#96: courting the devil again
Computers. Cannot live with them; can't live without them either. My laptop of 3 years died out on me, taking with it some recent photos and data (that true to natural human habits were not backed up), and my piece of mind. I've been scouting the market for a new one.
I surprised myself by checking out the whole spectrum on offer .... from the known devils (Dell, Sony Viao), the work-horses (Thinkpads aka Lenovo) to the benchmark of chic hipness (MacBooks). It boiled down to the Dell and MacBook Pro. But the price (and lack of meaningful academic discounting for the latter) means I will settle for yet another Dell. As much as I was prepared to take the leap to the Mac "promised land", my meagre budget just could not justify the premium for coolness. Sorry, all of you in Mac-Nation; maybe you ought to drop a hint to Mr. Jobs or a certain Nicholas Claus at the North Pole.
Just 10 years ago, a friend called me up just to gloat that his new desktop had 2 GIGABYTES of hard-drive memory. "Smart toothbrushes" have more now. In another 5 years, we won't be calibrating in GBs at all.
I surprised myself by checking out the whole spectrum on offer .... from the known devils (Dell, Sony Viao), the work-horses (Thinkpads aka Lenovo) to the benchmark of chic hipness (MacBooks). It boiled down to the Dell and MacBook Pro. But the price (and lack of meaningful academic discounting for the latter) means I will settle for yet another Dell. As much as I was prepared to take the leap to the Mac "promised land", my meagre budget just could not justify the premium for coolness. Sorry, all of you in Mac-Nation; maybe you ought to drop a hint to Mr. Jobs or a certain Nicholas Claus at the North Pole.
Just 10 years ago, a friend called me up just to gloat that his new desktop had 2 GIGABYTES of hard-drive memory. "Smart toothbrushes" have more now. In another 5 years, we won't be calibrating in GBs at all.Labels: technologie
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