But yeah, got a new MacBook Pro, finally replacing the old 2007 MacBook upon which just about everything you've ever read by me online was composed. (Well, okay, probably a decent chunk is from my work computer, too. But you get the idea.) That old MacBook has logged a lot of miles with me over the years. It's been all over the world, to Europe and Saudi Arabia and across the United States, from Los Angeles to Seattle, Floria to Maine. It's funny how we get attached to certain inanimate objects, isn't it? Almost as if they were pets. A lot of people get that way about cars, and I think it holds true for something like a computer. A trusty old companion who's been with you through good times and bad. Hell there have been times when it felt like my only friends were on that computer. I'll miss her. But she'll go to a good home. Once I make sure all the weird fetish porn is cleared off (itself a monumental task), it will go to my mother, who will use it to send emails and surf the internet, and probably little else. It will be a nice retirement for the old MacBook. She's earned it.
Now this new one, she's an impressive little beast. 750GB hard drive. I don't know if that's big by contemporary computing standards, but it feels frikking enormous to me (coincidentally, I've heard Nas utter those last six words on three separate occasions). The display looks amazingly sharper compared to the old one, and it is so much faster. Like virtually instantaneous. Again, I don't know how a 2.9 GHz Intel Core i7 and 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 memory stacks up against other modern systems, but I'll tell you what, it's a HELLUVA lot faster than the 2.16 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo and 1 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM in the old one. Ooh, I feel so smart typing all that jargon!
Also when Apple found out I'm a "teacher" (technically) I got a huge discount and a $100 gift card to the App Store. Finally being a below-average-wage public employee pays off!
Ooh Nyancat...
