Okay, okay. I've been remiss I my duties of posting about my computer. In fact, did I even post I was buying one? Probably not. Whoops...
Anywho...a few weeks ago (2 this fri) my new computer arrived! I bought a MacBook Pro, 15.4" with a 320gb hard drive, 4gb of memory, and 2.5ghz procesor. If my memory serves correctly, it's the second tier in the 15" MacBook Pro line (not the cheapest one).
I bougt it from macmall because they did a debate if you bought a mac from them. With the rebate I think I ended up saving something like $300 compared to buying it directly from apple. I know they have the education discount, but I'd only save a max of $200. On top of it, macmall dropped the price of a hp printer and hp is doing a $70 rebate on certain printers whne you buy the printer at the same time of a laptop purchase. I'll need a printer for grad school, so it worked out better. I was going to wait till apple did their iPod and computer sale, but I need a printer more than an iPod and my iphone can double as an Ipod.
I got the one with more memory because I've been playing World of Warcraft with Chris for a month, but he switched to playing Lord of the Rings Online the day I ordered my computer, so we've been playing that since I got my computer. Anyway, since Chris is a pc user and I now had bootcamp, we put windows xp on my computer. I basically had go do that too because LOTRO is only a pc game. Parallels worked (I used it for two days), but it wasn't the same.
I must admit, once we worked out the millions issues with getting bootcamp to work (wireless drivers, using fat32, etc), it's worked pretty nicely. It's kind of a pain to launch in and out of mac and pc, but only because I have go quit and relaunch things ( I never turned my old mac off), but it could be worse.
The only issue I have with my laptop is the fact it has an 800 firewire port instead of the common 400. So I had to buy and adapter that'll covert the 400 to an 800. Luckily, most things are USB now! I do positively love the light up keyboard, which I missed out on my old laptop because I had the low line of the PowerBook with a 15" screen upgrade. So everything in it was for the 13". I like it! It's nifty! I also like the led screen...my old laptop is almost 5 years old, the screen was dying. I get this new one and I had to up the screen brightness over a few days because it was too bright for me. It hurt my eyes! I think I'm at 100% now or only one or two ticks below.
With the rest of life, not much is going on. Just working at borders where morale is so low we want to tell people who ask for apps to not apply. We also don't care about our jobs too. Chris and I are playing LOTRO as I said. It's fun and it's really a game that two players is better. So we always play together.
With that, I should get back to working in the polls. It's slow as all get out today. I just typed all this on my iPhone too. Excuse any weird typos or any in general for that matter. It took forever and is a strain after a while. LOL
