Gargoyle
2006-06-04, 16:39
After a drastic change in job environment (Gone from working from home, to putting in 12 hour days incl. travel), I decided to switch from my iMac back to a laptop.
I went to get my new MacBook (Black) today. At first I thought I was going to get a 15" MacBook Pro. After spending 15-20 mins in the shop comparing the vital stats of a few models I thought I had decided on the MB Pro so that it was a similar spec to my iMac (Same gfx, bigger HD etc).
Then, me and the good lady went for a coffee. (She's been trying to get me to try one of these caramel things for ages). So I am sat there drinking this monstrosity of a coffee thinking about the change in job, and what it means to my computing usage, and how I had used the iMac over the last 6 months. Then I realised that I was not even putting a slight strain on the iMac - at least 70% of its power was idling away most of the time.
So I returned to the Apple store, whipped out my credit card and settled for the MB (Black), "saving" myself about £600. The only thing I am not 100% happy with is the glossy screen. I would have preferred a mat one, but after using it for the last 20 mins, its not as bad as I thought it would be - time will tell when I get to use it in some different light conditions.
The moral of the story, after you have spent hours spec whoring the stats to death, take 5 and ponder what you will actually be using the machine for. This MB has 1/4 the memory of my iMac (I have not installed the 512 module yet) and I have not even noticed it!
I went to get my new MacBook (Black) today. At first I thought I was going to get a 15" MacBook Pro. After spending 15-20 mins in the shop comparing the vital stats of a few models I thought I had decided on the MB Pro so that it was a similar spec to my iMac (Same gfx, bigger HD etc).
Then, me and the good lady went for a coffee. (She's been trying to get me to try one of these caramel things for ages). So I am sat there drinking this monstrosity of a coffee thinking about the change in job, and what it means to my computing usage, and how I had used the iMac over the last 6 months. Then I realised that I was not even putting a slight strain on the iMac - at least 70% of its power was idling away most of the time.
So I returned to the Apple store, whipped out my credit card and settled for the MB (Black), "saving" myself about £600. The only thing I am not 100% happy with is the glossy screen. I would have preferred a mat one, but after using it for the last 20 mins, its not as bad as I thought it would be - time will tell when I get to use it in some different light conditions.
The moral of the story, after you have spent hours spec whoring the stats to death, take 5 and ponder what you will actually be using the machine for. This MB has 1/4 the memory of my iMac (I have not installed the 512 module yet) and I have not even noticed it!