Yesterday I went back to the Apple Store in Freehold and bought a MacBook Pro. Using Steph’s educator’s discount, I was able to save around $300 [$200 on the MBP itself, plus $110 on the AppleCare]. I got a base 15″ 2.16Ghz model. Saturday I was debating weather or not I wanted to spend the $90 to upgrade the hard drive from 100GB to 120GB. Had I done that, I would have had to order it online and figure out where to have it shipped and worry about buying it as Steph but using my credit card to pay for it, etc. In the end I decided 20GB wasn’t worth the hassle. And here we are.
I’m still getting used to the size of this thing; it’s just odd having so much screen. Speaking of the display, it’s significantly brighter than my 12″ PowerBook’s LCD. I also keep making typos as I’m not used to the keyboard yet [the backlit keyboard, yay]. I expected the MBP to be a bit heavier than it actually is. So far, I’ve installed the majority of the software I use on a regular basis. There are still a few menu bar items that I can’t remember the names of, so I haven’t gotten around to getting those. I tried out Front Row and Photo Booth this morning and they’re quite neat applications. The speed boost of the 2.16GHz Core Duo is, of course, quite welcome. Spotlight especially runs amazingly fast. It imported everything from my 100GB external firewire drive and I didn’t even notice.
So what’s going to happen to my 12″ PowerBook? I couldn’t bare to part with the thing. Despite it’s pokey-ness, it’s still my favourite computer ever. I’m giving it to Steph so that I can visit it whenever I want. I didn’t delete any of my stuff from it, because I figure I’m going to forget to move something over to the MBP and I’d like to have a “backup”. I just created her own user account with some basic apps in the Dock. She’s not a Mac user [yet], so it’ll take some getting used to for her, but hopefully she’ll be the next person I get to switch.
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