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I’ve got an abundance of bits and pieces of canadian telecom and internet experience, and I am thrilled to be in a place in time when all is changing, technology is developing, and the status quo is being disrupted. 

Floobergeist is a word that is beginning to defy definition.  The more I roll that smooth pebble around, the more it becomes to mean. Floobergeist started out as the magic dust that turns dreams into ideas.  And then it began to encompass the zing that happens when you have conversations about those ideas. And now, it’s the whole evolution from dream to conversation, with each step improving the later and the former along the way.

Everyone aspires to good conversations. They can lead you to adventures you’ve never imagined, and to people you can twig with.

Let’s have a good conversation…

welcome.

Taking the Mac Plunge

March 08, 2008  /  jules kivell

Ok Ok Ok.
I think I’m going to do it.
After 3 solid months of thinking about it, and comparing, and deciding what I want, and asking the Wiz a thousand times, I think I’m going to get a new MacBook Pro.
Gulp.
I thought I had it figured out last night, as Best Buy has the 2007 models on sale. But the biggest model only had a 160Gb hard drive. And of course, I want to run windows too, so I was worried that the drive space was going to be too small, and within a year, it’d be just like holding my breath to get into my old skinny jeans again.

The new models are available on the Apple site, but are in the magnitude of $500-$600 more expensive than the 2007 models. Even though they’ve got the expanded hard drive, it was a bitter pill to swallow.

And then it hit me. I’m an employee of a company who has some decent discounts arranged with a few of the coolest vendors. This morning I picked up a cheap version of Xp ($85 - if I’m going to do this right, a pirate copy of XP just doesn’t cut it any more) and committed myself to atleast buying some sort of Apple-y product. Using my discounts, the brand new 2008 models of the MacBook Pro, 15” screen are the same price as the 2007 models, that have the skinny hard drives.

Ahem. I think my decision was made.

Now, the only frustration is that I was thinking I was going to be playing with a new toy while the last storm of the season thrashes the neighbourhood. Now I’ve got to wait 5 days for an Apple Orchard worker to put my new toy together. Sheesh. Wait 3 months to come to a decision, and then have to wait another 5 days!! Ohhh the humanity!!!

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