A few days ago I wrote my wishlist for 2007 which included the £649 Apple MacBook (Student discount). I want something small enough to throw into a bag and not notice it, but powerful enough to use every day.
It seems that the MacBook has been a huge success on campus, and everyone not studying IT has one (sports students in particular), and on that general recommendation I began to think it was perfect for me. That was until this Tuesday when my eye was caught by lonely 12″ PowerBook sat on a single desk at the other side of the library - it’s no nonsense industrial beauty was seducing me from afar, my eyes were drawn to it in a way that they have been drawn to very few women. I began to drool.
It’s a lot like the VW Golf MK2 - It’s over twenty years old, and time has not done the over all condition of the cars any good, and by comparison to today’s models it doesn’t excel so much in performance. So, the new models have air conditioning (Widescreen) and advanced break systems (Intel based processors) but the old MK2 costs a fraction of the price, it looks as good as the day it was introduced, and it has a certain charm about it. Put it this way: I only need to get to 70Mph, and I can do that with my current G4.
I think I might save myself a couple of hundred pound, max out the RAM, and buy a laptop that is perfect in size, and I know I’m not going to crack. Metal > Plastic any day.
