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July 10, 2005
lights will guide you home / and ignite your bones
My laptop finally bit the dust Thursday. It has had problems since last November when the cooling fan went out. I did buy a new one and was going to replace it. I never was real motivated because i found that if I kept the laptop elevated so air circulated underneath it, it would be okay. There was also an issue with the display wiring. At certain angles, including the one most people would put the screen, the screen would flicker. I just worked around it.
A week or so ago I got a weird error and though I had lost it forever. It worked fine the next day, but it is motivate me to backup the important stuff. It also commence serious conversation about a new laptop. We had be throwing the subject around for a while. Ben has become quite partial to apple laptops. Due to my many years in the yearbook and newspaper fields, I'm comfortable with apples and pc. It was all just in theory so I didn't declare an allegiance. I did read an interesting article about how apples are acutally less than dells when you compare the options.
When my laptop finally died, I was not surprised. It made the click click of the hard drive dying. My only question is whether I can redownload all the music I bought from itunes and emusic. Guess we'll see.
I thought that I would wait until after Sept, as there are computers everywhere and I really just need my laptop for conferences. I then realized that I would not be able to change my ipod. I could set up itunes on the desktop computer, but I am worried about blowing all my music away and so I decided that i should just go ahead and bit the bullet. I have money saved and so buying it now versus 2 months from now isn't that big of a deal. Plus I found that I just really need my own computer.
So after some research and finding that apple gives student discounts (not much, but $100 off the computer I'm getting) plus they are including a free ipod mini, which i can sell to defray that cost of the computer, I decided on an 12 in ibook. It weighs 5 lbs! My back is going to love me.
Hunk o' man and I were downtown last night for dinner, and popped by the apple store just to look. It confirmed that it is the laptop for me. I placed the order when we got home. Due to my luck with things breaking, i went ahead and got the 3 year warranty. It was only $189 more and totally worth it if something breaks.
Expensive past couple weeks all around. I have definitely spent more money in the past four weeks than the whole year before that between the car, and great sale on new balance sneakers in which i got two pairs, and now my computer. All stuff I need. It is crazy how things come in waves.
Posted by christina at July 10, 2005 1:11 PM
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You are going to love it. I have the same 12in ibook but it's a G4. I'll never go back. Esp when you get all the ipods and everything. It was good to met you guys at Rock Bottom (liz's friend suzie's bf).
Posted by: Nate at July 10, 2005 7:17 PM
YAY!
But as far as music goes, Apple's pretty unfeeling about that. If you didn't back it up, your purchased iTunes are as gone as if they were CDs lost in a fire.
However, I have heard tell of various apps for the Windows world that will enable you to bypass the "one way street" feature of iPods (music only goes TO them), and pull the music files off of your iPod onto a computer. Poke around the ipodlounge.com site or better yet VersionTracker.com for iPod software, and see if you can save your tunes to some other PC. Then reformat your iPod to Mac format when you get your iBook, and connect your iBook to the PC over a network and copy all the music files. When you open the purchased iTMS songs, it should ask you for your iTunes password and hopefully you're good to go.
Yay iBook!
Posted by: shelby at July 11, 2005 1:29 AM
I have been thinking about getting a laptop for a while now, and have looked at the Apples but here's my biggest concern -- software. I can get MS software at a discount because I know people who work there, but part of the reason I want a laptop is to be more easily able to do webpages and photography stuff, which means I would need Mac versions of Photoshop and Dreamweaver. As far as I know, there no way for me to "upgrade" from PC versions of that software to Mac versions...
Posted by: Sarah at July 11, 2005 10:22 AM