Techno-porn

Oh, I'm lost.

Today, I got my MacBook Pro. It has nothing installed on it, but oh my goodness is it pretty. So if you don't see me around for awhile, you'll know some reason why.

I've got to say - and I'm sure it's been said before - that Apple could teach the world a thing or two in terms of presentation. Even the stupid styro-foam packing for the computer was pleasantly designed. The package was neat and compact and contained everything I needed in a couple of neat little bundles. The setup was ridiculously easy thus far; it took about three minutes to get Firefox running the way I'm used to it on my other computers.

The test, of course, will be seeing how it runs my PC programs once the emulator is on here, and how well it interfaces with our funky campus network, but right now, I'm teetering on convert.

Sometimes You Get the Honey, Sometimes All You Get is the Sting

So somehow I got outflanked today, and I think I got suckered into having to attend one of the dog-and-pony show events I was complaining about in the previous post. Of course, it took one of the secretaries to do it, so I don't feel so bad since they are, by and large, smarter than any two faculty and administrators put together.

But I've suddenly got the possibility of switching from my crappy IT-chosen computer to a Mac (though when they see what I say I need for it, that may evaporate). I'm still not sure whether I want to make the switch since all my software is currently PC-based. But it's damn tempting, I've got to say.