Where’s my hat?!

Well the plans for Turkey Day are offical, I am going to drive up with the rents to Grover on Wednesday after mom finishes work, and spend a few days there eating turkey - should be tasty.

So I am sitting here, on my bed, from my laptop - writing the first of many blog posts that will come from this laptop, it has no name, but it is shiny -  a new MacBook Pro, the specs for you Mac-a-Holics is as follows:

  • MacBook Pro Core2Duo - 2.16Ghz
  • 1GB Ram (soon to be 2 - possibly 3GB if money suddenly appears in my wallet)
  • 120GB Drive
  • 15.4″ screen
  • Wifi/BT2.0

Already installed quite a few apps, I think I am going to shift a new POP3 account on it, macbook@somewhere.com (not sure what .com yet) - but its a great feel, a great look, and a great tool since a majority of the work I do on servers, consulting, etc. are all done via Mac - but now I can carry my iMac contents with me and actually use a Mac at the office vs. lugging what now feels like 40lbs of a laptop. ;)

It was a rather hefty investment, one of which I do plan to get rolling on paying off the last bits ASAP - but it’s nice to have a Mac laptop again, I miss the G4 my cousin has now, it was a good laptop, and still is (she has it setup on her desk at her house) but this will mark the phase out of PC to Mac as a primary platform for me, granted I still have Parallels and Bootcamp - but not sure if I am going to do XP on a secondary partition, part of me just says “Bleh!” to games that aren’t Mac compatible, but I may change that tune, if I get a 200GB drive for the MBP.

Anywhoo - pics on Flickr, I am going to get back to downloading and installing apps before I get too tied up and forget to do things like I dunno, sleep. ;) Night folks.

Posted on 21 November '06 by Chuck Brown, under basic goodness.