computer lust

[chhotii]

My trusty ol' PowerBook G4 seems to have bit the dust. Well, it probably could be revived, but it's showing its age: the keyboard is wearing out, it has a column of dead pixels, and now that I'm compiling large projects in Xcode, it's really too slow, "kill me now 'cause I can't stand to wait for this build to complete" slow.

Want new laptop! Want! Want! Want!

Have been droooooling over the MacBook Pros. Specifically, the 15 inch MacBook Pro with the 2.33 GHz processor. Fans of my occasional rant on the subject of Apple's inane antics might be surprised that I am lusting for a Macintosh, but you can't go by the occasional fit of pique on LJ. If I get a Mac, I can do all my work on one machine, because it will run Windows! (How cool is that!) The Windows software I wrote runs beautifully on a MacBook Pro.

Drool. Drool. Drool.

Comments

[perspicuity.livejournal.com]

aw, the poor dead thing!

how did it bite it? dead dead dead? or mostly dead? worth it for parts?

and yes, i too lust for the new ones. my machine is going on 3-4 years now, and sometimes, a lot, i wish it were faster and spluftier. a lot. yar.

plus, a new one lets you run parallels, which is good enough for me.

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[whitebird.livejournal.com]

I've been fiddling a bit with a new 24" iMac at one of my consulting places. Parallels Desktop is really absurdly spiffy. It sure makes me want to replace either my PowerMac G4 or my PowerBook.