on Apple Fever (part II)
okay. so i waited up until 2:45 am last night, refreshing the refurbished section of the apple store, hoping to find the MacBook Pro i’ve been dreaming of staring lovingly back at me. when at 2:45 the store was still being updated, i found an online alarm clock, set it for 3:45 and got a fitful hour of sleep. finally, at 3:45 they were done updating and whatever they updated, it wasn’t the refurbished site.
today i’ve been checking half-heartedly. i’d seen the same page of refurbished macs so often that i think i was going a little nuts. this is how nuts:
i just bought an iMac!!!
after all that, i went back to my original thoughts about buying a better machine. i figure if i clean up my iBook it’ll last me another few years of intermittent traveling, and the rest of the time i’ll have my beautiful 3.06GHz processor, NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS with 512MB of GDDR3 memory and 24″ screen iMac.
i’m a firm believer in signs, and i think i had to go through all this to get the computer i really want. originally, i was going to get the 2.66GHz 20″ iMac, but after thinking about paying somewhere in the neighborhood of $2,200 for a MacBook Pro, my budget for the iMac jumped. and i’m feeling really good about spending more, too. desktops stick around longer and tend to go obsolete rather than die (unlike laptops, in my experience), so it’s worth getting a machine that will last a little longer.
the one thing that made me think real hard about it is the difference in graphics cards between the 3.06GHz iMac and the 2.53GHz MacBook Pro, being the NVIDIA 8800 GS or 9600M GT, respectively. Thanks to a discussion on just this subject on the apple discussions site and ultimately the comparison done at barefeats.com.
hooray! i’ve got a new machine on the way!
One Response to “on Apple Fever (part II)”
you are super cute and i love reading your postings
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