The new MacBook Pros with Core 2 Duo chips came out last week. I’ve been wanting one since God knows when, so I bought one. I ordered it last Thursday for something like $2600. 2.33GHz of dual core goodness, an ATI Radeon 1600 mobility graphics card with 256MB video ram so I can run games & Vista, a 15" screen (only WXGA I think, which is too bad — I wish Apple offered a WSXGA display in the 15" model), 2GB Ram and a HD upgrade to 160GB.

It’s a bit sad that you can get 2 Dells for the price of one of these, even with my 8% corporate discount, but I would never have been happy with a Dell. I’d see people in coffee shops with their smug little Macs, taunting and shaming me. Now, I, too shall display my sub-optimally specced but superiorly designed and aesthetically rewarding hardware to the drooling Dell-plebs.

Anyway, the little bundle of joy is supposed to be on the Fedex truck for delivery right now. I’ve been anxiously following its trek from China to my doorstep. Only yesterday at 1:38am it was picked up in Shanghai and as of this morning at 7:14am, it’s "on FedEx vehicle for delivery".

Naturally, I’m staying home from work this morning to receive it.

I’ll be posting pics & reviews, I imagine, as well as software for Mac recommendations and thoughts on Parallels / Bootcamp since I’ll certainly be running Windows as well.

I imagine one of the first things I’ll be doing with this Mac is borrowing Rich’s bluetooth barcode scanner and running Delicious Library on all my crap.

Speaking of crap, in order to defray one of the Dells worth of the cost of my new Mactop, I’m going to be selling some things: my old Titanium Powerbook G4 (867MHz, 384MB Ram), a 32" or so Sony TV, and a Sony 21" CRT monitor. I need to get rid of these things anyway, and this seems like the perfect opportunity.