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….