Shakespeare and the MAC
2006 is barely 23 hours old and as I sit here pondering what this new year will have in store for me I'm thinking how tomorrow is my first day back at work after having 11 days off and where I will get pulled, or rather, wrenched back into reality before noontime has come and gone. It basically only takes a few short hours for the routine to set back in and for me to feel as though my holiday break is gone and forgotten.
The return to work tomorrow ushers in a certain amount of excitement, if not only for my own personal inner circle, let me explain. As I mentioned in my last post, I've decided to buy myself a new computer this next month and I had decided on a MAC Mini as my next platform of choice. Now I say had as while doing research on the MAC Mini and Apple Computers in general over the last few weeks I've discovered the news that Apple Computers are moving away from the IBM-manufactured PowerPC chip in favour of the new line of Intel processors. This means a new line of MACs and therein lies my dilemma and one shared by many, many MAC owners and MAC switchers on the Internet, do I buy or do I wait. Hence the title of my blog and my dilemma, to buy or not to buy, with all due apologies to the barb. Luckily, some of my questions as to when the new machines will be on the market and which models and what there formats might be will hopefully be answered in a keynote speech to be given by Steve Jobs of Apple Computers at this year's Macworld Expo on January 10th at 9:30 AM (PST). So Mr. Jobs keynote will set the stage as to when I will purchase my new computer and this may not seem important to the average reader, but for me this may well be an almost life-altering experience. OK melodrama aside, I take my "digital life" pretty seriously. I'm an avid blogger, have a few podcasts to my name and enjoy reading up on the latest gadgets and technology whenever I get a chance. So given the chance to buy new hardware that will become almost like a member of my family, I cannot make the choice haphazardly nor can I really afford to make the wrong or uninformed decision. Now since San-Francisco, the location of Macworld, is 3 hours behind my own timezone you can best bet that come the afternoon of January 10th, which is a Tuesday in case you are keeping score, I will be sitting at my notebook computer, an IBM thinkpad if you must know, with coffee in hand anxiously awaiting the results of the keynote speech.
In preparation for the news and its eventual outcome I've taken it upon myself to start selling off some of my seldom used items I have laying around my home. To this end I've posted some of these items on ebay to make some extra cash to fund the new Apple purchase. So far my auctions are going well and I've already sold and shipped one item and have two more set to go on the auction block in the next few days, these are rather exciting times for yours truly and yes I live a rather sheltered life!
Once the news is available I plan to post the information and relevant links on my blog and then go about detailing the process I will use to make my choice. This is in case anyone out there finds themselves in the same dilemma. For now I bid you all a great Happy New Year, here is hoping 2006 brings you health, happiness and peace.
The return to work tomorrow ushers in a certain amount of excitement, if not only for my own personal inner circle, let me explain. As I mentioned in my last post, I've decided to buy myself a new computer this next month and I had decided on a MAC Mini as my next platform of choice. Now I say had as while doing research on the MAC Mini and Apple Computers in general over the last few weeks I've discovered the news that Apple Computers are moving away from the IBM-manufactured PowerPC chip in favour of the new line of Intel processors. This means a new line of MACs and therein lies my dilemma and one shared by many, many MAC owners and MAC switchers on the Internet, do I buy or do I wait. Hence the title of my blog and my dilemma, to buy or not to buy, with all due apologies to the barb. Luckily, some of my questions as to when the new machines will be on the market and which models and what there formats might be will hopefully be answered in a keynote speech to be given by Steve Jobs of Apple Computers at this year's Macworld Expo on January 10th at 9:30 AM (PST). So Mr. Jobs keynote will set the stage as to when I will purchase my new computer and this may not seem important to the average reader, but for me this may well be an almost life-altering experience. OK melodrama aside, I take my "digital life" pretty seriously. I'm an avid blogger, have a few podcasts to my name and enjoy reading up on the latest gadgets and technology whenever I get a chance. So given the chance to buy new hardware that will become almost like a member of my family, I cannot make the choice haphazardly nor can I really afford to make the wrong or uninformed decision. Now since San-Francisco, the location of Macworld, is 3 hours behind my own timezone you can best bet that come the afternoon of January 10th, which is a Tuesday in case you are keeping score, I will be sitting at my notebook computer, an IBM thinkpad if you must know, with coffee in hand anxiously awaiting the results of the keynote speech.
In preparation for the news and its eventual outcome I've taken it upon myself to start selling off some of my seldom used items I have laying around my home. To this end I've posted some of these items on ebay to make some extra cash to fund the new Apple purchase. So far my auctions are going well and I've already sold and shipped one item and have two more set to go on the auction block in the next few days, these are rather exciting times for yours truly and yes I live a rather sheltered life!
Once the news is available I plan to post the information and relevant links on my blog and then go about detailing the process I will use to make my choice. This is in case anyone out there finds themselves in the same dilemma. For now I bid you all a great Happy New Year, here is hoping 2006 brings you health, happiness and peace.
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