My New MacBook
Many might argue that I’m not deserving of a new Apple MacBook. But to them I’d say, “You’re just jealous because it’s ME and not YOU. Neener, neener, neeener!”
I got one of the white ones. It’s lovely. It’s slimmer than the G4 iBook and has a different kind of keyboard. On the G4, the keyboard could be lifted up and moved out of the way for installing memory or airport cards or whatever. On the MacBook, the keyboard is integrated right into the body of the computer — which will make it much less likely that a person could, say, accidentally lose a sunflower seed shell under one of the keys and wind up with a letter “L” that keeps wanting to insert itself into whatever one is typing.
Not that I’d have any sort of personal experience with that kind of thing.
Anyway… so my lovely husband bought me this new MacBook today. I think maybe he just felt sorry for me because I’m going in the hospital later this week for surgery. Hey, I’m not above accepting sympathy gifts — especially if they’re of the computational sort.
These new MacBooks have one especially cool feature — a built in camera! Since Mark has a new MacBook Pro (also with built-in camera), he and I will be able to video conference when he’s out-of-town on business (which is fairly often lately.) That will be nice — especially while I’m still recovering from surgery.
Anyway, besides video conferencing, you can also take still photos and apply all sorts of silly special effects to them. Here’s one I just took.
Posted by RebeccaHartong on May 21, 2006 under Uncategorized
Welcome home! And congrats on the MacBook! Those things look way way fun. I used to have an iBook I loved to death, but I sold it off when I stopped using it so much.
My next system will likely be a 20″ iMac to replace the aging G4/400 system I have (I’ve put as many upgrades into it as I plan). However, I’m looking into getting a MacBook for some friends of mine (or helping them get one) because I’m planning on moving this year and we get together every weekend for some gaming fun. I’m thinking with the iChat AV setup, they’ll be able to set me up at the end of the table and it’ll almost be like I’m there. Just have to figure out how to handle the card and pieces if we play those kind of games… heh.