Big Mac…

January 24, 2006 on 8:27 pm | In Coding, Geeky | No Comments

Finally got my MacBook Pro ordered. The Apple online store saying that it will ship “on or before the 24th February” which gives me a nice month of regretting my purchase whilst I wait for XP or Vista to boot and give me my Counter-Strike:Source fix. I wonder where the delay is? Is it Apple who are not ready for the rush of MacBook Pro orders or is it Intel ramping up for the Core Duo orders? Who cares, in a month i’ll be growing a goaty and criticising everything computer related which isn’t made by Apple.

As for the “Why get a Mac?” question, there are many reasons. Primarily it’s because I want to diversify my development away from using Windows where the only real alternative is some form of *nix and as far as I can see the MacBook Pro is the ultimate *nix laptop. Couple that primary reason with my shallow love of eye candy, my iPod based weakness in the face of Apple branding and general technolust and we’ve got an overpowering dose of the consumers! Finally it’s been suggested that it’s actually a geeks mid-life crisis – just a laptop instead of a sportscar – they may well be onto something there.