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To upgrade, or not to upgrade

Posted: November 2nd, 2007 | Author: | Filed under: Technology | 6 Comments »

Well, it finally happened: Leopard came out, and the MacBooks were updated. This is the exact time I vowed I would upgrade from my decrepit old iBook G4.

Back in high school I always had to have the newest gear. Now I just don’t care that much. The iBook is old. It’s damn slow for some things. It can’t run Leopard (it’s short exactly 67MHz). But do I really want to spend about $1,500? Now that it’s not my parents’ money, I don’t know anymore.

Am I becoming old and wise? Or just old and lame? Probably a little of both, but mostly the latter.

Update: I just ordered myself the white MacBook with SuperDrive. My Japanese credit card has too low a limit, so I had to choose cash on delivery. I guess I better be walking around with $1,500 in my pocket for a few days now. (Please don’t mug me.)

6 Comments on “To upgrade, or not to upgrade”

  1. 1 Alex said at 3:19 on November 3rd, 2007:

    Lemme tell ya, I’ve got a black macbook and it is sa-weet.

  2. 2 amake said at 7:43 on November 3rd, 2007:

    Alex > I believe it. But I’m definitely not paying extra just for the black color. Right now the stock black MacBook is ¥179,800, and an identically-spec’ed white MacBook is ¥169,250. That’s ¥10,550 = $91.90 just for black.

  3. 3 Alex said at 10:04 on November 3rd, 2007:

    You know me…

    Style over substance, baby. In all fairness for the extra hundo I did get a bigger drive, too, but only by 40 gigs.

  4. 4 amake said at 17:22 on November 3rd, 2007:

    No, the $100 difference is after upping the white one’s hard drive to the same as the black model’s. Your hundo was entirely spent on black. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. My mom took the old PowerBook G4 with her to a conference, and was complimented on it by a security guard at the airport, who apparently thought that this rare, black Mac must be a brand-new model.

  5. 5 Alex said at 3:25 on November 4th, 2007:

    I want to get a shirt printed that says “Black by popular demand”. I will wear it when drunk.

  6. 6 Durf said at 11:37 on November 12th, 2007:

    I bought a black one, but I did it out of reverential longing for the days of my G3 Lombard. Once you go black . . . you know.

    I guess I would have been happier about the whole deal if I’d waited an extra couple months and got a machine that I could stuff 4GB of RAM into. Oh well. I’ll do that when they get around to updating the Mini with Santa Rosa, or doing an xMac, or whatever.

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