After some months of talking about it, I finally went out and bought myself a Macbook. I know Hans will be disappointed that I didn't buy the black one, but the black one is $100 more than the white one with the same specs! I had already confirmed that the Alexandria store had stock before I came to the US, so it wasn't too difficult: 2.16Ghz Core 2 Duo, 2GB of RAM, 120 GB hard disk, and Leopard (although I had to upgrade it myself).
Apple store was interesting - a lot busier than 2 years ago, when I bought my iPod. The staff carry wireless paypoints, so they can conduct the transaction without going to the till point. But since I paid for it with cash, that option was not utilised.
Installing Leopard took some time - about 70 odd minutes, and at 5GB, Microsoft is not the only one making bloated operating systems. So far though OS X has been a lot more friendlier, although there are quite a few quirks that I need to learn.
4 comments:
lovely! you must enjoy yout toy!
Now you should install some gnu/linux distribution on it!
Hey, you should have taken the *bling bling* black MacBook, dude :) The black one is pulling chicks. Just joking, have fun with your Apple :)
I just read at MacRumors that the new, upgraded MacBook series will be released next week :( Was probably a bad timing for buying a MacBook. I mean ONE WEEK!
Actually, I don't plan to run any linux distro on the Mac ... want to make max use of the space :)
As for waiting ... it's the problem with computers - they are out dated every week. Buying elsewhere would have been about 20% more expensive ... if only Apple had synchronised everything with my US travel dates ... have been lucky so far: both the previous iPod generation and Leopard were released just before I came to the US.
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