My future holds a new computer
I ordered a new computer! I am very, very excited. I hope it turns up before my conference next week. It would be fun to give it a trial run on the road. I also ordered 2 gigs of RAM that I’m going to install myself (because it was a lot cheaper than buying it from Apple). I chose the white 13″ Macbook with the 2.0 GH core duo processor. I like the looks of the black one better, but it was more money for not really much more computer, especially one I up my RAM.
I’m looking forward to it. Latoya served me well, and she also taught me the important lesson of backing up my data (actually not a problem because I did always back up my most important stuff offsite, and Denny was able to retrieve pretty much everything else), but it’s time to move on.
It has a built-in iSight camera, so you may have to deal with lots of pictures of me making weird faces until I get over the novelty of that. And I don’t expect that day to come any time soon.
Whoa. Cool. I’d heard that Apple’s RAM prices were coming more into parity (heh) with 3rd party sellers, but I guess not. I also hear that the RAM install on the new MacBooks is stupid simple, so the price differential doesn’t have to be that great to justify going somewhere else for the module. Congrats! Those are great machines. What’re you doing with the old one?
Well, there was a little checkbox on the order form that said, “Would you like Apple to recycle your old computer for free?” so I said yes. They’re going to send me information about it. I was a little nervous about that, since I wasn’t sure what data I had saved on there like credit card info and stuff, but then Denny reminded me that he did reformat the drive and do a clean OS install back when we were trying to save her. So I think that’s what I’m going to do.
Hi, Aprille —
I referenced your MacBook in a post here. Thought you might be interested to know.
Dan