Well I'm making the switch to Apple. I think where I differ from a large number of the Apple users I've talked to is that I view Steve Jobs and Apple as every bit the evil overlord and empire as Bill and Microsoft. Still somewhere along the way someone has managed to convince me that they make a better product hence the switch.
I'm buying a 2.0 Ghz MacBook (see the wikipedia link here that will persist long after Apple has changed their product line) with a 160 Gb harddrive so that makes it a custom configeration according to Apple. I really wanted to buy the stock option, open the thing up, and replace the harddrive myself. This is a brainless job as it's very accessible from the battery bay but according to every service representative to whom I talked, messing with the insides of a laptop voids the warranty. Silly me.
Anyway my current computer is a Frankenstein of my own creation rooted in a bare bones kit from 2003. It randomly freezes up on me and we fight a lot to get it to do what I want. Our love affair is over. Just like any good relationship as soon as I move on I'll rip the guts out of this machine and use them to make life more pleasent (ie. I'm going to make some external hardrives :-).
I'm buying a 2.0 Ghz MacBook (see the wikipedia link here that will persist long after Apple has changed their product line) with a 160 Gb harddrive so that makes it a custom configeration according to Apple. I really wanted to buy the stock option, open the thing up, and replace the harddrive myself. This is a brainless job as it's very accessible from the battery bay but according to every service representative to whom I talked, messing with the insides of a laptop voids the warranty. Silly me.
Anyway my current computer is a Frankenstein of my own creation rooted in a bare bones kit from 2003. It randomly freezes up on me and we fight a lot to get it to do what I want. Our love affair is over. Just like any good relationship as soon as I move on I'll rip the guts out of this machine and use them to make life more pleasent (ie. I'm going to make some external hardrives :-).
Labels: Apple macbook
tell the apple sales rep that you're waiting for the next major OS release and am thinking of holding off until then. They should respond by giving a discount with the value of the price of the new OS package, in order to persuade you to buy it now
Posted by
Anonymous |
1:06 PM
Yeah, it's just a shame that I've already placed my order. Good advice though...
Posted by
Scott Sanders |
9:53 PM