. It was responsive, it was startlingly clear, it ran multiple applications seamlessly without so much as a hesitation or hiccup ... compared to my old machine (which I do still totally love), my baby was outclassed like Japan playing the All Blacks.
Many that know me know that I've had a love-affair with Macs for a number of years now. This wasn't always the case ... I've had a number of home-built and off-the-store-shelf PC's (even one robust Toshiba laptop back when it ran Win95), and I used to spout all the usual inanities about Macs. Then I got to play with OSX when it first came out, and I was hooked ... I never looked back ... all the issues and complaints and worries, all the baby-sitting, all the managing, all the hoping the PC would do something rather than expecting it, was gone. Gone. Macs were what I had originally thought computers should be.
My first Mac was this:
A 12 inch iBook G4 1.2 Ghz ... she was my workhorse, going up to a max-out on RAM, hard-drive upgrades, and problem-free OS updates ... till finally after years her motherboard gave out and she had to be retired. Needless to say, I couldn't be Mac-less as it would be like being without a ... well, it would be like being without a Mac, which all my fellow Mac-lovers out there will tell you, it's painful. So, for about $200 I bought an old machine off a friend who wanted to upgrade:
She is one of the original Powerbook 1 Ghz G4 Titanium models ... yes, THAT old. But she's still ticking, and I have maxed out the RAM, and have the latest iteration of OSX, Leopard, running on her (hell, she is what I am currently typing this entry on right now). Nor is she the only Mac I use, because my university department has this on my desk:
Yep, that's right, an old 'lampshade' 1.25 Ghz 17-inch widescreen iMac, the first mac ever to sport a widescreen (and still, in my humble opinion, a simply more beautiful piece of industrial design than the current iMac).
But, she's old, she's only running Tiger, as despite all the RAM, she can only really deal with the previous iteration of the OS. Hell, even my beloved Powerbook will not be able to run the newest version of OSX when it comes out later this year (Snow Leopard) because that is designed only for the 'new' Intel chips, not the older IBM chips, which my Powerbook (and the iMac) runs.
I've kinda made a habit out of getting the longest I can out of my Macs ... I still have one of the original iPod Mini's (in silver with a black-&-white screen) that I only upgraded to the latest iPod Nano because the battery life had gone down to 45 mins, which is less than 1/3rd of my usual workout length. I expect I will get years out of that new Nano if I can (altho I still do have my iPod Mini close by).
However, there is something I know is coming ... namely moving back to New Zealand in the Fall. The price of the 13 inch Macbook Pro in New Zealand is close to NZ$2,400 (which if you do the sums is WAY over even the price difference due to exchange rate, which is about NZ$1,900). Trust me on this, I've checked:
So upgrading to a current machine, which I definitely need, is out of the question back home in NZ. But even the US$1,200 that the 13 inch Macbook Pro is here is simply beyond my means, as everything funds-wise has to go towards the move back to NZ.
Hence, this utterly hedonistic blog-post of love ... think of it like a love-poem, a wish, a dream, that called and had to be put down on paper ... well, on my screen, and your screen, as I stare in love ... and hell, my friend Melissa McEwan gets to make drooling posts on Shakesville over shoes, so I figure I can do them on my blog over a Mac ... an oh-so beautiful Mac ... *sigh* but yes, she will just have to remain a dream, an entry on my amazon.com wish-list. An ode-to-Mac if you will ...
