I’m Afraid of My MacBook
As of 5pm EST, I became the proud owner of a brand spankin’ new 13.3″ screen, white, 2.2GHz something, 120 GB of something, and 2 GB of something else MacBook laptop. It’s super freaking cool. It is sexy and light and totally full of memory and I have yet to take it out of the box. And I probably won’t take it out of the box until Tuesday, when I will be able to take it back to the store to get my data transferred from my old laptop. Until then, I will continue to use my 2001 Toshiba Satellite with no more memory, a broken CD drive, and the inability to delete programs to make more space.
Why, you ask, did I just drop $1500 (plus tax, minus the “student discount,” thank you Hamilton College, your IDs without dates and the $160,000 I spent for them are the gifts that keep on giving) on a computer I’m not totally psyched to dive into? Because I’m afraid. Yes, I am intimidated by new, sexy, smart piece of machinery. I will not be used to a computer that is speedy and doesn’t immediately get a virus as soon as I check my email. I am not ready to not hit the “ctrl” key everytime I need to click a link so that I can fool my pop-up blocker. I can’t commit to long battery life, nor to the time it will take to rip all of the CDs I’ve accumulated in the last 15 months since my CD drive broke. Will I finally subscribe to NetFlix now that I have a functioning DVD player? Am I sure I want to be able to download and delete programs with ease? Do I want to be modern and sexy?
No.
I want the status quo until I have the courage to take my MacBook out of the box. Also, I have an uncanny tendency to ruin electronics immediately upon first use, like the time I bought my Treo 700wx and dropped it when I went to show it to my friends. Yeah. Or the time I bought my new iPod, then went to Japan, got on a bike and wiped out with it, getting the headphones caught in the gear chain. I’m pretty sure that as soon as I open that MacBook box, I will dump spaghetti sauce on it, drop it into my humidifier, get a coin jammed in the CD drive, and then, suddenly, lose the “r” key.
Wish me luck.
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Comments
Mike Panic
White!?! After you proclaimed love for the black one so much? Did the black tax kill the deal?
Why on earth would you want to have someone else do a data transfer for you? I would strongly suggest against it. I would suggest spending $100 on an external USB (or spring for the slightly more spendy yet slightly faster one that includes Firewire). You should have no problem getting 400 or 500gb of space, four to five times the size of the hard drive in the Mac you just bought) and move over files from old laptop to that. You can then decide what you do and do not really want on the Macbok. Additionally, you can use the external hard drive with Time Machine, as I’m assuming your Macbook came loaded with Leopard.
Take a minute and go through the system preferences, make sure you enable the 2 finger touch-pad stuff and learn to start using your thumb a lot more for the Command key everywhere you used to use your pinky for the CTRL key.
And just for fun, open a few different programs and then hit the F9 key =)
Brad
you = hilarious
-b