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In June of 2003 I bought a 3rd generation iPod (when they still had buttons!) and my interest in Apple Computers was born. After playing with the office iMac at work, I bought a 12" powerbook on ebay and I was officially a mac guy. Today I still use my PC for games, a macbook pro for travel, and my iPhone is always by my side.
I doubt anyone here will want it, but I'm posting the link here so I can find the auction easily.
I am thinking of selling all my computer parts and buying a mac pro for gaming. I would like the mac desktop plus my computer isn't great for gaming as it is. Instead of shelling out the moneys for new mobo, ram, vid card, processor, etc... The mac pro isn't that much more and would last for longer. Course, I'd wait for Leopard and the hardware refresh.. It's still just an idea at this point.
I’ve been bad at sitting down and writing on this site. But this is a tragic time… My 12” Powerbook, my first mac, is up for sale on ebay.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=230149861707
I told myself as I got my macbook pro that I could offset the price of it if I sold my powerbook. After all, the macbook pro could do anything the powerbook could do and better right? And then as I bought my 23” Cinema display I told myself again that it was a damn expensive screen, but it wasnt so bad if I just sold my powerbook. And now I’m finally doing it.
I feel bad about selling it for some reason. I always knew that someday I was going to have to do it. I bought it way back on Oct 15, 03 when I lived in Allyn Hall with Rick. I remember the day Rick came into work at Resnet talking about the new 3rd gen iPods. I thought he was crazy talking about an apple product. But he thought it was cool and I spent the rest of the day looking at the iPod on the apple site. Finally I bought one on eBay. I got it and hated using musicmatch jukebox to load mp3s on it. Absolutely hated it. But very soon after iTunes for windows came out and life was good. It worked well. Really well. And I started thinking maybe apple wasn’t so bad anymore. So I started playing with the iMac at Resnet. I have always been a fan of ultra portable laptops, having a Winbook Fx, Dell Latitude LS400, and a Dell Latitude L400. The only problems with them of course were no dvd-roms. This is where apple had the big advantage. Will had one and I loved playing with it at the animation show and other times. So I ended up buying the little 12” powerbook. It wasn’t top of the line even when I bought it, but it was pretty good. I had basic knowledge of how to get around OS X and I could even install apps, but it was a pretty big dive into the unknown. I love to play with things and the powerbook gave me a hell of a lot of unknown features to explore. I love the BSD core and installing fink and even got KDE to run at the same time as OS X. (X on X). It was small and I took it everywhere. Absolutely everywhere.
I guess the reason I hesitate to sell it is because it reminds me so much of my sophomore year and the rest of college. It is very much an icon of my college life which I now have to let go. It’s the same feeling I got when I watched the flight team compete without me. And it’s the same feeling I get every day now that I hardly see anyone anymore. I suppose it’s time to move on.
I’ll be moving to Dallas before December and don’t get me wrong, nothing makes me happier than moving back in with Alison and starting my airline career, but it’s always sad to leave a very comfortable and enjoyable part of your life. My 12” Powerbook is very symbolic of that time.
As I get ready to move to Dallas I will be selling and giving away a lot of stuff. Stay tuned.
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I haven’t had a whole lot of time and/or interest in this website for a long time. Lots of things have happened and there’s a lot on the horizon. Lately I haven’t been feeling too well. I have been pretty lonely and it’s going to get worse when Alison moves to Texas in a few weeks. The only people I really talk to face-to-face on a daily basis are my students at the airport. They are nice and fun and all but they really aren’t my friends per se.
I have lots of stuff coming up in the near future. Helping Alison move to Texas, Flight Team Nationals (I get to see some of my internship friends again!), and leaving for a monthlong trip to Russia/Finland. All in the first half of May.
I got my instrument instructor rating on Tuesday and the review board prep for KSU is intense. I’m studying all the time and damn tired of it. My liking of flight instruction varies week to week. I am feeling a little overworked right now and not really liking it. One of my students is almost done so hopefully that will cut down on my workload a little.
I kept the 23” Apple Cinema Display. It is big and looks very pretty with my laptop and silver desktop. It works well but has some quirks. The power button works when it feels like it, since it’s trying to work with OS X to put the computer to sleep. I won’t bring it to any LAN as it’s too expensive to risk theft or damage. I also think it’s too big for my brother’s desk but hopefully I won’t be using it too much longer.
I was really really bad and I bought a 23” Apple Cinema Display. It is gigantic. And really expensive. I don’t know what I think yet. It is very pretty. But $......yeah….
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@Trickedge yeah unfortunately magic getting more and more expensive these days... 10 days ago. |
