MacIntel

A year and a half ago I got a new iBook. I was able to trade in the old one and get a good discount. So I planned that within two years I would do the same thing again. For the past half year I’ve been noticing that my computer was getting slower. I really should have upgraded the memory. But I figured I would be able to hang on for half a year when I got a new one. Then I found out that Apple was completely changing their chip manufacturer. In a year there would be MacIntels.
It didn’t seem like a good idea anymore to upgrade my computer in November. I would be better off waiting until the new MaIntels came out and get one of those. So now I needed to stretch my laptop out for a longer period of time. I upgraded the memory soon after Tiger came out. Now I’m eyeing the battery. It seems to only hold 25% of its charge now.
But a recent event has made it so that I don’t know if I want to stretch my laptop anymore.
At work, they just got us swanky new PowerBooks. They arrived last Friday and they are sweet! I haven’t had much time to get acquainted, but the number of nice touches make them awesome. When it is in a dark room, the keyboard keys light up. If you attach a Firewire cable between it and an old computer, you can populate the hard drive with all the files in the correct places. The trackpad acts like a scroll wheel if you use two fingers on it at the same time. A love these little things.
I sound like a geek when I say this, but I love the smell of a new computer. A scent that reminds you of new opportunities and faster computing.

I would like to tell my iBook that I still love it, just in a different way.