The Long-Awaited and Fantastically Wonderful Setup post!!!

w00t! here is the long-promised setup post that I have been talking about ever since I rediscovered this blog. To start with:




Here is my Lenovo ThinkPad T60. it's a pretty nice box, with a 2GHz Intel Core Duo, 1GB of RAM, and a 100GB hard drive. It has a 128MB ATI Radeon X1400 video card, and a 15' 1400x1050 LCD. The 9-cell battery lets it hold around a 4 hour charge.



Here is my Sony Vaio PCG-TR3AP. As you can see, it's really, really small. It's got a 1GHz intel Pentium M, with 1GB RAM and a 40GB hard drive. it manages to squeeze in a DVD/CD-RW combo drive, also. It has a 10.6" 1280x768 glossy widescreen display, with a webcam and Intel Extreme graphics.




Here is my first Mac ever, my iBook G4. It's a 1.33GHz G4 with 1GB of RAM, a 40GB hard drive, a slot-loading Combo drive, and a 12" 1024x768 display powered by the ATI Radeon 9550.

$100 price drop on iPod touch and iPhone?????? Oh geez.

Mac Rumors states that a $100 price drop on the iPhone and iPod touch is likely within the next two months. This would also discontinue the 8GB touch and the 8GB iPhone.

As some of you readers may remember, there was a lot of whining about the last price drop, on September 5, 2007.

A lot of the time it seems like Armeggadon when Apple drops prices. There are always crybabies who get pissed off because they bought a product right before the price drop.

Seriously, guys, just deal with it. At some point, someone will buy a product right before it is improved/made cheaper. The natural human instinct is to WHINE!!! However, please, don't whine about it on teh tubez. It doesn't make anything better. In fact, the $100 of store credit that Apple offered is overkill. Don't get me wrong, it's very nice of Apple to offer compensation to people, but it's really not necessary. Apple, in the field of consumer electronics, tends to release products first aimed at fanboys and people who will pay almost any price. Four months later it's released for sane people.

So, Apple, bring on the price drops. I won't whine, I promise. Internet, I advise you to do the same.

What's been going on

So, guys. What's been up with me lately? Many things. I am going to leave out computer acquisitions, but otherwise, I will give it to you in timeline form.

December 20-ish: I switch to Leopard, which I won in a drawing at my local Macintosh user group, TMUG

December 25: I get an iPod touch 8GB, which has come in very, very handy lately.

January 21: Dan Knight and I reach an agreement for me to be published on Low End Mac.

January 29: My first column appears. I have been published on Low End Mac before, but that one was a volunteer guest column.

February 5: I switch back to PC partially. Don't worry, I'm still an Apple fanboy. :-)

February 9: I decide to start a new blog. I realize there is a password recovery service at Blogger. Now, I'm back!

Next posts: Pics of my current computer-- all pretty and set up.

Finally!!!!

OK guys. I have not posted in about two months. I forgot how to sign in (how pathetic is that!!) so, yeah.

Anyway, next post will give you a ton of catch-up on what's been happening with me computer-wise.