My new laptop arrived today. Woot!
It is nice. It is fast. Importantly, it has a larger hard drive. My biggest problems with the last one was that I was running out of space. After taking 4gb of pictures I needed space to organize them. Now I can do that. I got the 15″ model. I saw the 17″ model, and while I could afford it, I took one look and said “That’s too big”
But not everything is shiny and happy. It is a MacBook Pro. Which means it uses an Intel chip instead of the PowerPC chip we’ve come to know and love for the past decade. Now, for most people, it shouldn’t matter if FritoLay made the chip, as long as the operating system is the same.
But Apple has decided (and with good reason) not to coddle people. Any software that isn’t for Mac OS X is being deprecated. So there are old games that I will no longer be able to play. Not that I play many games. The other thing is that I found a new tool that solved a problem I had with dates in pictures, but I discovered it doesn’t work on Intel.
I still have the old laptop so I can use that, but it is an inconvenience.