who wants to hear me talk about my mac dilemma some more?
ok, so several of you have already been subjected to my frustrations with tuesday's keynote at the macworld expo. my beef is not so much in what WAS announced as what WASN'T. things that were announced: fluff for existing peripherals that i do not own because i am a poor person and/or do not need said things and a totally new notebook that is completely uninteresting and useless to me. DO NOT WANT. but on the other hand...
now, one would have expected there to be some sort of update on the macbook pro. SOMETHING. better chips, perhaps the fancy new trackpad that's being introduced on the new macbook air, or maybe even a price drop since they aren't doing a freaking thing with mbp's right now, but nooooooooo. the G4 is on it's way out and i'm going to need a replacement machine pretty soon. as in, probably within a couple of months...ideally right now. the people who i've talked to about this all insist that i should just get the mbp now, but my gut says "NO!" See, if I bought a mbp, say, today and a month or two down the line they introduce new features, the best of which is the new trackpad, i'll be a little peeved, but i could manage to avoid buyers remorse. now...if the best of the newest features includes new processors, well...i would be very pissed off. that's not something i'm ready to deal with. i know apple is always behind the game on processors, but if i'm dropping 3k of money that i don't even actually have on a new setup (to do some fairly heavy lifting with, taking into account the applications i use/will be using on my machine), i don't want to be surprised by something like that after the fact. it's just not going to be ok with me. as it is, if i were to buy a mbp today, i would drop the extra money on the 2.6 GHz.
i'm almost done boring you into a coma.
also, this may sound kind of ridiculous, but i'm also considering getting the 17" model instead of the 15.4". seriously. i don't foresee dropping a grand on a big, pretty LCD HD monitor anytime soon (though having one would be nice) and, for my purposes, it does make sense. but have you ever seen one in person? THEY ARE SO LARGE! and they weigh almost 7lbs. i'm not sure i could get that into my backpack.
any thoughts on that? even though i have a feeling i know what everyone is going to say already. at any rate, thanks for listening. here is your reward...puggles!
ps- what i REALLY wanted to be announced was a new macbook pro TABLET. that would have been so amazing. but who was i kidding...
now, one would have expected there to be some sort of update on the macbook pro. SOMETHING. better chips, perhaps the fancy new trackpad that's being introduced on the new macbook air, or maybe even a price drop since they aren't doing a freaking thing with mbp's right now, but nooooooooo. the G4 is on it's way out and i'm going to need a replacement machine pretty soon. as in, probably within a couple of months...ideally right now. the people who i've talked to about this all insist that i should just get the mbp now, but my gut says "NO!" See, if I bought a mbp, say, today and a month or two down the line they introduce new features, the best of which is the new trackpad, i'll be a little peeved, but i could manage to avoid buyers remorse. now...if the best of the newest features includes new processors, well...i would be very pissed off. that's not something i'm ready to deal with. i know apple is always behind the game on processors, but if i'm dropping 3k of money that i don't even actually have on a new setup (to do some fairly heavy lifting with, taking into account the applications i use/will be using on my machine), i don't want to be surprised by something like that after the fact. it's just not going to be ok with me. as it is, if i were to buy a mbp today, i would drop the extra money on the 2.6 GHz.
i'm almost done boring you into a coma.
also, this may sound kind of ridiculous, but i'm also considering getting the 17" model instead of the 15.4". seriously. i don't foresee dropping a grand on a big, pretty LCD HD monitor anytime soon (though having one would be nice) and, for my purposes, it does make sense. but have you ever seen one in person? THEY ARE SO LARGE! and they weigh almost 7lbs. i'm not sure i could get that into my backpack.
any thoughts on that? even though i have a feeling i know what everyone is going to say already. at any rate, thanks for listening. here is your reward...puggles!
ps- what i REALLY wanted to be announced was a new macbook pro TABLET. that would have been so amazing. but who was i kidding...