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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.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0sub-optimally specced but superiorly designed and aesthetically rewarding\u00a0hardware to the drooling Dell-plebs.<\/p>\n

Anyway, the little bundle of joy is supposed to be on the Fedex truck for delivery right now<\/a>.\u00a0I’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".<\/p>\n

Naturally, I’m staying home from work this morning to receive it.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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<\/a> on all my crap.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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