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January 12, 2006
I Said No....
With the release of the all new Apple shit at the MacWorld a few days ago, I have been suffering the endless rambling of my husband. He is fighting the good fight of convincing me that we need a laptop. Not just any laptop, we need a mac that can run winblows. We need a new mac Powerbook.
Except that we don't need one... I don't think we need a powerbook, an iBook, or any such thing at all. What we do need is a big fat savings account, and less technology around here. The G5 with 2 monitors, the kids eMac, the 61" TV with all the accouterments, 2 x-boxes, a shit-load of HD space (that is SHITLOAD), an n64, 2 TVs in the play room.... and a partridge in a pear tree. We also have the obligatory colorful iMacs collecting dust in storage.
We have enough frickon computers. In the last 3 years we have given Steve Jobs lots of money. LOTS. Not that I dislike Apple, or Steve Jobs. They are my heros... but I do not want to give him our yearly kick-back from Uncle Sam for another computer.
This debate is beginning to sound like the Coke/Pepsi thing we have had going on in our house for all the years we have been married, the result of which is a fridge stocked with Squirt and Dr. Pepper.
The Hub is convinced it will make our trip to the states so much easier, as we can directly download the pictures to a computer. I think we should just get another 1 gig CF card. A laptop costs... 1500? 2000? A CF Card is about 100 bucks. How many pictures does he plan on taking, really?! But as I said, he is fighting the good fight... It may end up with me saying no, even as he unpacks the damn thing from the box. We'll see.
Posted by TheFreud at January 12, 2006 12:40 PM
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I must agree with Chrissy on this one Kevin, the CF Cards would be a lot cheaper in the long run. And besides you already have the most powerful computer in the known Universe. You even managed to bring me over to the Light!!! And that took some doing.
Besides Disneyland ain't cheap !!!
Dad
Posted by: Dad at January 13, 2006 6:36 AM
I think you should buy the new Power-tel book. C'mon guys from what you are telling me you constitute the core of the Steve Job's consumer base.
Hail to the half-eaten apple.
Posted by: Thomas at January 14, 2006 8:36 AM
