I am sitting here in the basement typing on my new 15″ 2.33Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo Apple MacBook Pro. It is a thing of beauty! I loaded up Windows on it (to compliment OS X) and got all the necessary software (Including the new version of Photoshop, CS3) installed.

I only have a few complaints. First off, Office 2003 for Windows looks a thousand times better than the version for mad. The page layout look more like what you will get printed out, instead of a super-small document. I understand that there may be some instances where a Mac just won’t have the display space, but this is just total BS. I am searching for a replacement word processor, but I may just end up using Word 2003 for Windows and emulate it in OS X using Parallels.

This thing runs World of Warcraft and Half Life 2 based games perfectly (when I load up Windows.) It doesn’t get as hot as I thought it would (it gets very warm, however) as the fan seems to spin up quite a bit while playing these games. The fan can get annoying when you are in a dark quiet area of a game, but you learn to live with it. My desktop has a loud hum going on all the time and I have never really minded.

This thing that I like the most is the quality built in wireless and bluetooth. It is very easy to setup my networking preferences at any location and finding wireless networks is a breeze. I haven’t tried my bluetooth modem phone, but I am going on a trip today and will have to try it out.

So, I’m happy. Except for this fucking one button trackpad. Thank god I have an external mouse.

Well I guess I might as well come out with it: I bought a MacBook Pro. The Laptop (a 2.33Ghz Core 2 Duo with 2GB of Ram and a 160GB HDD (upgrade from 120GB)) cost me $2278 (a few tricks got it down from the $2379 I would pay with just the education discount) and then I bought Applecare for $239. Comes out to $2517, plus tax ($141) and express shipping ($15) it comes out to $2673. I then bought Parallels for Mac for $79 and a Neoprene laptop case for $25. Total cost of this purchase comes out to: $2777. Once it gets here (Thursday December 28 according to Fedex) the order of things I am going to do is first install Windows in Boot Camp, then Parallels, Office for Mac, Photoshop CS3 Beta for Mac, Adium, Firefox (I don’t like Safari), Video LAN Client (Frontrow sucks), and finally some sort of game to keep me busy when I am bored.

Well Christmas is coming. I asked for a digital camera (with optical zoom.) Now I wish I had asked for a Lego Mindstorms NXT.

Some guy made one that can parallel park all by itself, with just a verbal command!

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