Here it is! I finally gave in and purchased a Mac--my first real Mac in over a decade. This was supposed to be a gift to myself after 3+ years in the District Intern program. And what do you know--the brown box arrives on the very night that I had my last meeting with my advisors. No joke.What led me to make this particular purchase was threefold: Leopard, iWork 08, and a new upgrade involving the Intel Santa Rosa chip. But I think the deal breaker for me was the fact that shared graphics was bumped up to 144MB from 64MB. I wanted something to play around with. I know it still does not have the dedicated graphics card support of the MacBook Pros, but 144MB shared is good enough for a light wannabe gamer like me.
I also dropped an additional several hundred dollars buying VMWare's Fusion for virtualization, Windows XP (for BootCamp), a 320 GB Seagate external hard drive for Time Machine backups, Airport Extreme for N-wireless and gigabit ethernet connectivity, and Microsoft Office 2004 (which comes with a free upgrade to 2008 next year). Where's the money for all this? I don't know, but I don't regret my spending spree one bit.
Have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
2 comments:
Congratulations on your purchase. I hope it works out for you w/ adding Windows. I have not dared myself to put Windows on my Mac. Enjoy your holiday break. I am still working here at Local District 5 faciliatating a Technology Academy http://ito.lacoe.edu
That is wonderful that you got a new mac. I can't wait to see all you do with it. I know you'll want to do some podcasting now. I'm glad John shared the link to your blog. Now I can subscribe.
Congratulations!
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