Not exactly breathing.

[stillane]

Meep.

I went with the MacBook (which I keep wanting to type as 'McBook').

I have just made the single most expensive purchase of my life - not including the education which will consign me to 'ancestor who bankrupted the family line' status for my descendants. This equates to approximately five of the paychecks which I do not yet have, seeing as I am still job hunting. This means that I am currently staring at my screen with wide, slightly stunned eyes and wondering what the hell I have just done.

In my defense, it is very pretty.

Meep.

Thank you all for your tech advice and happy thoughts. It seemed like a good plan, since I'll need something capable of graphic work for the thesis and the paper which might result, and these seem to possess growth potential. Plus, they are said to fly like the wind.

Still. Ouch.

Comments

[raucousraven.livejournal.com]

Be brave. Macs are preeeeeetty and fun, very good for graphics work and all, and shiny and plastic and white and a freakin' design element, and besides. You'll use the laptop enough that it'll get down to pennies per use pretty quick.

In other news, don't skimp on the warrantees. I speak from personal experience here, in that if I hadn't had one in early January I'd be kerayzee by now, and not in the good way. Like dressed in socks and locked in the Big House way.

[stillane.livejournal.com]

Yep. Went with the three year, kick-it-if-you-want, just-don't-run-over-it warrantee. With my luck, I would take the gamble and wind up with the machine that dies three days out of coverage.

Not surprisingly, I like how your mind works. 'Pennies per use' is much better than the original price tag. I think I've already got enough planned activities stored up (editing The Teeth of Doom pictures - again - and typing, and someday catching up on all the fandom that's passed me by) to cut it down significantly. *g*

Plus, I can go back to poking you.

Also: That dressed in socks thing sounds like fun. I think I'll do that this weekend. *g*