Forget the abomination that is the Arby’s Oven Mitt on the TV (and the new iMac for that matter), check out my new laptop. I’m surfin’ the web and watchin’ TV. I’m reaching new levels of dorkiness right before your eyes!
Yep, we picked up a 12 inch Powerbook G4 the other day. As well as some goodies to enable wireless Internet surfing (and the playing of iTunes on our stereo). As well as a snazzy little iPod, with iTalk so I can use it for interviews (I used it Friday, worked great). This is one giant leap for geek-kind.
With Abby being in grad school and our fritzy PC gathering dust in the basement (I think I hear eBay calling), we were fighting over the computer more and more and it made sense to make the laptop leap. The iPod, well that’s a toy. But I do use it for interviews (so much better than a tape player!) and we saved a bunch by getting the two together. So we’ll be eating peanut butter and jelly for a while and I’m on massive eBay mode. But I can eBay from the couch!
And I have to say, the experience of walking into an Apple store and walking out with all our techno-goods was amazing. I think I had to disengage the financial side of my brain, but the instant gratification side was loving it.
You awesome, dork, you! Way 2 go! Enjoy those PB&Js while surfing wirelessly from your couch, man. That’s the life.
I’m glad to see freelance life is workin’ out for you ;-) Hopefuly you received my $40 contribution to your geek fund.
Rawk on.
Oh, hooray.
I bought an iBook this past spring, something I’d been planning on for a long time, and I watched you plan and save for your iMac, and it is so wonderful on this side of things. Where computers WORK.
My mother never believed me as I insisted how amazing my computer was, that it WORKED and it was all so brilliant, and her PC didn’t, at all. Just stupid little errors, but annoying anyway. Those stupid little errors, along with an ungodly amount of spyware and adware have now completely destroyed her computer, and it is doing things I have never in my life seen a computer do. It takes “broken” to a whole new level. And she, too, is now saying she wants a Mac.
I’m at school and I was in the computer lab – these are new, expensive computers, and I cannot COUNT the number of things that went wrong in the twenty minutes I was using it to check my email and get online for a bit. I had to logout and log in again before I could get any sort of desktop, webpages didn’t work, weird toolbars installed themselves all over the place and generally things froze and made a mess of things.
And I don’t understand why, when this is the case, and when the computer gets to the point of my mother’s, why on earth anyone would spend the kind of money they do to get a computer THAT WILL JUST DO THE SAME THING AGAIN. And it will break, and not work anymore, and it’s just a waste. It’s fighting an uphill battle that cannot be won.
So, congratulations. It’s nice on this side. And that sounds absolutely delicious, leaving with all that stuff.