ShinyNewMacBookPro

I’m  in love with my shiny new MacBook Pro.

It’s my 5th Apple laptop. My first was a little grey scale PowerBook 150. The internet was a new invention, colour was way out of my price range and the trackball was quite possibly the most exciting thing I’d ever seen in my life. My last Apple laptop was the last PowerBook G4. And when I say last, I mean last. I ordered it online via the Apple Store first week of Jan 2006. Second week of Jan 2006 Apple launched the MacBook Pro. Gutted doesn’t quite cover it. It took a little under two weeks to arrive. By the time it did it was already obsolete. As laptops go it was alright, but it didn’t have the new Intel CoreDuo chip, it was bulky and from the off I knew it wasn’t going to be a classic. My new MacBook Pro on the other hand, this is vintage Apple. In years to come I’ll look back in that misty way I do when I think about my little 150 with its golf ball sized trackball.

I am, totally in love.

 

Published on December 27, 2008 2:37 pm.
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Filed under: Design, Film, Video Tags: , , , ,

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Filed under: Design, Film, London, Video Tags: , , , ,

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Filed under: Film, Video Tags: , ,

TheBirds

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Published on November 3, 2011 1:38 pm.
Filed under: Books:Other People's, Design, Video Tags: , , ,

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