I think the $1,799 price tag for an essentially non-upgradeable laptop with no disk drive is well within my priestly budget…not. I will stick with my 12″ Powerbook for a few more years (Lord willing). Putting a new 160 GB drive in it later this month for a mere “C note”. Still types fine. (Anybody remember the typewriter? I think Jim Packer still uses one).
I went to apple.com and it does a very slim, way cool external hard drive. Also, go to the guided tour. They have a software package to allow you to share over the wireless an optical drive. They have a demo with a PC in the other room and the Mac loading software from the PC’s optical drive like it is its new iMac’s own optical drive. Again, way cool. Of course, whaddya expect from Apple?
My physician’s salary might be a little more than justice1’s, but my wife frowns on me wasting money on gadgets. My Scottish frugality doesn’t allow me, either. So I won’t be buying one in the near or distant future.
[url=http://www.amazon.com/Doctor-Who-The-Pirate-Planet/dp/B000067FPG]As Doctor Who once said[/url], “It’s the most brilliant piece of engineering I’ve ever seen. The concept is simply staggering–pointless, but staggering.” I’m just looking forward to my straight-up Macbook.
Alas, I come here to be uplifted, rebuked, taught, informed and generally listen to the discussion around me.
Now Kendall has hit me in the softest of soft spots–tech longings. Uncontrollable tech longings. Violations of at least three or four (out of ten) commandments are waging war for primacy in my heart of hearts after seeing that thing.
I must…restrain…myself. I want one. It is precious to me! Gollum!
(Anybody remember the typewriter? I think Jim Packer still uses one).
I wrote my application essay to Caltech on, and about, an old manual Royal accounting typewriter that my mom had picked up at a garage sale and I had repaired. It was large, black, solid metal, and the carriage was sixteen inches wide to hold ledger sheets. It was not what you would call easy to type on — I never did develop the pinkie strength to be able to really touch-type on it — but I loved it as a mechanical gadget.
I still have a typewriter. It is necessary for filling in forms and applications that require typewriting. So far, basic computers still cannot do that, unless you go through the time-consuming steps of installing a scanner, etc. and even then there is no guarantee it will come out right.
Even so, I would love to have a basic laptop computer, I still only have a desktop, that is old and slow.
I think the $1,799 price tag for an essentially non-upgradeable laptop with no disk drive is well within my priestly budget…not. I will stick with my 12″ Powerbook for a few more years (Lord willing). Putting a new 160 GB drive in it later this month for a mere “C note”. Still types fine. (Anybody remember the typewriter? I think Jim Packer still uses one).
Just to make clear: the new MacBook has no optical drive. It does have [hard] a disk drive.
Sorry–make that a [hard] disk drive. I’ve been having trouble with articles today.
My bad. Optical drive. As pointless as this laptop would be in my life, it is pretty cool.
I went to apple.com and it does a very slim, way cool external hard drive. Also, go to the guided tour. They have a software package to allow you to share over the wireless an optical drive. They have a demo with a PC in the other room and the Mac loading software from the PC’s optical drive like it is its new iMac’s own optical drive. Again, way cool. Of course, whaddya expect from Apple?
My physician’s salary might be a little more than justice1’s, but my wife frowns on me wasting money on gadgets. My Scottish frugality doesn’t allow me, either. So I won’t be buying one in the near or distant future.
[url=http://www.amazon.com/Doctor-Who-The-Pirate-Planet/dp/B000067FPG]As Doctor Who once said[/url], “It’s the most brilliant piece of engineering I’ve ever seen. The concept is simply staggering–pointless, but staggering.” I’m just looking forward to my straight-up Macbook.
Alas, I come here to be uplifted, rebuked, taught, informed and generally listen to the discussion around me.
Now Kendall has hit me in the softest of soft spots–tech longings. Uncontrollable tech longings. Violations of at least three or four (out of ten) commandments are waging war for primacy in my heart of hearts after seeing that thing.
I must…restrain…myself. I want one. It is precious to me! Gollum!
#1 justice1 says:
I wrote my application essay to Caltech on, and about, an old manual Royal accounting typewriter that my mom had picked up at a garage sale and I had repaired. It was large, black, solid metal, and the carriage was sixteen inches wide to hold ledger sheets. It was not what you would call easy to type on — I never did develop the pinkie strength to be able to really touch-type on it — but I loved it as a mechanical gadget.
I still have a typewriter. It is necessary for filling in forms and applications that require typewriting. So far, basic computers still cannot do that, unless you go through the time-consuming steps of installing a scanner, etc. and even then there is no guarantee it will come out right.
Even so, I would love to have a basic laptop computer, I still only have a desktop, that is old and slow.