On Sunday, I bought myself a brand new 17-inch MacBook Pro.
It was a splurge, but I’ve been wanting to upgrade to a new computer for a while since I’ve had my 17-inch Powerbook G4 for the past five and a half years. It’s been a bit slow lately, and with only 1GB of RAM, 1.5GHz Processor and a measly 80 GB of hard drive space, it just doesn’t measure up anymore… my personal workflow at home has been suffering because of my Powerbook’s limitations.
Still, I couldn’t help but feel bad as I started moving files off of my good old Powerbook to prepare it for retirement. It didn’t do anything wrong…. In fact, it’s served me very well for the past half decade, standing by my side through all those design projects and allnighters back in school, to being my work computer during the summer I worked at a start-up, to helping me land my first job out here in California. But I tell myself that five and a half years is a computer life well-lived, and that it can now rest peacefully in its nursing home (aka my storage closet).
My new MacBook Pro is quite a beauty, though, and with 4GB of RAM and 2.8GHz Intel Core2 Duo processor, I will — once again — have the power to crush the other kids.
Now excuse me for a while as I recover from this financial hangover….
January 13, 2010 @ 8:59 am
So jealous! Can’t believe you had your old one for 5 1/2 yrs!! You got a lot of yrs out of it! =) What r u going to do with it now?
January 13, 2010 @ 9:59 am
You mean our financial hangover 😉
January 14, 2010 @ 10:17 am
Amanda: Five and a half years is a pretty long time — I’m impressed that it was able to last that long too. (and still going!) I think I’m going to keep it as a backup computer in case of emergencies, or bring it out as a guest computer when we have visitors. 🙂
Dan: Yes, our financial hangover….
January 15, 2010 @ 3:36 am
Misono…i’m so jealous! I’ve been wanting to upgrade mine since 2009 :)….i need a new one… served me for 7 years. 15in G4 powerbook…i need a new one…some how:) i’m jealus,jealus and jealus…but what about hangover?:)
January 15, 2010 @ 12:16 pm
Sena, thank you so much for your comment! 🙂
I’d been wanting to upgrade mine for a while. Seven years is quite impressive! I think you definitely deserve a new one.
The downside is that they are so pricey… hence the financial hangover. Won’t be able to do any frivolous shopping for a while! I think Macs are a really good investment though – it seems like if you take care of them properly, they will last at least 5 years… even 10 years if you’re lucky!
January 26, 2010 @ 7:32 am
Wah nice! hahaha I enjoyed the power to crush other kids advertisement! yea I’ve also had my mac for 6 years going on to 7 this summer and it’s still surviving… might have to get one in august perhaps… x.x but I am planning to build a cpu for my addictive video game habits …yarg… hope you are well ^.^