Ok, couple of things to talk about. Some serious, some not so serious. Let go with the serious stuff first.
New MacBook Pros!
According to some Apple rumor sites, new MacBook Pros will debut with amazing ‘Touch’ technology much like the MacBook Air. Soon users will be able to pinch and squeeze with fingers and toes and whatever other appendages they care to trot out. I’m sure some very sick individual (a man of course) will attempt to use the new scroll pad on the MacBook Air and eventually MacBooks and the Pros in ways that Apple never intended. Eventually there will be a lawsuit because some idiot was using his (actual name of appendage censored because this is a family friendly publication) to scroll on his spiffy new laptop and the lid will close. Ouch Elliot!
Back to MacBook Pros’¦
These rumor sites claim that both Apple and Best Buy have new inventory numbers in their systems that don’t correspond to any Macs now available and that the opening digits are the same that previous MacBook Pros have used. Apparently both Apple and Best Buy have pretty crappy security or employees with big mouths in order for the word to get out ahead of time. I’m not bitter and frankly I don’t get why Apple is SO secretive about all their product releases. Unless it’s that whole ‘If we announce it ahead of time then no one will buy our existing inventory’ thing. UNTRUE! I almost always buy last gen or refurbished Apple gear because the prices are so frigging reasonable as compared to the brand new shiny stuff just released. Refurbed MacBook Pros at the Apple Store are usually 15 to 25% off their regular retail price. I’ve been holding out for a 2.16GHz Core2Duo MacBook Pro at the Apple Store. Sure it isn’t as fast as the 2.33 or 2.4 GHz brand new MBPs, but when they have them they go for $1499. So by this logic when NEW MBPs come out, they should be cheaper than that or maybe the 2.2GHz models will take their place for the same price!
I think my G4 iBook’s days are numbered.
Jon Stewart hosted the Oscars last night. I didn’t watch it as I rarely care what movies win what awards but there was a funny bit that he did with a piece of Apple gear that will be immediately obvious when viewed. It’s over at Gizmodo and other places too I’m sure, but this is where I saw it:
Because I ALWAYS do what Tim Robertson does, just months after the fact, I’ve started playing around with Ubuntu Linux. I downloaded the latest version and put it on a clean external drive thinking I could just do the ‘Option’ thing on startup and select it to run. Oh foolish me! It didn’t work and told me it wasn’t a bootable drive. I happened to be at an Apple Store over the weekend and when I explained what I was trying to do, one of the geniuses told me the best way to do this was through Apple’s BootCamp which has to be set up ahead of time. BootCamp repartitions your drive with the understanding that it won’t do anything bad to your existing partition. You know, the one with ALL YOUR STUFF! I’m well aware that probably thousands of people have done this and not had anything bad happen to them or their computers but frankly it makes me VERY nervous. So I bought VMWare’s Fusion and installed it. Still trying it out, but it’s way cool so far to play around with an OS within an OS and we’ll see how it goes
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