Geek Love

[geminigirl]

I should be cleaning bathrooms and stuff right now, but instead I'm configuring the new laptop. And then I will play with the new laptop and return this one to Cayne so that he can play his wanker game and I can still enjoy my time on the internet. Course the first thing I'll do when I finish configuring the wireless network is to download Firefox, and then of course all my other stuff.)

(We'd been planning on a new laptop for a while, but the combination of a really good credit card offer, plus the tax refund made it happen now. I complain that Cayne's laptop is too heavy-it's a Thinkpad A31 and it weighs a ton and has no battery life. We bought another Thinkpad-it's so light compared to Cayne's.)

And before any of the Mac lovers ask why I didn't buy a Mac...we wanted the laptop now, but think it makes more sense to wait for the new Macs with the intel processors to come out before a Mac becomes a serious consideration...when we replace the older laptop, we're far more likely to consider a Mac.

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[(Anonymous)]

Actually, the Intel-based MacBook Pro is currently shipping in good volume. And, handily, it will also boot in Windows, or you can use Parallels Workstation virtualization to run Windows at about 80% speed and Mac OS X at the same time.

Feel free to talk to me when you think you're ready for a Mac, I'm always happy to help folks out.

[whitebird.livejournal.com]

Wow, that seldom happens to me. LiveJournal doesn't usually log on out in the middle of the day.

[katishna.livejournal.com]

Shows you how much i pay attention, i didn't know it would boot into windows. I'm thinking I"ll use the intel-based mac as an excuse to buy a now-probably-cheaper non-intel mac. My laptop's 5 years old now, time for a new one, no?

[whitebird.livejournal.com]

The 12" and the 17" PowerBooks are still being sold as new. Most places are completely out of the 15" PowerBooks, but the refurbished prices are reasonable for the last iteration of them.

The Intel based MacBooks were basically introduced at the same price point as the model they replaced.

wanker game

[holliehoxenfree.livejournal.com]

Bill used to play Eve and had a blast with it. I've heard its kind of hard without a guild because of pirates. The radio was pretty cool though.

Re: wanker game

[geminigirl]

Cayne seems to like it, I know nothing about guilds, or the game...Cayne thinks I'd like it, but I find that it looks like it will give me headaches.