Getting a new laptop!
Monday, June 30th, 2008 12:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
afunaI decided this evening, over dinner, to get a new laptop to replace my aging PowerBook G4. (Three years and two months! She's dinged, keyboard is a mess, HD's been replaced a few times, but has held up surprisingly well given how much I (ab)use her ).
I was originally planning to borrow money from my parents and pay it back over the next year or so. I approached my mom with that idea, and I was actually beginning to budget everything in my head (if I pay 10k pesos a month, every month, I'd be done in about half a year. But then that would leave me little money for daily expenses, so maybe I could pay 5k, but that would mean I'd be paying them back for more than year. So maybe if I alternate between 5k and 10k, or do 7k a month...), and suddenly my grandfather, who had been watching the conversation with interest, asked me how much it would be (I estimated around 60k-80k), and then he offered to pay for it.
I was speechless. Went wide-eyed. Said thank you. Almost died. OH MY GOD.
I've given up my desire for the MacBook Air (though it's pretty, and better in all respects than my current machine, I can't justify the leap in the price, considering I'm not actually paying for the laptop myself. And I wouldn't be able to afford the leap in the price, if I were paying for the laptop myself).
It looks like I'm getting the high-end MacBook ;-)
I need a name! And and and and to catch up with the changes between Tiger and Leopard, as I've been ignoring all Leopard related news since I was stuck with Tiger.
And, and and, oh god I'll miss my PowerBook (I call her "macaroni". I'm tempted to name the soon-to-be laptop "cheese". Maybe they'll be good friends!)
I need to decide whether to buy now, or whether to wait until July/August/September, which is when the rumors say that an upgrade will come out. I'll regret it if something comes out in July or August, but September is too far away, and really even September is not a sure thing...
I was originally planning to borrow money from my parents and pay it back over the next year or so. I approached my mom with that idea, and I was actually beginning to budget everything in my head (if I pay 10k pesos a month, every month, I'd be done in about half a year. But then that would leave me little money for daily expenses, so maybe I could pay 5k, but that would mean I'd be paying them back for more than year. So maybe if I alternate between 5k and 10k, or do 7k a month...), and suddenly my grandfather, who had been watching the conversation with interest, asked me how much it would be (I estimated around 60k-80k), and then he offered to pay for it.
I was speechless. Went wide-eyed. Said thank you. Almost died. OH MY GOD.
I've given up my desire for the MacBook Air (though it's pretty, and better in all respects than my current machine, I can't justify the leap in the price, considering I'm not actually paying for the laptop myself. And I wouldn't be able to afford the leap in the price, if I were paying for the laptop myself).
It looks like I'm getting the high-end MacBook ;-)
I need a name! And and and and to catch up with the changes between Tiger and Leopard, as I've been ignoring all Leopard related news since I was stuck with Tiger.
And, and and, oh god I'll miss my PowerBook (I call her "macaroni". I'm tempted to name the soon-to-be laptop "cheese". Maybe they'll be good friends!)
I need to decide whether to buy now, or whether to wait until July/August/September, which is when the rumors say that an upgrade will come out. I'll regret it if something comes out in July or August, but September is too far away, and really even September is not a sure thing...
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Date: 2008-06-29 05:14 pm (UTC)Also, Macs keep their resale value very well. If they do release the latest & greatest in September, you could buy it, and sell your old one.
There's nothing big in the upgrade pipeline anyway, and right now the MacBooks are a very good deal. I'd say go for it, but what do I know?
Don't buy RAM from Apple - it is substantially cheaper elsewhere and doesn't void your warranty to install it.
Congratulations ;)
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Date: 2008-06-29 05:17 pm (UTC)And for the RAM-- if I get the high end model, for the DVD burner, I'm not sure I can avoid buying the 2 gigs ram. OTOH, if I feel the need to upgrade to 4GB, I can do that on my own/with my own money. (Right now I think I'm at uhh 1.25 gigs, or maybe 1.75.)
Thank you :-) I'm pretty excited
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Date: 2008-07-02 10:25 am (UTC)Mine still does not yet have a name! Yours are pretty <3
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Date: 2008-06-29 10:52 pm (UTC)hmmm cheese!!!
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