New Laptop

Posted by Jacob Atkins Sun, 15 Jun 2008 19:40:00 GMT

I recently got a new laptop computer.  Its about time to be honest my last one lasted for 5+ years, the only thing that was wrong with it was the battery had been used to the point a charge would only hold for a few minutes.  It was a nice Dell IInspiron 8200 and it did the job for what I need at the time but with school and all I needed a little bit more power in the mobile computer.  With that I purchased a 15" 2.4GHz MacBook Pro. 

This is the first time I have ever truly used a Mac and so far I like it, I still like Linux a lot more but OSX is close to Linux so I can live with it.   After I had received my new MacBook Pro I used it for about 2 days doing all the cool stuff like playing with photo booth, iPhoto, iMovie and what not until it died.  I don’t mean a kernel panic or anything that a simple reboot would fix; I mean would not turn on any more.  So I took it to the local Apple Store to see what was up with it where the guy told me it was a brick and I needed to send it back.  I did so and about 3 weeks latter I now have my new laptop.  Other than the fact it took me almost a month to get a working computer I still like it, there’s nothing like getting a new computer when you truly need one.