Journal AriaStar's Journal: MacBook! 4
I accidentally hit the wrong thing and deleted this entry when I was trying to edit it and copy somewhere else. Blonde moment.
For a friend's surprise costume birthday party, I changed my costume when my roommate and I were about half an hour from leaving. Instead of being the Green Fairy from Moulin Rouge, I decided to go with black tights, black silk velvet corset, black lace undies, a green sash, and my black velvet cloak. Mere said Iw as "indecisive," so that is what I went as. I was "Indecisive." (Though by the end of the night, when we girls were assigned one of the seven deadly sins, I was assigned Lust.)
When I have options, I am indecisive, like to make the best decision. So, after a month of trying to decide between a MacBook and MacBook Pro, getting all the info and reviews I can, from people who have them to friends who work for Apple, I've decided on the 2GHz MacBook with a RAM upgrade to 2GB, and I want to upgrade the hard drive, but Apple tops out at offering 120GB. Somehow I am bothered by the idea of my iPod having half that (well, not really, the 60GB iPod has a few BG less of available space), so will probably get it with the standard 60Gb and upgrade it to probably 200GB myself. I'm not afraid to open up electronic things and play with them. Never have been.
Briefly I considered the black macBook, but there are only three differences, the color, 20MB more on the HD, and $200. To upgrade the HD on the white would be $45, and then the two would identical but for color, and the $155-difference would be put to better use. Hell, it's $90 to upgrade the RAM from 512MB to 1GB, and I'd still be up $65 on the white, and with a faster machine. But I'm going to go for 2GB. The way I see it is that I'd rather get something a few steps over what I think I'll need and not need it rather that to get exactly what I need, only to find I need more later on.
And since this will be used for work more than anything, and since I am a contractor, it's all a nice tax write-off.
I'm so damned tired of PCs.
For a friend's surprise costume birthday party, I changed my costume when my roommate and I were about half an hour from leaving. Instead of being the Green Fairy from Moulin Rouge, I decided to go with black tights, black silk velvet corset, black lace undies, a green sash, and my black velvet cloak. Mere said Iw as "indecisive," so that is what I went as. I was "Indecisive." (Though by the end of the night, when we girls were assigned one of the seven deadly sins, I was assigned Lust.)
When I have options, I am indecisive, like to make the best decision. So, after a month of trying to decide between a MacBook and MacBook Pro, getting all the info and reviews I can, from people who have them to friends who work for Apple, I've decided on the 2GHz MacBook with a RAM upgrade to 2GB, and I want to upgrade the hard drive, but Apple tops out at offering 120GB. Somehow I am bothered by the idea of my iPod having half that (well, not really, the 60GB iPod has a few BG less of available space), so will probably get it with the standard 60Gb and upgrade it to probably 200GB myself. I'm not afraid to open up electronic things and play with them. Never have been.
Briefly I considered the black macBook, but there are only three differences, the color, 20MB more on the HD, and $200. To upgrade the HD on the white would be $45, and then the two would identical but for color, and the $155-difference would be put to better use. Hell, it's $90 to upgrade the RAM from 512MB to 1GB, and I'd still be up $65 on the white, and with a faster machine. But I'm going to go for 2GB. The way I see it is that I'd rather get something a few steps over what I think I'll need and not need it rather that to get exactly what I need, only to find I need more later on.
And since this will be used for work more than anything, and since I am a contractor, it's all a nice tax write-off.
I'm so damned tired of PCs.
Sorry to annoy you... (Score:1)
But a "PC" means "Personal Computer". Your Mac is one... Even tough everbody seems to think that a PC must run Windows. That's not true. A PC can run Linux, ReactOS, FreeDOS, OS X. Its a machine that runs for you and you only.
My wife, for example, doesn't have a PC. She's got a P-IV 2.6GHz HT with 2Gigs of RAM and a great graphics cards. Yet, it is no *personal* computer. I use it all the time, and I have admin. (If I want, my usual user is not admin) No person without a CS education should ever
Re:Sorry to annoy you... (Score:2)
Re:Sorry to annoy you... (Score:1)
PC lost the "Personal Computer" tag a loooooong time ago. Back in the day, my Vic-20 was considered a PC. But when IBM entered the market, from that day frward, PC refered to "IBM PC" and/or "IBM PC Compatible". So today, to be technically accurate, PC means something capable of running Windows natively and quite possibly designed with the intention of running a Windows OS.
Intel based Macs don't qualify as you have to go through hoops to get BootCamp or the like running
Get it! (Score:2)
Only problem so far is getting all the different formats of videos from the internet to play.
Oh - and you should get an external harddrive. Both for backup and for extra storage.